Another story about an immigrant who worked 2 full time jobs for many years to reach him American Dream. He now owns a restaurant. DP
By Jennifer DeWitt
Quad-cityTimes.com: For 10 long years, Ky Lai would leave his day job at a clothing factory to work the dinner shift at a Chinese restaurant.
It was a grueling schedule, but Lai was a young man on a quest.
Just 19 years old and not knowing a word of English, Lai realized half of his American dream when he left his homeland of Vietnam for a new life in the United States. He arrived in the Quad-Cities on Sept. 27, 1991 — a day engraved in his memory.
From the very first day that he bused tables at the Yen Ching restaurant in Davenport, Lai said “I wanted to be a boss.”
So he devoted himself to working as many hours as he could to build a nest egg. “To open a restaurant I need to have experience, and I need to have money.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.
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