[3] Aimee Rizzo of The Infatuation said patrons working on their laptops made the shop reminiscent "of a college town cafe in the middle of finals week".

Works in the collection included the graphic novel American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, John Okada's novel No-No Boy, and others by Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, and Thích Nhất Hạnh.

[3] Liu reportedly took out loans and "maxed out" credit cards[3] to open the restaurant in the "ballroom-like" space, which was vacant for approximately three years before he signed a lease.

[8] Among events hosted at the cafe was a "conversation hour" in 2014 by Eric Pettigrew, a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives,[9] and an election night party in 2019 by Port of Seattle commissioner Sam Cho.

[3] During the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests, Mari Shibuya painted a portrait of Breonna Taylor on one of the restaurant's exterior panels.

Despite receiving government assistance and financial support from local API organizations like the Chinatown–International District Business Improvement Area,[3] the cafe closed permanently in September 2023.