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By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
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The new store of Lam’s Seafood, opening on May 30, will be completely different from its Little Saigon headquarters in size, products, and image. Located in Tukwila, the 30,000-square-foot facility is three times bigger than the store in Little Saigon, a former warehouse. The new store’s image is enhanced by a gigantic clock tower, modeled after a famous grocery store in Vietnam. Beyond the looming clock tower, the store’s success began with an incredible journey when George Nguyen escaped from communist Vietnam in 1979, leaving his wife behind when he was only 18. He took his father’s boat, sailed to Hong Kong, and eventually arrived in America. He hid his escape from his father because he had been caught before and put in jail. The boat was built for only seven passengers, but the refugees managed to squeeze in 38 people—he and his brother shared one bag see LAM’S SEAFOOD on 8 Lam’s Seafood new location in Tukwila
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Man attacks Asian couple Police need help identifying the suspect
Police have released a photo of a man they say yelled racially-based remarks to employees of an Asian restaurant in Ballard on May 23. The man knocked on the windows of the restaurant at 20th Avenue Northwest and Northwest Market Street, yelled at employees, kicked over a stand, and threatened to throw a table at an employee. The man then picked up a wooden door stop and threw it. The man is described as white, in his 30s, and approximately 5’10”, with a muscular build and dark hair. The suspect description is similar to those of two other incidents in Ballard that same day. Someone yelled at Asians at Golden Gardens
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The Seattle Police Department (SPD)’s Bias Crimes Unit is seeking help in identifying a man who attacked and spat on a couple in downtown Seattle. An Asian couple was walking near Third Avenue and Stewart Street around 4:15 p.m.on May 16.
Police said a man walked past them, shoved the man, and slapped at his face mask, knocking off his glasses. He told the victims, “It’s all your fault.” The suspect then spat at the man and ran away. If you recognize the suspect, call (206) 233 5000.
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Asian Hall of Fame Mother’s Day Concert, streamed live on May 10, along with Jimmy Kimmel Live! guitarist Toshi Yanagi, and other Grammy Award-winners. Donations support the Asian Hall of Fame Medical Response Fund, which deploys personal protective equipment to frontline workers fighting COVID-19. Seattle-based Robert Chinn Foundation launched the Asian Hall of Fame Medical Response Fund to fulfill a critical need for personal protective equipment and help reverse Asia phobia.
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Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee (NVC) released a video presentation for its 75th Annual NVC Memorial Day Service. Text in the video read, “Due to COVID-19, we cannot assemble in person, but we will reflect, honor, and remember the names on the NVC Honor Roll who died for the freedoms we have as Americans.” NVC Commander Walt Tanimoto and NVC Foundation President David Fukuhara were acknowledged, as well as NVC Publicity Chair Stan Shikuma and Lake View Cemetery Board Secretary and Cemetery Manager George Nemeth, Jr. Mercer Island High School junior Lea Hidaka volunteered to produce the video.
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community,” said Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, in a letter of support for the award. Edwards Lange first joined Seattle Central College in 2015 as interim president, and was named to the permanent position in May of 2016. In her time at Seattle Central, Edwards Lange has been a vocal advocate for equity and for creating more opportunities for students.
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Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange, president of Seattle Central College, has been recognized as the 2020 Chief Executive Officer of the Year by the Washington State Association of College Trustees (ACT) for her transformational leadership, commitment to equity, and development of partnerships that bridge the opportunity gap for all students. “She is innovative, collaborative, and a true changemaker within Seattle Central College and our entire
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Uwajimaya partnered with the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild on May 21 to collect food donations for the Rainier Valley Food Bank. The Guild partners with different grocery stores around town, typically on Thursdays, and then they donate to a food bank on Friday. This effort is part of the on-going Seattle Police Officers Guild Emerald Protection Plan—dedicated to helping the community and those most in need.
