When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, Heather Wong was celebrating the one-month anniversary of the million-dollar bakery in Sherman Oaks that she had just helped to open. A year and a half worth of work, and Wong now found herself without a job. She launched her own brand, Flouring LA, baking and selling out of a ghost kitchen in Chinatown.
“I started the brand in July 2020 because I needed to do something for my sanity and for money,” Wong stated.
Within a year of starting her own business, she was approached by the great-granddaughter of the founder of New Chinatown, who offered her a space in the last building that the family owned — the historic SooHoo Leung Building on Hill Street, alongside Pearl River Deli, Thank You Coffee, Paper Plant Co., and Sesame LA. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 