In a back booth of his parents’ restaurant near the kitchen, Alan Wong as a little child would peel snow pea after snow pea after snow pea.
Or several pounds of shrimp — anything to help his mom and dad before customers arrived.
“My friends would be playing outside; I’m peeling snow peas with my little fingers and jabbing myself with the shrimp spine or tail,” Wong recalled. “Just miserable. I’d be crying the whole time…