Introducing “Off the Menu” with Director Grace Lee
byOff the Menu is a roadtrip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving community.
Off the Menu is a roadtrip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving community.
From remembering Tet traditions in Vietnam to Chinese “money dumplings,” here are some vivid Lunar New Year memories and traditions.
Kim Sunée (“A Mouthful of Stars”) shares her recipe for fresh kimchi.
We meet Hi’ile Kawelo who has made it her life’s work to restore an 800 year old fish pond that was once a food…
We travel to Houston, the fourth largest city in the US where Asians have been adapting cultural traditions to local tastes for generations. We…
We visit the Sikh Temple of Oak Creek, Wisconsin to participate in the lungar, a centuries-old practice of a communal meal, that is cooked…
French-trained chef Jonathan Wu and Wilson Tang, both Chinese American, have teamed up to open Fung Tu, a modern Chinese restaurant on New York’s…
“I think, as adoptees, we do learn early on to figure out, how do I make this person happy, rather than, how do I make myself happy. And often, perhaps, the reason for that is: if I make this person happy, this person will keep me.”