I wrote about the Bay Area’s Filipino pie lady—back after a year-long hiatus with a fresh set of pies for Thanksgiving. www.kqed.org/arts/1398341...

We found excellent Lao food at the bowling alley. www.kqed.org/arts/1398324...

We found excellent Lao food at the bowling alley. www.kqed.org/arts/1398324...

The late-night dance parties at the Seafood City in Daly City are THE place to be. Our correspondent Rocky Rivera with the story: www.kqed.org/arts/1398311...

Local restaurants, already struggling, are stepping in to fill the gaping void of our federal government during shutdown. Read for a list of places giving free and discounted food to families who receive SNAP benefits: www.kqed.org/arts/1398295...

My favorite tonkatsu restaurant in the Bay Area had to shut down because of a fire. They're trying to fast-track a new location in Emeryville. www.kqed.org/arts/1398292...

Come hang out, tonight! 6:30 at Omnivore Books. I'll be chatting with the incomparable Bryant Terry!! We'll sign books!

Always read Rocky Rivera on Bay Area hip-hop and food. Her latest, on the new wave of health-focused, aspirational "salad rap." www.kqed.org/arts/1398279...

Come hang out, tonight! 6:30 at Omnivore Books. I'll be chatting with the incomparable Bryant Terry!! We'll sign books!

Don't miss Nastia Voynovskaya's sobering, in-depth report on the state of AI-generated music and musicians — and the avenues left to human musicians (because now we have to specify that): www.kqed.org/arts/1398257...

Stoked that my crab fishing influencer profile is featured in this year's Best American Food and Travel Writing, out in bookstores today! Bay Area folks, come see me chop it up with editor Bryant Terry at @omnivorebooks.bsky.social this Thursday! omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/collections/...

Here's an update on the new Cantonese barbecue counter coming this month to the Tenderloin, courtesy of the brothers behind the old Hing Lung Co. — one of my all-time favorite Chinatown spots before it closed last year. www.kqed.org/arts/1398223...

Here's my commentary piece on the Big Art Loop, and what it means to hand our public space over to a billionaire and his choice of 100 pieces of existing, large-scale art. And for god's sake: Send your opinions to the agencies/nonprofit/org involved, not to me! www.kqed.org/arts/1398217...

This month's Apple Maps update includes my new favorite Peking duck spot, excellent jjajangmyeon, and topnotch HK cafe–style noodles and rice plates. apple.co/LukeTsai

I made the NYT apple cider doughnuts.

I wrote about Club Waziema, an Ethiopian dive bar that serves really good sega wot and an all-you-can-eat veggie combo. www.kqed.org/arts/1398209...

I wrote about Club Waziema, an Ethiopian dive bar that serves really good sega wot and an all-you-can-eat veggie combo. www.kqed.org/arts/1398209...

I wrote about the teenage fashion designers who are spinning braided plantain peels and spray-painted pasta into high-fashion couture outfits, with the help of some of Oakland's top chefs. www.kqed.org/arts/1398191...

I wrote about the teenage fashion designers who are spinning braided plantain peels and spray-painted pasta into high-fashion couture outfits, with the help of some of Oakland's top chefs. www.kqed.org/arts/1398191...

“America is considered a coffee country. There’s millions of people who are tea drinkers. I really want to get chai to where coffee stands.” Here's @tavos-kitchen.bsky.social on the first Kerala-style chai shop in the Bay Area — and maybe the entire U.S.? www.kqed.org/arts/1398193...

Here's @jzigoris.bsky.social with a deep dive into the Chinese workers who basically built up Northern California's wine country from scratch in the 1860s and 1870s. I didn't know this history! www.kqed.org/arts/1398179...

The Bitter Cotyledons collective in Santa Cruz grows Asian crops to connect with their ancestors and help queer folks feel rooted.

Extremely excited to eat laksa and kaya toast at this new Singaporean festival happening this weekend. www.kqed.org/arts/1398143...

All the food at this African food festival in Oakland looks and sounds amazing! It's part of the second annual Bay Area African Restaurant Week. www.kqed.org/arts/1398131...

This Saturday, Oakland Chinatown is running back the very popular night market that debuted last year. www.kqed.org/arts/1398121...

I finally went to Toyose, and it was as fun as everyone said it would be. www.kqed.org/arts/1398103...

