PHOTO BY HANNAH LEE
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Fortune & Food Dim sum done right by the family behind one of Durham’s oldest Chinese restaurants BY HANNAH L EE | PHOTOG RAPHY B Y J OHN MICHAEL SIMPSON
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unday is different at the faint pink house with the ruby red trim on Guess Road. On any other day, the cracked concrete and gravel parking lot out back has plenty of open spaces. Customers can come and go as they please. But on Sundays, the lot is full by noon – or earlier – with cars spilling down adjoining side streets and guests struggling to find space to stand indoors. The commotion is all to get into Durham’s first and oldest dim sum dining room at Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant. The joint opened in 1989 in what appears to be a house, although
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