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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Spilling the Tea After 99 Years

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Business, Careers

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This episode, Jessi gets out of the office and heads downtown to eat at a 99-year-old Chinese restaurant. Hear her conversation with Wilson Tang of Nom Wah Tea Parlor, as the two talk about what it’s like to inherit a family business, how Wilson added his own modern touch, and how he grew a small family restaurant into a global brand.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The LinkedIn Podcast Podcast Network is brought to you by The Progress Report, a podcast created by Kindrel,

0:05.2

your partner for Continuous Technology Innovation.

0:08.1

Listen to the Progress Report wherever you get your podcasts.

0:17.0

From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday, a show about the changing nature of work

0:21.0

and how that work is changing us.

0:25.2

This episode we're doing something a little different.

0:27.6

We're getting out of the office and headed downtown.

0:30.9

We are standing in front of Namwa Tea Parlor, Chinatown's first Dim-Sum Parlor, since 1920 on the window.

0:38.0

Should we head in?

0:40.0

Yeah.

0:41.0

Yeah.

0:42.0

Even at 2 o'clock on a weekday every table is packed and we're here to meet the

0:47.4

restaurant's owner Wilson Tang.

0:49.4

Where Susie? Steppy, Steppy.

0:52.0

I'm sort of lower the music a little bit. Toothe. Stappy, Stappy. That's him.

0:53.0

That's him.

0:56.0

Wilson's 40 and he inherited Namwa from his uncle a decade ago.

1:00.3

For a long time it was more of a bakery that sold Dimsum on the side.

1:04.0

As Wilson's uncle grew older, Namwa became more of a hangout spot for his friends.

1:09.0

Very few customers came by.

1:11.0

Wilson modernized the place.

1:13.1

First he started serving Dim sum all day.

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