Theres also the moment where Ted revisits his former home in Mission Viejo. That's a disaster," he says. [8], After a particularly devastating gambling loss in 1990, Ngoy flew to Washington, D.C. and joined a Buddhist monastery where he spent a month meditating. They took American names. Christy always forgave him, but word got around that Ted could no longer be trusted. Once a paragon in the community, refugees now avoided him for fear of being asked for a loan. The Donut King was directed by Alice Gu, and is her first feature film. By 1987, Ngoy owned 32 Christy's Donuts locations, largely accomplished by living out of a motorhome allowing him and his family to travel up and down the state of California establishing new locations. (Elina Shatkin/LAist). Okay, you guys can' It was a whole Romeo and Juliet story," Gu says. To Christy, this was the final betrayal. ', "If you could turn the clock around, I would do that. Suganthini's family insisted Ted break it off by telling her he didn't love her. "Growing up, when you look on the screen, there's not a lot of Asian representation. Doughnut revenue put their children through college. Ted and Suganthini sold everything they had and arrived in California on one of the first refugee flights, with their three children, an adopted nephew and two nieces. In 1985, Ngoy and his wife became American citizens assuming the American names of Ted and Christy, respectively, and were enjoying a lavish lifestyle including a million dollar home at Lake Mission Viejo, a vacation home in Big Bear, expensive cars, and vacations to Europe. It was a humbling experience, and the lowest point in his life. "I spent about $100,000 of my own money, my time, my everything," he says. The family also still had the Winchell's so now they had two stores to run. Every evening, he sat by his open window and played the flute. Her father was a high-ranking government official. The premise of family in the film is how hard your parents work and the sacrifices they make so that you can have a life better than they did. Christy has remarried and lives in the US, Listen to Ted Ngoy on Outlook on the BBC World Service, Download the podcast for more extraordinary stories, The Donut King, is available in the US now in theatres and online and will be coming to the UK in 2021, Listen to Ted Ngoy on Outlook: How the Donut King lost his crown. Within a decade, he had become a multimillionaire with a lakeside mansion . 60? The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "Everybody's happy to see me now, because I changed from the bad guy to the good guy.". 'How I got rich beating men at their own game'. He says to me, Alice, making money its so easy. Besides, he reasoned, as a politician he would not be able to gamble. In The Donut King, we learn that a teenage Ted won over his wife, Christy (ne Suganthini), by spending 45 straight days laying under her bed. If you're enjoying this article, you'll love my daily morning newsletter, How To LA. One night, he. LAist.com/radio. Eventually Cambodians owned so many doughnut shops in California that they dominated the market, pushing Winchell's into second place. They barely talked to him. I ate the whole thing. ", Alice Gu's documentary, The Donut King, is available in the US now in theatres and online and will be coming to the UK in 2021, Listen to Ted Ngoy on Outlook: How the Donut King lost his crown (produced by Maryam Maruf), Ted Ngoy's autobiography is called The Donut King: the rags to riches story of a poor immigrant that changed the world. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Once, I said I would die if something happened to him, Christy said of her ex-husband. As word of Ted's success spread, Cambodian immigrants started seeking him out when they arrived in Southern California. [2][3][4], The Donut King was directed by Alice Gu, and is her first feature film. But within weeks he was back on a plane to Vegas. According to Tao, the servants caught on to Ted's presence after a few days but didn't say anything. Ngoy managed to escape just as Phnom Penh was falling and brought his wife, Suganthini, and their three children to America in the mid-1970s. But then one of Suganthini's servants appeared at his door with a reply. You will end up destroying the whole family and no more relationship with the world, just finished. Suganthini was terrified, but she let the stranger stay. Refugees who had sought his advice now avoided him, fearing he would ask for a loan. Bush, met former Presidents Reagan and Nixon, and urged other Asian immigrants to support the GOP. For a year and a half, I struggled with how I was going to get access to that Mission Viejo mansion. . One of their sons is a financial consultant; another is a computer-networking technician. [1], That's why I want to tell the world, "Do not gamble." Ted and a lot of the Asians who came aligned themselves with the Republican party. Ted became known as the Donut King - or Uncle Ted,. A daughter owns a 1950s-style hamburger restaurant in Orange County. Is there anything that you left on the cutting room floor that you still think about?There are a lot of things that I still think about on the cutting room floor. in Pasadena, His sponsor told him people will have their prejudices but they mean well. So Ngoy snuck into her family's heavily guarded compound and climbed through her bedroom window. [5], The film received 69/100 on Metacritic, receiving "generally favorable reviews. Huge numbers of Cambodian refugees were arriving in California. The doughnut king landed at LAX with $50 in his pocket. He began placing bets with Cambodian bookies on football and basketball games. