Some people say that New York is the most prosperous metropolis, some say that New York is the most splendid capital of wealth, some say that New York is heaven, and some say that it is hell.

But for Lin Guodong, who has been smuggled to the United States for more than two years and has worked in the back kitchen without windows for two years,

New York is just a habitat.

If you are close, you will be anxious, and if you are far away, you will miss it, a place where you are about to go crazy and come back for a day of recreation and send your hard-earned money back to your relatives in time.

As we all know, most of the old United States are not good at cooking, so in the vast land of the United States, there are countless Chinese restaurants, as long as there are people living in the place, there will be one to several Chinese restaurants nearby, as small as only the husband and wife partner of the takeaway restaurant, as large as a dozen or twenty staff buffet shop, and then there is the decoration is elegant, the style is similar, even the menu is almost the same Japanese restaurant, Chinatown Chinese food, etc., it is said that there are at least more than 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the whole United States.

In a small Penn town about two hours away from New York, Wal-Mart's large shopping mall is surrounded by several large restaurants, including Lao Mei's favorite hamburgers, fries and pizzas, as well as Mexican-style barbecue restaurants.

This RB restaurant called Sakura is very lively, and it is also the best day of the week for the restaurant, with teppanyaki chefs performing amusing juggles on the teppanyaki in the hall while neatly making delicious teppanyaki on the steaming teppanyaki table.

The iron plate table is about less than two meters long and less than one meter wide, and the whole iron plate is black and bright through the gas stove, and the chefs fry and fry chicken, beef, salmon, shrimp and lobster with some vegetarian dishes on the iron plate according to the guests' orders between performances.

In the interval between stir-frying, the chefs took out a watering can filled with the cheapest RB rice wine and sprayed it on the group of old beauty guests a few times, and the old beauty who loves to drink, especially the free wine, happily closed their mouths, even if they were spilled with rice wine and sprayed on their faces, they were still clamoring to come again, the scene was very funny and enthusiastic.

Covering an area of about 5,000 square feet, this RB restaurant has a sushi bar and bar area connected to the bar, and a relatively quiet dining area with about 20 tables for those who don't like to be busy.

Just like the heat in the front hall, the kitchen in the back is also busy every weekend, because the business is good, there are often five or six, or even seven or eight dinners coming in at the same time, and the two masters who are busy specializing in teppanyaki frequently curse.

"X's, how do you Qitai (waiter) take orders! Seven or eight meals come in at the same time, where is it so fast!" They scolded and scolded the Qitai who came in with the order, and at the same time grabbed the code to stir-fry, and did not dare to delay for a moment. Occasionally, one person is selected to do the complex and time-consuming starters and plating.

"Alas, Xiaolin, you fry some more shrimp out, there are not enough fried shrimp in front. The master of the sushi bar in front of him shouted loudly from the small window.

"Okay, how many do you want?"

"Let's get forty first!"

"Okay, come right away!" Saying that, Lin Guodong had already thrown the medium-cooked prawns into the oil pot, and then fried them again.

"Xiaolin, a shrimp is not spicy! A dish is not spicy, and a chicken is not spicy" The iron plate master looked at the list that had just been in, and picked out the meal that belonged to Lin Guodong and called it.

"Okay!" Lin Guodong replied immediately.

"Woo woo zizi~" The printer is still running out of the order, the master has no time to read the order, the meal in his hand has not come out yet, and he scolds the person who walked in to get the soup and salad. Quickly prepare the dish code for the next list, and then raise your hand to get the first list printed.

"Master, isn't the shrimp at table 5 sweet and spicy?" a person walked in and shouted loudly.

"Shout Mao! so many people come in together and dare to urge, who urges themselves to do it!" "The master in this kind of restaurant is the best, and he dares to scold anyone who is not pleasing to the eye, and even the boss has to be polite to the master when he comes in.

"Xiao Lin, you have to steam another pot of rice! there is not enough rice!" shouted the second chef as he took the rice out of the rice cooker and stir-fried it, while carefully looking at the four woks operating at the same time.

"Okay, come right away!" Lin Guodong replied loudly while quickly tumbling the shrimp in the oil pot.

In addition to teppanyaki, most of the guests will order a few plates of sushi rolls as the first plate or some people who don't eat teppanyaki and like to be lively, they will also order some sushi as the main food, and there are many guests who come to eat sushi, so the sushi bar in front of it is not idle for a moment on such a busy weekend, and it is normal to be able to make seven or eight pots of rice in one night, and Lin Guodong, the oil pot master, has to be responsible for steaming rice in addition to frying things.

The only six waiters in the store are busy flying, they are busy receiving food and wine, serving drinks, and then running to the kitchen to serve soup and salad, the huge tray in their hands can hold up to 8 drinks at a time, 9 soup bowls, and the other hand to hold something, in short, a single pass can almost all the guests of a whole table.

After a night of working without hand, when it was time to finish work, everyone was tired with back pain and leg cramps, and some girls who had just started working as waiters would hide in the toilet and secretly wipe their tears.

Most of the people who work in this kind of restaurant are like Lin Guodong who stole to the United States, and these people have not even had time to see the appearance of a big city like New York, so they have to scatter to Chinese restaurants in various states of the United States to work as illegal workers, in order to pay off their debts, no matter how much hardship and tiredness they have, they can only try to persevere, because this is the path they have chosen!

Without a solid cultural foundation, no country you go to will have to endure hardships and hardships, which is the most profound experience of Lin Guodong in the past two years or so since he went to the United States.

Lin Guodong still remembers that after his parents scraped together the first down payment, they were arranged by the smugglers to follow a group of people to Mexico by plane in the summer of two years ago, and then to the US-Mexico border.

When someone informed them that they had successfully crossed the border, the exhausted Lin Guodong was so excited that he almost sat on the ground, but the leader told them that the danger was not over, cheer up, and if they insisted on persevering, they would go to a safe place.

As a result, all the people who crawled over were put into a minibus like piglets, and dragged and swayed for dozens of hours before they arrived at New York, the so-called most prosperous metropolis in the world!

July 22, 2013 at 3 a.m. New York time.

Lin Guodong stood by the guardrail of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking at the lights of Pier 17 in the distance as bright as stars, the brocade-like sea water and the brilliant lights of the Empire State Building in the distance, all of which made him feel a little dreamlike and unreal.

For a day, he didn't eat a bite of food, because the small hotel where he stayed last night was stolen, and all the money he saved for three months to send back to his parents and return to the head of the snake was stolen.