Almost two years ago, Asian Wok owners Mike and Yook Gan were trying to slow down after working 25 years in the restaurant industry. They wanted to travel more, and they were a day away from departing on a long-anticipated trip back to Taiwan, where they planned to revisit the college where they first met.
Then, they got the call. Yook had an aggressive form of breast cancer.
They took the trip as planned, traveling across Japan and South Korea. When they returned home, Yook began an almost two-year battle against the disease, which ended when she died on Aug. 2 at age 62.
“She was determined to beat the cancer and was hoping she would, just because she’s always been a fighter,” her daughter Stacy Gould said. “She was the healthiest person.”…