{"id":84057,"date":"2022-12-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84057"},"modified":"2022-12-14T20:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T02:15:03","slug":"circling-the-drain-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84057","title":{"rendered":"Circling The Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The hits keep coming for Minneapolis, as more restaurants\u00a0 are calling it quits<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Minneapolis alone, a number of long-standing institutions have called it quits. Rock Bottom Brewery, Seven Steakhouse and Sushi, Williams Pub and Peanut Bar, Amore Uptown and Stella’s Fish Cafe to name a few.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Some of them date back to long before I moved to the Cities – in this case, Asia Chow Mein in Columbia Heights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“It was very hard to decide that,” Ng said. “At first, I was going to have my son take over, but now with so many obstacles and so many unknowns in this industry, I just hate for him to take over and he will be struggling like we have the last three years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winnie said what served as a mold for success the prior generation, is one that no longer fits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The American dream maybe is for our parents,” Winnie said. “Because they think, immigrate here, they will make a better living, a better education for the kids. But I really don’t know what the outcome would be if we were to stay. I still have cousins and people back home and they’re doing really good too, you know?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ng said she is grateful for the sacrifice that her and Tim’s parents made. She recognizes the difficulty of moving to America, without speaking English, with the hopes of providing a better future for their children. She admired that they took the time to learn English, to navigate American cities, to learn how to walk in the snow, to learn to love eating American food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In completely unrelated news, Downtown merchants and other leaders are trying to figure out what to do to revive downtown<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…which is back,and also never went away and has no crime or vacancy problem, and if you think it does you’re a rube from Waconia or Maple Grove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hits keep coming for Minneapolis, as more restaurants\u00a0 are calling it quits: In Minneapolis alone, a number of long-standing institutions have called it quits. Rock Bottom Brewery, Seven Steakhouse and Sushi, Williams Pub and Peanut Bar, Amore Uptown and Stella’s Fish Cafe to name a few. Some of them date back to long before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84077,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057\/revisions\/84077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}