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Key grant funding to help O.C. The Donut King comes out Friday, Oct. 30, online, and when you The Donut King: Directed by Alice Gu. After a year of running two shops they had saved $40,000 and Ted decided to expand. You see some of these families and their stores in The Donut King So I decided to change.". , to name a few outlets), but Alice Gu is the first to put it on film. I wanted to tell this story in a way that was inspirational and optimistic. Ngoy and his family enjoyed the fruits of their labor and at one point moved into a 7,000-square-foot mansion in Mission Viejo. A child of immigrants herself, she had become curious why Californian doughnut shops were so often run by Cambodians, and why there were so many of them. He co-signed loans for supplies and equipment. Ted Ngoy stands in front of his first independent donut shop in La Habra, named after his wife Christy Ngoy. Los Angeles Times It was hurtful. Ted began to look for more doughnut shops to buy and lease to fellow refugees. Even in gambling. Ted Ngoy stands in front of his first independent donut shop in La Habra, named after his wife Christy Ngoy. From the wall, he leaped onto the roof and crawled through an open window. , some of the dough (see what we did there?) He also apologised to many of those he hurt. I just do it.. "He's like, 'You know what? He built a donut empire and $20 million in wealth, but his fortune built on donuts would crumble and he would lose it all. After Ted revealed his presence to Christy, he hid under her bed until he was eventually discovered and her family allowed them be together. He said that we didnt have room for these refugees here. Oh, and stop for a donut and say "hi.". In our very first phone call, he asked if I was American and I told him that I was Chinese American. in Santa Monica. And he saw an opportunity. This 2020s documentary film-related article is a stub. Ngoy ended his political career abruptly in 2002, breaking with two powerful allies, the commerce minister and the head of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce. I just want to create as many as I can, he said. After cry, go back gambling.. Ted became known as the Donut King - or Uncle Ted, because of the many Cambodian immigrants he'd sponsored. He ran to the shop across the street where he bought a donut. Baby Yoda cocktails. "New documentary 'The Donut King' follows Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy's journey to multi-million dollar empire", "Review: A Shakespearean SoCal tragedy, 'The Donut King' charts the rise and fall of Ted Ngoy", "Director Alice Gu Wants You to Meet The Donut King", "The Donut King who went full circle - from rags to riches, twice", "Review: The Donut King, a sweet documentary that doesn't tell the hole truth", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Donut_King&oldid=1131760803, This page was last edited on 5 January 2023, at 16:51. It was really wonderful. Doughnut shops were easy to run. The donut business isnt easy. In the early 1970s, Cambodia was in the midst of a brutal civil war that displaced two million people, more than a quarter of the country's population. Chuong Lee, who has run DK's Donuts since 1988, is officially retired although she occasionally helps out at the shop. "I achieved my American dream," Ted says. I instantly found the Realtor, the listing agent and arranged to go and have Ted walk through his old house. It's so amazing, so touching.' Ngoy believes he is suffering Gods punishment for having betrayed the blood vow he made as a young man under the moonlight in Phnom Penh. No days off. the Suganthinis father ran out from hiding and called an ambulance. Along with thousands of other Cambodian refugees, the Ngoys ended up at Camp Pendleton. "That's why I want to tell the world, 'Do not gamble.' In this condensed and edited conversation, Gu talks about the American dream, Cambodian American Republicans, 1970s Orange County and the best donut she ate during filming. Her name was Suganthini Khoeun. Chuong Lee Tao passed down DKs Donuts in Santa Monica to her daughter Mayly Tao, who updated the shop with a vast menu and a worldwide social media following. They both drank and vowed to be faithful. Ted Ngoy, who was known as the doughnut king, lives in Phnom Penh. He had gotten his first taste of that passion years earlier. And that's what he did. He had hidden a dagger and he took it out and stabbed himself three times. Beautiful views aren't the only thing drawing Angelenos to the region. Driving back with $85,000 cash in the boot of the car, they were stopped by the police; they had fallen behind with payments, so the car showed up as stolen. When you first reached out to Ted, it was a cold call. Eager to learn the business, Ngoy approached the shop owners. One day in 2018, she cold-called He was ready to be taken by a new passion. [8] However, the film's directorAlice Gupersuaded him to and, ultimately, he regarded his return as a 'healing experience,' and his ex-wife and children have forgiven him. Christy has remarried and lives in Lake Forest, not far from their three adult children, who all live in Orange County. That same year, President Gerald Ford signed the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, allowing 130,000 people from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to come to the