Chef beaten in Chinatown has now awoken from coma
Renowned suburban chef Jin Lew is out of a coma after being beaten and left for dead following a carjacking last month.
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Chef beaten in Chinatown wakes up from coma
Renowned suburban chef Jin Lew is out of a coma after being beaten and left for dead following a carjacking last month.
Chef Jin Lew out of coma weeks after being carjacked, brutally beaten in Chinatown
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Jin Lew's family reported him missing late last week – and it wasn't until they started calling around to local hospitals that they found him badly beaten.
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