The Local Diner - Does the Diner Reflect Its Ethnic Roots?

Weekly Assignment: THE LOCAL DINER

Instructions:

• Select a local diner

• Attend and observe: Does the diner reflect its ethnic roots?

• Make note of the following:

- The diner’s sign

- Room décor

- choice of colors

- style of furniture

- table settings

- Waiters/waitresses’ style of dress

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Answer: Does the diner reflect its ethnic roots? Explain your answer….

I chose one of my favorite “diners” in Boston the Chinese Noodle House. It is a very popular noodle house run by Chinese people in Cambodia. It is famous because they hand make all the noodles in front of the guests and serve them in heaping bowls of noodle soup. One bowl of noodles with beef or duck is about $2, so you can easily find yourself sat next to total strangers during the packed lunch hour.

The food on the menu definitely reflects the ethnic roots of the Chinese. However, other than the owners, most of the staff is Khmer (Cambodian). Therefore, Khmer is spoken throughout the room, not Chinese. This is something you come to expect when two different ethnicities though.

The sign is in Chinese, Khmer, and English and the room decor is basic. Simple chairs and tables decorated with nothing but the array of condiments needed for the noodles. Every table has it’s own oscillating fan to assist in slurping in the piping hot noodles in the hot, tropical weather. The walls of the room are covered in white tile, as are