Lunch with Socal 240sx owners(meet).

[Grant]

I had this idea and thinking about it for a while. After talking it over with my uncles, I would like to plan a meet to help promote my uncles' new restaurant, Mandarin City. It is a Chinese restaurant in Cardiff, CA. which is about 30 min north of San Diego (10-15 min south of oceanside). So a tad bit closer to the LA guys.
Would anyone want to go to a meet and have lunch there? food is good, but not cheap (unfortunately most Dine in restaurants aren't). I will try to work something out with them. I am sorry I do not have deep pockets so I cannot pay for lunch.

I would like to help my uncle out in building a reputation for the restaurant. if i can get enough people, and work out the timing with my uncle we can
setup a meet there. the parking lot holds about 15-20 cars at least, so we should have no problem....

Not to be rude, but please dont come and park your car and stick around and just take off, kind of an insult to the chefs (my uncle and his brothers).Be kind and order some food!! hehe after all the spot is provided for FREE!

I am shooting for August 2nd 2003 (saturday), a week after Drift Day 7. please email me if you are able to make it, please email me or pm me so i can make a guest list and make the proper preperations for them to hold the event.
The event will start at noon til 2 -3pm at the latest (there will be regular customers too, so we can stick around for TOO long, plus I got all your dishes to wash afterwards :doh: )

Here is the location of the restaurant:
Mandarin City
815 Birmingham Drive
Cardiff, CA 92007
(760) 436-6027



Directions?
Southbound
5 south, exit Birmingham Dr. Left at exit, right at the chevron gas station (it's behind there)

Northbound
5 North, exit Birmingham Dr. Right at exit, right at the chevron gas station (it's behind there)



-Grant Hsiao
[email protected]

[Grant]

PS: I do understand that it will be during the national 240sx convention. I am sure not every member in socal can make it there. worst comes to worst, we move the date back. so let me know guyes.

[Dousan_PG]

id be down.mmm chinese food my favorite
but maybe at a later date? got buttonwillow that weeekend iirc.

[itsybitsy240sxEy]

the lunch sounds good grant!

aaron, i think the buttonwillow event is on August 9th. :)

[Dousan_PG]

for real? then im dow..wait. i think im up in santa cruz w/ RBs14 and all...drifting :)

[pruto]

i'm down if you remind me the day before, and i have to be back by 5 for my RPG group :D

[cali240sxdrifter]

for certain am down. yay moving back to LA and I want to meet up with some SoCal 240 people.

[revat619]

You already now i'm in. I'm always down for a meet....and a good meal!:D

[Anubis]

Sounds like fun. I'm always up for a little road trip.

[JasonNagra]

Chinese food = good. 240 = good. I'll be there if it goes down.

[seiyess]

i would love to go but already have plans...
all the good things just happens at one time so i have to take only one... always.... that sucks...
and other days... like usual.. nothin...

[zero.counter]

Wish I could, but far, far, away is in fact farther than you think :cry:

[chirpnslide]

:D ;) more than happy to go!

[chirpnslide]

:D ;) more than happy to go!

[ISTOTOSAO]

that is just down the street from my family's house. sounds good to me if all goes well with my finances.

[revat619]

Hey, everybody. There's been a change of plans...well sort of.

Grant just called me and unfortunately, he wont be their for the meet; he has to leave for Taiwan. However, he still wants us to have the meet/lunch so he has put his cousin and me in charge of organizing the meet and what not.

Date, time, and location are all still the same though. Hope to see you guys there.:)

[revat619]

Ok, so based on this thread, it looks like the following people will be going:

itsybitsy240sxEy
pruto (maybe)
cali240sxdrifter
anubis9228
JasonNagra
chirpnslide
2NRS130
me (revat619)

Anybody else?

[crypticfury85]

When is this? I might be interested

[addicted2sp33d]

I might be interested... I don't know any of you guys. :D I think it would be a good opportunity to meet some of you.

Here's an idea... how about we bump it up one weekend (Saturday, August 2), would Grant be able to make that?

[240Degrees]

ill try to make it. add me to the list. can i drive up with somebody? :)

[revat619]

Actually, Grant originally scheduled the meet/lunch for this Saturday, August 2nd. And he said not to reschedule so i'm just doing what he said. I know what you mean though. I told him why dont we just reschedule it so you can make it, but he said no.

Anyway, here's the new list:


itsybitsy240sxEy
cali240sxdrifter
anubis9228
JasonNagra
chirpnslide
2NRS130
240Degrees
pruto (maybe)
crypticfury85(maybe)
addicted2sp33d(maybe)


and me of course.

hmm, do you think we need those little stickie name tag things? If you guys think we need them, i'll pick some up, but its up to you.

[Dousan_PG]

MAYBE me too...not sure.
might do 5 lug swap or not...depends how lazy and how i feel..probably...not hahahaha...anyways, i might be down for it.

[pruto]

i don't think i can make it, i'm really low on cash right now =/

[itsybitsy240sxEy]

there's a chance i might not be able to make it as well.. but if i do go, i'll make driftingpanda (danny), dousan, and maybe dorifto180sx come down there with me. if i don't make it, i hope everybody has fun!

[Dousan_PG]

Originally posted by itsybitsy240sxEy
there's a chance i might not be able to make it as well.. but if i do go, i'll make driftingpanda (danny), dousan, and maybe dorifto180sx come down there with me. if i don't make it, i hope everybody has fun!


no i definately WONT be going
meeting my friend up in monterey park for dimsum. mmmmm free food. :)
itsy: see u guys on sunday maybe? i can get some new vids or something like dat...kaido battle! WOOT!

[Grant]

well, guys, I found an internet connection to get online with here in taiwan. after numerous phone calls and setting up, nobody showed up except jay.. :(... I guess I wont be putting anymore effort towards these events anymore... Thanks to Jay for helping me out..

[revat619]

Yeah, no problem Grant. I'm always willing to help you out.

As for the "rest of you" (not everybody, but you know who you are)......that's just wrong and you know it.

Ah, whatever, you're adults, do what you want, i dont care...:rolleyes:

[addicted2sp33d]

Here's my reason for not being there. My Apologies... but I hope you'll understand after you guys see these pics. :D

Enjoy!

http://ryfiles.com/imagehosting/20030802SoCalSportsCarMeet/