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Chinese Grocers

Chinese immigrants came to America in the late nineteenth century in search of the fabled Gam Sahn, or Golden Mountain.…

Interview

Luck Wing

Though he grew up in a family of grocery store owners, Luck knew that it wasn’t the life for him. When he enrolled in…

Interview

Yee’s Food Land

For more than sixty years, the Yees have owned and operated a grocery store in the Arkansas Delta town of Lake Village.…

Interview

How Joy Restaurant

Opened in 1968 by Wong's parents, How Joy was one of the first Chinese restaurants to open in the Mississippi Delta and…

Interview

Frieda Quon

Though she looks fondly at her childhood growing up in the back of her parent's grocery store, Min Sang Company, which…

Interview

Wong’s Foodland

For Tony and Monica Li the fabled Gam Sahn (Golden Mountain) of their ancestors may have been a myth, but the “American…

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