新唐人对“毛的厨房”的抗议与小西贡“胡像”抗议的视频报道： NTDTV Report Link

Kai Chen on Mao's image in America 陈凯论毛像对美国/西方/世界的危害


NTDTV Report on Protest at Mao's Kitchen 新唐人电视台报道对“毛的厨房”的抗议









新唐人对“毛的厨房”的抗议与小西贡“胡像”抗议的视频报道：
NTDTV News Video on "Mao's Kitchen" and "Little Saigon"

http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/gb/2009/01/04/a241799.html#video

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社区巡航：毛厨房=希特勒烧烤=斯大林人肉宴

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最近南加州的两家中国餐馆成为人们的讨论的热点，既不是因为他们的菜色美味也不是因为他们的服务周到，而是因为这两家餐馆都是以中共前党魁毛泽东的名字来命 名的，叫做「毛厨房」。12月26日，也就是毛的诞辰日，一些洛杉矶人士在好莱坞的一家「毛厨房」前举行抗议活动。抗议者们把「毛厨房」比作是希特勒的烧 烤和斯大林的人肉宴席。请看本台记者的报导。

这里是洛杉矶迈尔柔丝大道。来自洛杉各界的反共人士聚集在「毛厨房」前，抗议利用毛的形象和符号所代表的专制思维对美国民主价值观的侵蚀。

陈凯: 今天我们要说不， 要对这种在我们周围的腐败思维说不，对共产党制度下的奴隶制说不。

活动组织者前中国国家男子篮球队队员、良知活动家陈凯认为以毛的名字命名餐厅，把邪恶的形象与符号商业化、罗曼蒂克化，这是一种崇魔心态。他希望通过抗议活动，能够唤醒人们沉睡的良知。

陈凯: 它（中共）现在最阴险是在你的头脑里面是在你的良知里面是在你的灵魂里面消灭你这种火花。消灭你能够鉴别真假，鉴别是非，鉴别对错，鉴别好坏这样一种能 力。今天他们对专制者的美化其实就是对自由的主动進攻。今天我们要警惕这件事。有一句话叫作: 自由的代价是永恒的警惕。所以我们今天不光是要警惕，我们还要站出来，作出举动。

这家以「毛厨房」命名的中餐厅，里面都是以毛时代的语录和标语做装修，还播放样板戏。

曾经在中国劳改营受过20多年迫害的印尼华侨冯国将认为毛是人类历史上最大的屠夫，以这种形式来运营餐馆是对所有在中国受过迫害的人的侮辱。

冯国将: 在美国自由民主人权的土地上，不允许宣传专制独裁，不允许宣传毛匪，不允许宣传杀人的魔王，我们的态度非常坚决。

来自台湾社区的郭树人，认为反共应该成为全球华人的共识。

郭树人（台湾社区）: 在华人社会这么多年，有这么清晰的一个诉求，这是一个开始。对于这个主题，我们台湾同乡绝对不沉默，我觉得在美国，华人社会反共应该是最大的共识。

乔本安：现在的中国就是一个大监狱。

路人乔本安是一位理疗师，他认为这家店应该更改店名，他支持毛厨房前的抗议活动。因为共产主义对人类是有害的。

乔本安: 共产主义对人类是不好的，人们应该拥有自由，可以有自己的信仰，可以自由地选择自己的生活。

抗议者们撕毁毛像，表示毛所代表的专制极权的意识形态最终将被仍進历史的垃圾堆。

新唐人记者肖锋洛杉矶报导。

*抗议悬挂越共党魁和党旗 越南人有骨气

在距离好莱坞毛厨房大约30分钟车程的橙县越南社区，1999年1月也发生过类似的抗议事件。起因是一家音像店的老板在店里悬挂越南共产党党魁胡志明的画像和越共的国旗，他的这一举动遭到成千上万越南裔美国人的抗议。抗议时间长达53天。

