Peking Noodle Parlor

Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:10 PM

Yeah, this might sound completely daft, but I am soooo happy. For years and years I have had amazing memories of this obscure, yet historical Cantonese style restaurant in of all places, Butte, Montana. On rare occassions I've run into folks who have eaten there and we've all gotten this strange, faraway and mystical bliss in our eyes... it's like a dream, or de ja vu, or some kind of fanatical attachment to a film noir masterpiece.

Yes, the Peking Noodle Parlor. Unchanging, seedy, authentic (Butte's mining history had a 1/3 percentage of immigrant Chinese population at one time), and indelibley, artistically delicious.

What am I ranting about? Here I am living in Washington State and I have been giving the raves for this *certain special Chinese noodle parlor* to my husband for years... and I finally googled it up. Found it! Next time we travel over to visit the folks I'm dragging us to "the big pit" of Butte. It's also the site of the Mai Wah Society http://www.maiwah.org which chronicles the history of the Chinese in Montana... really neat stuff. Yep, I feel this influence deeply in Firefly (being a psi-phi and history buff).

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