A Small Business Owner Expands -- And Credits Me!

A conversation with Vietnamese immigrant and restaurateur Te Phan

Before I moved to New Orleans, I was the writer of the Marketplace Changes column in the Ann Arbor Observer. For several years, I chronicled every business opening and closing in Ann Arbor. Usually, I’d write about four feature stories each issue on new businesses.

One of them, in January 2021, was about Te Phan and Ginger Deli. Te had been in business e…