Super Great Wall Buffet

Super Great Wall Buffet 2011 年 1 月 17 日星期一

女兒這次回來，寧子幾乎沒怎麽陪她。先是陪父母，父母走後的第一個休息日自己獨自搞了一次乾坤大挪移 --- 把北屋主人房的 King Size 床移到南屋客人房來，把客人房裏所有東西移到主人房裏去。還沒來得及享受，就做了 12 天的水工。隻到今天才有機會在床上沐浴了五個多小時的陽光。 把所有的欠覺都補了回來。

剛起床，女兒就過來打招呼：“老媽，你醒啦。”

寧子問女兒：“你晚上想去哪兒吃飯？”“在家裏吃唄。”

“你不是在你走之前要去吃頓生日飯嗎？”

“我想去很久以前去過的那家中國 Buffet 店。可是 Daddy 說很遠。也不知道那家店還在不在。”

“你不是想去韓國燒烤嘛？”“我就想去吃那家 Buffet 。”

“是不是前年冬天你會學校前我們去的那一家？”“對。”

正好江子夫打電話過來，告訴寧子那家店還在，叫 Super Great Wall Buffet 。而且在網上還可以打印出 10% 的折扣卷，不過節假日除外。寧子說：那你打電話問問他們，今天是馬丁路丁節，銀行學校郵局股市都不開門，是國假日，但算不算餐館業的節日。寧子做 Coupon ，“ Exclude Holiday ”的意思是指一年裏餐館最忙的四天：情人節，母親節，聖誕前夜和新年前夜。

江子夫提前兩個小時下班，告訴寧子那家店今天不用 Coupon 。並說：這家太遠了，去韓國店旁邊的 LD Buffet 也不錯。寧子說：今天是吃她的生日飯，由她挑，她喜歡哪家就哪家，再遠也要去。

寧子第一次來吃這家是在 07 年，當時是在 Private Room 裏給寧子的上司 E 開歡送會， E 在公司做了十年，是科羅拉多的原老，她的走讓很多人都很難過，科州幾乎所有分店的經理都來了。當 HR 的人打電話告訴寧子時，寧子還不敢相信。 HR 的人問寧子有沒有與 E 的合影，所有人都知道寧子與 E 關係很好。寧子想了半天，還真沒有。寧子就即興地寫了一首打油詩發給 HR ，被主持人（ HR ）放在投影儀裏公布於眾。

An Everlasting Photo in My Mind------To E

When I first joined in Panda,

Your were my MUM,

I always called you my MOM,

Although you are much younger than me.

You led me from a Panda infant to elementary school,

You were the reason why I could stay in Panda.

Then you became my ACO.

I told you “too bad so sad, I couldn’t call you MOM any more,

But I was so so so happy for UUUUUUU.”

When you first told me you were leaving,

I thought it was just your thinking, not your decision.

I have been dreaming your changing mind.

Now the fact is unchangeable and

I become very emotional.

All my past 2 ½ year Panda GM life

Flashes like a movie in my mind

With my eyes full of tears.

We have totally different characters:

You are soft like Pacific Ocean while

I am hard like Rocky Mountain .

But they are perfect Ying and Yang.

Your walk-to-talk leadership shows me

To be a human being first

Then to do the business.

You are a really servant leader model.

You might not have a degree in college,

But you are a post-Doc in Panda.

Because your 10-year Panda experience

Makes you bigger than most problems

So that a big problem to me is no problem to you.

We used to cry together:

Cried for the understood and misunderstood,

Cried for the fairness and unfairness,

Cried for the success after a warrior’s hardworking,

Cried for the failure after a mistake.

I’ve never got a picture of yours

But your calm attitude when frustrated

Your tender eyes when offended

Your soft voice when angry

Your smiling face when satisfied

Always last in my programmed brain.

I feel like a child being abandoned by a MOM

Because I know this time I totally lose my Panda mental backup.

But I am happy for you if you think it’s good for your own real daughter.

And it’s time for me to grow totally independently.

每次來這家店吃飯，都會想起那天的告別宴。也許是命中注定，女兒返校前也選這家店。

這家店的菜確實不錯：有生蠔，炒蜆，椰汁蝦，椒鹽蝦。都是寧子和女兒愛吃的菜。還有 Sushi （當然寧子不回碰），蒙古 BBQ 。

環境也蠻好，寧子和女兒都對吊在正中央空中的由無數個玻璃珠串成的帆船感興趣。

寧子所工作的店裏的會計師一家今天也來吃飯。這世界真小。但意外碰見熟人也是一個驚喜。

這一個城市住得太久必然會有很多沉澱和回憶。難怪人說美國人在一個房子裏居住的平均年限是七年。也許是該挪窩了。

吃完飯上了車，女兒禮節性的說了聲：今天吃得很開心，謝謝老爸老媽。