Humboldt Today with John Kennedy O'Connor
Co-Owner of Annie’s Cambodian Laura Chau-Yang on the Restaurant's Recent Hardships, the Family’s Dedication to Serving Good Food and the Love They Have for the Community
Popular local restaurant Annie’s Cambodian – which has been open in a tiny building on Highway 101 between U and T Streets in Eureka for 11 years – recently gained more love and support from the community than ever before, since news broke that a development company submitted plans to demolish the Annie’s building to make way for a new drive-through restaurant. “Business has been booming,” Laura Chau-Yang – who, along with her parents Annie and Chin Chau, owns Annie’s Cambodian – told the Outpost. In addition to flooding the restaurant with business, the community has been circulating a petition urging Eureka’s Planning Commission to not approve the project that would replace Annie’s with another chain business. On this week’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up, the Lost Coast Outpost’s low-fi podcast, Chau-Yang and her family discuss how they are dealing with the unhappy news, the options they’re exploring for opening a new location and the outpouring of support they have gained from the community. Other topics include the story of how the family ended up in Eureka and went from opening Happy Donuts in 1993 to serving Cambodian food at local festivals and eventually opening Annie’s, how Annie developed her love for food from her mother in Cambodia, some of their favorite dishes at the restaurant and what gives their cuisine that delicious flavor, the family’s passion for sourcing local ingredients when possible and growing their own specialty herbs, how important it is to the Annie’s family to stay open and more!
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