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at the family’s farms. Born in Spring Valley, California,
Moon was educated in Canton, China, and although he
was adept at cooking dishes from other areas of China, he
is said to have preferred the Cantonese cuisine.
In a 1974 interview with Florida Today, he talked about
his youth and his venture into the farming and restaurant
businesses.
“I was 14 years old when I realized no one was going to
look after me,” he is quoted as saying. “Within a few days
I had a job in a restaurant in Long Island. Not long after
that I went to work for my cousin who owned a very big
restaurant called ‘Lee’s Palace’ in Hempstead, N.Y.
“My first farming was learned in a greenhouse. I ran
one for a year while I was still in New York. Then, when I
came to Florida, I bought 120 acres in Fort Pierce.”
Over the decades, Moon Lueg and his family owned
three farms, two citrus groves, the Moon Garden restaurant
and about 20 homes in St. Lucie County. They also
owned properties in South Carolina, New York, New
Jersey and California.
Raymond says he worked on the farms, in the groves
and at the restaurant while he was attending school at St.
Anastasia. “I worked about 60 hours a week on the farms
and groves and as a dishwasher and janitor at the Moon
Garden.”
Raymond says his father used to come out to the parking
lot on his breaks from cooking and look at the license plates
on the cars. After discovering that many of the cars were
from Brevard County, Moon Lueg talked to his patrons and
found that many were working for NASA at Cape Canaveral.
They would make the nearly three-hour round trip to >>
ANTHONY INSWASTY
Raymond Lueg, the youngest of the eight Lueg children, entered the military
after high school. Honorably discharged after his service, he started a trucking
company, hauling products all over the United States. Now semi-retired, he
often takes to the road on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.