The entire extended family was gathered in Seattle before her youngest son’s wedding, so Kim Sok seized the opportunity to tour a few of the area’s doughnut shops. Sok had previously owned doughnut businesses in Los Angeles and Texas; looking for a new one to buy was sort of a low-grade pastime.
That self-guided tour back in 2017 took her to King Donuts, the laundromat–doughnut shop–teriyaki joint that had been a community hub in Rainier Beach for decades. A conversation sparked. The price was right. Sok summoned one of her five sons, Travis Chhuor, who was living in Texas with his family. She looped in
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