Persuasive Article About Chinese Food

When people who know nothing about Chinese food think of a good Chinese Restaurant they often think of places like P.F. Changs, Pei Wei’s, or even Panda Express. When they enter these establishments, they’re often greeted by a caucasian young adult and they’re often served a meal that is created for and by white people. The food isn’t too spicy, it isn’t too un-American, and the menu is written in a very easy-to-understand way…Well, that is crap. They’re not getting the true Chinese Restaurant experience and it’s ruining the Chinese food name.

Enter Hao Way Chinese Cafe, located in the King Soopers parking lot in Boulder, Colorado. The OPEN sign only lights up the word PEN, there are homeless people wandering around the front door, the one bathroom is always out of TP, and there is only one table to sit at. The same woman sits behind the counter, next to the rice heater, every day. She barely speaks English, will yell at you if you confuse her, and communication often consists of her pointing at the misspelled, laminated menu, saying “too spicy for you.” When you order, she will scream it back to her husband in Chinese and he will yell back. You’ll think they’re mad at you but they’re not. If you call ahead to order, you’re met with, “Hello. What you want?” Then you’ll give your order and she’ll say, “Okay, 10 minutes,” and then she hangs up. She won’t take your card because she knows you’ll show up. The food is that good. When you get there, she’ll somehow know what order is yours and ring you up on her old cash register. She’ll point at the tip spot on the receipt until you fill it out, and then you have your food and you go because nobody sits at that one table.

For $9 dollars (before the tip of course) you get an entire carton of white rice, three packets of soy sauce, and an entire container of whatever protein you asked for in whatever delicious sauce you wanted. This amount of food could serve a family of four. It’s delicious and warm and you don’t care at all that you didn’t get the P.F. Changs experience. You don’t care that a homeless dude with a face tat cat-called you as you left the restaurant. You don’t care that she yelled at you when you asked her what ingredients were in the sesame sauce and you don’t care that you were forced to tip 30%. This food is worth it.

Screw chain Chinese Restaurants. They suck. Eat at Hao Way Chinese Cafe if you want GOOD Chinese food.