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Do you have a particular food that reminds you of home? Maybe it’s your grandma’s spaghetti recipe, the lumpia your family used to make or the pozole from the Mexican restaurant down the street. 

Whatever the dish may be, food has the power to comfort us and to connect us to our families and our cultures. And when we find a restaurant that serves those familiar foods, it can make us feel more at home. 

MPR News host Angela Davis talks about two restaurants that did just that for many Minnesotans — 

Both restaurants closed in late 2022. And they’re not the only ones. A handful of other longtime Asian-owned restaurants in the Twin Cities closed in 2022 — like 

And the New York Times reported in 2019 the 

share of Chinese-owned restaurants in major metropolitan areas is on the decline.

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restaurants run by immigrant families — how they keep culture alive through food and what we lose when they close.

MPR News host Angela Davis talks about restaurants run by immigrant families — how they keep culture alive through food and what we lose when they close.


MPR News with Angela Davis - MPR News host Angela Davis talks about restaurants run by immigrant families — how they keep culture alive through food and what we lose when they close. We talk with owners of two restaurants that did just that for many Minnesotans — Khyber Pass in St. Paul and Keefer Court in Minneapolis.

Both restaurants closed in late 2022. And they’re not the only ones. There are a handful of other longtime Asian-owned restaurants in the Twin Cities that closed in 2022 — like Asia Chow Mein in Columbia Heights and David Fong’s in Bloomington.

And the New York Times reported in 2019 that the share of Chinese-owned restaurants in major metropolitan areas is on the decline. 

The legacies of Keefer Court, Khyber Pass and immigrant-owned restaurants

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