{"id":577,"date":"2013-04-12T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2013-04-12T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:58:19","slug":"kim-lou-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"KIM LOO SISTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t posted since November!\u00a0 Really! (I think some things may have gotten lost!)\u00a0 However, I have discovered some wonderful information as I have continued to research LOVE IMAGINED.<\/p>\n<p>First, I had a note to\u00a0 myself to Google The Kim Loo Sisters because they are the reason my Chinese father got a job at the famous Nankin Cafe and why I often got to eat Nankin Special Chow Mein.\u00a0 Not expecting to find anything about the dancing\/singing sisters (who are Chinese and Polish), whom my father chauefered until the Loo sisters&#8217; father\u00a0 got my father the job at the Nankin.<\/p>\n<p>This is what makes writing memoir so rewarding.\u00a0 Verification of what you think you know to be true.\u00a0 Not only do the Kim Loo sisters have their own Facebook\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The.Kim.Loo.Sisters?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">Kim Loo sisters<\/a> page, the daughter of one of the sisters is writing a book about her mother&#8217;s and aunts&#8217; lives and quickly moving forward with a documentary about them.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.leslieli.com\/ldl\/Main_Page.html\">Lesli Li<\/a> is a writer.with several books to her acclaim.\u00a0 She immediately responded to my email:\u00a0 &#8220;I spoke to my 93-year old mother about your father Billy Quan and, yes, she remembered him.\u00a0 Her eyes lit up and her whole demeanor changed to recall being a Kim Loo Sister based in the Midwest and that pivotal part of her life and career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the hot off the press UTube video\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/youtu.be\/gM9KpAIlYUo\">Kim Loo Sisters You Tube Trailer for Documentary<\/a> of the sisters my father knew that helped make the way for him to work at the Nankin Cafe where he met my mother who was also working at the Nankin.<\/p>\n<p>Other news is just as exciting.\u00a0 Updates sooner than later, I promise.<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Quan Lee<\/p>\n<p>April 12, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Snow in April is not all bad, I actually spent a day at home writing! Here are the URLS that don&#8217;t seem to work where I linked them- ahhhh, if only I had a techie over my shoulder looking out for me-Victor, I know you&#8217;re there, kudos, always.\u00a0 I can do this.\u00a0 I can do this.\u00a0 If the links below don&#8217;t work, please cut and paste.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gM9KpAIlYUo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/gM9KpAIlYUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The.Kim.Loo.Sisters<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.leslieli.com\/ldl\/Main_Page.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t posted since November!\u00a0 Really! (I think some things may have gotten lost!)\u00a0 However, I have discovered some wonderful information as I have continued to research LOVE IMAGINED. First, I had a note to\u00a0 myself to Google The Kim Loo Sisters because they are the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=577\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40,59,60,48,28,34,58,29,13],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-imagined","tag-chinese","tag-kim-loo-sisters","tag-lesli-li","tag-loving-healing-modern-history-press","tag-memoir","tag-mixed-race","tag-nankin-cafe","tag-process-of-writing","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}