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Finding a Place in the Family Business

Cynthia Koo, a 30-year-old designer, on managing the online presence of her parents’ restaurant
Source: Aaron Reiss

Editor’s Note: This article is part of an oral-history series where Aaron Reiss interviewed the young-adult sons and daughters of Chinatown shopkeepers about how they are helping to keep their families’ businesses alive.

Cynthia Koo, a 30-year-old designer, uses her marketing and art expertise to help manage an Instagram presence and an English-language website for her family’s Cantonese restaurant, Oriental Garden: “I speak Cantonese and took Mandarin in school, but I don't read enough to understand

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