GOLDENKEY CHINESE FOOD DRIVER

The hotel is notable for its prime location close to Yuexiushan Stadium. Located in Yue Xiu district, the property is set only 1.3 km from the sprawling park 'Yuexiu Mountain'. Boasting location close to Guangzhou City Art Museum, this business hotel comprises 218 rooms as well as a convenience shop and a restaurant.

The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Guangzhou Yue Xiu Hotel is 4-star accommodation set about a 15-minute stroll from Yuexiu Park. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. INSKEEP: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News.Ĭopyright © 2011 NPR. She says shes already had to lay off six of her 15 staff members. NELSON: Still, Tripoli restaurant owner Dai says she doesnt know how much longer she can hold on if business doesnt pick up. He says the owner of the Golden Key Chinese Restaurant in Kabul told him its because he can make a lot of money when there is no competition. NELSON: Wang notes that Chinese people often operate in restaurants in war zones. WANG YUGUO (Correspondent, China Central Television): Comparing with the food in China, I think its in the middle but upper - a little bit upper. One of the restaurants fans is Wang Yuguo, a correspondent for China Central Television, who is on assignment in Tripoli. NELSON: The food is surprisingly good, considering that ingredients are hard to come by with a growing food and fuel shortage in Libya. Even Dais spotless kitchen is shuttered until the journalists call.

NELSON: Three other Chinese restaurants in Tripoli have since closed. The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were over in a couple of months. I didnt know it would drag on for so long. So I gritted my teeth and decided to wait and see what would happen. SONGXIAN: (Through Translator) If I left, I would lose everything I have here. Her family spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent and renovate it earlier this year. She serves no pork or alcohol in keeping with Libyas Islamic laws.ĭai had high hopes for this place. Her dishes reflect the cuisine of her native Zhejiang Province along China's eastern coast. But she says she found Libyan women too big for Chinese fashions, so she decided to go into the restaurant business. NELSON: The 55-year-old says she first came to Tripoli in 2004 to open a clothing store for women. DAI SONGXIAN (Owner, Al-Maida Restaurant): (Chinese language spoken) A statue of the Chinese god of wealth and fortune, and a much larger picture of Moammar Gadhafi adorn the front hall. NELSON: Dai is proud of her waterfront restaurant, which is decorated with red lanterns. They're usually journalists seeking to escape the lackluster cuisine of the hotel they are confined to by the Libyan government. One or two customers are all she can count on these days. NELSON: Restaurant owner Dai Songxian beams as her son jots down the order. ERNETO LONDONO (Reporter, The Washington Post): So one sweet and sour. Washington Post reporter Ernesto Londono orders carry-out for a couple of hungry colleagues stuck back at the Rixos Hotel. NELSON: They arent keen on Chinese food or the Asian pop music playing in the restaurant, so after a quick look around to make sure we arent secretly meeting anyone for an interview, they head back to the van.

GOLDENKEY CHINESE FOOD DRIVER

A government minder and driver are assigned to tag along. SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON: It takes a week of nudging Libyan officials for NPR and The Washington Post to get permission to go to Al-Maida Restaurant. NPRs Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson sent us this item from her reporter's notebook. Today, NATO air strikes and gun-toting thugs tend to cut down on the number of people eating out. They once served Moammar Gadhafis son, Seif al-Islam.

But one Chinese family is trying to hang on. Most foreigners have fled Libya, if they can. Libya was a country where many foreigners came to work from American engineers to North Korean doctors, to Egyptian laborers. Let's go next to Libya where the war has affected every part of life.

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