The Kangs had been living in Alaska for about 20 years and had previously run the Fifth Avenue Deli in the food court of the Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall, Jieun Kang said. For the first eight years that her parents ran the Dimond Bar-B-Que Pit together, they wouldn’t show themselves at the front of the store out of fear that customers would think less of the food if they found out it was cooked by a Korean couple, she said.