The egg rolls were the best I ever had.
China Jewel.
They were the only egg rolls I ever had.
The restaurant was tucked in a dead end, near the cemetery.
On your birthday the woman who ran the restaurant would give you a ride home in a rickshaw.
I watched adults get drunk at the China Jewel on their birthday because they knew they were getting a rickshaw ride home.
My family loved that woman.
But we didn’t know her name.
She was the Rickshaw Lady, the China Jewel Lady.
If I stayed home from the China Jewel when I was sick, the China Jewel woman would send home wonton soup for me.
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