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Message: <blockquote data-quote="richtrickey" data-source="post: 1974203" data-attributes="member: 14384">35. Ling's Fortune CookieLing's is typical of your strip mall Chinese take out restaurants, offering a variety of decent szechuan dishes, fried rice and sodas at dirt cheap prices. Nestled between a neighborhood video rental store and a small martial arts school, Ling's is open from 10 am to midnight, 7 days a week, closing only for the major holidays and the Chinese New year.Inside the shop, patrons are met with a clean but otherwise plain looking counter area, with a large menu board (labelled in English and Chinese) hanging above the counter and 3 or 4 small tables and the accompanying chairs nestled off to the sides. A locked door beside the counter leads back into the kitchen, where Ling and his two teenaged sons prepare the food. Ling's wife, and sometimes his daughter, who attends the local college now and isn't around as much, tend the counter, taking and packing up orders and working the register, which Ling adamantly now insists be kept with less than $40 at all times since the shop was robbed a year ago. There's a small office wedged into a back corner of the shop, next to the walk in cooler/freezer unit, and all other money is kept in a floor safe inside.Ling and his family are simple folk, content with running their business and watching the latest prime time TV shows on the old color tv that hangs from a bracket in the "dining room", and aren't likely to be of much use to PCs, but the shop does a brisk business, and all manner of people stop in for lunch, dinner or a late snack, so it's an ideal place to meet or look for people. Ling's daughter, Mei, isn't around much these days, but she's fluent in Chinese and Japanese, and is happy to make a few extra dollars helping customers with any translation they might need. Ling and his wife are immensely proud of Mei, and will talk her up endlessly as the first in their family to attend college, so anyone needing to see Mei can usually find out where she is, or when she'll be around from them.One last interesting tidbit is that Ling's doesn't serve fortune cookies, which he calls disgusting American junk food. The name of the place is an example of his ironic sense of humor.</blockquote>

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