When Sunny Kaminski moved to Michiana from her small Korean village nearly 30 years ago, she decided to take a chance and open up her own restaurant.

"Ever since I was a little girl, I was always interested in cooking," she said.

After getting married and moving to the U.S., that passion would one day lead her to open up her own restaurant called Sunny's.

She knew how to create great dishes but struggled on the business side of things until one day, a conversation with a customer changed everything.

"Our customer tasted this teriyaki sauce with an appetizer and said, 'Sunny, you have to bottle this!' but I didn't know how," Kaminski said with a laugh.

She went to the phone book and found a company that sold beer bottles. Soon, she began selling her beloved family recipes out of those bottles, and they became an instant hit.

Twenty-seven years later and a change in packaging, Kaminski has turned a small Korean restaurant into a thriving business, selling a wide range of products to local supermarkets and restaurants like Temper Grille in downtown South Bend.

"All of these are vegan. I also have a kimchi, and all the Martin's stores carry it," said Kaminski.

What makes Kaminski's products and dishes unique is her commitment to using healthy, organic ingredients, many of which are grown in Kaminski's own garden.

"I don't use anything but simple things like salt, pepper, sugar and oil," she explained.

Kaminski says she never could have dreamed that her love of cooking would turn into what it has.

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