Guangzho part deux
So I mentioned a while back the possibility of moving to Guangzhou and making sushi there at a restaurant that my bosses were thinking about opening. While I had continued to envision how much fun it would be to live out of the states for a while, especially in southern china, I hadn’t really thought much of it lately, as there had been little or no evidence that the restaurant was actually going to happen.
Today the blueprints showed up. Turns out that the owners are trying to snatch up the contract to run a hotel for the government. 22 floors, a full health spa and salon already set up, and then a restaurant that they would build where the reception area is now. This is all very preliminary as it will be probably six months of jumping through hoops for them before they can even apply for the permit, (I guess the floor plan has to be approved by a variety of bureaucrats from health and safety type departments before the permit is even considered) but the fact that they have a likely space and the older sister is going to China next month, seems to solidify if nothing else that they are serious, and that exact timing aside, this restaurant is happening.
Even more exciting for me is that with a spa in place, I may be able to do massage instead of or in addition to making sushi. This should give me a better negotiating position for salary (since neither of the sisters have the faintest idea how to operate a spa), and will make it less critical that I be there on a day to day basis, or even an hour to hour basis, giving me time for hobbies I couldn’t do working the dinner shift, (read: kung fu) and travel, or even just have time off if people come to visit. The other nice thing as an american, is that they’ve already said that if I go there, I’d be able to live in the hotel rather than the employee dormitories, giving me an apartment of sorts and some privacy and such that the peons don’t normally get.
This is all still very preliminary of course, but it is a pretty exciting possibility and one I look forward to immensely.
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