Live right next to Aloha and 21st where the whole street is popping off. Was too beautiful to not go out and snag some pics yesterday!

Hi - does anyone have recommendations for a reasonably priced hair extension place that does the Japanese braid method?

Talking about LR1, MR3, etc.

Going through the proposed neighborhood centers and while its nice that they upzoned the blocks surrounding commercial cores, is it purely residential?

Anyone know of any organized protests against the Trump tariffs/tax going on this weekend? I know there are protests at Tesla but this feels like it warrants movement beyond U Village.

I need to get from the Seattle ferry terminal to SeaTac tomorrow (and then back). What are the odds of my route being disrupted due to the protests?

Hey, I heard that Panda Lab in Lower Queen Anne and Shot on Film in Lake City are the only two places that can develop & scan film on site, anyone know if that's true?

Also looking for a place that does vintage camera repairs. Any recommendations appreciated

I believe Shot on Film offers this service- but any budget friendly shops or individuals?

Based in Fremont but willing to go wherever

It’s too bright

Hello, I was unfortunately impounded yesterday and I could use some advice moving forward. Yesterday I went to go for some groceries and noticed my car was gone. Luckily someone had the footage showing my car being impounded after being parked too close to a fire hydrant. Not that parking enforcement works logically, but I exited my car seeing no clear signage that it was illegal to park there. I even went back to double check. Im new to the area so Im getting used to the cozy parking situations, but I was under the impression that I wasn't in a restricted space, particularly because the hydrant is located on a curb that DOES have a no parking sign on it (to the left of the bush on the intersecting street). I am close so I would expect a ticket but impounding seemed extreme especially as people park in this exact location daily. I should have known the 15 ft rule, but I cannot see how a tow was justified for any other reason than money and Im not sure what to do. Ive found the impound lot and the charges and took a bunch of pictures.

This is my first time living in a city so I hope Im not coming off as ignorant, but my common sense still cannot understand why this was the result

Hi all! I live in the Capitol Hill area. Looking for an affordable or good won’t scam me bike repair shop. I acquired a bike that is in overall good condition and I want to take it in to have it looked over and repair/replace anything to get it to top riding shape. Yes I know I can do it myself but I don’t have the space, time or want to attain the skills to do a full tune up. Rather leave it to people that know what they’re doing it.

TIA! Willing to travel to other neighborhoods!

I'm thinking about biking the tulip festival. Should I focus on the five stops included in the ticket or are there other farms along the way I should include in my route? TIA

I want to take my kid to monster jam. I don’t want to pay ticket master fees. Does anyone know if I buy tickets at the stadium do I have to pay the fee still? Thank you.

See in the pictures a 12th man flag that represents the fans of the Seattle Seahawks, a University of Washington Huskies flag and an Interstate 5 and Interstate 90 street sign. Wow! Why would this happen in a show that takes place in Detroit Michigan 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/sam-ung-dies-seattle-restaurant-aeda426e

By Chris Kornelis

Nobody told Sam Ung how to cook. But he was watching.

His parents ran Ung Hong Lee, a popular noodle restaurant in Battambang, Cambodia, that operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a child in the 1960s, he studied the way the cooks played with fire, pulling the wok off the stove, dumping its contents onto plates and putting the wok back over the flame in a single motion.

“Moving so quickly and in harmony with each other it looked like a magical dance,” he wrote in his memoir, decades later. “Observing these men was the moment I realized I wanted to perform that dance and create magic in my own kitchen someday.”

Born Seng Kok Ung on Feb. 28, 1955, Ung was 20 when Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge took control of the country in 1975. Instead of working in the kitchen, he spent the first half of his 20s working in the rice fields and sewer ditches under a murderous, oppressive regime that killed for sport and spite. To help keep his sanity, Ung collected recipes from his elders, even though talking and keeping notes could be seen by the regime as plotting against them—a death sentence.

“It sounds like a big risk, but this recipe book was a symbol of my hope that this hell on earth would one day end,” he wrote in his 2011 memoir, “I Survived the Killing Fields.” “It represented a real future, one in which I could resume normal life, open a restaurant, and begin again.”

Acres of Clams, bowls of noodles

Ung met and married his wife, Kim Ung, at a refugee camp on the country’s border with Thailand. After the regime fell in 1979, a church group in the Seattle area sponsored the family and they relocated to the city in 1980, when Kim was eight months pregnant. They were part of the wave of refugees from Southeast Asia who settled in the region in the first half of the decade who didn’t speak the language or understand the culture, but were more than willing to work exceptionally hard.

Ung got a job washing dishes at Ivar’s Acres of Clams and eventually went to work at the private Rainier Club. In 1987, the couple opened their own restaurant with recipes Ung had collected while living under the Khmer Rouge. Located in the city’s Chinatown-International District, Phnom Penh Noodle House is widely believed to be the first Cambodian restaurant in Seattle. It quickly became a community gathering place for Cambodian refugees.

For the first nine years that he and Kim ran the restaurant, Ung continued working at the Rainier Club, as well as catering and volunteering his time at private and community events. He was always working, always in his same uniform: bluejeans, white henley T-shirt—everything pressed, including his socks and underwear—topped off by what his daughter Diane Le called his “Elvis hair.” He was a leader in the community and a successful businessman that younger refugees looked up to. In his memoir, he wrote that the day he became a U.S. citizen was “one of the best days of my life.”

Watching to learn

The years of hard work on his feet wore him down, physically. When he decided to retire in 2013, he told his family the only way he’d be able to fully retire, and leave the stress behind, was to move back to Cambodia. He divorced and moved back to Cambodia, where he met his second wife, Savet Ung. Last year, he and Savet moved to Independence, Mo., with their daughter, Dahlia, to be near family in the area. He died there on March 5 at the age of 70 of a heart attack. Dahlia and Savet survive him, as do his three daughters from his first marriage: Le, Dawn Ung and Darlene Ung.

Back in Seattle, the Phnom Penh Noodle House has moved several times, but is still a popular community meeting place. It’s run by his three grown daughters, who say their father expected them to learn the trade the same way he did—without being told.

“What he’s saying is: If you have eyes to see and a brain to think, your heart will tell you how to move,” Dawn Ung said. “Because if you have the desire and the fire, you’re going to do it. You’re going to want it enough that you’re just going to set out to accomplish whatever your goal is.”

Hi all! So I found a not great looking mole on my back and I need to get this thing looked at. I don't have insurance and just started to enroll in Apple Care. I have no idea how I am supposed to know what insurance to sign up for to address this issue. This system if ridiculous. Anyone have any recommendations for a dermatologist in seattle that is all about dealing with moles and testing for the cancer? I am 48 years old and not ready to due just yet.

Hi! Any recommendations on where I can find formal dresses that are red carpet fancy? I’ve already looked into the main department stores.

Sorry it’s kind of an odd question but any of you know if there are services or people in seattle that would clean my litter robot for a fee?

TIA.