So I’m at home at around 2 a.m. on a Friday night after hanging with friends, and I got a little hungry. I ate some chicken-flavored ramen noodles and called it a night.

Got me to thinking. It reminded me of when I would go to the Asian Vietnamese Restaurant off the bypass and get my favorite dish, chicken pho.

Then I got sad and wept, realizing that I’ll never have that dish in Bowling Green again. They closed my baby down.

I found out the hard way. My friend came up from Nashville to visit, and wanted to try Vietnamese food for the first time, and what better place than AVR?

So she’s pulling into the parking lot, and something’s looking fishy.

She pulls up closer, and I gaped in horror and discovered what I was fearing since its opening: they closed it down. They were taking off the sign right in front of my sad face. On the side of the building read a sign, “Ichiban Japanese Restaurant Coming Soon.”

As much as I love Japanese food, I didn’t want Ichiban. I mean, we already have a fine Japanese restaurant in Yuki, so why another one, man?

I couldn’t always afford Yuki, but I never had that problem with AVR. In fact, I went there so often that the waitresses knew exactly what I wanted every time: #25 (fried spring rolls) and Pho Ga, the chicken noodle dish. It was great.

I was first introduced to pho my freshman year when my Vietnamese friend’s mom left us some bowls to eat while visiting her home in Louisville. I ate it and fell in love. I was hooked.

I’ve tried pho in my hometown and in Chicago, and I never had a bad experience. I remember telling my friend that life would be complete if Bowling Green started a Vietnamese restaurant before I graduate.

When I stopped by my apartment over the summer, I saw the former Tedesco’s-Figaro’s location has yet another “Coming Soon” sign. To my amazement, it was for the Vietnamese restaurant.

I’m pretty sure I pissed my pants with glee. Life was complete! (Granted, they could’ve chosen a less obvious name for it, but that didn’t matter.)

Until, of course, they shut it down.

Maybe that location should just be done away with, being that no business lasts more than a year there.

Bowling Green should shake things up and put something other than a restaurant there.

If it was up to me, I’d put an ice sculpture shop at that location. Go all the way.

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