Kim Son (restaurant)

Kim Sơn ( listen) is a family-owned chain of restaurants in Houston, Texas, that serves both Vietnamese cuisine and Chinese cuisine. As of 2009 Tri La is the owner of the restaurant group. The restaurant group headquarters is in the restaurant in East Downtown.

金山 Kim Sơn was founded in Vinh Long, Vietnam, by the family matriarch Kim Su Tran La. When the Communists came to South Vietnam, Kim and her family fled Vietnam in 1979 to Malaysia. In 1980, the family received approval to join relatives already in the United States. On August 16, 1980, the family arrived in the United States by boat; on their way to the United States pirates had attacked their group in an area in the South Pacific. The family re-established the restaurant in Houston's Downtown Chinatown in 1982. Kim and her husband Son oversee all the restaurants with their sons seven sons and daughters. Kim had received vocational training at Houston Community College after arriving as a refugee.

The restaurant has an extensive menu of Chinese and Vietnamese dishes, serves weekend Dim Sum It and quickly became a success and In 1993, the La family opened a new $2 million, 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m²) restaurant and banquet facility diagonally across from the original location. At the time it was the largest Chinese restaurant in the state of Texas. A location existed at 7531 Westheimer at Hillcroft, but it has closed.

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