4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, February 11, 1983
Cuisine from the East
Chinese restaurants multiply in Chapel Hill
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Les!!:r Cstts now works In Morrison dorm
... moved from Alexander after nine years
Move from Alexander
tough one for Betts
By JIM YARDLEY
Staff Writer
A UNC residence hall janitor has been moved across campus after
nine years of work in the same dormitory, but he says housing of
ficials never gave him a reason for the move. Housing officials say
that Lesiter Betts was "a disciplinary problem," although his super
visor disagrees.
"I don't know why they moved me," Betts, 64, said. Betts was
moved to Morrison after nine years of service at Alexander. "They
haven't told me why I was moved or anything."
Betts said he planned to retire from the University in March, and
had hoped to spend his last months at Alexander dormitory.
David McCauley, a housekeeping administrator with University
housing, said that Betts was moved because of disciplinary reasons,
but declined to elaborate, saying he had met with Betts to discuss the
problem.
"He was not cooperating with his superviser," McCauley said. "I
have to handle problems when they arise. That is part of my job."
But(Yvonne Baldwin, housekeeping superviser at Alexander, said
Betts was not a problem in his nine years there.
"He (Betts) did cooperate with me," Baldwin said. "He never
gave me any problems at all. He was a good worker." :
Russell Perry, associate director of University housing operations,
said that he had assumed Betts had been told why he was moved.
"I thought that he was talked to," Perry said. "I and the rest of
the people in the department can discuss it. He will be talked to
within the week."
Presently, Betts works under Amelia Brown, housekeeping super
visor at Morrison dormitory, who said Betts was a good and in
dustrious worker.
"He has been beautiful," she said. "The students like him. He
does a good job. He is a very likeable person and I certainly couldn't
see him as being a disciplinary problem."
As for Betts' repositioning, Brown was told "that they were going
to make some changes. However, I didn't ask why."
Brown also had not been informed that Betts was being moved for
disciplinary reasons. .
Betts began working for the University in January 1968, and he
had been a housekeeping assistant in Alexander since 1973.
Alexander residents said they missed Betts' hard work and plea
sant personality around the dormitory.
"Lesiter is an institution at Alexander," said senior Thomas
Whisnant, an Alexander resident. "He's fun to talk to and he cares a
lot about the residents of the dorm. He's a hard worker and the
dorm has never been dirty as long as I have been here.
"I think they took advantage of him," he said. "What they did
was basically pointless and it was insulting and disrespectful to
Lesiter to move him to a harder working environment three months
before he retires."
Whisnant and other residents said they planned to start a petition
in order to bring Betts back to Alexander.
By SHARON SHERIDAN
Staff Writer
What do the words "Chapel Hill" bring to
mind? One thinks of NCAA championships,
the Old Well, Franklin Street, happy hours,
the Pit, court parties, Dean Smith and Chinese
food. Chinese food? '
Last year, four Chinese restaurants opened
in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, bringing the .
total to eight. While no particular reason can
be cited for the recent surge in Chinese food
restaurants, different owners explained their
reasons for settling in the area.
' "We think our style of cooking is the best
and the people in Chapel Hill are more expos
ed to the high standards of Chinese cooking
compared to other areas in North Carolina.
People (here) would appreciate it (Chinese
food) more," said David Lee, the owner of
Lotus Inn, which opened last September.
Lihia Peng owns The Dragon's Garden and
Golden Dragon. She said she first opened
Golden Dragon because she lived in the area
and because there were few Chinese restau
rants nearby. She added that Golden Dragon
was different, because it served food cafeteria
style and catered to students. She said another
reason for opening a Chinese restaurant was to
help provide employment for some of her rela
tives who had recently moved here arid could
ill
not speak English.
Floyd Yee opened the China-Nite
Restaurant in 1975. Before moving to North
Carolina, Yee owned a restaurant in Michigan.
Yee said he did not single out Chapel Hill as
the town where he wanted to locate a
restaurant. "We were just looking for a loca
tion with a building in it with the size we need
ed,"1 he said.