Ky Ngo是越南社区的活动人士，也是1999年抗议活动的发起人之一，他对发生在9年前的抗议还记忆犹新。

Ky: 我们认为共产党是屠夫。他们屠杀、镇压人民，我们恨共产党。 这就是我们为什么逃离越南来到美国。没有理由我们逃到这里，还有人悬挂屠杀了百万越南人的胡志明的像。带着黄色星星的越共的旗子象徵着镇压和杀戮，这就是为什么人们会愤怒，来这里持续抗议53天。

自从1975年越共控制了越南后，有超过15万越南难民为了追寻自由跨越太平洋来到南加州，有人为此付出了生命的代价。小西贡也成为南加州越南裔美国人社 区的商业和精神首都。Ky说不能允许在这片自由的土地上飘起共产党的旗帜，悬挂造成千千万万越南人死亡的越共党魁的图像。

我们记者采访的时候，Ky还在小西贡的一家越南日报前抗议。再过几天，他的抗议就整1年了。他抗议这家报纸刊登胡志明的照片。在陈凯和Ky 的身上，我们看到的是一种韧劲，这种坚韧的源泉是人类的道德和良知，以及为自由所付出的代价。如果我们的周围多一些陈凯和Ky,如果我们每个人都是陈凯和 Ky的话, 那我们的孩子将永远也不会再陷入共产专制的黑暗与恐惧。
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Correction of the photos: Mao is the Biggest Mass Murderer in Human History: Mao murdered more than 70 million people in peace time, not 30 million. 更正：毛是人类历史上最大的屠夫：毛在和平时期屠杀了七千多万无辜的平民，不是三千多万。

Glorifying a Murdering Dictator: The Mao Eatery in Cherry Creek, Colorado 又一个“毛的厨房”（科罗拉多）

02/05/2004

Today on The Alex Jones Show a caller told Alex how he had run across something he couldn't believe: a restaurant in Colorado called the Mao Eatery, featuring a bust of Chairman Mao and images of his red army.

For caution's sake, and to make sure that such a distasteful place did indeed exist, we researched Mao's on the web and found an article reviewing it from the Denver Business Journal. You can read the article below.

Alex, facetiously, stated that someone might as well open a restaurant with a Hitler theme, since Mao was responsible for far more deaths than Hitler.

In an article from the International Herald Tribune titled "Mao, the Mass Murderer," the author notes:

"Mao was a destroyer of the same class as Hitler and Stalin. He exhibited his taste for killing from the early 1930's, when, historians now estimate, he had thousands of his political adversaries slaughtered. Ten years later, still before the Communist victory, more were executed at his guerrilla headquarters at Yan'an.

Hundreds of thousands of landlords were exterminated in the early 1950's. From 1959 to 1961 probably 30 million people died of hunger - the party admits 16 million - when Mao's economic fantasies were causing peasants to starve and he purged those who warned him of the scale of the disaster.

Many more perished during the Cultural Revolution, when Mao established a special unit, supervised by Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, to report to him in detail the sufferings of hundreds of imprisoned leaders who had incurred the chairman's displeasure.

One of the chairman's secretaries, Li Rui, wrote recently, "Mao was a person who did not fear death, and he did not care how many were killed." The writers of the Kaifang article tell us what this meant for China: "Mao instilled in people's minds a philosophy of cruel struggle and revolutionary superstition. Hatred took the place of love and tolerance; the barbarism of 'It is right to rebel!' became the substitute for rationality and love of peace. It elevated and sanctified the view that relations between human beings are best characterized as those between wolves."

From rock stars posing as communist leaders to tv show participants dressing in hammer and sickle t-shirts, the push to promote communism is in your face. The TV executives, restaurateurs and trend setters are pushing it as"trendy" or "funny." The truth is, it's just plain sick and wrong to glorify a man and a system responsible for the death of so many.

Related article:

Cherry Creek's Mao eatery sets late-summer opening
Denver Business Journal

May 9, 2003

Denver's restaurant community has been trying to read the tea leaves for nearly a year about the fate of restaurateur's Charlie Huang's Mao Asian Bistro and Sushi Bar.

