People We Meet: Mei Ng

San Francisco CA

26 October, 2021

6:24 PM

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By Yujie Zhou, Mission Local October 26, 2021 When many in the Mission need their clothes altered, they rush to see Mei Ng. On a recent Monday, young techies and others who had just finished work for the day brought a burst of traffic at Young's Cleaners & Alterations on Mission Street near Sycamore Street, a sliver of a store, lined inside with machines and pegboards filled with spools of thread. They came with their ill-fitting jackets, jeans that needed hemming , and tops cut too low. It's not uncommon for a customer to bring in a whole pile of clothes in need of alteration to Ng and her "ladies," who deftly operate the row of sewing machines against the wall. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.