B randon Poon doesn’t make a good breakfast sandwich. He makes a great one. Chives and cheddar cheese are folded into creamy scrambled eggs on a garlic aioli-brushed toasted bun that’s pillow soft on the outside.
I ate 100 breakfast sandwiches in San Francisco in a quest to find the city’s best. I never found one quite like Poon’s delicious offering at the new breakfast sandwich spot Hatched in Palo Alto’s Town and Country Village, right across the street from Stanford.
And while his signature breakfast sandwich is intriguing, the business model he and his two brothers — Craighton and Clifton Poon — used to get here is even more so.
A fter immigrating to America, Jennifer and Albert Poon learned how to run a restaurant while working at longtime Bay Area Chinese food chain Mr. Chau’s…