Lunch Box
Frank ShyongLunch Box contains stories that start with food and end up elsewhere. It’s a traveling newsletter based in Los Angeles, with essays, reviews, guides and more. Before this I was a columnist, podcast host and reporter at the LA Times for 12 years.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 39 | Subscribers | Read | frankbear.substack.com |
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One year of Lunch Box
The brief-lived peak there at the end is from when I discovered my mom had subscribed 10 times and refunded her. (yes, I have since explained stripe fees)
Lunch Box Letter #5: Asians on Love is Blind, establishment media, toilets in public, comedians in politics
Please treat this newsletter like one of those fridge-clearing meals that moms make, because we have food at home and one dollar sign restaurants on Google cost $30 these days.
Let protests be cringe
You can always rely on a pundit to complain that today’s protests are disorganized - with vague demands, no real political targets, clashing slogans, incoherent arguments, too much violence, bad follow up, unserious hats, no leaders.
The Lunch Box Atlas: Sandwiches in Los Angeles
People don’t think of Los Angeles as a sandwich town. They’re wrong, but there are a lot of bad LA takes out there, and eventually you learn to just leave them and yourself in peace.
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Journalist, most recently as columnist/reporter for the LA Times, where I also helped create the podcast Asian Enough. Writings on food, culture, neighborhoods and diaspora.
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