Des Moines Jung s Market plays unconscious role in welcoming immigrants in the 70s © Provided by KCCI Des Moines des moines jung market
Nonprofit Heartland Forward noted Des Moines has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations and Iowa holds a high spot among the states in the Midwest.
In the 70s, former Gov. Robert Ray publicly opened the doors and welcomed Southeast Asian refugees as a result of the Vietnam War.
It was a collaborative effort between many of Iowa’s city and community leaders. Des Moines had its own special welcoming source: a grocery store known then as Jung’s Oriental Food Store.
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Last year, while making my first visit to Everybody Eats PDX, I drove around the parking lot for nearly 20 minutes trying to find a sign or entrance for the new soul food spot. Eventually, I poked my head inside the Oriental Value Food grocery, and spotted a graffiti wall reading “Everybody Eats PDX.”
That’s where the titular lunch counter used to reside, inside a supermarket out on Southeast 173rd and Powell, which for a lot of us is a long trek for a plate of (albeit exceptional) comfort food. But last May, chef duo Marcell Goss and Johnny Huff Jr. moved into its first brick-and-mortar location in a coveted, high traffic Pearl District space that used to house Marinepolis Sushi Land.