Now she has taken that vision and opened her own very pink business. She opened the Little Miss Sunshine with its bright pink walls by JCPenney inside the Apache Mall on Dec. 22.

Little Miss Mao will be open daily from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., with brunch service eventually to come, at 2635 Gallatin Pike, directly across from Cahal Avenue in East Nashville.

My mom, who everybody calls Miss Ha, was really the star of the show," she said of those days. In early 2020, the Hudgins launched the original Little Miss Ha restaurant in Mount Pleasant, S.C.