Jean Trinh
Jean Trinh is a food and entertainment writer, whose work has appeared in VICE, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, GOOD and The Daily Beast. Previously, she was the Deputy Editor at LAist, and once landed the prestigious role as a judge for a bacon festival cook-off.
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People of Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese origin make up the largest Asian groups in the U.S., but growing communities of Bhutanese, Nepali, Burmese, Malaysians and Sri Lankans have contributed to the astonishing growth of Asians in America. We talk to them about the struggles and successes of navigating an unfamiliar country.
Once a month, the Home Town Buffet in Santa Ana becomes a meeting spot for the engineers who built spacecraft that sent mankind to the moon and beyond.
Once a month, Home Town Buffet becomes a meeting spot for engineers who built Apollo spacecraft.
Broguiere’s, known for its old-timey glass bottles filled with creamy milk, hand-mixed chocolate milk and seasonal eggnog, has been a fixture in Montebello. It's one of the last vestiges of our local dairy industry, but that’s changing rapidly.
While Los Angeles’ Thai Town may be diminutive in size, only occupying a half-mile stretch in East Hollywood, its existence has been symbolic and influential in Thai culture on a much grander scale, locally and transnationally.
Restaurant critic Jonathan Gold was a generous man who helped uplift small businesses and the every man, as well as someone who was more than willing to share his wealth of knowledge about not only food but L.A. and the arts.
When you take road trips and consider art — rather than the cities — as the main attraction, the journey brings about a transformative experience. Here are some road trips to take in the name of art.
There are many thriving Vietnamese communities in the United States which are also flourishing as culinary destinations.
Tijuana-based artist collective, Dignicraft, gives depth to indigenous Purépecha piñatas artisans and their painstaking craft.
It’s not often that artworks that emerge out of community activism and social practices get center stage in art galleries, which makes the latest exhibit at Otis College of Art and Design a particularly unique and poignant one.
The drive from California to the Arizona border on Interstate 8 can be an uneventful one, until you reach a 21-foot, pink-granite pyramid curiously erected in the Sonoran Desert that marks the “Center of the World.”
There’s a growing entrepreneurial drive that’s galvanizing restaurateurs to open up shop in L.A. neighborhoods at risk or in the midst of gentrification. If they do it right, however, owners can help lessen the negative effects that come with that change.