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SANTA ROSA, Calif. When customers walked into Lee’s Noodle House after months of uncertainty, they were not just returning to a restaurant. They were helping preserve a family story.
For more than two decades, the small Vietnamese restaurant in Santa Rosa had served bowls of noodles, traditional dishes and comfort food to generations of customers. But the family behind the restaurant faced a series of challenges that could have ended the business permanently: a devastating wildfire, the COVID-19 shutdown, rising costs and a dramatic drop in customers…