For Bay Area Asian Americans worried about walking alone, there's a new service Iris Kwok FacebookTwitterEmail A new service seeks to help Asian Americans walking aloneAekkarak Thongjiew / EyeEm/Getty Images Akari Myo was walking home from the bus stop after working the closing shift at Boba Guys in Hayes Valley one March evening when she noticed something peculiar: three unfamiliar cars, parked on the street she lived on. “Weird,” Myo thought. There usually weren’t that many cars. But she was almost home, and kept walking. The running footsteps came from behind. Myo turned around, terrified. From the shadows had emerged a dark figure that was now rapidly approaching. The thief grabbed her shoulder bag and tried to pry it off her shoulder. Little did he know that Myo was prepared.