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Food & Drink
T: New York Times Style Magazine: In Los Angeles, an Indian Chinese Feast Celebrating Female Founders
Los Angeles Times: How a Black farmers market became an incubator for new businesses
The Washington Post: The pandemic hit undocumented restaurant workers hard. These bartenders swooped in to feed them.
Food & Wine: An Appalachian Witch Forager on the Magic of Plants
Bon Appétit: One Teaspoon of This CBD Honey and It’s Lights Out
Los Angeles Times: When kids open restaurants for their parents
Eater LA: Why Dry-Aged Fish Is Everything Everywhere All at Once in LA
Los Angeles Times: Should we be eating bluefin tuna?
Los Angeles Times: Where to find the best Chinese doughnuts in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times: How a new generation of Jewish delis and bagel shops is sharing trade secrets
Los Angeles Times: Can canned craft cocktails make the world a better place?
Los Angeles Times: Artist challenges notions of authenticity, re-creating Western grocery items that ‘feel’ Asian
Eater LA: Sea Harbour Chef Tony He Is the Godfather of LA Dim Sum — And He Knows It
Los Angeles Times: The seeds of a mobile Black farmers market are sprouting
Los Angeles Times: Redefining their Korean American identity through a new deli
Eater LA: This Group Is Quietly Helping Immigrant-Run Restaurants Shine Online
Los Angeles Times: A Chinatown market celebrates new and old Asian staples
Los Angeles Times: A kids show gives love to Japanese food history in Boyle Heights
Vice/Munchies: A Treasure Trove of Forgotten 70s Liquor Was Discovered in an Old LA Rock Venue
Heated/Medium: A Love Letter to Plain Rice Congee
KCET-TV: The Decades-Long Evolution of Thai Cuisine in Los Angeles
KCET-TV: Vietnamese Immigration and Its Culinary Influence on the United States
Personal Essays
Awards
James Beard Foundation Media Awards 2023: Nominated in Personal Essays Without Recipes for my Los Angeles Times piece, “How these Chinese doughnuts helped save my refugee family”
LA Press Club’s 2019 Southern California Journalism Awards: Second place in lifestyle feature online for my KCET story, “The Decades-Long Evolution of Thai Cuisine in Los Angeles”
LA Press Club’s 2018 Southern California Journalism Awards: Second place in in travel reporting in all media platforms (print, radio, TV and online) for my KCET story, “The Fascinating History of the Massive Pyramid and Granite Monuments in the California Desert”