I went to another Asian bistro that opened up nearby. I can count five within 5 miles. Besides Chinese you have to offer Vietnamese and Thai. On the menu which came in the mail were two of my favorites Vietnamese Spring Rolls and Green Thai Curry. I paid a visit. The place was empty. There was Chinese chatter in the kitchen. Finally someone noticed me and apologized. I placed my order for carryout and told it might be 30 minutes because they were filling another large carryout order. I struck up a conversation with the owner. He told me he was from Fujian and his chef was from HK. Usually everybody I meet in restaurants are from HK. I seem to remember the Fujian dialect is similar to HK Cantonese which accounts for their conversation I overheard. He told me he drinks green tea and TGY at home in the little pots. He gets his tea on yearly visits to Fujian and in the mail from relatives. He understood when I said GongFu but didn't recognize YiXing. I mentioned YinZhen, BaiMuDan, SowMee and didn't recognize those terms. He said he didn't have tea on the menu because it was too much trouble. I mentioned that Puer was the rage in China. On the next visit I'll take a chunk. I was impressed with his English and told him I was teaching myself Chinese grammar. He corrected my pronunciation of XieXie and think maybe made a friend.
Jim