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Chef Jon Yao cooks two skewered, bite-sized pieces of fish over a smokey box. He's standing in a dark kitchen and his face is lit by a warm, orange light coming from beneath him.
Los Angeles' Kato Restaurant, where the dishes are edible mnemonic devices for Asian Americans, is an homage to Chef Jon Yao's Taiwanese heritage.
A table is prepared with various Lao dishes. The plate in the foreground is a papaya salad with Lao sausage and chicken. Behind it is a bowl of sukiyaki. To the left of the papaya salad is sticky rice nestled in a small woven basket and to the right is a plate of sakoo yut sai or tapioca dumplings. A bottle of beer also sits on the table.
Over forty years after his mother ran a sukiyaki shop at a refugee camp, Thip Soulisak prepares the same sukiyaki recipe and other family dishes with his Lao street food and noodle shop pop-up PhoLaoSouphy.
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Pirozhki is best known for its sweet or savory filling, egg-washed dome and pillowy dough. But pirozhki is more than that. It's a labor of love that transcends time.
Three pieces of ang to gue, a traditional savory pink peach-shaped rice dough, sit on a plate.
From local to global conflicts, Teochew people have survived generations of displacement through global migration, distinctive cuisine, and intergenerational storytelling.
Oysters on the grill at the Manila District in downtown Los Angeles.
With the coronavirus lockdown. the momentum of the Filipino food movement came to a screeching halt. Lauren Delgado and Rayson Esquejo felt they needed to do something. But they weren't sure how, at first.
A cup of ginjo sake paired with Tsubaki's kanpachi sashimi
Sake has existed for thousands of years. To help introduce and better understand this storied beverage, we turn to Courtney Kaplan, sommelier, sake aficionado and co-owner of restaurants Tsubaki and Ototo in Los Angeles.
Three dishes served Dolan's in Alhambra are goshnaan, a meat pie; manta, a steamed dumpling and big plate chicken, a kind of chicken stew served noodles.
A Uyghur restaurant in Los Angeles county uses food to bring attention to the genocide in Xinjiang.
A man casts a fishing line. Behind him is a gloomy, gray-blue sky. The man is wearing sunglasses with teal blue lenses and a bright yellow jacket.
For McBride, who goes by Captain Fred, fishing isn't just a job; it's a love story, one that reached back across centuries of Black African history.
Aaron Choi, owner of Girl and Dug Farm, tends to a crop in a large field.
Through its commitment to biodiverse farming practices and consumer education, Girl & Dug Farm offers a hopeful example for a healthy, flavorful and culturally diverse food system.
Mister Jiu's Waverly entrance | Courtesy of Mister Jiu's featured
Much of the restaurants in SF’s original Chinatown suffer from touristy mediocrity, but Chinatown’s deep community knows the neighborhood’s narrow streets contain a wealth of under-the-radar Chinese delicacies and flavors.
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