Hmongtown Marketplace founder, Toua Xiong, 2010 “Immigrant of Distinction”

[Twin Cities Daily Planet] "Minnesotans' penchant for farmer's markets surges to the surface each spring. This year, thousands of Minnesotans will flock to Hmongtown Marketplace, a growing mix of stalls and pickup trucks vending Asian foods (prepared and otherwise), cooking utensils, wearing apparel, entertainment and trinkets. Rising phoenix-like from an abandoned lumber yard in St. Paul's Frogtown, Hmongtown Marketplace is the first Hmong-owned and operated market in the Midwest." (read on)

“I joke with my friends that Seward is like NYC. There’s international cuisine, corner stores, a live music hot spot, a co-op, a clay center & gallery, a playwrights’ center, a gym, a bagel shop, and even a bowling alley…We border the Mississippi-who needs Central Park when you can jog along the river?”

- Matt
Seward neighborhood, Minneapolis

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