SubscribeWell, day one at the Red Moon is done — and yeah, I was a bit late.
I honestly cannot write much about day one because my mind is racing with ideas… and worries. I knew this wouldn’t be an easy endeavor, but going through the motions today, I realized how much patience and persistence are going to be required to make improvements at the restaurant.
Keep it simple. Stick to what we do well. Repeat.
While I am most excited about using this blog to relay some of Tin Tat’s life stories — this is also going to be a place for raw restaurant ideas to spew forth. Some will take root and sprout into something presentable. Others will amount to waste. Oh, Red Moon.
Because the business side of things has really got me all a-twitter… let me give you a preview of a forthcoming post. It’s more up my alley. It’s a story I knew I’d want to tell when my dad first told me about a neat customer of his a few months ago.
Lunch at the Red Moon -- a hoot and a holler -- as good people talk about how much they love another good person.. you'll meet him soon.
You see how happy they are? That’s my dad on the left, A-yi (auntie Wan) in between, and Lok to the right. They are gesturing, laughing and truly joyed to be telling me about this fascinating customer who has them all intrigued. He’s a south Asian immigrant who is hearing-impaired — completely deaf. Yet, somehow these three people with varying degrees of really broken English know so much about this guy. How, you ask? Some very inspiring communication, or so I’m led to understand. As our family friend Frank (off camera to the left) said at lunch, “it’s an example of the possibilities that can arise if two parties are willing.”
Who knew friendship (the family-like kind, according to my dad) was truly available so freely? We’ll see just how it can be yours and mine — as soon as I meet this guy myself.
I knew that when you started this blog it was going to be stories of Uncle Tat’s history and the restaurant. What I didn’t know or what I didn’t expect was that it was also going to be these every day stories in the front lines. I should have known with your journalistic tendencies that you would take it to the next level! I am so looking forward to more, but…you knew that already!