Lunch Box
Frank ShyongLunch Box is about food, travel, and food that travels. Before this I was a columnist, podcast host and reporter at the LA Times for 12 years.
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Back then in the 2010’s
The firmware of the integrated GPS in my 2015 Prius has never been updated, and sometimes I catch myself staring into the ancient touch screen that I have to hammer with my fingers, wondering why things felt so different back then in 2010’s...
A Hindu mandir in Chino Hills fights for the right to height
Plus: a Gujarati thali, a data dive into the four-county area's South Asian population and a recipe for Mexican Indian tacos fit for offering to the gods.
Dear readers,
Lunch Box Letter #11: What I've learned from the garden
I haven’t finished the temple cuisine series yet (look for it Sunday!). But I am plucking the damaged green tomatoes to spurn the caterpillars and making salads of them with aromatic, flowering Thai basil, salt, sugar and lemon juice. I sea...
Thai temple food courts explode the suburban imagination
CHINO HILLS — The Tom Yum noodle soup at Wat Phrathat’s weekly food court glows with neon red chili oil that rapidly stains my chopsticks, and the plastic receptacle begins to tremble in my hand.
I love nothing so much as a bowl of noodles...
Temple cuisine in the far east San Gabriel Valley
Thanks to everyone who participated in the poll for paid subscribers to decide the next Lunch Box story arc. This is a story from the option that got the most votes. There was a lot to cover so Part 2 comes next and covers tom yum noodles a...
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Journalist, most recently as columnist/reporter for the LA Times, where I also helped create the podcast Asian Enough. Wrote the story behind the film "Rosemead." Writings and illustrations on food, culture, neighborhoods & diaspora.
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