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SEATTLE (AP) — A suburban Seattle software engineer submitted false loan applications seeking over $1.5 million meant for businesses financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to federal court documents. Baoke Zhang, 35, was charged with wire fraud and bank fraud, according to a complaint filed in the Western District of Washington that was unsealed. He was arrested on May 22, the Seattle Times reported. Zhang allegedly submitted loan applications to
lenders and financial institutions in April for funds guaranteed by the Small Business Association through the Paycheck Protection Program. The program, under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, provides forgivable loans to small businesses to use for payroll and other expenses. According to court documents, Zhang created fake information technology companies for his applications. His applications said his business had been running for at least a year, but investigators
Seattle’s Dr. Li to pay nearly $2.9M in improper-billing case SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle doctor has agreed to pay nearly $2.9 million to settle state and federal allegations that his clinics ordered unnecessary medical tests to boost his bottom line. Authorities shuttered Dr. Frank Li’s seven Seattle Pain Clinics and suspended his license in 2016 Dr. Frank Li after saying his failure to monitor prescriptions of powerful opioids could have contributed to more than a dozen deaths. The settlement announced on May 7 by the Seattle U.S. Attorney’s Office and the state Attorney General’s Office concerned allegations that Li’s companies billed government entities for thousands of medically unnecessary urine drug tests. “This billing for unnecessary urine tests is a way Dr. Li and his clinics profited on the pain of others,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Tessa Gorman said in a news
release. “It is appropriate that we return these dollars to the government entities that were defrauded.” According to the settlement agreement, Li ran not just the pain clinics but also drug-testing labs in Everett and Seattle. Beginning in 2013, he instituted a policy that resulted in nearly all patients undergoing a full urine drug test every time they saw a provider— far more often than state standards called for. Li did not admit liability, but he agreed to pay back $2.85 million over five years, most of it to Medicare and Medicaid. An attorney for Li, Mike McKay, told The Seattle Times his client believed the tests were necessary. “The patient population Dr. Li saw was high-risk and frequent drug screens were medically necessary,” McKay said. The settlement is a civil resolution unrelated to any criminal investigation or any action by state health regulators, the U.S. Attorney’s Office noted.
Historic Preservation Program update SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council approved emergency legislation on April 27 that will allow minor project applications, such as signage, awnings, and minor storefront changes, to be reviewed administratively by Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Historic Preservation Program staff for the next six months. Review of new construction, demolition, and major redevelopment would be postponed for 60 days or until the Historic Preservation Board is able to
BALLARD from 1 Park and chased a woman as she was trying to drive away. According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), the man knocked on the woman’s driver side window and asked, “Where are you from…where is your ID?” The man began taking photos of her car and said, “Chinese disease… they bring it here!”
convene its next meeting either in-person or virtually. This emergency legislation expressly prohibits virtual meetings for the International Special Review District Board. To determine whether your proposal in the Chinatown-International District can be reviewed, contact Rebecca Frestedt at 206-684-0226 or email rebecca.frestedt@seattle.gov.
Hours later, a couple reported that someone ran up to them as they were walking to their car at Golden Gardens. The suspect spit into the male victim’s face, striking his cheek. The suspect continued to yell at the victim, “Where are you from?” SPD is asking anyone who has additional information to call its tip line at (206) 233-5000.
found he had filed for business licenses for each company in April. A representative for a lender also sent a message to an email address associated with Zhang’s application asking about discrepancies in his documentation. The recipient replied that his circumstances had changed and that he wanted to withdraw his application. Zhang never received funding, according to court documents.
Man upset over face covering requirement, makes threats
RENTON, Wash. — Uwajimaya is evaluating whether additional security is needed to ensure the safety of its staff. On May 18, police say a man walked into the Uwajimaya store in Renton without a face covering and became upset when he was asked to put one on. He threatened to “return and shoot everyone.” Police arrested him the following day when he returned to the store with a hatchet. Since May 11, Uwajimaya has required that all guests over the age of 3 must wear a face mask or face covering to enter its stores. “Our top priority is the health and safety of our employees, customers, and community,” Uwajimaya CEO Denise Moriguchi told the Northwest Asian Weekly.
