Chef Nite Yun showcases flavors of her parents' home in new cookbook, 'My Cambodia'

Chef Nite Yun, who was born in a refugee camp and went on to become an acclaimed chef, discusses her debut cookbook, 'My ...
Robb Report

A Brutal Dictatorship Decimated Cambodia’s Culinary Heritage. This Self-Taught Chef Is Bringing It Back.

It should come as no surprise that the civilization that built Angkor Wat can also cook, but Khmer cuisine isn’t just unsung; it has been systematically erased. A millennium of cultural knowledge—an ...
Morning Call PA

Cambodian American chefs are finding success and raising their culture’s profile. On their terms

Chef Phila Lorn was not necessarily aiming for “quote-unquote authentic” Cambodian food when he opened Mawn in his native Philadelphia two years ago. So when he approached some Cambodian teen patrons, ...
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The Bay Area's most famous Cambodian chef releases dreamy debut cookbook

In 2009, Nite Yun went to Cambodia for the first time. At the famous Hindu temple Angkor Wat, she dropped acid, watched ancient carvings come to life and saw a vision of her life's purpose. By now, ...
ABC7

Cambodian restaurant week kicks off in Long Beach

Shlap Muan is a Cambodian restaurant combining chicken wings with Cambodian flavors. Shlap Muan means chicken wings in Khmer, a language spoken in Cambodia. "My 'Cambodian dirt' is my best selling ...
Eater

Khmai Cambodian Surprises by Revealing a Second More Casual Restaurant

Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. Chef Mona Sang is deep into preparations ahead of the hotly anticipated ...
Press-Telegram

Thai and Cambodian food have a loyal following at Crystal in Long Beach

Crystal has been around for about as long as I can remember. (Was it already open when Long Beach became a city?) It has a loyal cult following of regulars who keep the kitchen busy churning out ...
Wall Street Journal

Restaurateur Sam Ung, Who Had Survived Cambodia’s Killing Fields, Dies at 70

Nobody told Sam Ung how to cook. But he was watching. His parents ran Ung Hong Lee, a popular noodle restaurant in Battambang, Cambodia, that operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a child in ...
Westword

Horse & Tiger Is Serving Cambodian-American Comfort Food at Fort Greene

“I love the American culinary sense, so I just wanted to make something that’s Cambodian in essence, but make it very American,” says chef Viruth Cheng. When he launched Horse & Tiger out of the ...
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How Two Cambodian Men Catch and Cook a Wild Water Duck

After a full day of building, two Cambodian men head to the water for a well-earned meal. They spot a wild duck, skillfully catch it, and prepare it over an open fire using only primitive tools. This ...

Nite Yun showcases the flavors of her parent's home in new cookbook, 'My Cambodia'

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Nite Yun, who was born in a refugee camp and went on to become an acclaimed chef, about her debut cookbook, "My Cambodia." ...