Chow Chong talks about Kites Over Lake Michigan ending in Two Rivers

A few years ago, Chong told the Herald Times Reporter he didn’t have a store or giant kite festival in mind when he came to the United States from Malaysia in 1980 to attend the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

He moved to the Frozen Tundra not because he was eager for long winters, but because a friend from home also was enrolled here. The choice was Wisconsin or Arizona State, Chong recalled, and when he visited Arizona in August, the heat index was more than 100.

“I thought, ‘I am not moving to a place hotter than home,’” said the genial Chong, in his usual T-shirt, flip flops and ponytail. “And it was really exciting when the first snow fell. I had never seen snow, never experienced it. By the second year, it was not so exciting anymore.”

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