Good Evening!
And then I met up with a virtual gaggles of friends and fellow foodies for a meal in Chinatown. It turned out that one of the young women at the table spoke Chinese - actually Shanghaiese - and since we were at a Shanghai cuisine restaurant, and since the young woman's grandparents grew up in the same town that our waitress grew up in (not at the same time, of course), well...
Good times!
We didn't get any free food, but we - well she - did get tipped off to the best and freshest dishes on the menu, and we had very attentive and thoughtful service.