The order reached the small Hakka restaurant on the morning of June 23, in Guangzhou's Baiyun District, a few hundred meters from the main campus of Southern Medical University.
In the notes field where customers usually ask for less chili or no cilantro, a diner surnamed Xiong had written a request instead. Would the owner and her husband come to his graduation photo shoot two days later?
"From undergrad to my doctorate, I've eaten at your place for seven years, and I really can't bear to leave," the note read, according to the Guangzhou Daily. "Can I invite you both to come?"
The owner, Luo Na, told Hubei outlet Jimu News that she knew who had sent it before she finished reading. The delivery address was the university, and she recognized the regular at a glance.
Her first thought was that he wanted her to help take his pictures. Only after she messaged him did she understand that he wanted her and her family standing in them.
