nice to meet you too! :) unfortunately i’m not from these parts, but Yesss i can totally imagine the happy meal in the happy meal box!! i guess we have the power of franchising to thank for this shared connection 😂😂
I really enjoyed reading this and i’m happy to have stumbled across it, Heidi 😊 It’s so true that a restaurant can be a symbol of something larger, I remember an old 1980s-style McD’s closing in my local area to make way for urban development, and while it wasn’t immigrant-owned, a lot of immigrants had spent hours there for decades and a lot of memories were in that place. Hope the new Super Bowl still tastes as good! ;)
Hey Clare, great to "meet" you here! Where are you based? Your comment made me tear up immediately - Asian Australian families love their McDonalds (we call it Maccas) and it was always such a treat when our parents had time to take us for a Happy Meal!
This is such a beautiful and moving piece, Heidi! I love how you captured so many stories across generations and between communities through the story of the Super Bowl restaurant. So much of what you wrote really resonated for me. And that picture of the neonlit restaurant front of Super Bowl evokes a lot of nostalgia. I’m happy to read that they’re open again, even if under different management 💛
nice to meet you too! :) unfortunately i’m not from these parts, but Yesss i can totally imagine the happy meal in the happy meal box!! i guess we have the power of franchising to thank for this shared connection 😂😂
I really enjoyed reading this and i’m happy to have stumbled across it, Heidi 😊 It’s so true that a restaurant can be a symbol of something larger, I remember an old 1980s-style McD’s closing in my local area to make way for urban development, and while it wasn’t immigrant-owned, a lot of immigrants had spent hours there for decades and a lot of memories were in that place. Hope the new Super Bowl still tastes as good! ;)
Hey Clare, great to "meet" you here! Where are you based? Your comment made me tear up immediately - Asian Australian families love their McDonalds (we call it Maccas) and it was always such a treat when our parents had time to take us for a Happy Meal!
This is such a beautiful and moving piece, Heidi! I love how you captured so many stories across generations and between communities through the story of the Super Bowl restaurant. So much of what you wrote really resonated for me. And that picture of the neonlit restaurant front of Super Bowl evokes a lot of nostalgia. I’m happy to read that they’re open again, even if under different management 💛
Thanks for visiting and reading 🤍 And yes it’s been so good seeing Chinatown come back to life over the past few years! ☺️