A plate of Thai-Chinese style pork and rice. Photo credit: Quincy Surasmith
The past several months of pandemic have been really hard on all of us, and have kept a lot of us at home. For those of us that can afford to, that means a lot of finding solace in taking care of ourselves and others with some comforting meals.
This is the first of two episodes about Asian American comfort foods: the traditions we’ve passed down in our families, as well as the adaptations and substitutions different communities have picked up along the way.
You can listen to part two here!
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I present to you: the Weiner dinner, a Migaki family staple. Invented by my grandmother when she was was raising 3 kids with no money. Cut up hot dogs, potatoes, soy sauce + sugar served over rice.
Asian-American fusion at its humblest and finest. A comforting meal always. pic.twitter.com/w6YVAcMmzL
Check out Lauren Migaki’s original tweet and picture of the Migaki family “Weiner dinner.” This was the post that set this whole episode in motion!
Learn more about Kelly Fong and Clement Lai’s community cookbook research project on their blog, Chinese American Homestyle Cooking.
The Stockton cookbook Kelly’s family owned:Treasured Recipes from Two Cultures–American and Chinese. Photo credit: Kelly Fong
From VAALA’s website:
The Illuminated Recipes project’s purpose is to contribute to diversifying the story of the Vietnamese American refugee experience and the larger American immigrant narrative through the mediums of storytelling and oral history, photography, and mixed media art with food as the compelling connection.VAALA’s Illuminated Recipes project can be found on the VAALA website.
Music from this episode included:
Jason Chu ft. Olivia Thai - Grandma’s Kitchen
David Tran aka applesauce - Song for Mom
Peter Su - Before You Get Too Old
023 - Changing Places, New Spaces (from Mid Pacific)
Books & Boba - from the Potluck Podcast Collective
Asians in Baseball - from the Potluck Podcast Collective
022 - Whose Chinatown? (from A Better Life?)
021 - I Want To Stay Here, Just Not Forever (from A Better Life?)
020 - Searching For Solace (from A Better Life?)
019 - Country Music for a Baan Nok Boy
018 - Fifth Anniversary
017 - Until it Happened To Us
016 - Comfort Food, part 2
014 - Kala Bagai
013 - That's Just The Way The Ball Bounces
012 - Letters for Black Lives
011 - Helpers in the Time of Coronavirus
010 - What We Inherit: Marie Kondo and the Security of Stuff
009 - Facial Hair
008 - Dawn Mabalon Is In The Heart
007 - Claudia Kishi
006 - Filipino American Podcasts
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