U.S. California's Governor at the time, Jerry Brown, opposed the move, saying, in a clip that's featured in The Donut King, "When we have a million people out of work, when we have our own people taxed to the hilt, I'm just very slow to just open the floodgates and say come on in unless we provide a way to put Americans to work.". When he was working in the donut shop, he went to his sponsor and said he was having a hard time. Next to the petrol station there was a doughnut shop called DK Donuts. Ngoy doesnt remember how many stores he started or bought -- 40? "It went like fire on the hill, so fast," says Ted. [9], Ngoy is the subject of the 2020 documentary film The Donut King. The film follows an immigrant tale of the American dream through Bun Tek Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian refugee whose charmed life is full of war, romance, entrepreneurship, racism and a caution about greed. Read about our approach to external linking. I cry. He hired his wife and nephew. He hosted Dan Quayle and Pete Wilson at his house. Gu first needed to find Ted Ngoy but she had no idea how to do it. He became tired running doughnut shops on his own and decided to train and lease shops to his relatives and employ Cambodian refugees. One night in a pouring rain, Ngoy scaled a coconut tree beside the wall surrounding her home. Ngoy became a trainee and took over a Winchells in Newport Beach. [6] Gu persuaded him to and, ultimately, he regarded his return as a 'healing experience,' and his ex-wife and children have forgiven him. And I thought, How could that be? Hes passed away now so I cant talk to him about it, but it was a learning experience for me about my parents relationship with politics. One of the tricks he learned was to bake doughnuts in small batches throughout the day to keep them fresh - and because the smell of baking was the best form of advertising. Upon deeper glance, it was so personal for me. Heres a list, Greek transportation minister resigns over train collision as death toll keeps rising, Ohios senators to unveil rail safety bill in wake of East Palestine derailment, After months of pounding, Ukrainian official says military may pull back from Bakhmut, Elizabeth Holmes cites her new baby as a reason she should avoid prison for Theranos scam. The family members worked 17 hours a day and saved for a year. He left behind his new wife and their two children, and what he had seen as his last chance at redemption. By 2005, after a failed political career in Cambodia, Ngoy was penniless and living on the porch of a fellow Parkcrest Christian Church parishioner's mobile home. She would discover big losses, and they would argue, sending their children running to their rooms. Then he opened his first independent shop in La Habra, eventually covering the rest of O.C. Over the last few years, Tao has rebranded the shop with a colorful, hot pink logo and experimented in the kitchen, producing eye-catching, Instagram-friendly creations and original flavors. "He was afraid of being shunned and feeling lonely - but I forced him!" It took longer than 40 years. They wont trust you, he said. The next day, he flew back to Los Angeles. In most of America there's an average of about one doughnut shop for every 30,000 people - in LA, there's one for every 7,000 people. It actually made national, if not international, news about the kindness of these people in Orange County. "If I need the vote, I cannot gamble. Her daughter, Mayly Tao, has taken over the reigns of DK's. He wrapped the note around a stone, and threw it down. One night he asked the woman at the counter if saving $3,000 would be enough to buy a doughnut shop. Abcarian: Mask mandates? Cambodia was poor and under-developed after years of war. Filmmaker Alice Gu (left) poses with Mayly Tao outside DK's Donuts in Santa Monica. He credits his Christian faith with finally curing his gambling addiction, although he confesses he liked to bet on football games until last year. But Cambodians were leaving the business, tired of working 17-hour days and squeezing a 13-cent profit from every 65-cent doughnut. About 30 Christys Doughnuts were still in operation, as were hundreds of other Cambodian-owned doughnut shops. Ngoy asked to visit. When you hook up with gambling, your life's finished. Mag's Donuts LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. Hes friends with Dana Rohrabacher. Her brother-in-law, Sutsakhan Sak, was chief of police and would become, briefly, the countrys president. Ted Ngoy, his wife and family pick up the story and walk us through their unbelievable experience, flying to a . The Donut King is a 2020 American documentary film which tells the life story of California donut shop owner Ted Ngoy. "After cry, go back gambling," he told one interviewer. Ted Ngoy was a high school student in Phnom Penh when he first set eyes on Suganthini Khoeun, the daughter of a high-ranking government official. "[7] In a positive review, Richard Whittaker with The Austin Chronicle said that "Gu does stellar work compiling and constructing Ngoys life story through interviews and archive and contemporary footage," and added "the animation sequences by Chapeau Studios and 1881 Animation that make the perfect drizzle of icing. He subsists on small handouts from friends. Then I went to America, Ngoy said, and created the doughnut world.. Their fairy tale romance is so distant, she said, its as if it happened to someone else. I'm no good. People love her and shes beautiful. I am the flute player, he said in a note passed through the familys maid. They pricked their fingers and squeezed drops of blood into a cup of water. That was super mind blowing for me to hear the political flip-flop and really insightful about another time when politics were more civil and there could be discussion. Ngoy showed them baking and bookkeeping. Upon his return to Orange County, Ngoy began gambling harder than ever stating "Monks cannot help me, Buddha cannot help me. Ted Ngoy By 1985, 10 years after arriving in the US as refugees, Ted and Christy were millionaires, owning around 60 doughnut shops. He formed the Free Development Republican Party (ahead of the countrys UN-backed elections), believing that he could show others the path to wealth and hoping that being a politician might stymy his gambling addiction. 