Kudos: Chi Vo - The San Francisco Examiner

Kudos: Chi Vo

By BY Examiner Staff • August 6, 2008 12:00 am

Occupation Restaurant owner

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Achievement With the help of Urban Solutions, an assistance program run by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, Vo was able to take an abandoned office space on Sixth Street and transform it into his new restaurant, Miss Saigon. The grand opening of the restaurant was in June.

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