Metro Magazine's Eden Prairie edition featured Red Moon with a full color photo and short description of our restaurant in October's issue.

Twin Cities Metro Magazine's Eden Prairie edition featured Red Moon with a full color photo and short description of our restaurant in October's issue.

During the summer I got an email from a reporting intern at Twin Cities Metro Magazine‘s Eden Prairie edition — the guy had some questions about Red Moon for an upcoming feature on area Asian cuisine.  Needless to say, I was more than happy to oblige.

I arrived home at the end of October — the month in which the feature was supposed to run.  However, I could not find a copy of the magazine.  Finally last week a new customer came in with the article in-hand.  I was thrilled to see Red Moon’s blurb appearing first alongside a full-color photo of my all-time favorite at Red Moon: “Ben’s Favorite BBQ Pork Cantonese Style Chow Mein.”

It’s quite exciting to see our name in print.  I suppose it’s high time I leverage my media experience to try and get even more attention for my dad’s restaurant.  So far, our two main media appearances have been organic in origin, though — no PR peddling required.  Metro Magazine came looking for us — and last winter, a producer friend at KMSP-TV took notice of some of our Web site, Facebook and Twitter initiatives and decided it would make a good story.  I agreed.  My dad provided the soudbites: