Food scout for Netflix’s Street Food: USA; contributor to James Beard award-winning news outlet L.A. Taco; and contributor to Fodor’s Los Angeles guidebook. Below are my recent and favorite reported stories and essays.

FOOD

L.A. Taco - Memorializing the last sesame mill in Koreatown
Eater - The Korean fascination with Portmeirion’s Botanic Garden plates
LAist - On Los Angeles’ first AYCE Korean barbecue restaurant
Life & Thyme - Chef Akira Hirose’s homecoming, Azay
Secret Menu - A profile on chef Kwang Uh and Mina Park (of Baroo fame)

CULTURE

Impulse Magazine - A review of Apple TV+’s documentary The Last of the Sea Women
Vulture - The glorious pointlessness of Netflix’s Physical: 100
COLORS - Birding during wildfire season
Eater L.A. - The future of night markets as organized by third culture groups
Cultured Magazine - Five Asian women in the arts shaping L.A.’s art world
PAPER - Queer mahjong reclamation with East Never Loses
Vice - Mahjong parties as the new generation’s third space
Dirt - The “Airbnb horror” movie genre

POLITICS

Teen Vogue - Why young people don’t care about the Olympics
Prism Reports - How Compton Community Garden fought to save the one and only people-wered garden in Compton
National Geographic - Sites and exhibits to learn about Asian American history