Friday, February 20, 2004
Good Eats in Guangzhou...er, Omaha
Last night I met some friends at a new little restaurant after work. It is called Back to Guangzhou, and I was so worried that they would shut the place down before I would have a chance to eat, as it was practically ten p.m. when I found it. But I was surprised to learn the restaurant was open until eleven. And that was just the first surprise.
Fantastic Cantonese cooking. Our server was wonderful, and she explained everything about what all the food was. The four of us shared our food and ate as best as we could with chopsticks (resorting to forks when we ate the rice), and we were unanimously blown away. After the meal our server, Angel (she also does the traditional Chinese tea ceremony, which you can order), came out to our table and told us the story of Guangzhou, which is in the southern part of China. Angel told us Guangzhou has ten million people, mostly crammed into a town about the size of Omaha, which has only about 350,000 uncramped souls. She talked about how warm it was there, and how she missed it, and she passed around a dozen lovely postcards.
She also told us that the area is renowned for its food. And if this place was any representation, I can understand why. Their restaurant just opened a couple months ago, and it's a shame it's located way far from downtown Omaha. It's the kind of place Omaha--or any American town, really--would be a worse off place without.
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