American Style Chicken

I wish we'd taken more pics of this joint, but I'll show you what I do have.  Pastor John Paul started the restaurant in downtown La Plain, in hopes that older kids at the orphanage can work there -- cook and serve, etc.  And it may provide jobs for kids when they are too old to stay at the orphanage.  I think it is a great idea.

I seriously wish I'd taken a picture of the menu.  The breakfast menu included spaghetti and grits with liver.  I don't even want to know what would have been served.  But I'm sure it would have included bones.

The pros:

• Coca-Cola (and 7up) in glass bottles made with real cane sugar.  We also had these at the orphanage (for us).
• Prestige.  Haitian beer.  Tastes similar to Red Stripe.  Very good.
• Fried akra = fried okra.  So good!
• Amazing onion rings.
• Decent french fries.
• A disco tech of sorts for dancing.  I was really the only one that took part.  Dance with a Haitian in a nightclub...check.

The cons:

• All the other food.  The fried chicken was doable -- good crust, but the chicken does not taste the same.  They use parts of food where we use an entire breast or cut of beef, etc.  
• The bathroom situation -- see a previous post.
• Was like a casino: you'd walk in at 5, bright day light and before you know it it is 8!  Haitian buildings don't have windows, but a few slits in the concrete.  These slits were covered with fans (praise God!), but that meant no light streaming in + bright Caribbean colored walls + a multi colored disco ball light going off in the corner + loud music.
• The wait staff hadn't mastered bringing out multiple plates at one time.  Haha -- no arms lined up with plates like you see here.  One at a time on a giant tray!
• Eating there every night.

Mom saw this picture and said, "Look at Weston!  Who's that girl?"  Me, "Really?!"  Her, "Oh!  I've never seen you in a headband thing."  Too funny.