Asian restaurants in Buttf**k, Egypt
So I just got back yesterday from a trip down to Missouri for family things. One of our stops was was Poplar Bluff, Missouri. I realized that the best way I could explain the experience of being in a podunk little town is this true scenario that took place while I was stuck in their Wal-Mart:
Step 1: See a relatively young (late teens - early 20's) girl. Think she is cute. Then notice she has a kid.
Step 2: Repeat step one for EVERY girl you see.
Anyhow, I'm getting off of my point. The one thing you notice when going through all of these back-ass little towns is that, almost without fail, there is a Chinese restaurant. The above town, in fact, had two.
Now, I never really thought about it before this trip. I mean, I'm used to seeing Chinese restaurants all of the time, because you can go ten blocks in damn near any direction and find one where I live. But on this trip, something dawned on me.
Taking out the few that are actually owned by round-eyes, my question is simply this: what the hell are Asians doing in these backwater towns?!? I'm not talking Southern or "rurar" towns that actually provide some incentive to living there. I'm talking these shithole, hillbilly towns where the only people who logically should be living there are the white trash families that can't afford gas money to drag their trailer homes to a different location.
I can understand the draw of a Chinese restaurant in towns like this. When your life consists mostly of shooting squirrels from your front porch and watching Hee-Haw reruns, going to a Chinese restaurant is probably an "exotic" and magical experience. But what in God's name would convince an Asian person to go live in that town and set up shop? I don't care if your little restaurant could run the market for the "other" genre of a town's restaurant menu, there can't possibly be any other attractive quality to living in that kind of place. It just utterly boggles my mind.
As another example, we stopped at this run down little gas station to get cold drinks, and there was a woman from Taiwan running the place. I wanted to honestly, seriously ask her what in God's name she was doing there.