Why would I write a review of a restaurant that has been closed for 15 years

I write this in memory of the long-closed restaurant, The Economy Cafe.

 In today’s era of frou-frou, overpriced, not that tasty restaurants, the uncommercially named Economy Cafe made fabulous food, right in front of you, with fresh ingredients, and one of two true master chef with “Wok Hei”–infusing the taste of the wok.

The place had absolutely no ambiance–It let the food speak for itself, and because no money was spent on ambiance, the price was, yes, economical.  It was a monument to integrity in a world now being rapidly taken over by restaurant consultants designed to milk every dollar per square inch of a restaurant.

Patronize the declining number of such restaurants. Alas, I have a hard time thinking of any. Even the many hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurants in Oakland Chinatown lack one or more of the attributes above. But I’d certainly rather go to one of them than, for example, the ridiculous restaurants on College Ave, where professed uber-liberals act like the worst of the bourgeosie–spending, overspending, and preening on image, not substance. 

One non-Chinese such restaurant comes to mind: Old Weang Ping, a thai restaurant in a tough neighborhood in East Oakland.

 If you know of such restaurants, I encourage you to  write Yelp and Google reviews of them. Thank you for reading this long comment. As I get older and as the Bay Area gets ever more angry and intolerant, I feel the need to write such things.