Amelia Nierenberg and Quoctrung Bui

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Sweet and sour ending for this Chinese family

Chinese restaurants owners face a problem: the second generation rather do something else

Owners Faye Lee Sit, center left, and her husband Tom Sit, center right, at work at their restaurant, Eng's, in Kingston, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2019. Across the country, owners of Chinese-American restaurants like Eng’s are ready to retire but have no one to pass the business to because their children, educated and raised in the United States, are pursuing careers that do not demand the same grueling labor as food service. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)

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