Ding How's new location
I went to Ding How last week to grab a to-go box of Chinese buffet food and was shocked to learn that they had moved. It hadn’t been that long since I last went, so you would’ve thought they’d have fliers, etc. detailing when and to where they’d be moving. Instead I had to find out by pulling into an empty parking lot during lunchtime and seeing the sign above. I snapped the shot thinking I’d use it for some kind of Ding How post-mortem-slash-retrospective post, since their new location is too far away from my office to go for lunch. Little did I know it would serve a much happier purpose.
Today my friend Scott told me that the owners of Ding How are also opening a completely new restaurant at yet another location. This new restaurant will also be Chinese, but will be unique in the Jackson area because they will serve dim sum! Yes, dim sum in Jackson! According to the same source, this restaurant will also be sans buffet. No buffet at a Chinese restaurant in Jackson? Revolutionary, I tell ya. The lack of a buffet coupled with dim sum really makes me think this will be the first real Chinese restaurant in Jackson. Americanized Chinese is good, but it’s nowhere near as good as the real thing.
So yeah, I’m uber-psyched. Maybe too psyched and will be disappointed when the restaurant opens if it even opens at all. Too many variables right now, and too much hearsay for my taste. I want to see a sign proclaiming this magnificent new restaurant and its grand opening date. Scott said there’s no info on exactly where or when, but that he’d keep me posted as he hears news.
I sounded kind of pessimistic in my last paragraph, but that’s just the way I am. I gotta do something to keep my excitement in check lest reality dash my hopes and dreams. That reminds me of a pessimist vs. optimist story/vignette/analogy/joke/whatever I recently read. A pessmist when put in a room full of delights finds nothing to be delighted about. An optimist when put in a room full of horse dung is later found happily slinging the dung all around. When asked why, the optimist answers, “With this much horse dung, there’s gotta be a pony in here somewhere!”
Thank you, thank you very much. I’ll be here all week.