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Asian American author reflects on finding common ground during pandemic When Kenmore native Natalie Hoffman was approached by her colleague and author Kevin Wilhelm to partner on a new book, the idea was to create a dialogue between people with deeply polarized viewpoints. At the time, neither of them anticipated the COVID-19 pandemic that would further divide the country. According to Hoffman, it also made their book more relevant than ever. Hoffman co-authored her first book with Wilhelm, titled “How to Talk to the ‘Other Side’: Finding Common Ground in the Time of Coronavirus, Recession and Climate Change.” The book focuses on the search for common ground, anti-Asian American xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how lessons from her book can be applied today. “Trying to play that diplomat, ambassador, peacemaker has always been my role,” Hoffman said. “So this book was absolutely perfect to try and bring that personal experience that I’ve had out into the world.” Hoffman is half Japanese, and spent time living in Guam and Japan before working at Sustainable Business Consulting (SBC) in West Seattle. SBC is a company that creates sustainability plans for aspiring businesses, said editor and SBC’s vice president Ruth Lee. Although the book doesn’t explicitly touch on race or ethnicity, Hoffman’s personal experiences laid the foundation for a section in the book specifically about allyship. Both Lee and Hoffman have also seen how the COVID-19 pandemic has increased xenophobia towards Asian Americans. “Asian Americans are fighting the virus, while also
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Co-authors Natalie Hoffman (right) and Kevin Wilhelm.
being dubbed as the virus,” Hoffman said. “Fighting that sentiment is definitely a show of allyship. It doesn’t matter if you’re Asian or not, you can still fight that sentiment.” According to Lee, allyship is supercritical now as xenophobia is rising. She points to the shooting of Ahmaud Arberry and the recent harassment of Asian Americans at Golden Gardens State Park in Ballard as a signal that xenophobia is visibly rising in the United States of America. She believes that Hoffman and Wilhelm’s book has solutions for these growing issues. “My takeaway from the book is I’m excited that they put this out during the time that it is,” Lee said. Hoffman is also part of the population that is vulnerable to COVID-19 because of a pre-existing lung condition, and the book uses her as an example of facing social pressures and looking for allies at the onset of the pandemic. “I think it’s important that we don’t assume the situation of others,” Hoffman said. “[It’s] from personal experience. Because it can be just unbelievably hard to feel like you have to go against the people that you know and love or go against strangers that are getting their first impression of you.”
The book is written in three parts with the first section about how to start difficult conversations between differing ideologies, the second on case studies that showed how most dueling ideologies have a common ground, and the third focusing on tools to facilitate this communication. According to Wilhelm, this book was a completely different project from what he had ever written about before. Wilhelm has previously published books on sustainability as CEO of SBC. Both Wilhelm and Hoffman describe the book as being more of a passion project, stemming from their own perspective and studies. “This was really a calling, more than anything, saying we need to find win-win solutions,” Wilhelm said. “We need to find ways we can start talking to one another again.” Hoffman also notes that her role at her company was a significant factor in getting her work published. Hoffman is an associate at SBC, and works with Lee and Wilhelm. She says she wouldn’t have been able to write “How to Talk to the ‘Other Side’” without the support and guidance from SBC. “SBC is 80% women and 50% people of color,” Hoffman said. “Being in that community definitely makes a big difference as a person of color and a woman working with other people and has just been so different than what I expected from working professionally.” In the few weeks since the book’s publication, she described the feedback as overwhelmingly positive, and could be a sign that people are willing to engage with the tools offered in the book. “Even people who are used to posting or writing controversial stuff online, it seems like they’re willing to try,” Hoffman said. “And this book is most effective if you’re willing to try.”
2 new cases of Kawasaki-like disease in children in WA SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington State Department of Health has confirmed two new cases of a new inflammatory ailment in children that is associated with COVID-19. The Seattle Times reports the new illness, which was first recognized last month in Europe and then in New York state, is now named Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). The syndrome bears a resemblance to a rare illness called Kawasaki disease. Symptoms of Kawasaki disease include persistent fever, skin rash, conjunctivitis, swollen hands or feet, swollen
lymph nodes, and red, swollen lips. Seattle Children’s Hospital earlier this month identified a patient with the new illness. The federal Centers for Disease Control on May 14 published a case definition for the disease. Patients who are below the age of 21, have a fever, inflammation and a severe illness involving two organs that require hospitalization meet the criteria if there are no other plausible diagnoses and they test positive for COVID-19 or have had exposure to a confirmed case within four weeks of developing symptoms.
Both of the cases confirmed by the health department were treated at Seattle Children’s. “Although it remains very uncommon, parents should call their primary care providers if their children are showing new or unusual symptoms, such as a persistent fever or headache, abdominal pain with or without diarrhea, fatigue, and respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath,” said Dr. John McGuire, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Seattle Children’s.
