Overview

• Jeanette and Joanna Liu formally took over Yueh Tung six months ago to honor their parents’ legacy and keep Canada’s oldest Hakka restaurant running
• the sisters’ social media outreach has restored foot traffic to pre-crisis levels after the eatery teetered on the brink of closure
• recent U.S. tariffs on imported ingredients and sharp increases in rent and grocery prices have significantly raised their operating expenses
• Toronto’s Chinatown has seen declining foot traffic and steeper rents that have driven several long-standing restaurants to close before Yueh Tung faced similar pressures
• the Lius are weighing modest price adjustments alongside community engagement as they pursue sustainable strategies to preserve the decades-old institution