The James Beard-nominated matriarch of Portland’s beloved Vietnamese noodle soup restaurants Ha VL and Rose VL has died. Ha (Christina) Luu passed away at home on May 29 at the age of 77 from cancer. Luu’s son Peter Vuong, who now runs Ha VL, announced the news on social media. She is survived by her husband William Vuong, sons Han, Hung, Kenny, Peter, Richard, and Steven, as well as three siblings and 20 grandchildren, the Oregonian reported in her obituary.
Luu was born in 1947 in Hanoi and immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s after sending her sons to Oregon one-by-one. Along with husband William
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