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Is your partner getting just a little too familiar? Feeling the doldrums of a love life that is all work and no play? You too can resurrect your relationship by being implicated in and solving a murder! So says the movie “Lovebirds,” starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae. Originally set to release in April, due to the coronavirus, the film was moved to a Netflix premiere on May 22. We first meet Jibran and Leilani when they fall madly in love. A couple of years later, and they are still together, they are stuck in the tedium of daily routine and repeated misunderstandings. There’s a solution for that! Jibran and Leilani’s failing romance gets a jumpstart when, on the way to another humdrum gathering, grousing at each other all the way, the couple’s vehicle is commandeered by a guy chasing another guy (they dub them “Mustache” and “Bicycle”) and the couple is unwittingly thrown into the middle of a crime scene, a cult, and a blackmail scheme. The plot is similar to that of Nanjiani’s “Stuber,” except in place of a confused Uber driver, substitute a bickering couple that is still in love but just doesn’t know it yet. And that’s where solving a crime helps! In the process, the couple practices crucial relationship lifesavers they have been missing: trust in each other, and doing something different. Probably a therapist would recommend something more like bungee jumping —but turns out this unsolicited escapade is just what the doctor ordered. As if in an Absurdist play, Jibran and Leilani find it impossible to communicate. While they argue constantly, nothing actually gets said. Perhaps because neither side listens, but also because they just don’t say the right things. Not until adversity puts them into a state of stress do they start to come out with the deeper
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truths that are essential for salvaging something good. Through Leilani and Jibran’s not really purposeful confessions—it all just comes out in bits and pieces while being tortured by a crazy lady, lying to friends, and attending freaky cult meetings—the audience also re-learns something about how we interact with other humans. We never really know what the other person is thinking. We are often wrong about what we think the other person is thinking. Our own insecurities drive our relationships over cliffs, or bodies. The treat in the movie is the humorous and ongoing banter between Leilani and Jibran. And also, watching them walk around in the get-ups they buy in a New Orleans pharmacy. You just cannot get enough of a gorgeous woman in a unicorn hoodie or a handsome man in a gold baseball jacket. There are plenty of laughs to be had, scattered at reassuring intervals, and the danger, though real, is never too intense to disrupt the overall conviction that this is a romantic comedy. Being that in Nanjiani’s first movie, he was acting with his actual wife, it took a minute to adjust to Rae playing his paramour, and another minute to adjust to the supersonic speed of their verbal swordplay, but once the pace is established, it’s easy to roll with it. Due to the expertly sarcastic delivery, the couple’s criticisms of each other are funny to us, if not to them, such as when Jibran taunts Leilani that she won’t be able to put her phone down—somebody might have tweeted something —and she, in fact, cannot
resist looking. But it’s not funny to them because, like in real life, eventually we’re not funny to each other anymore when a relationship sours. Also welcome in the movie is that neither of the couple is white, something we still don’t see enough of when it comes to romantic leads on the movie screen in the United States. The fact that one of them is brown and the other is Black is occasionally a topic of jest in the movie that, instead of making light, convinces us that race is a daily consideration for them that they just get used to, but not really. The scene that we all know from the preview, when the cops roll by and the couple thinks they are onto them, but actually, the cops are just “regular racists” is as hilarious and telling when we see it in context in the film. Or when Leilani tells Jibran he has a “terrorist beard” and thus should not turn himself in, we laugh, but also know that’s what the police might really think. “Lovebirds” is a solid date movie, with plenty of humor and excitement, two attractive and charismatic leads that most of us will enjoy watching, in a relationship bind that most of us will find familiar. The circumstances they are thrown into might be exaggerated, but the movie still points out that, in order to keep the heart fires burning, you’ve got to say what’s in your heart—and you’ve got to throw in some chili peppers sometimes. Kai can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.
