"The only thing I want to say is thank you," Richard Fong said. It's a bittersweet time for the Fong family, too. "Other things will come in its place, but it's a big loss." "My husband and I were talking about this restaurant, and he called it a little gem," Cherner said. Over the years, Dragon City Cafe quietly became a neighborhood institution. The small, wood-paneled cafe was on the first floor, and there were living quarters above. The restaurant was in a narrow, two-story building off Lake Street in south Minneapolis. "And I remember as a kid, I just couldn't wait until I was old enough to work at the Nankin, because my mom worked there, my dad, my brother, my sisters, and just before I was supposed to work, whammo - we had Dragon City." "Eventually, he and my mother and a number of my family worked at the Nankin restaurant, which as everyone knows was an institution in Minneapolis," Fong said. His father had been a barber in Hong Kong, but when the family arrived in the U.S., he began working at a suburban restaurant called the White House. "Can you think about moving to another country with seven kids when you're in your mid-40s?" Fong said.
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