High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Chinese Restaurant" is the eleventh episode of the sitcom Seinfeld`s second season on NBC, and is the show`s sixteenth episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and his friends Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, on their way to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. Unable to get a table, they loiter and talk, while George tries to use the phone that is constantly being used by other customers and Jerry sees a woman he recognizes, but is not sure where he knows her from.