Travel, Food & Culture Stories
A creative nonfiction journey through two immigrants’ journeys to the U.S. from Vietnam and Hong Kong, as written by their children: Brandon Dang and Melanie Loon. A Create-Your-Own-Adventure visit through heritage, co-written as part of Slant’d Magazine’s first writing incubator program for AAPI’s, Blank Page Revival.
A story about a simple dish from my childhood for “Ingrained” a series of stories about rice as community care, edited by Eda Yu and designed by Gentle Oriental (Gabrielle Widjaja).
Especially for grown children of immigrants, the pull between cultures rests in the hyphen between. Speaking for myself, that means Chinese and American. But now there’s a restaurant that speaks for me.
PDX marks the spot. Here are a few I recommend in a city that breathes fresh air and art that invites you to think.
A round-up of natural beauty/style products for travel.
Finding a few Danish cultural tenets hemming in and out of oft-discussed hygge.
One Danish summer reflecting on the discovery via black licorice, sunset garden parties, and those more well-traveled than yourself. (Darling Magazine, Fall 2017)