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HONG KONG (AP) — It sits on your wrist, just as a wristwatch would. And in a moment when the world fears infections more than almost anything, it knows exactly where you are. Since late March, residents returning to Hong Kong have been required to undergo a two-week quarantine at home, in a hotel or at a government facility as part of stepped-up efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus. To ensure people don’t flout quarantine, the semiautonomous Chinese city issued mandatory wristbands to all arrivals, to be worn for the entirety of the twoweek period. Those required to go through the two-week quarantine are unable to leave their homes and must rely on food or grocery delivery for meals. Government officers also conduct random checks on their homes to make sure they have not broken quarantine. That’s what happened to Zen Soo, a Hong Kong-based
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have COVID-19. The wristband was her constant companion. Early versions were glitchy, and the government admitted that only a third of them worked. Later ones include a Bluetooth-enabled version that connects to the user’s smartphone to monitor movements. And so it did for her, as her colleague, AP photographer Vincent Yu, chronicled her experience. In a series of photos, you see her live her life in lockdown, waiting for the moment when she could rejoin the world. Just like many around the planet, she persevered. She worked out. She did her job, remotely. She took her temperature and monitored her numbers. Occasionally, she stuck her head out of her urban apartment window to capture some coveted fresh air. And she waited—for it all to be over, for the all-clear to arrive. Which, eventually it did. She pushed the “finish the quarantine’’ button in her phone’s app and went back to her virus-era life.
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of potatoes for a week before they arrived in Hong Kong. But that’s not the most amazing part of Nguyen’s story. His relatives sponsored him to go to Kansas. Later, he sponsored his wife to join him. The couple started a grocery store and built up their business so well that after 20 years, a competitor offered to buy them out. But that’s not why I admire the Nguyens. From Kansas to Michigan, to California and Seattle, they raised five American-born kids, four sons and one daughter, who have not worked elsewhere, all stay together, and dedicate themselves to the family’s grocery business, with the goal of helping his dad fulfill his dreams—not theirs. That’s just not the norm for Asian immigrant children. American-born children, being acculturated in the mainstream, often shun their parents’ hard-working occupations, to pursue other professions such as lawyers, engineers, technologists, doctors, and scientists, for higher pay and less demanding physical work. Not only did Nguyen’s kids work for him as they grew up, all five spouses also work full-time in the family business. How did Nguyen transform his children’s families to see that the grocery business is not just his dream, but their future as well? How in the world did he do it? More on this later. This is the Nguyen family’s second supermarket in greater Seattle, which offers everything the original store doesn’t. As part of Kimco development, the new facility has ample parking—900 spaces shared with a strip mall on a side entrance, in addition to 90 near to its main entrance, while the old store has just over 30 parking spaces. Surrounded by several Asian grocery stores, the old store is part of the ChinatownInternational District. Whereas the new store’s only Asian competitor nearby is the Filipino-owned Seafood City, inside Westfield Southcenter Mall. The clientele between the two stores is vastly different. Lam’s biggest clients are of Vietnamese descent. “We want to create a community,” said Lam’s Business Operations Manager Teizi Mersai. “There is no Vietnamese community center in the greater Seattle area. Our store will serve as a community center for Vietnamese after they go to church (on Sunday).” A Vietnamese Catholic Church is near the store. “We will have products from all over the world, including Vietnam and Thailand. There will be Chinese and lots of Southeast Asian foods. We are going to expand on our Filipino, Korean, and American food sections.” THE NEW STORE The community center, which Mersai talked about, is Lam’s new food court. Lam’s headquarters has no other tenant. The new store’s food court is made of several other restaurants, including Golden Daisy of Beacon Hill, Go Poke and Dochi of Chinatown, Vietnam House of Great Wall Mall, Fire & Ice, and banh mi sandwiches. Outside the food court is a sitting area, which would be ideal for the summer. But the coronavirus pandemic won’t allow Lam’s to set up outside or inside seating or on-site dining. For the time being, Lam’s will offer takeout service. Its seafood department is one of the
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main attractions. Installed by a Californian Hawaii Islander, Lam’s live seafood tanks will be featured. The employees have been testing its tanks for four months to see how well the live fish, crab, and other seafood adjust to the water in the tank. Nguyen bought Lam’s Seafood from his good friend’s daughter, Yen Lam-Steward, in 2015. “I am super-excited and happy for the Nguyen family,” said Lam-Steward. “The new store is a one-stop shopping for everything.” “It is too small for our community, I want to expand,” said Nguyen. He said he likes Seattle and Washington state. “It has a big Asian population. We want to expand the Asian market. The Asian market is very important. We want to go international.” The family started looking for a new location two years ago. They found two locations, Tukwila and Lynnwood, and they picked the former. The investment was between $3 to $4 million to remodel the location, according to Terry Nguyen, one of Nguyen’s four sons. The store opening was delayed due to construction and the pandemic. The process of applying for permits and cleaning-up contaminated soil also caused delays. There was an abandoned railway track outside the store, and the dirt under the track needed to be removed. Mersai said it’s better to take care of things from the get-go so management doesn’t need to worry about potential problems later. One piece of equipment the old store doesn’t have is a state-of-the-art recycling machine, costing $80,000, which turns food waste into compost. The powerful machine in the new Lam’s can recycle 95% of the store’s food waste and wood products. THE JOURNEY FROM KANSAS TO SEATTLE To say the success of Nguyen’s family is due to hard work is an understatement. Nguyen, 60, has worked hard ever since he came to America. As does his wife and children.
