Business Spotlight: Hop Shing Restaurant
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Business Spotlight: Hop Shing Restaurant

Hop Shing was one of Chinatown’s most iconic restaurants, doling out cheap Guangdong-style dim sum to lines of hungry workers every day for nearly fifty years. Sadly, Hop Shing is one of the many victims of COVID-19 and served its last plate of dim sum on March 20th, 2020. More than just an eatery, Hop Shing was a neighborhood mainstay and meeting place for the young and the old. Read on to learn more about this iconic Chinatown establishment.

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Business Spotlight: Ewa Trading Company
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Business Spotlight: Ewa Trading Company

Welcome to Chinatown spoke with Zhou Rui Xian (周瑞賢 ), co-owner of Ewa Trading Company, a tea and Chinese medicine and herbs shop. Ewa Trading Company is also a Longevity Fund grant recipient. Read on to discover how Mr. Zhou’s business support the health and well-being of his customers.

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Business Supporting Business: 12Pell + Mee Sum Cafe
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Business Supporting Business: 12Pell + Mee Sum Cafe

Introducing a new 3-part mini stories series, “Business Supporting Business” where we speak with local Chinatown business owners about their favorite Chinatown spots. Through our work, we learned of so many incredible stories from small business owners in the neighborhood where a common theme across the board illustrated the community’s shared love, support and camaraderie for each other. Our first story: 12Pell on Mee Sum Cafe

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