e sse nt i al dining Red Curry Udon with Tofu
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AHAN by Kyle Jacobson In August 2020, only seven months after the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded in the United States, opening a new restaurant probably wouldn’t have been advisable. But Jamie Hoang and Chuckie Brown didn’t see it that way when they opened Ahan in The Bur Oak. Though there would be difficulties, where some other restaurants were having to figure out how they would transition away from dine in, Chuckie says, “It was nice, in a way, because we 14 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s