While Chinese food buffs may appreciate
the number of restaurants they have to choose
from, the competition can make it difficult for
the owners.
"It is difficult now," Peng said. "The com
petition is so tough. It really makes it hard for
everybody. We opened the Golden Dragon and
we were the only one on the street. When I
opened the second one (The Dragon's
Garden); it was in March (1982) and it was still
all right. But after the summer, there came
three more. I did not really expect that at all."
Yee pointed , out that it was not just the
number of other Chinese restaurants in the.
area that makes things difficult. "It's the
economy, too," he said.
Herbert Chu opened the House of Chu in
1970 Gocated where the Peking Garden
Restaurant is now). He later sold out because
"I thought the competition was too keen."
During Christmas vacation Chu opened
Four Five Six at the Franklin Street location
formerly occupied by Blimpies. Chu is an
owner of several other restaurants including
the Hunam Chinese Restaurant in Chapel Hill.
All of these restaurants are owned by a part
nership. . v ;
"You can't run. a restaurant alone suc
cessfully. It's very hard," he said.
'I ; found out I can't avoid the
competition," Chu said. "That the way the
game plays. The competition is very good for
the consumer and improves the attitude of the
merchants. I have to be better to stay on top."
"We have competition, but we found
ourselves in a pretty good position,' said the
manager of Hunam restaurant. "We have our
own customers. Most customers are repeat "
customers. They know the place real well."
The restaurants advertise various Chinese
cuisines. Among those are Hunan, Szechuan
and Cantonese styles. Hunan and Szechuan
dishes are more hot and spicy and often have
less sauce than the Cantonese dishes.
"The hot and spicy dishes are more popular
nowadays among the American population,"
said Francis Chan, owner of the Jade Palace
Chinese and Seafood Restaurant. He said that
the Szechuan province of China is cold and
damp. "People believe in order to stay healthy
they have to eat a lot of red peppers to drive
the wetness out of the body."
Hungry? Here' s a Chinese sampler
Hunt
From page 1 '
He is a true politician. His conversational
tone follows the cadence of a speech, with em
phasis on key phrasees. He is quick to add
statistics to document the state's economic
progress. His pride about the state is evident
when he refers to it as "we" and "us.f '
One of Hunt's main political assets is his
warm manner. He assures listeners of his in
terest with the gaze of his piercing, blue eyes.
He appears to be a man of the people. His
Wilson County boyhood days ring through in
his speech. The tan cowboy boots he wears
contrast with the plush green carpeting of his
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office and he apologizes for greeting visitors in
his shirtsleeves.
He carries with him the values and convic
tions he learned as a chile. He remembers be
ing angry at a local tobacco farmer who
mistreated a black tenant. The farmer's white
tenants had overplanted tobacco, but the black
had not, he said. However, the farmer made
all the tenants cut back the tobacco an equal
amount.
Today, Hunt volunteers his time at a local
school, trying to fight injustice by helping
young people and their families who are often
victims of unfairness.
Hunt's family is very important to him.
Although his favorite pastimes include jogg
ing, fishing and hunting, he stresses tennis and
horseback riding because those are activities he
does with his children.
" 1 His son, Baxter," is a sophomore "inter na
i ttonar: studies nuOoi UNC? Hisr youngest
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daughter, Rachel, will enter UNC in the fall.
Although the structure of the Chapel Hill
campus has changed since his days here, the
quality of education has not, he said. "The
academic excellence is as strong as it ever has
been, and that encouragement of creativity,
equality and the sense of indignation at wrong
doing is still there."
Hunt voiced the importance of ambition
and hard work in the commencement address
he made here in 1978. "This university is
responsible, in large measure, for what this
state has become," he said in the address. "It,
and you, are responsible for what this state will
be in the years to come. And, if this university
has taught us anything, it is that we cannot be
satisfied."
