The story behind the spicy lobster at Newport Seafood Los Angeles Times
Table Of Content must-try Brazilian restaurants in Culver City (and beyond) The story behind the spicy lobster at Newport Seafood Menus Your Local Seafood Restaurant and Fish Market must-try Brazilian restaurants in Culver City (and beyond) Over the next two years, she and her mother would slowly make their way to California, by way of a refugee camp in Thailand, then through the Philippine Refugee Processing Center and later to Dallas before landing in L.A.’s Chinatown, where Lam began looking for work. Like many Cambodian refugees who came to this region before her, she found it in a doughnut shop. “His family was rich,” says Lam, “but my family, no.” So she and her mother remained in Phnom Penh, where in April 1975 they were among the millions of residents ousted from their homes by the Khmer Rouge and marched at gunpoint into the jungle. It was a 10-day walk that marked the beginning of a brutal genocide, during which nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population would succumb to s...