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.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 62 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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LBL #10: AI billionaire accelerationists perform alarm about a permanent underclass
AI billionaire accelerationists are wearing such heroic furrowed brows over the poverty their wealth-creation will cause! Yet I cannot find it within myself to swoon.
Last I checked we already have a permanent underclass created by tech di...
LBL #9: millennial dreams; hotel dim sum as recession indicator; Chinatown mystery box; choose my next story
Paid subscribers can vote on which story I take on next
I grew up convinced that pursuing your dreams was the most important thing you could possibly do with your life.
Baker's Drive-thru, the IE chain that connects Taco Bell, Del Taco, McDonald's and Wienerschnitzel
Far eastern Los Angeles County is where car culture has achieved something like total victory. There are no less than 30 drive-thru’s within a 2 mile radius of my home. If you search “salad” here, Google Maps just laughs at you and pulls up...
Amtrak Coast Starlight "the most beautiful passenger train in the world"
why everyone talks to strangers on the train + a look at the fragile economics of the Amtrak dining car
Everyone talks to strangers on the Coast Starlight and I think it’s just physics. In the dining car, we are seated four to a booth in t...
Metrolink San Bernadino Line, The Arrow, Omnitrans #19,#66
For paid subscribers, I review two places recommended by Mike, an Omnitrans bus operator: Mitla Cafe and P & G Burger.
I crouch with my bike in a triangle of shade at the Montclair Station and watch the tracks shimmer in the heat. It’s 87...
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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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