49 Years Later I DiscoverThe Location of the Chinese Restaurant I Ate At In Clarksville, Mississippi
As you may have read, the reason why anybody knows who I am goes back to the fact that I have eaten (now) at over 8,300 different Chinese restaurants, which are laid out in an Excel schedule showing the name and address of the restaurant, where it falls in the numerical sequence, and the year I first ate there. My list goes all the way back to 1951 when I was 3 years old, but of course it's not like I started a contemporaneous listing at that point in time. The list itself was first created in 1988, at a time where new Chinese restaurants were opening up so quickly in the San Gabriel Valley that I needed a list just to make sure I didn't inadvertently eat at a restaurant that I had already tried. Of course, that meant I needed to populate my list with the Chinese restaurants I had eaten at in the past. Fortunately I had saved business cards, takeout menus, and even credit card slips from many restaurants. But there were also many other restaurants where I h...