> We took my wife's mother out to lunch yesterday. There is a Chinese restaurant near here that has a fabulous lunch buffet. It was crowded, and at least a third, maybe half of the people there were Mexicans. The fact is that we have a number of top notch Mexican restaurants here, and with a fast-growing Mexican population, they are usually busy. I never get tired of Mexican food, but I suppose if you grew up on it, you might like Chinese for a change.

It's the same here in Washington, only add Asian people of all kinds (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, lots of Thai people) going to the Mexican restaurants, Native Americans eating in Thai restaurants, and Indian people eating at Italian places. I've come across more than one German family, and once at the video store there were three young men speaking Russian.

Qua "Strike that - three very *polite* young men speaking Russian. They opened the exiting door for me and my mother even though they couldn't speak our language" rtz