By Jaime Adame
Abilene Reporter-News
About a week after arriving in the United States, Steve Lao was making doughnuts.
Lao, a native of Cambodia who endured the brutal regime led by Pol Pot, came to California in 1989 at age 29, where “my friend, he had a doughnut shop,” he said.
Choong Park of Korean ancestry got into doughnuts more recently, learning from his brother, who has owned a doughnut shop in Wichita Falls for about three years.
Both men recently have joined the seemingly crowded field of doughnut shop operators in Abilene, bringing the number of doughnut shops in Abilene to nine, according to business listings. There is the Jack ‘N’ Jill chain, as well as two A.M. Donut Shops (which also have Cambodian owners).
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