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According to Terry, who was born in Kansas, his parents settled in Kansas and started a 2,000-square-foot grocery store. “The store doubled in size and became so successful that another Vietnamese store owner bought my dad out,” so his business could survive. The family moved to Michigan and bought a 4,000-square-foot grocery store, and built it up. “The volumes were great, we sold lots of products,” said Terry. “But the dream of my father is really a distribution center—wholesale. My father didn’t like the long hours, and no family time.” An opportunity came in California, and Nguyen bought a wholesale business from a relative, and the family moved to the Golden State. The family thinks West Coast is their future. Meanwhile, the Nguyen family bought Lam’s Seafood from his friend’s daughter, Yen Lam. Retail grocery stores are labor-intensive. Terry recalled that it was normal to work 12-14 hours a day, without days off, when he and his siblings were growing up. “Did you ever rebel?” I asked Terry. “[In the grocery business,] we have to do everything,” said Terry. “My mom always took us kids along when they (parents) ran the store. So we (kids) help out. We like to help our dad. We never rebelled. We obeyed our parents. I didn’t like it as much when I was growing up because I wanted to be with friends, not always working.” I could never imagine my own kids obeying me, from the time they were little to now grown men. Terry, 33, and his wife Trinh Nguyen, and his sister Nhung and husband David Tran, run the Seattle and Tukwila stores, while the other siblings and in-laws run a food wholesale business in California. Nguyen said, “I want my kids to stay in the family business. Working with mom and dad, we help each other out. I don’t push my kids, they just feel they should help each other. I am lucky to have my kids, and they listen to me. The family business gives them freedom and better lives. That’s what I try to do. If I let them do whatever they want, some might fail. I am building
a foundation for my kids and a future for them. If I die, I can’t bring anything with me. But my children and grandchildren can have everything (I worked for).” Perhaps, Nguyen has learned a long time ago that it is more important for his kids to have a strong work ethic over any other personality traits, not just for survival, but to build character. The Brookings Institute did a study on parenting. It has shown that developing character in kids is more critical than raising smart kids. Grit and drive are key to leadership. Nguyen has set examples for his children to problemsolve, take risks, stick to goals, and delay gratification. Working with the family shows that teamwork is crucial in building a business. Today, Terry has a different perspective. “I like it now and really enjoy” being a grocery store owner, Terry said, and he doesn’t have to work all the time. “I have time to spend with my own kids. Our family is very excited about the new store. And we have the space (of the new store) to do things right.” And now, the grown-up children can relax more. Each store has its own general manager, and Mersai oversees the two general managers. “It’s different from how we first started, we had to do everything ourselves. Now, I learn from Mersai that we have other ways of managing. One example is by delegating.” Between the two stores, Lam’s will have over 110 employees. Mersai said they cannot hire as many as they would like. Due to social distancing, no more than 100 customers will be allowed inside the store at one time. The new store’s opening will be a soft one. The grand opening will be held later this year. The new Lam’s in Tukwila is located at 243 Minkler Boulevard. Its hours are 8 a.m. – 9 p.m daily. Assunta can be reached at assunta@nwasianweekly.com.
