For the first chapter of her new life in America, Janet Zeng kept her head down.
She worked in a factory and at her brother’s grocery store. Yes, she was fulfilling other people’s dreams — but so what? She was in San Francisco.
Then, in late 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zeng found something of her own. An empty storefront at 2102 Irving St. in the Sunset…