San Francisco Stabbing Victim Anh ‘Peng' Taylor Came To Bay Area Searching For American Dream

By Betty Yu, CBS San Francisco:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — While Anh ‘Peng’ Taylor was recovering Thursday from the wounds suffered in a vicious attack on a San Francisco street, her family began sharing details of her amazing journey from war-torn Southeast Asia to the Bay Area.

The 94-year-old was born in Haiphong in 1926 of Chinese and Vietnamese descent. Later in life, she immigrated to Laos as Vietnam was embroiled in war. She worked as a chef in a restaurant she owned, where she met her future husband. They married in Bangkok and lived there for a few years, before moving to Hawaii, then on to San Francisco in the early 1970s.

Her husband, a U.S. war veteran, passed away nearly two years ago. She has lived in the same apartment in San Francisco’s crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood for 45 years, taking her daily walks, waving to neighbors.

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