![]() ![]() ![]() The restaurant just got an Instagram account in December. Last March marked Lin's first partnership with delivery apps like Uber Eats, Skip The Dishes and Fantuan. Lin, once a manager at the restaurant, took over the business from its first owner seven years ago. Because of the pandemic, not a lot of people want to come out and order." "A lot of our loyal customers are older folks. "We miss our regular customers very much," says Lin through a translator. Once a hub for weekend dim sum, Sky Dragon has been relegated to small takeout orders. Gone are the bookings for birthday parties and wedding receptions, and the groups of regulars who kept the business alive. With dine-in forbidden, the appeals of Sky Dragon-glimmering gold ceilings and an incredible vista across downtown Toronto-are no longer a factor. The 26-year-old dim sum restaurant, once the crown jewel of the mall and weekend hub for Chinese seniors, sits eerily empty. Thank you for being our friends.Charlie Lin, owner of Sky Dragon, says that sales at the restaurant have gone down by 90 per cent. Thank you for welcoming us as we were immigrants. "Thank you for allowing my family to be part of this community. "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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