I finally went to Toyose, and it was as fun as everyone said it would be. www.kqed.org/arts/1398103...

Ashanty is my student, and this is her first-ever professional assignment! She’s a ridiculously smart thinker and writer — read her on AI in school instead of all the adults pontificating. 🤗

I'm sorry to report that Wah Jee Wah, one of the very few restaurants in the East Bay doing open-fire Indian barbecue, has closed. Fortunately—especially for folks in Fremont, Milpitas and South SF—it looks like they already have some pretty solid reopening plans. www.kqed.org/arts/1398082...

I'm sorry to report that Wah Jee Wah, one of the very few restaurants in the East Bay doing open-fire Indian barbecue, has closed. Fortunately—especially for folks in Fremont, Milpitas and South SF—it looks like they already have some pretty solid reopening plans. www.kqed.org/arts/1398082...

Highly recommend spending a morning gleaning backyard fruit — perhaps with these fine folks in Contra Costa County. www.kqed.org/arts/1398069...

Excited about this Indonesian coffee shop's comeback, now at a Berkeley museum—and, finally, a place where I can get my kaya toast fix. www.kqed.org/arts/1398046...

Wrote about a Chinese restaurant in San Bruno that promised "Texas BBQ," did not AT ALL deliver Texas barbecue, but I still kind of loved it?? www.kqed.org/arts/1398021...

Wrote about a Chinese restaurant in San Bruno that promised "Texas BBQ," did not AT ALL deliver Texas barbecue, but I still kind of loved it?? www.kqed.org/arts/1398021...

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits… Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.

15 people. 15 incredibly talented journalists and media workers who are experts at what they do, who have won awards for this work, gone and with very little direction given as to what comes next. I'm completely furious.

I wrote about Keith's Chicken N Waffles—now open until midnight—which serves some of the crunchiest and most well-seasoned fried chicken I've had in the Bay. www.kqed.org/arts/1397946...

I wrote about Keith's Chicken N Waffles—now open until midnight—which serves some of the crunchiest and most well-seasoned fried chicken I've had in the Bay. www.kqed.org/arts/1397946...

BBQ Without Borders was conceived in Oakland in 2019 as a response to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now, six months into a second Trump presidency, the pro-immigrant barbecue fundraiser returns to uplift those communities.

I was shocked to hear that one of my favorite Bay Area soul food chefs died in a tragic accident about a month ago. Carl Bolling's food, served inside an Oakland convenience store, was incredibly delicious. Now his family is trying to keep his legacy alive. www.kqed.org/arts/1397858...

I was shocked to hear that one of my favorite Bay Area soul food chefs died in a tragic accident about a month ago. Carl Bolling's food, served inside an Oakland convenience store, was incredibly delicious. Now his family is trying to keep his legacy alive. www.kqed.org/arts/1397858...

Mama Go’s, located in the Harvey Milk Terminal concourse at SFO, serves delicious home-style Filipino food at the San Francisco airport until 11:30 p.m. every night.

Everything is terrible right now, but if you find yourself passing through SFO this summer, do yourself a favor and treat yourself to a meal at Mama Go's. www.kqed.org/arts/1397835...

Everything is terrible right now, but if you find yourself passing through SFO this summer, do yourself a favor and treat yourself to a meal at Mama Go's. www.kqed.org/arts/1397835...

I was just happy to find out the chef from my all-time favorite Puerto Rican spot was cooking again, but I then I learned he's been on a whole JOURNEY—one involving Guy Fieri and a long stint in Santa Rita Jail. His story: www.kqed.org/arts/1397795...

I was just happy to find out the chef from my all-time favorite Puerto Rican spot was cooking again, but I then I learned he's been on a whole JOURNEY—one involving Guy Fieri and a long stint in Santa Rita Jail. His story: www.kqed.org/arts/1397795...

Here's Rocky Rivera's great essay on a phenomenon I've noticed for a while now: how basically the only viable, thriving malls that are left are completely dominated by Asian food. www.kqed.org/arts/1397786...

A thread: Many of y'all know I left my position as a race and identity correspondent at NPR. Perhaps tellingly, a recent story of mine was just "reviewed" by NPR's new "content review" process (a new initiative that began last year). Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

Chicago, we are inside you!