Ly San spent six years interviewing elderly Cambodians to recover the country's lost Khmer recipes. He now hopes to re-educate Cambodians about their traditional food culture. It was while studying in ...

The tuk-tuk rattled over a rough dirt road, jarring my bones, finally stopping when the road turned and seemed to disappear near a stream. The driver motioned for me to climb out. I hesitated. I had ...

Sarom Sieng did not want her daughter trapped in the church kitchen, cooking curry and egg rolls her whole life. “She wanted me to be happy and fulfill my dream and not be stuck trying to make a ...

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When Nite Yun cooks, she's telling her family's story. The Cambodian-American chef, best known for her restaurant Lunette in San Francisco, has long used food to honor her parents' country. But as she ...

Nite Yun has no memories of the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp in Thailand where she was born in 1982. The chef and owner of Nyum Bai in Oakland, California, a restaurant that has attracted national ...

Cambodian cuisine may not be as renowned as Thai cuisine but that doesn’t mean it is any less significant. Putting a spotlight on the rich heritage of Cambodian cuisine, Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor ...

When Thai restaurants started popping up around Hollywood some four decades ago, most had signs that described them as either “Thai-Chinese” or “Chinese-Thai.” Siamese cooking was little known back ...