Cafe Bleu – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
Today Huyen Wylie might smile a little when she describes herself as having been one of the Vietnamese “boat people,” but it’s not because she finds anything evenly mildly amusing about the term. She was but ten years old when her family braved the choppy waters of the South China Sea in their quest for freedom. It was their third attempt. As with many families, fleeing their homeland was an act of desperation undertaken by people persecuted by an oppressive communist government. It was a perilous journey fraught with uncertainty and danger. Still, risking death on the open seas was preferable to the certain imprisonment or execution many citizens faced at the hands of a retaliatory government. Many of the…