(upbeat music) - The grocery store was open on 2015.

And we added the Nepali Kitchen on 2018.

(upbeat music) My name is Krishna Rai.

I am from Bhutan.

I was born in Bhutan.

I lived there for like six years with my parents.

It was pretty remote.

I never saw any kind of a car, or a buses, or train.

Never seen any TV or internet.

(soft music) We never had electricity in the refugee camp.

Our life was very, kind of, poor and miserable.

We have like 11 members in a family, living under the same roof.

The hut was made of bamboo.

We lived there for like 20 years.

(soft music) I used to think that, "Why I was born in Bhutan?

Why not in America?"

My thought was like, "It's a great country, all tall buildings, all blacktop road, all mens are very rich."

That was my imagination when I was back in Nepal.

(gentle music) Is from Nepal.

We use this for the, in the cooking.

This is a bamboo shoot.

It's a banana is stem.

We call this one Karela in Nepali, and we added the Nepali Kitchen on 2018.

The main idea was like, giving the taste of our food to the, to our different customers.

The taste we have here's, is it's authentic, because of the mix of the spices, is a different, different taste.

When the people order the food here, we found out that they were happy.

They were positive about us.

(upbeat music) Buying a house in America was kind of a dream came true, because back in Nepal, we never had a house.

So when I came to America, I work hard.

I save the money, and then I bought a house on 2015.

It was great, is great.

My hopes and dreams for the futures are like I have a two, two daughters.

So, I have to make a future secure for them.

They can be whatever they like.

When I asked them, to my daughters, the first daughter she wanna be a doctor.

She wanna be a nurse, because she wanna help people.

And I ask second daughter, "What do you wanna be?"

She's really say, she wanna be a firefighter.

(hand slap) Being American is a great achievement for me.

I think that America is a land of opportunity.

Anybody can do a better, and then they spend their better life, if they then work hard.

(soft music fades)