After missing several opening dates, the new restaurant is scheduled to open in August or September 2003 in the upscale Cherry Creek North retail district in Denver.

Originally scheduled to debut in late 2002, Huang said construction is finally moving ahead on the bistro and sushi bar. The restaurant saw its opening date pushed back for a variety of reasons, Huang said.

He blames the nearly $2 million eatery's delay on everything from an intricate restaurant design to a sluggish economy and the recent war against Iraq.

"It's a combination of everything," Huang said. "It doesn't make sense to rush into this. It's going to open and be fully prepared."

The nearly 7,000-square-foot restaurant, located across the street from the Whole Foods/Sears shopping complex, has been teasing diners since late last summer when Mao's signage appeared in its oversized windows.

Mao will be Huang's third eatery since opening the popular Little Ollie's Chinese restaurant in 1997 in Cherry Creek North with his late brother and business partner Richard Huang.

Huang followed the success of the nearly 3,000-square-foot Little Ollie's restaurant with Asie, a French-Asian fusion eatery he opened last year in Aspen.

Huang said operating the two locations also contributed to Mao's extended delay.

"Every place I do, I make sure it is unique," Huang said. "It doesn't matter how late or early you open. What matters is how ready you are."

But many restaurant industry watchers say delaying a restaurant opening is standard.

"It's a big project," Huang said. "There was so much detail from the design point."

Huang added that many details are still being finalized, including the restaurant's menu. But he said Mao's dinner prices will average from $20 to $30 per person.

Huang said the sushi bar will offer an extensive menu of fresh fish flown in daily, while the remainder of the menu will have what he calls a Pan Asian fusion theme featuring dishes from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese cuisines.

Additionally, Huang has secured a cabaret license from the city that allows Mao to feature live music or a DJ playing music in its lounge.

Mao will carry between 15 and 20 brands of sake and nearly 100 kinds of wine overseen by Jon Schlegel, the restaurant's general manager and sommelier.

Former manager of the Sushi Den in Denver's South Pearl Street neighborhood, Schlegel said Mao will stand out from the nearly 50 eateries in Cherry Creek North, including two high-profile sushi restaurants.

"This is going to be a destination restaurant for people looking for something new to Denver," Schlegel said. "This is not going to be a white tablecloth restaurant."

Named after China's infamous Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the new eatery will seat nearly 220 people between its dining room, patio and lounge.

Huang said the restaurant will feature an intricate design theme that includes a variety of images of the late dictator, including a custom-made bust of Mao and a ceiling mural of Mao's Red Army that leads diners into the Chairman's Room, a private dining room that seats 16 people.

The restaurant's interior was created by the Dallas-based Paul Duesing Partners design firm that specializes in hospitality and resort design.

With its imported marble countertops, bamboo floor and emphasis on detail, Huang describes Mao as "eclectic, dramatic and fun."

Ashley Walter, a Paul Duesing Partners designer working on the project, said the restaurant's interior will display a theme she calls "a happy Mao."

"It's done in a tongue-and-cheek way," Walter said. "It's centered around Gen. Mao Tse-tung. It's looking at him in a fun and unusual way."

Despite Mao's presence, Huang said the restaurant shouldn't be considered a homage to the controversial leader.

He admits people have openly questioned the decision to name his latest restaurant after the Communist dictator, but Huang said it's important to keep in mind that the restaurant is having fun with Mao's image.

"This place is not a worship of Mao," Huang said. "It's a sarcastic look at Mao."

John Imbergamo, Denver-based restaurant consultant, said the majority of diners aren't likely to think twice about the restaurant's namesake. Instead, Imbergamo said, the moniker is a direct way to communicate what the restaurant is about.

"I'd say that pretty much everybody under 40 doesn't have a clear recollection of Chairman Mao," Imbergamo said. "It's all the things you want in a name. Whether there will be any baggage or not we'll know in the first three months of it being open."