Treat yourself to Koreanized Chinese food, a hybrid cuisine that keeps crossing borders.
By Kai Ma and Lola Pak Photograph by Eric Sueyoshi
Due to geographical proximity, migration, and a convoluted history that includes both kinship and war, the Koreans and Chinese have long engaged in the cultural exchange of ideas — and recipes. The delectable result: Korean Chinese food, a fusion cuisine of traditionally Chinese fare influenced by Korean ingredients, and vice versa.
A…
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By Soo Youn
It’s Friday night on L.A.’s Sunset Strip, famous for its trendy restaurants, clubs and legendary hotels where celebrities go to party — think Chateau Marmont and the nightclub Hyde — a technicolor US Weekly backdrop. But a small crowd of hipster literary types has gathered at Book Soup to hear Ed Park read a couple excerpts from Personal Days, his observant, satirical debut novel about the unfortunately familiar terrain of an office in limbo.
“George looks like he’s just come back from vacation…
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Story and photographs by Bill Stephens
When you think about pasttimes most identified with middle- and senior-aged Korean Americans, golf and karaoke immediately come to mind. But in recent years, ajushis and ajumas have been dancing to a…
Steve Sung, 23 Location: Tustin, Calif. Total winnings: $1,436,681
By Kai Ma
Steve Sung is so serious about poker that he and his friends rent houses outside the Las Vegas strip, two enormous dual-level abodes that sit in a neighborhood of suburban yuppies. For two months, this is home for Sung, 23, and his young, single, poker-playing comrades, all of whom roll out of bed for one reason only: to call bluffs at a nearby casino.
Both…
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By Andrew Jo
“You. How is Hong Kong?’
In many ways this question, posed to me at Lusaka’s Inner City Bus Terminal, followed by my reaction, illustrates my cultural experiences as an Asian American in Zambia.
For some, such a racial assumption might…
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