Chinese waitresses on East Coast originate in NYC (states)

[heeha]

I have been to several states on the East Coast and I have eaten in many different Chinese restaurants. It seems like every Chinese waitress I have talked to said that when they first came over here, they stayed in NYC for a few weeks/months until their "boss" found them a restaurant to work at.

I can only imagine how many Chinese girls are sitting in NYC right now wondering where they might end up at.

If anyone on here is familiar with this practice and has seen it first hand, please feel free to comment...

[Gary Siete]

A Chinese buffet in El Paso hires mainly Chinese girls who speak little English. I gathered from one of them that she had been in the country less than a month . Somehow she wound up with a waitressing job in this far west Texas desert town. Immigration raided them a few years ago but they were all in the country legally.

China protests roundup of restaurant workers (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/24/content_394387.htm - broken link)