Ted Ngoy: “The Donut King”

When Ted Ngoy was a young man, he moved from a rural village in Cambodia to the nation’s capital to attend school. There, he fell in love with a young woman whose family did not approve of him. But that didn’t stop him from winning her heart. Together, they survived a brutal war and began a new life in the United States. In California, Ted learned how to make donuts. After opening his own donut shops, he taught other Cambodian Americans how to make donuts. Part of the Notable Asian Americans series, this book tells the story of how a man from Cambodia became an unlikely success—and how he lost the great fortune he made.