There was a place like that near me, a little building (barely more than a shack) off the highway called The Asian Restaurant.

Owners were a Loatian couple and they made the best Thai curry, Vietnamese bun cha, and Chinese spring rolls in the area. Whenever my wife and I went there the owner would come out from the kitchen in his wifebeater and flip flops and chat with us while we ate. He was 80 going on nine hundred and finally retired to take up fishing full time and his kids weren't interested in running a restaurant.

We were very sad.

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