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Number One Chinese Restaurant

Written by: Lillian li
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
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The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional smiles simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of bustling restaurant life.

Owner Jimmy Han has ambitions for a new high-end fusion place, hoping to eclipse his late father's homely establishment. Jimmy's older brother, Johnny, is more concerned with restoring the dignity of the family name than his faltering relationship with his own teenage daughter, Annie. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, yearn to turn their 30-year friendship into something more, while Nan's son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble.

When disaster strikes and Pat and Annie find themselves in a dangerous game that means tragedy for the Duck House, their families must finally confront the conflicts and loyalties simmering beneath the red and gold lanterns.

©2019 Lillian li (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction
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Jimmy Han didn't understand why was everyone in league against him to keep him in his father's restaurant - The Beijing Duck House? His mother Fung Fey was so agitated and alarmed at his idea of a new restaurant that he and his brother Johnny Han had the greatest possible difficulty in composing her spirits. The Beijing Duck House would be incomplete without their staff who had worked with quiet competence for years, bringing course after course. It would be like meat without salt.

Manager Nan Fung was seriously embarrassed and distressed with her heedless and spoilt son Pat. He didn’t care one straw for her anger. She wished she had influence over him. If she had, she would know what she would make him do. She was a woman besotted with the weak-kneed fool Ah-Jack (a senior waiter), and such extremes of love caused her to make light of his foibles. However, Ah-Jack was devoured by anxiety for his dying wife Michelle.

Johnny Han's daughter Annie made Pat live. He spent the happiest evenings of his life with her. There was a provoking hint of mystery in Pat's manner that Annie liked. Their relationship did not have the approval of their parents.

Jimmy didn't know that opening a new restaurant would put everyone out of the frying-pan into the fire!

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