CLOSING a HOMELY ATMOSPHERE Chinese Home Style Cooking Expected to Shut Down Ames Location Within Next Few Months
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Erin Stuckey/Iowa State Daily Kennedy DeRaedt/Iowa State Daily Chinese Home Style Cooking owner Tina Song’s sister, Lee Bahn, works Wednesday. The restaurant, which is Top: Customers enjoy their food from Chines Home Style Cooking on Wednesday. located at the corner of Lincoln Way and Sheldon Avenue, will shut down within the next few months. It provides Bottom: An order is taken at Chinese Home Style Cooking on Wednesday. Tina Song, homemade Chinese food for low prices, attracting Iowa State students for the past 20 years. owner of the restaurant, is ready for a break after having four surgeries. CLOSING A HOMELY ATMOSPHERE Chinese Home Style Cooking expected to shut down Ames location within next few months By Emily.Hammer their child, who’s maybe 5 years old,” Tina said. “My body is saying no to reopening,” she said with @iowastatedaily.com “But I remember them coming in many years ago a motion toward her left shoulder, which was her together as friends. I got to watch them grow up and most recent operation. “And Chung was hospital- now they are married.” ized three times last year. It’s time to slow down.” For the past 20 years, students and staff at Iowa With regular customers who have become close After being open for 20 years, the couple has made State have found a family in Tina and Chung Song, with the owners, it’s no surprise that the business a lot of friends and are sad they will no longer be owners of Chinese Home Style Cooking. closing is not only bittersweet for customers but able to see students with whom they had grown The restaurant, located at the corner of Lincoln also the Songs. close. Even though this is somewhat of a mourning Way and Sheldon Avenue, offers homemade Chi- “I am sad because I watched kids, and there are period for the Song family, they happily reflect on nese food for low prices that attract Iowa State stu- a lot of good memories,” Tina said. “I’m sadder the good times they’ve had at the restaurant. dents. The location is scheduled to close within the than all of our customers; I’ll never get to see them “People have come to feel like family here, and next few months as the lease will not be renewed. again.” everyone knows each other very well,” Tina said For a few friends, it was an easy decision to fly Although sadness is surrounding the event, the before going on to mention a customer who visits out for a reunion when they found out the local Songs are conflicted about reopening. Chung is every day and orders the same thing. business was closing. happy for a break but doesn’t quite think he’s ready When he came in later, she waved to him and “They brought their families out and threw a for the monotonous lifestyle of a retiree. confirmed “Same order?” before heading into the party here,” Chung said. “We got to meet all their “I’m only 58 right now,” he said. “I want to work kitchen and preparing it. children.” until I’m 65. I have seven more years.” She also mentioned Dan Winters of Channel 13, Such events are not uncommon for the couple, His wish is to reopen in a year around Ames, but who loves coming in for hot sour soup. who often receive visits from past Iowa State gradu- he’s not quite sure about the exact location yet. The worst part of leaving, according to Tina, is ates. They have even had alumni who graduated 10 Tina, however, doesn’t feel the same. After four that their children grew up in the restaurant. years ago stop by the homey restaurant to catch up. surgeries, it can be hard for her to even come to “There is a couple who comes in sometimes with work now. HOMESTYLE p8 Behind-scenes look of Reiman By Emily.Schroer @iowastatedaily.com Imagine walking into a garden and seeing various little butterflies flying around a 4-foot- tall Monarch butterfly built from Legos. On Wednesday, Reiman Gardens offered a behind-the-scenes tour with a focus on pollina- tors. The group was led by Nathan Brockman, Tyler Coffey/Iowa State Daily the curator of the Christina Reiman Butterfly Student Government passed a resolution during its meeting Wednesday night that removed Wing. Public Relations Chair Peter Meyers from his position. Brockman led the group through different parts of the garden that tend to attract pol- linating bugs. “It’s really been a good year for insects be- StuGov ousts PR chair cause the weather has been so nice for them. We have had rain, it stayed warm and it hasn’t been so cold that things are dying yet,” Brock- By Alex.Connor from what I knew of it, and I based my man said. @iowastatedaily.com support, or I guess my withdrawal of He started off the tour by showing off the support, on reactions of me voicing more common butterflies. my concerns of the committee to Chair “It’s very common for us to have Sachem, Emily Blobaum/Iowa State Daily Student Government senators Meyers,” Smith said. Peck’s, and Fierys (skipper butterflies) here,” Reiman Gardens hosted a behind-the-scenes tour Wednesday. passed a resolution removing Public Smith said he sent an email Friday Brockman said. Relations Chair Peter Meyers from his outlining that communication needed He mentioned that a weekly survey is done much pollen,” Brockman said. position during their meeting Wednes- to be cut down to necessary times, to keep track of the amount of butterflies still The tour then moved on to more bee-cen- day evening. citing that 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday at the gardens. Last week, there were 50 Mon- tered plants. Brockman mentioned that Bum- Sen. Abhijit Patwa proposed the reso- morning is not an appropriate time to archs. Yesterday, the number was down to 41 blebees are the most docile of the pollinators. lution to the floor, where it was debated be “blowing up somebody’s cell phone Monarchs. The number is becoming smaller “You can actually pet a Bumblebee and they for nearly a half hour. about PR.” because all the Monarchs are flying down to just won’t care,” Brockman said. Meyers “has failed to carry out his Smith said he also voiced that he felt Mexico for the winter. He also talked about how Bumblebees aren’t basic duties, maintain a healthy com- they needed to add members to the As the tour continued, Brockman mentioned just there to pet and look at. munication within the organization, PR committee and not be an exclusive that the temperature was a little warmer than “Bumblebees are good tomato pollinators, project a positive image of the organi- group, referring to the fact that the usual which is causing more butterflies to still and when you have Bumblebees around your zation in his capacity as the chair, and committee consists of Meyers and be around instead of heading south for the tomato plants it actually ups their tomato pro- provide leadership to the P.R. Commit- only three other committee members, winter. duction,” Brockman said. tee,” according to the resolution that including himself. “It’s so warm that these butterflies are still He also mentioned a fact about bees that was debated. Smith said he told Meyers on Friday mating and laying their eggs and a lot of their most people wouldn’t think to know. While many senators who debated through the email that the motion offspring aren’t going to have a chance to make “Bees and several other insects cannot see the bill said they still have an upmost brought up during the Senate meeting it,” Brockman said. the color red,” Brockman said. respect for Meyers, they felt that the could possibly be introduced and asked Throughout the tour, Brockman said that Brockman continued to talk about how Syr- position would be better served by if he would like to step down. Asters (flowers) are quite a common place for phidae are actually bees mimicking flies. He someone else. “The final line of the email asked if pollinators. There was an average of 15-20 dif- said that there has been a major population Sen. Cody Smith, a member of the he would give time to consider these ferent bugs on a single flowering head. explosion with Syrphidae. Public Relations Committee, voiced questions and these points until 5 p.m. “They don’t fight each other, they kind of just “Flies are wonderful pollinators,” Brockman his concerns about Meyers, saying when I was off of work,” Smith said, take their turns. They bump into each other said.