Bottomfeeder: Super Deli Mart's Strange Brew  Uncanny nostalgia
at Seattle's unlikeliest beer mecca.  When Min Chung was a boy
growing up in Burien, his father used to drag him across the
Sound to Vashon Island every weekend for fishing trips. Young
Chung would occasionally get cranky—"In Asian culture, the
youngest son has no say," he says. So in order to pacify him,
Chung's dad would stop for a snack at Hoagie's Corner on 35th
and Barton in West Seattle before making the final downhill
descent to the Fauntleroy ferry dock. As an adult, Chung moved
into a home within a mile of the former deli, which had gone
through subsequent incarnations as a 7-Eleven and a struggling
independent convenience store. A couple years ago, while driving
on 35th—a road dubbed "I-35" for its travelers' propensity to
far exceed the posted speed limit—Chung got in a car accident
right in front of the store. At the time, he was in talks with
7-Eleven to purchase and operate his own franchise. But fate had
suddenly reacquainted him w