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These are kids who are American educated. He tasted his first donut at a Tustin gas station, trained as a baker in a La Mirada Winchells and ran his own Winchells store in the Balboa Peninsula. The entire family Christy and the three kids worked alongside him. Ted soon got a job working at Winchell's, which was then the dominant donut chain on the West Coast. Where Im going, I dont know. He landed in LA with less than $100 in his pocket - all the money he had left. He sat on the roof of his apartment and played his flute, the music sweeping over the neighborhood. These are all people who present day you dont associate with welcoming refugees with open arms. I never will be able to pay back. He took a chance and opened a bedroom door - and there was Suganthini, fast asleep. At 16, she had no friends, could not talk to boys and was forbidden to leave home alone. Ngoy would open more shops and lease them to fellow refugees. "Before I'd never gambled, but like all the compulsive gamblers in the world, first you throw in a couple of bucks, $10, $20. Which donut shop do you find yourself going back to for the sake of eating a donut?I had my out of body experience at DKs Donuts and Bakery in Santa Monica. Was there any tension or awkwardness when he visited California again?He came to visit California, I think, with a little bit of trepidation. Ted Ngoy was born in Sisophon, Cambodia. Los Angeles Times To make sure he went through with it, they insisted on hiding behind a curtain while he said his spiel. Theres this portion in the film that goes into Ted and his ex-wife Christys experiences in Orange County during the 70s. Ted was the consummate schmoozer and salesman. Ted Ngoy had served in the Cambodian army as a major fighting communists that were trying to take over that country's government in the 1970s. [5], Ngoy was hesitant to return to California for the film; he was estranged from his children and former friends. Christy would search for him in the casinos, the children in tow. Ted negotiated well and got a good commission. Ngoy joined the army. Hes really funny. Suganthini and her mother heard the music. He lobbied his contacts in the Republican inner circle, including Senator John McCain, and MFN status was granted permanently in 1996. On one of his Las Vegas trips, Ngoy took up gambling. Yes, you read that right. I'm not famous. Ted encouraged others to do the same. "It was a different take on a refugee story,". Ngoy is Cambodian and he was in Phnom Penh when it fell. In a year Ted had saved enough to put down a deposit on a second doughnut shop, a "mom-and-pop" shop called Christy's. Over the next few years, he went back every month or so, seeing Tom Jones, Diana Ross and Wayne Newton -- and betting ever-larger sums. Suganthini became the smiling face behind the counter, even though she hardly spoke any English. Ted Ngoy has become a stranger even to himself. More and more relatives came forward for sponsorship. Still penniless, after nearly four years of exile, Ted flew back to Cambodia. Oklahoma-style smash burgers and Georgian dumplings make for some excellent cheap bites in Glendale, Husband and wife Felix Agyei and Hazel Rojas combine food from their heritages, creating a marriage of West African and Filipino cooking. Never surrender. "But what shall we do in the morning? ", "I was like, 'What on earth makes this Cambodian? Cambodia was planning its first elections in 1993, and well-to-do emigres from California were returning to run for office. Over four years nearly two million Cambodians were either executed, or died of starvation, disease and overwork. "And she says, 'Because Cambodian people make them.'". She was lucky that Mayly Tao, whose mom, Chuong Lee, owns the shop, answered the phone. He would have no more donuts to sell so he could be with his wife for the rest of the day. Then he flew to a monastery in the Thai countryside. "'You want to tell my story? Former staff writer Vera Castaneda covered arts, entertainment, lifestyle and issues related to Orange County for TimesOC, a community newspaper owned by the Los Angeles Times. We were taxed to the hilt, unemployment was high and he was very reluctant to give refugees a home here when Californians were out of work. At the weekend the oldest children, Chet and Savy, then nine and eight, helped out by pouring coffee, packing doughnuts and folding boxes. Theyre savvy, young, hip. That is because I had a buttermilk bar about 30 seconds out of the fryer with fresh glaze on it. buy a ticket He helped them apply for permits. "Using money to provide for others is a feeling as powerful as any drug," he later wrote. 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