Eating Chinese food is a tradition that we have done is Seattle for many  years with Jana's family. We had heard rumors of there actually being a  Chinese food restaurant in Port-Au-Prince, so we decided to check it out.  Just finding the location of the restaurant was a challenge. We had to call  many a concierge at the ritzy hotels to nail down its approximate location.  We decided that we wanted to treat the students at the Sant Zaverian to  their first experience of Chinese food with us. So about 10 of us piled (and  I mean piled) into a tap-tap and off we went to find Chez Wou. Our tap-tap  only took us so far, so we found a wou-lib (free ride) with some Haitian guy  in the back of his pick, who incidentally then ended up eating with us. We  were expecting some hole in the wall Chinese place, but what we found was  probably one of the most bourgeois places in all of Haiti. It was like being  transported into another world. Jana was so excited she ran into the  restaurant. We were all actually pretty excited and our boisterous entrance  was probably thought of strangely by the management, staff, and rich  Haitians eating there. We sat at a table with a lazy-suzan like the one we  sit at in Seattle at China First. The first thing we did was to order for  them since they had no idea what the food was. Then we proceeded to teach  them how to use chopsticks, which was hilarious. Then the food came. The  food was actually pretty good. We also taught the students how to say thank  you in Chinese (sheshe) which they used incessantly on any staff member that  came around our table, be they Haitian or Chinese. They found this pretty  amusing. One of the students actually left the table to go find the owner  and learn how to say "how are you?" in Chinese. The only thing missing was  fortune cookies and cheap prices!

LazySusanRoundTalbe.jpg - Our table...just like China First...we laughed at  that.
CenatFirstimeChopstics.jpg - It was hilarious to see them try to make them  work 
BillyGivesChopsATry.jpg - I think he spent about 5 minutes trying to pick up  the spring role. 
BerteauAndJonelTryChops.jpg - Notice Jonel's two hand technique 
JanaJosueBenjamin.jpg - We were pretty full. 
ChineseChristmas.jpg - We had the owner take a group photo...I had never  heard French with a Chinese accent before.