San Francisco Chronicle • 14th February 2021 The Last Stand of SF Chinatown's Storied Banquet Halls These restaurants have been Chinatown’s heart and soul. What happens to San Francisco if they disappear?
San Francisco Chronicle • 31st August 2020 To Survive the Pandemic SF Chinatown Has to Adapt — Again The coronavirus has brought a shrinking economy and renewed xenophobia to San Francisco’s Chinatown. But there’s hope for the neighborhood’s future in how it has weathered these problems in the past.
Resy • 24th August 2020 The Chinese American Dish That Isn't, Really Honey walnut shrimp breaks the rules.
San Francisco Chronicle • 31st October 2019 When Authenticity Means a Heaping Plate of Tex-Mex What does authentic mean, anyway, when cuisines migrate and adapt with people?
Longreads • 5th August 2019 Towards Chinatown Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.
Pacific Standard • 23rd January 2019 A Dinner Party on the Streets of Oakland for 500 People How the People's Kitchen Collective is preserving cultural memory through free meals.
Southwest: The Magazine • 1st April 2018 Counter Revolution My grandparents from China risked everything to start a humble grocery store in an unlikely place — and changed my family forever.
Eater • 14th November 2018 How Chef Chu’s Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Chinese Restaurant Since opening in 1970, Chef Chu’s has played host to tech elites and numerous heads of state
Popula • 16th July 2018 The Seed Stewards Farmer Kristyn Leach is empowering people of color to preserve their own agricultural history.
NPR • 15th March 2017 Chinatowns Across the Country Face Off With Gentrification Although the details may be different in each Chinatown, the results of rising numbers of white residents is the same: the displacement of low-income immigrants.
Vogue • 30th August 2017 Houston, a Love Letter I write this from California, 1,900 miles away from my hometown, as I watch the devastation of Hurricane Harvey unfold.
NPR • 29th April 2017 Walking In Their Footsteps at a Former Japanese Internment Camp I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place.
San Francisco Chronicle • 3rd January 2018 ‘They Don’t Know Us’: At Sama Uyghur Cuisine, Three Immigrants Recreate Their Native Foods How three strangers found each other to open a nine-table Uighur restaurant in a nondescript strip mall in Union City.
