~ 27th November 2015 ~
This place is run by Chinese, the waiter at that point of time was a young chap with no proper training in serving customers. The food took forever to come. I wonder how many chefs were on duty... maybe one only. The food was delicious but the service was at a tortoise pace. We were rushing to catch a James Bond movie in Glen Waverley.
When I asked the waiter what took them so long to take our orders and what took even longer for the food to come, the waiter answered through swallowed words that if we couldn't wait, we should leave. The travel buddy didn't hear the reply, but I have sharp ears for such swallowed words. Ahhh... you must be really unhappy to come all the way to Australia and be a servant boy.
The menu was completely in Chinese and even Mr Ma could not read some of the words. I think the travel buddy and her hubby fail in Chinese Language back at home during their schooling years.
I entertained myself with the Chinese English on the wall. The saying in Chinese Language itself is beautiful but once translated into English, it sounded so wrong and awkward. There are just too many words in Chinese that cannot be translated beautifully into English. English words are not strong enough to represent those Chinese words. In conclusion, I cannot learn Chinese Language because it will completely mess up my brain. My language department section in the brain, I'm afraid, is not large enough.
These few sentences talk about missing home, where one yearns to go home but unable to due to unforeseen circumstances. Somewhere you long to go to but due to the distance, you are unable to do so. The distant is abstract in this text. You're being separated by the long distance. It's talking about going home. So, you see so many people on the road, you do not know where they are going to. They might be walking home after work but their heart yearn to go home to where their family is.
It is very important what you place on the wall as a declaration. In this restaurant, no wonder the waiter was so unhappy serving customers, he was yearning for his hometown. Maybe the chef was slow because his heart was not in Melbourne, but in China. They are all yearning for home but the distant was just too much to bear. Even though it was just 9 hours flight away, but it's just impossible to hop onto the next plane to go home.
Why are there so many Chinese in Australia? It's opportunity to have a better future because to get a job in China, I think I will need a powerful grandfather to push me through. I will need a very strong connection to be someone just merely existing. Do they yearn to go home to be with their families? Yes, they do. The travel buddy only wants to go home but she knows it's impossible to go home. She will be jobless if she goes home. Even if she manage to find a job there, it's impossible for her to survive there as the pay will not be enough to cover the basic expenses. Do not fault them but of course, there are many inconsiderate mainlanders. They fight to survive in society until they have no sense of humanity. See the way they fought through the doors just to get milk powder, then you will understand how much they fought all their lives until they have to fight to buy milk powder in a foreign land.
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