Yen Wor Village, an old-school Chinese restaurant and karaoke destination in West Seattle, closed on March 29, bringing a sad ending to a saga that saw the owners hit by financial and health problems.
Married couple Gary and Wendy Wong had owned the restaurant since 1989 but had been struggling in recent years; in 2022 Westside Seattle wrote that it had “slipped into karaoke dive bar status.” The pandemic just made things worse: Gary caught COVID-19 in 2020 and while in the ICU suffered a stroke. Around the same time, Wendy slipped while walking their dog and broke bones in her spine and back. With both owners unable
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