I’m working on a timeline of Burmese restaurants in the Bay Area. According to this old Johnathan Kauffman piece, William Lue claims to have “founded Burmese Superstar in the 1980s before selling it to a second chef who in turn sold it to [current owners] Desmond Htunlin and Joycelyn Lee”
Do you know the date he founded it, and who the second owner was? I assume it was after Nan Yang in Oakland (1983) and Mandalay in San Francisco (1984).
Also, do you know if William Lue is related to Jammie Lue, who ran the “By the Bite” Burmese stall in the International Food Center before the fire (and has since vanished from the scene)?
While on the subject, do you or anybody know when Natoma Cafe began serving Burmese food and who was behind it? It existed at least as far back as the 1970s but first mentions of its Burmese food came in the early 2000s.
