One of the Coast’s most popular chefs forced to close restaurant over health issues
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- Scott Khong closes Ocean Springs restaurant due to medical issues.
- He is trying to sell the restaurant to help pay for treatment and preserve it.
- Khong hopes to teach at-home sushi lessons after he recovers.
He had hoped to keep his South Mississippi restaurant open until he could find a buyer, but now Chef Scott has become too ill to continue.
The owner of Cheff Scott’s Asian Cuisine restaurant on U.S. 90 in Ocean Springs, Scott Khong, posted in late November that he was ill and needed to sell the business to pay for treatment.
“Unfortunately, I have been suffering for sometime with some medical issues that I need procedures done,” he said. “Regrettably, that means I will have to close my restaurant due to the financial burden and extensive recovery period.”
He reduced his hours and kept working two more months, but on Saturday, while he was at the restaurant feeding the lunch customers, his medical situation turned grave.
Khong said he’s unable to work any longer, until he gets the medical treatment he needs.
He is still trying to sell the restaurant, which he operates out of the leased building, and is optimistic he can make another comeback when he is healthy again.
In 2021, he closed his thriving restaurant in Ocean Springs to care for his teenage son, who was undergoing treatment for Leukemia.
Two years later, with his son cancer-free, he opened a small restaurant on Thorn Avenue and again began preparing the sushi for which he is best known. He moved to the current location when the much-larger location became available at 803 Bienville Blvd.
Now he’s hoping to sell his restaurant business to someone who is as charmed by Ocean Springs as he was. Khong was a renowned sushi chef at South Beach in Miami when he visited the Coast and ultimately moved to South Mississippi.
Khong said he has profit documentation to show a prospective buyer, who can message him through his Facebook page., along with a strong reason to sell quickly.
Once he recovers from his medical issues, Khong hopes to come to people’s homes and teach them how to prepare the best sushi — “like me,” he said.