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Asian bashing and lessons from Loving By James K. Doane In 1967, the United States Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down a Virginia law that banned marriage between persons classified as “white” and persons classified as “colored.” Virginia residents James Doane at Bush Richard Loving, a white man, and Garden where his mother started waiting Mildred Loving, an African and tables in the 1960s. Native American woman, had been convicted of violating Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which classified a white person as one "who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian." The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) filed an amicus brief in support of the Lovings. JACL’s general counsel William Marutani, from Kent, Washington, addressing the Supreme Court, challenged the veracity of whiteness in a melting pot nation, and Virginia’s justification for its law—“purity of public morals,” “preservation of racial integrity,” “racial pride,” and “to prevent a mongrel breed of citizens.” Marutani focused on the impact of anti-miscegenation laws on smaller minority groups such as Japanese Americans. Asked by Chief Justice Earl Warren about this, Virginia’s lawyer replied, “You cannot inflate this minority group into constitutional significance.” Was that the lesson America had learned from the Japanese American incarceration cases? American citizens Gordon Hirabayashi, a University of Washington student, Fred Korematsu, a welder in Los Angeles, and Min Yasui, a lawyer in Oregon, had lost their Supreme Court chal-
lenges as three of the 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. Not to put too fine a point on it, but persons having just a trace, as little as 1/16th of Japanese blood (increased from 1/32th), were potentially subject to incarceration. Although discredited, these Supreme Court cases remain on the books as political tools in search of an emergency. Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley compared Japanese American incarceration during oral arguments on Zoom to Wisconsin’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order, calling it “tyranny” before the Court’s 4-3 decision against the order. Presumably, Justice Bradley was aware that lower federal courts reversed the convictions of Hirabayashi, Korematsu, and Yasui in the 1980s after finding that the United States Department of Justice had withheld evidence of the lack of military necessity, and that Japanese Americans had been incarcerated based on their ancestry. Limitation of certain legal rights and privileges exclusively to persons classified as white of course also had widespread consequences for many Asian immigrants such as the Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Indochinese, Indians, Pacific Islanders, and other would-be immigrants not classified as “white” from around the world. The Naturalization Act of 1790 generally restricted citizenship to “any alien, being a free white person” who had been in the United States for two years. A second racial category was established in 1870 for “aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent.” The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Scott Act of 1888, the 1906 Immigration Act, the 1907-1908 Gentlemen’s Agreement, and the Immi-
gration Act of 1924 were just some of the federal immigration laws and official acts that disparately impacted Asians. The Chinese Exclusion Act was abolished in 1943, and special legislation during the American occupation of Japan allowed non-quota immigration by Japanese war brides and minor children of American soldiers (while many state laws still criminalized mixed marriages). Race based restrictions on naturalization were finally abolished in 1952, and national origin quotas for immigration were abolished in 1965. These anti-Asian immigration laws dating back two centuries did not just magically appear or disappear as if by miracle. The ugly incidents we are increasingly hearing about these days are not new. Historically, similar incidents went unchecked and, in many cases, were supported or tolerated by the authorities. Sound familiar? The old fear mongering about the yellow peril has mutated into a virus. Asians in America are sometimes regarded as timid and safe targets. Images of Bruce Lee kicking or Jeremy Lin or Rui Hachimura dunking on their opponents may help counter that assumption. But Asians, when united with each other and similarly situated groups, can figuratively kick and dunk to counter the upswing in hate speech and violence aimed at them because of COVID-19, tensions with China, and the long shadow of white supremacy exposed in Loving. In the courtroom, Marutani kicked and dunked with the best of them. Let us honor his example by emulating it. James K. Doane is a Seattle lawyer admitted to practice in 1980.
Re: CB 119796 and homeless tent camps in the ID To: Mayor Durkan, Seattle City Council, City Public Health Department, Seattle City Attorney, and Northwest Asian Weekly Re: CB 119796 and homeless tent camps in the ID As you know, there have been two homeless encampments in the Chinatown-International District (ID): The encampment under the I-5 freeway on King Street and the encampment on South Weller Street from 12th Avenue South to Rainier Avenue South. As our state remains on lockdown and struggles to protect the public against the coronavirus, it is unconscionable to allow the encampment to remain. The camp, to my knowledge, does not receive testing or have access to sanitary preventions, such as clean water and soap for hand hygiene, not to mention other public sanitation amenities. But remember, this area is not a City-sanctioned encampment. Instead, it has become sanctioned de facto by the City under the guise of the current pandemic. This is ironic. We are in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic, yet the City uses the pandemic as an excuse not to act constructively and creatively, not to mention according to its responsibility to address the homeless problem. Instead, the ID becomes the default location/choice by the City for its now failed social experiments, such as the South Weller Navigation Center and its added failure to support the unsheltered by failing to renew funding for tiny villages. And now the City Council
seeks to underfund its previously vaunted Navigation Team, the City’s directresponse to unsanctioned encampments. The City must remove existing camps and prevent future illegal tent encampments from the ID. The tent camps, among other public health and public safety hazards, are super spreaders of COVID-19, hot spots posing risks to the tent residents, the residents of the ID, city workers, and the general public. It is a dereliction of duty to withhold funding for the already underfunded Navigation Center. I submit that tent encampments should be removed because it: A. Constitutes an active health threat
(excluding the transmission of communicable diseases, including COVID-19 and its subsequent mutations) to occupants or the surrounding neighborhood, where 1. Appropriate public health resources have first been provided to address the conditions of concern; 2. The services provided in A.1 of this proviso did not resolve the health threat; and “Based upon guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), funding cannot be used to remove or relocate an unsanctioned encampment except in limited circumstances in order to prevent transmission of COVID-19 throughout the general population and avoid increasing risks for people experiencing homelessness.”
