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For the 24 million Asian Americans whose experiences, perspectives, and communities are underrepresented everywhere else.
Houston’s Vietnamese restaurants reflect the third-largest Vietnamese American population in the country. Here’s where to eat: from a Bib Gourmand newcomer to the cash-only pho joints locals have lined up for since 1983.
The best Japanese American restaurants Los Angeles has to offer span a range no other American city can match, a fact inseparable from the city having the largest Japanese American population in the United States. They cover the widest spectrum: from the oldest surviving Japanese American neighborhood in the country in Little Tokyo, to a…
K-pop has conquered American music in one of the most improbable stories in the history of the industry. A genre built on the systematic manufacturing of pop perfection, training programs that last years, synchronized choreography, visual aesthetics governed by very specific standards should not have crossed cultural lines that have historically been nearly impermeable. That…
The Asian American family business is one of the most consequential and least examined institutions in American economic life. The dry cleaning shop, the restaurant, the convenience store, the nail salon, the motel. These are not merely businesses. They are survival strategies, community anchors, vehicles for intergenerational wealth transfer, and sites of enormous complexity for…
Knicks-Spurs is back. Linsanity returns to Madison Square Garden, this time at the broadcast desk. A lifelong Knicks fan and Taiwanese American writes on the night that compresses three things he’s waited his whole life to see.
The technology industry has a specific version of the bamboo ceiling. Asian Americans are dramatically overrepresented in technical roles at major technology companies — making up a significant share of engineering, product, and data science teams at Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon — and dramatically underrepresented in the executive and board roles that set…
The three-time Emmy winner is back with an interactive murder mystery that runs on AI — and is forcing the entertainment industry to figure out what AI storytelling can responsibly look like.
The dating-app experience for Asian American men is a specific kind of bad — not in ways the data fully captures, but in ways most of them recognize on sight.
Los Angeles has the largest Korean American population outside of Korea, and Koreatown — the dense, extraordinary neighborhood at the heart of the city — is the culinary center of that community. The best Korean restaurants Los Angeles are not just good Korean restaurants. They are some of the best restaurants of any kind in…
Everything Everywhere All at Once did not just win awards. It won them in a way that felt, to many Asian American viewers, like a kind of recognition that had never quite arrived before. The film swept the 2023 Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best…
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The best boba shops Los Angeles has to offer span a range that no other American city can match — from the founders who turned boba into a national institution to the Taiwanese tea houses taking the drink back toward craft. Los Angeles has the deepest relationship with boba of any American city. The drink…