Other ethnic shops have popped up from time to time, but considering the town is so white that most of them don’t even know what mung bean is, they always flop in a year or two. Our shop and the Morenos’ are the only two that have been able to stick it out, like maybe they’re just different enough that people are willing to stop by both, but that also means we’re in a constant game of tug-of-war to keep them from pulling too many customers away from us and taking us out altogether.
