MENU Appetizers
Land Acknowledgment.........................6
What is SEAPF? ..................................8
Moving Forward.................................10
Cooking As Knowledge & Storytelling
Alex Wu
Pork and Shrimp Wontons
The Duck and the Goose...........14
Annie Nguyen
Spring Egg on Rice Day .....................................................24
Asia Torralba
Chicken Kelaguen
A Journey to Self: A Series of Poems and Stories ............................32
Astrid Nordenstrom
Filipino Spaghetti
Strawberry Shortcake: Sweet Dreams Start in a Happy Heart ...................40
Enoch Yip
Peking Duck
A Tale of Friendship and Peking
Duck: School Life at University of Washington Bothell ..........................48
Kenneth Ho
Thịt Kho Trứng (Braise Pork with Eggs)
Cherishing our Moments: A Letter about Time and Culture ...................56
Meili Priscilla Zhen
Cantonese-style Steamed Fish
From Guangzhou to Seattle with Love — A Story About Past Lives.......62
Puneet Birk
Cha
A letter to little me............84
Multiplicity & Mixed-Race Identity
Aisha Al-Amin
Candied Yams & Ful Medammes
Meditation on Blended Bloodlines ..........................90
Amar Lang (ke-ghay) Cham Curry
Ông & Curry: History of the Cham People ..........98
Andy Walker-Tran
Sundubu-Jjigae for an Estranged Mother
A Letter to my estranged mother.....110
Holly Zhang
Manchurian Dumplings & More
Finding Cultural Identity –A Letter to My Daughter, Sage H. Rivera ...............................118
Riley Esteban
Spam Musubi & More
Connecting with culture in unconventional ways .................130
RJ Chung
Potato Mac Salad A Home for Myself ..........................150
Food As Resilience & Resistance
Andrew Woolsey
Bai Mon (Chicken and Rice)
A Love That Never Wavers: My Grandmother ..............................156
Hazel Kaushik
Aloo Paratha (Potato Bread)
Letter to my mom, Gina ................172
Laura Yip
Nom Banh Chok
Flavors of Resilience: A Journey Through Khmer Cuisine and Identity ............................... 182
HEALING & Reclamation
Chelsey Ficke
Chicken Tinola, Bangsilog, Halo-Halo
Halo Halo ......................................222
Danielle Rose Catindig Garcia
Arroz Caldo
From the Kitchen of Danie Garcia: Kusina Kapamilya..........................234
Jennie HÀ
Peanut Brittle (Kẹo Đậu Phộng)
See You..........................................244
Kayla Truong
Phở Gà
Pages of My Past: A Diary of Cultural Reclamation...................250
Malivanh Rajsavong
Papaya Salad
Beauty Through My Mom’s Eyes ......194
Mia Guo Baerg 郭金阳
Tomato Egg Stir Fry 西红柿炒鸡蛋
Roots of Resilience: My Journey of Cultural Discovery...................202
Rachel Tojio
Tteok-guk
Holding on to Tradition ...............214
Acknowledgments..........................270
Leatha Dunkin Sticky Rice and Pork with Papaya Salad Memories Across Culture.................260
Sylvia Le Chè/Sago/Bubur Cha Cha, etc. A Cultural Love Letter To The Motherland..........................266
