When I was drawing the second panel I was reminded that this building wasn’t always a restaurant. You can probably tell by the architecture. It’s located across the street from the shopping plaza, Norwin Town Square (or as I knew it growing up, Norwin Shopping Center). During the years that Norwin Shopping Center was dying, the China Garden was one of the few storefronts that hung around. (I talked about the history of this shopping plaza here, a few months ago) When the plaza was reborn as the Town Square, China Garden didn’t join them. Instead, it moved across the street into that building. It was an abandoned bank.