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    Red envelopes and tragedy: A Monterey Park restaurant owner moves forward the only way she knows how

    by Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times Jan 27, 2023 6 minutes
    Server Tony Huang, left, receives a red envelope from customer Olivia Chang, right, at Taste of MP restaurant on Tuesday.

    MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — It was quiet in the parking lot of the Cantonese restaurant. By then, the news helicopters had left Monterey Park airspace.

    Lina Situ wore a purple mandarin-collar jacket and stood in front of a makeshift altar, bowing her head in reflection. She was joined by her colleagues outside the restaurant she co-owns, Taste of MP.

    Before her, a round table draped in a red cloth was laden with offerings to Tsai Shen, the god of wealth in Chinese folk religion.

    Boiled chicken. Fried rice. Taro cakes. Tea. Wine. Oranges. Sweets.

    Situ approached the table and plunged lighted sticks of incense into a metal bowl filled with dry rice. Then a smile bloomed on her face. She was about to take part in a Lunar New Year tradition: the bestowing of red envelopes filled with cash.

    "I just pray everything is healthy, good business, money come, money come!" Situ said, her enthusiasm like a kind of armor against the sadness enveloping the city. She pressed the red packets into the hands of servers, cooks and

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