Huang "Coco" Tran, Photo by Julie Bohnenkamp Meet Huong "Coco" Tran, owner of the vegetarian sister restaurants Roots and Heart & Soy in Louisville, KY.
Who opened the first Chinese fast food restaurant in Louisville?
Coco.
Who opened the city's first modern Vietnamese and French cuisine restaurant?
Coco.
The first Asian vegetarian restaurant?
Coco.
The first tea house?
You guessed it.
“I love it,” Coco says, smiling and shaking her head emphatically. “I love to create.
I love to bring the new idea to this town.”
Who opened the first Chinese fast food restaurant in Louisville?
Coco.
Who opened the city's first modern Vietnamese and French cuisine restaurant?
Coco.
The first Asian vegetarian restaurant?
Coco.
The first tea house?
You guessed it.
“I love it,” Coco says, smiling and shaking her head emphatically. “I love to create.
I love to bring the new idea to this town.”
Read more about Coco's harrowing escape from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and how she went from packing ice cream cones in a hot factory (making $2.01 an hour) to the successful restauranteur she is today in Flavors from Home.
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