Monday at noon we went to the downtown area in Charlottesville where there were loads of bookstores and places to eat, and there is an eating place called the York Place which is said to serve delicious Chinese dumplings and noodles. So we went in. I saw my classmate Mellon and she told me that the patron here was a native Beijinger. At the same time I was shocked to hear someone behind the serving table speaking very authentic Beijing accent. I turned around seeing one guy busying himself with serving the customers. He looked exactly the same as the people I saw in many Hutongs in Beijing. They like chatting with people and they don't care much about the their outer appearances. But he looked pretty cool. The food we had there was really tasty. The dumplings tasted even better than those we had in China. And so did the noodles.
We had great fun there, and before leaving the restaurant, Wu Jie and I took a picture with him in front of the gate. It felt good meeting someone from one's hometown on a foreign land. Even though most of the time we don't know each other, but we can sense there are always some cultural links there.