FREDERICTON – Recently, Chinese immigrants opened an eating place in downtown Fredericton to give humans a taste of the proper food and culture in their home country. S.
A Bite of Beijing is located at 621 King Street beside Lunar Rogue Pub. It offers Chinese crepes, noodles, snacks, cakes, and vegan and vegetarian options. For those new to navigating Chinese meals, there are breakfast, lunch, and dinner combos.
The dishes are wholesome and fast to make. In three minutes, the owners say clients will be enjoying proper Chinese cuisine. The early opinions online are top. “The first-rate Jianbing (Chinese crepe) I’ve had considering we lived in Beijing,” stated one patron on Facebook.
Another patron stated that ‘a bite in their Chinese crepe cured their homesickness.’
Trissie (Bin) Suo and Joe (Liang) Li left Beijing 12 months ago with their children, ages 4 and 7, searching for a better lifestyle.
“We have higher education right here, and [a] better environment, accurate air, so that’s why we moved here,” Suo stated.
Joe (Liang) became an IT engineer in China, and Trissie (Bin) became an internal auditor. When they arrived in Fredericton, they searched for jobs for about three months. However, they couldn’t locate any.
They determined to begin a business by promoting Chinese meals at the Garrison Night Market, then moved to the Northside Market. In addition to the restaurant, Suo also became a realtor.
“After we moved here, we had to reflect onconsideration on what we should do in the future. This is a small metropolis, and there aren’t many task possibilities compared to big towns, so we decided to make big changes in our lives,” she stated.
Their meals became well-obtained at the markets, which prompted them to open a restaurant when space became available downtown.
“We [thought], ‘it’s time we can do my restaurant to serve all of the community,'” Li said.
They had a tough time considering merging the special Canadian and Chinese cultures into the restaurant decor. I devised a concept: make a Chinese and a Canadian-style room.
The Canadian-style room resembles a diner, while the Chinese-style room has artwork from China and purple seats that represent the Chinese flag.
“We want people to study our way of life, so that’s why we wanted to start our business,” stated Sou.
That’s why they named their restaurant ‘A Bite of Beijing.’
“This eating place isn’t always the simplest place to serve meals. However, it is also a subculture, Chinese culture,” said Li.
Even if people now know their meals, they nonetheless find that a few are reluctant to try them. Sou says there are times when her husband gives out meals free of charge inside the Northside Market, so people try them. Half of the time, people reject them.
“You realize, in China or Toronto, if we’ve got new meals, human beings will come to try them; they may be keen to try new things,” she said. It’s tough for us to expand new meals right here because if they don’t try it, they [will] by no means buy our meals.”
However, they’ve acquired support from their Chinese network and Canadian friends in Fredericton at every step.
Coming from a huge city, they were amazed by Fredericton’s small town’s warm temperature. Even the mayor shares information about their new eating place on Facebook.
“We in no way think the mayor might appear on Facebook and submit such data for us because in China, in big cities, we in no way thought [something like that] would happen to us,” Suo said.
