Helen’s dad and mom, Peter and Briggita, opened Mee Sing in 1965, the yr they obtained married. Peter fled communist China along with his household and grew up in Hong Kong. Lots of Peter’s buddies had been shifting to Australia, however the younger retail employee could not afford it. Sooner or later in 1961 he received the bingo jackpot, purchased a ticket to Australia and arrived in Sydney with $20 in his pocket. Briggita’s household got here from Lithuania, and the unlikely pair met whereas working in a restaurant.