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Trouble in paradise: COVID leaves a cloud hanging over the tropics
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Harry Sou had devoted two decades to building a Chinese restaurant empire in far north Queensland, serving up to 1000 hungry international tourists a time from its base at the Cairns casino.
Now he has retreated from five restaurants to a 50-seat venue off a service station car park that caters for locals and the occasional road-tripper.
âIâd like to think this pandemic is only once in 100 years,â Sou quips. âI donât think bad luck will come so regularly ⦠nothing like this scale.â