Our big New Year's Eve on the town was a nostalgic repast at the Hong Kong restaurant, located at the Economy Inn, in scenic Socorro (known locally as "Suck-a-rock", New Mexico).  Proudly proclaimed as the only Asian food in town, it sports a down-home diner type atmosphere complete with piped-in country music.

After ordering the dinner for two, from our exhausted looking wait-person, we entertained ourselves with recounting the past year and our trip from Seattle/Alaska/Canada/Washington/Oregon/California/Nevada/Utah/Arizona to New Mexico.  Somewhere in British Columbia the pot o'Lipton tea finally arrived, and the won ton soup appeared somewhere on the Oregon coast.  In San Francisco we shared the artfully fried won ton wrappers, egg rolls and barbequed ribs.  By the time we got to Fernley, NV, our dinner dishes were brought to us in wheelbarrows.  There was enough food for 12 people. 

We waited while our wait staff went to China to locate our chopsticks...  Then we continued our journey while dining on cashew chicken at Bryce Canyon, sweet and sour pork in Oak Creek Canyon, steamed rice in the Jemez Mountains, and snow peas and mushrooms by the time we got to our new home in Socorro.  We noticed that the same garlic sauce seemed to be on everything, including the sweet and sour pork...  Luckily we are BIG garlic fans!

Strange, but there was not a person of Asian hertitage to be seen during the entire food odessey...  Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I've seen any Asian people since moving to Socorro. 

Stuffed to the gills with small-town, country-Asian food and charm, we finally packed ourselves and our leftovers into the industrial sized carry out containers provided by the establishment, then wended our way home through a bombardment of big, fat, wet snowflakes. 

Recommendation:  Not recommended, unless desperately suffering from nightly recurring dreams and cravings for Asian food.  Desperate being the key word here. Instead, go to the Sombrero.  In general point of fact, don't expect to find much in the way of Asian food, of any kind, east of San Franscisco!