Zheng Cafe Seattle

Zheng Cafe Chef’s Business and Family Impacted by Coronavirus - Eater Seattle

"Chef Jing Wetzel shuffles anxiously around the small kitchen at Zheng Cafe, the South Lake Union restaurant she owns with her husband, Greg, which specializes in street food influenced by her native Wuhan, China. It’s Wednesday night, and the place has just reopened after being closed for weeks out of concern for Jing’s family back home, at the epicenter of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak: Her uncle and aunt contracted the coronavirus, and her parents — who live in a separate home and have not tested positive — are currently under quarantine due to local precautions, with food rations dwindling. Even more alarming, the caretaker of the apartment complex her parents live in recently died from the disease." - Gabe Guarente