A Restaurant District That Hides in Plain Sight

After spending nearly a decade in the kitchen at Tamarind Tree in Little Saigon, Anh Le became a business owner at age 58. It wasn’t something she would have envisioned when Le, her husband, Quy, and their young sons fled Vietnam by boat in 1989. Or during the six subsequent years the family spent at a refugee camp in Hong Kong before they eventually came to the United States.

But in April 2022, Anh and her sons, Vinny and Trung, opened Lotus Pond at North 128th Street and Aurora Avenue North. It’s an inhospitable corner, surrounded by used car dealerships and traffic that races by,

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