Time Code

Video

Audio

00:33:35

00:34:10

Pickup: Video of “white guy’s eyes” gazing at the restaurant.

B-roll: close up of Louie’s Village sign and zooms out into the restaurant. –or- shot of white ppl walking into the restaurant.

Shot of menu

Oriental decorations montage

Shots of “inauthentic” food

Video of white person licking their lips.

Shot of Egg Foo Yung

Shot of cash register

(Oriental music plays)

VL: The majority of the population is in Eugene is definitely more Caucasian than any other ethnic race.  So yes, that menu is purposely designed to cater towards the Caucasian populations.  And Of course that is marketing strategy.  And you have to do what you have to do.  You have to cater to your demographic’s needs and that’s what those are.

Cash register rings

3 seconds

2 second

Title:

Selling Egg Foo Yung

(Without Breaking the Yolk)

fade

by Jason Mak

(music continues)

(music from New Kids on the Block starts)

00:40:45

00:42:13

Home Video:

Jessica and Selena as kids dancing to New Kids on the Block

Medium shot of VL

B-Roll: Chinese New Year Dinner

Photo of babies

VL: There’s a lot of memories here that myself and my kids had in here.  For example um all of the family gatherings we have for Christmas, all the family gatherings we have for holidays, thanksgivings, Chinese new years, celebrations, birthdays.  Just lots and lots of memories.  Louie’s Village is almost like a kid.  Like any kid in anybody’s life, it is hard to give up.

00:03:04

00:03:10

Photo of Canton Restaurant in Cottage Grove

I remember my parents working at the Canton.

00:02:31

00:02:40

Photo of Uncle Jimmy behind counter.

Photo of family in China

it was a restaurant that my uncle owned and operated and my parents worked there when we first immigrated here to the U.S.

00:03:11

00:03:14

Photos of Grandma and Grandpa working.

I can remember the hours

00:03:20

00:03:32

Photo of Van as a kid

pretty much from noon until two in the morning six days a week.  So as far as a kid growing up at that time, we don’t see much of our parents.

00:03:45

00:04:02

Photos of grandparents

Obviously it is hard work and long hours and you know it is the only job there is in town for someone who don’t speak the language with no skills and it is better than nothing.”

00:04:45

00:05:01

Medium shot of VL

Video of grandpa and grandma in kitchen cooking

As far as my parents are concerned when they immigrated here they what you might call deaf mute and cripple.  You know, they don’t speak the language, they don’t drive, they don’t communicate, they don’t read, they don’t write

00:05:05

00:05:27

Video of grandpa and grandma in kitchen cooking

Family photo with five kids

The only option they have is to work in the Chinese restaurant.  They depend on us kids to translate a lot of their um necessary readings and paper works and even talking to other people in English.