Han, and Chin Sung. Later his wife quit her steady job in Taiwan, entrusted their children to the care of Lee's parents, and joined Lee in New York. The couple opened a Chinese restaurant in Soho, which was then a low-rent haven for starving artists.
後來他叫太太辭去台灣穩定的工作，並將孩子放在台灣請父母代為照顧，夫妻倆就在當時藝術家聚集，房租便宜的蘇活區開了一家中餐廳。