The threshold of “the transmission of communicable diseases, including COVID-19 and its subsequent mutations) to occupants or the surrounding neighborhood” and the exception of the prevention of “... transmission of COVID-19 throughout the general population and avoid increasing risks for people experiencing homelessness” have been more than met. The unsanctioned tent camps are a COVID-19 threat to the residents of the camps and the ID community. They must be removed. Sincerely, — Patricia Fong
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Korean soccer club apologizes for putting sex dolls in seats By KIM TONG-HYUNG ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean soccer club has apologized after being accused of putting sex dolls in empty seats during a match on May 17 in Seoul. In a statement, FC Seoul expressed “sincere remorse’’ over the controversy, but insisted that it used mannequins —not sex dolls—to mimic a home crowd during its 1-0 win over Gwangju FC at the Seoul World Cup stadium. Following a weeks-long delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s top-flight
K-League returned to action on May 8 without spectators, days after professional baseball began under similar conditions. The leagues plan to play in empty stadiums until the risks of coronavirus infections are meaningfully lowered. With players competing in front of rows of empty seats, some soccer and baseball teams have been trying to create a festive and humorous atmosphere that involves filling stands with huge team banners, pictures of mask-wearing fans, or even vegetables. FC Seoul said it was attempting to add “an element of fun’’ with the mannequins. The team said it was
repeatedly reassured by Dalkom, the company that produced the mannequins, that they weren’t sexual products. But when providing its products for the stadium, Dalkom reused some of the mannequins it previously supplied to another company, FC Seoul said. The club’s statement didn’t directly address criticism of why it chose to work with Dalkom, which does manufacture sex dolls, according to the company’s website, or why nearly all the mannequins at the stadium were female in design.
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Merriam-Webster revises ‘Chinese restaurant syndrome’ entry Merriam-Webster has updated its entry on “Chinese restaurant syndrome,’’ a term many Asian Americans saw as antiquated and even racist. The phrase was previously defined as a legitimate illness brought on by food seasoned with monosodium glutamate but “especially Chinese food.’’ MerriamWebster.com said symptoms include numbness of the neck, arms and back as well as headaches and dizziness. Now, the definition has a detailed disclaimer noting the term as “dated’’
and “offensive.’’ It also states research conducted since the so-called syndrome was reported in the 1960s has not found any link between MSG and those symptoms. It also contains a link to another entry—the more clinical term, “MSG symptom complex.’’ Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster, confirmed the changes. “This process is always ongoing, and includes the gathering of evidence and
drafting of revisions to be reviewed by specialized and senior editors before being added to a scheduled release of changes,’’ he said. He did not say when the revisions were made. The issue gained attention in January when Ajinomoto, a longtime Japanese producer of MSG seasonings, called on Merriam-Webster to alter its entry. The company hired restaurateur Eddie Huang and “The Real’’ TV co-host Jeannie Mai for a social media campaign.
MSG comes from glutamate, a common amino acid or protein building block found in food. The Food and Drug Administration says MSG is generally recognized as a safe addition to food. In previous studies with people identifying as sensitive to MSG, researchers found that neither MSG nor a placebo caused consistent reactions, the agency said.
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Congratulations to the NGUYEN family, owners of Lam’s Seafood for opening a second store. We would like to congratulate you on the opening of the second Lam’s. Our best wishes on the new store. We hope for nothing but growth and success. — Yen Lam-Steward, Chris Steward, Colten and Bradley Steward LAM’S SEAFOOD 243 MINKLER BLVD., TUKWILA (206)800-7840
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