For now, Hunt skirts the issue of his own
years to come. "I have one goal now, and
that's to spend the next two years being the
r best" gdvertidrT can be," he said. ' "I want'
North Carolina to be able to move forward
every single step it can. Beyond that, a lot of
things have been talked about, and there are a
lot of possibilities that I have some interest in.
But I haven't made any final decisions."
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Hunam Chinese Restuarant. Herbert
Chu, part-owner of the restaurant which open
ed in 1981, estimated the cost of the average
dinner to be $6. That includes the entree, soup
and a choice of rice or lo mein. Lunch, in
cluding the entree, soup and a choice of rice or
lo mein was estimated to cost $2.73 and $3.50
with a drink.
At Four five Six, "We have cafeteria
style. You can pick out anything you want,"
Chu said. He said the average meal there
would cost between $2.75 and $3.50.
Golden Dragon. The average dinner of an
entree, egg roll and a choice of lo mein or rice
costs about $2.95.
The Dragon's Garden. Prices for a dinner
entree range from $3.95 to $8.
Lihia Peng, the owner of both Golden
Dragon and The Dragon's Garden said the'
average lunch at both restaurants included an'
entree, soup and a choice of rice or lo mein
and cost about $2.55.
The Chine-Nite Restaurant. It was one of
the first Chinese restaurants to open in the
area, making its debut in 1975, and it serves
Cantonese Chinese food as well as some
American dishes. The owner, Floyd Yee said
the average dinner cost $4.50 and the average
lunch cost $2.75. Rice and tea come with all
dinners.
The Peking Garden Restuarant. As Pek
ing Garden, this restaurant has been in ex
istence for little less than a year. But the
restaurant itself has been in Chapel Hill for
about eight years, said Edward Chen, one of
the owners.
The average dinner price is $5-$5.50, Chen
said. A lunch buffet is offered from 1 1:30-2:30
Monday through Friday for $3.50. This in
cludes four main dishes, soup, eggroll and lo
mein. There is a Sunday buffet from 12-2:30
and from 4:30-9:30 for $5.50. This includes
five main dishes instead of four.
RHA
The Jade Palace. It just opened last
November. The owner, Francis Chen, said the
restaurant specialized in Sino-Calabash
Seafood, which means the seafood is friend
with a thin layer of breading. The average din
ner costs about $5.50 and includes the main
entree and rice. The average lunch costs $2.75
and includes the entree, soup and friend rice or
. lo mein.
Lotus Inn. This restaurant just opened in
September. The average dinner costs between
$5 and $6. It includes a main entree and fired
or steamed rice. Lunch costs about $2.69 and
includes the main entree, soup, egg roll and a
choice of fried rice, steamed rice or to mein.
American-style breakfast is available in the
mornings.
Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. the
restaurant offer a gourmet type of Chinese
brunch know as Dim-Sum. A type of Dim
Sum is sticky rice and meat cooked in a bam
boo leaf.
From page 1
For CAA president the board endorsed Bax
ter, because he "impressed the board as the
candidate that would be a very assertive stu
dent voice within the CAA," Templeton said.
"He was a strong advocate for Student Ac
tivities Center seating," he said. "And he had
good proposals for basketball ticket distribu
tion. "Although he has no direct working ex
perience, he seemed very knowledgable of the
system. We didn't feel he'd have any trouble
stepping, into the presidency; i.v '
"We felt overall that Padraic was the better
candidate."
All six candidates for the run-off offices at
tended the meeting held in the lounge of
Aycofik dormitory. Candidates for student
body president and CAA president reiterated
their positions on the issues they felt to be most
important.
Candidates for RHA president, who both
serve on the Governing Board, said little dur
ing the opening remarks.: During the question-and-answer
period -that followed.-each -can
didate emphasized what they had learned most
from the campaign.
"I learned not to try to please each in
dividual student," Miles said. "I just tried to
be my individual self. You just can't please
everybody."
Dalton said he had found '"a genuine in
terest in RHA. Students now don't get involv
ed and aren't aware of RHA because they
don't know whaVs going on with the organiza
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