Midnight Mike
2008-02-18, 12:27 PM
Iraq Gets A Chinese Restaurant
http://www.middle-east-online.com/en...lt.pl?id=23941
Baghdad gets taste for Chinese takeaway
Chinese restaurant opens in Baghdad’s popular Karrada neighbourhood despite security fears.
The sign, written in both Arabic and Chinese characters and hoisted above a bland yellow shopfront in Baghdad's popular Karrada neighbourhood, is hard to miss -- "Chinese Restaurant."
A young woman wearing skintight jeans, her hair blowing in the slight breeze, is sweeping the entrance. "Welcome!" she says in halting English.
Yan returns inside and joins the three others involved in the venture -- all Chinese: her husband Tsao, who owns the restaurant, Lo and Wo. Tsao attends to customers, Lo and Wo do the cooking and Yan handles the cleaning.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/en...lt.pl?id=23941
Baghdad gets taste for Chinese takeaway
Chinese restaurant opens in Baghdad’s popular Karrada neighbourhood despite security fears.
The sign, written in both Arabic and Chinese characters and hoisted above a bland yellow shopfront in Baghdad's popular Karrada neighbourhood, is hard to miss -- "Chinese Restaurant."
A young woman wearing skintight jeans, her hair blowing in the slight breeze, is sweeping the entrance. "Welcome!" she says in halting English.
Yan returns inside and joins the three others involved in the venture -- all Chinese: her husband Tsao, who owns the restaurant, Lo and Wo. Tsao attends to customers, Lo and Wo do the cooking and Yan handles the cleaning.