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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LBL #16: Celery Q&A, long form text vs short form video and rooting Venice celery at home
Photo by Gabriella Angotti-Jones, horribly cropped by me
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of watching a story make its way in the world and come to life. Thanks to all of you who made “Japanese Celery grows wild in Venice Beach” one of Lu...
Japanese celery grows wild in Venice Beach
Celery growing wild in Ballona Creek. Photo by Gabriella Angotti-Jones
I’ve been searching for Japanese celery growing wild in Venice Beach.
An herbalist mentioned spotting it on a nature walk in Ballona Creek. Some wetlands cleanup volun...
The donut shop vs the gym
I read this creative nonfiction piece at an event put on by KCRW's Good Food and Vanessa Anderson at Sabzee Market last night.
I read this creative nonfiction piece at an event put on by KCRW's Good Food and Vanessa Anderson at Sabzee Mark...
LBL #15: San Gabriel Valley dim sum and the median shumai
Five Star Seafood, now in the San Gabriel Hilton
Editor’s note: I’ve updated this piece to reflect the fact that I haven’t confirmed that local places serve frozen dim sum. This piece was about the persistent rumor of frozen dim sum, aimed...
LBL #14: The people you meet at night on a SoCal grunion run
Can you think of an L.A. dish that features seafood from the sea nearby? I couldn’t, despite living here for more than 2 decades, and I thought that was strange.
So I went on a search for local seafood and ended up at the grunion, a fish...
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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 the occasional illustrations on food, culture, neighborhoods & diaspora.
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