[Editor’s note: This is part of a series on businesses along the Green Line, one year after opening. We profiled the Ha Tien Market and other University Avenue businesses in 2014 as part of a ...

Son and Ne Dao stand for a portrait inside the second Ha Tien Market in east St. Paul earlier this month. The couple opened their second store in November 2016 inside a building formerly home to a ...

Ha Tien, the Asian market on University Avenue in St. Paul, has purchased the former Byerly’s grocery store on St. Paul’s East Side and will open a second location there. The 49,000-square-foot store ...

Bruce Johansen: It’s August 1, 2013. I’m Bruce Johansen. I’m at Ha Tien Grocery located at 353 University Avenue West in St. Paul. This interview is one in a series of interviews that I’m doing with ...

Son Dao hasn’t taken a day off in nearly 18 years. Ever since he and his wife, Ne, opened Ha Tien, a University Avenue grocery store and Asian deli, he’s worked seven 12-hour days every week. “I’ve ...

In the shell of a former Lunds & Byerlys on St. Paul's East Side, Ne and Son Dao have quietly opened their second Ha Tien grocery, a makeover that's emblematic of the city's shifting demographics.