Southeast Asian entrepreneurs create home on 7th St. — WHYY
By Laura Deutch and Shira WalinskyMay 5, 2021 Listen 5:04 I Heart Cambodia is one of more than 62 immigrant- and refugee-owned businesses south of Snyder Avenue. (Shira Walinsky/WHYY) Sarun Chan began shopping on South 7th Street in South Philadelphia at the tender age of three years old. His family had just emigrated from Cambodia and the pocket of shops between Snyder Avenue and Oregon Avenue offered them the flavors and ingredients they missed. In the small shops, he and his mother would search out ingredients they couldn’t find at traditional American-style grocers. Eventually,...
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