tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787822525441125324.post7211178862854109051..comments2023-03-10T19:46:29.263-05:00Comments on MORE GLIB ThAN PROFOUND: A BLESSING! GALLOWAY NJ, NOW HAS THE BEST FOOD IN TOWNStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12392111410804449860noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787822525441125324.post-7233366444786443892011-07-04T05:36:28.704-05:002011-07-04T05:36:28.704-05:00Hilarious. This may not be the first time that Br...Hilarious. This may not be the first time that Brooklyn was described as the birth-place of the Jewish-Chinese Food relationship or perhaps more accurately the Brooklyn-Chinese Food relationship but it is the most in depth. One can only understand the synergism through stories like yours.<br /><br />Your Vegas experiences only validate what New Yorkers have always said about so many things, "You gotta go to the city..."<br /><br />I carried the Chinese Food tradition of our parents down to DC when I left NY in 1972. But just like you I found that you couldn't get decent pizza, bagels or Chinese Food outside of NY and in my case the nation's capital. But finally, around 1979, my future wife and I found what turned out to be the best Chinese Restaurant in the USA - Peking Gourmet Inn in Falls Church, Virginia. This was the original Peking Duck place. We liked it so much that we soon reestablished the "every Sunday night" tradition. Two years later when I took on a business partner he and I began to have lunch there every Friday. The number of Sunday visits with my wife declined as my waistline expanded. As my business grew and we took on more partners these lunches became weekly partner meetings. And every December we took our entire office to dinner for our annual holiday party. As time passed the restaurant tripled in size, taking over the adjacent spaces in the dumpy shopping center where it was housed. It was able to scale up from about ten tables in the 1970s to over 100 today. And of course it is still owned and operated by the same family.<br /><br />By the early 90's we were considered such good customers that they put our picture on the wall.<br /><br />Alas, in this day and age of Sushi and higher blood pressure we don't frequent the Peking Gourmet Inn nearly as much as before but Christmas comes once a year and we never miss the occasion.<br /><br />-HJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com