After countless hours working in his parents’ North Long Beach restaurant, Hak Tea never thought he would one day serve his own food out of the same storefront.
But three years ago, his parents were planning to sell their space near the intersection of Cherry Avenue and South Street. It was a shop they’d operated out of for more than two decades.
Instead of letting the longtime family business disappear, Hak Tea decided to transform it into something new. He told his parents he would take over the space and move his wing restaurant from San Francisco back to Southern California, where he had grown up…