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Lui remembers sitting in a folding stool and watching her grandparents play mahjong but not necessarily getting to play herself, and attending street parades that mostly only interested the elders in her family. And Patton, who is Black and Korean, experienced so much racism from Korean peers and family members that she never really felt like any Asian experiences were meant for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only in the past couple of years have I been able to participate in different Korean traditions,” she says. “It’s been really beautiful and affirming and heart-opening. To provide that for other people is one of the big reasons for me to do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the obvious ways Neo Lunar’s organizers hope to connect to other second- and third-generation Asian Americans is through food — in particular, new-school pop-up shops that share their aesthetic of remixing old traditions to create something new. 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Chen, the Yăng Shēng artist, says they wanted to capture the excitement of having a multitude of offerings packed into one physical space — “a bustling, shoulder-to-shoulder experience.” Or, as Lui puts it, “You’ll peek and wonder what’s around the corner. Who’s selling this now? What’s happening next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who find the night market vibe too hectic, there will also be a calligraphy workshop and Chinese tea served in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/little-garden-by-arbor-teahouse-tickets-1203996930229?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaFL4FaBQLKIscjmOcIHiC3904R9j4dSeL6e3JeoGeKYZZGIa6_zhJ6OnM_aem_--rILHqsXSRQQykfEUF34A\">quiet little teahouse sanctuary\u003c/a> tucked away in the middle of the party. And at Yăng Shēng’s immersive “Living Room” installation, partygoers can just chill on a couch that Chen made in collaboration with a local woodworker, with a Chinese-style lattice window carved into the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neo Lunar is also very explicitly not \u003ci>just \u003c/i>for young people. A big part of how the organizers say they’re making this New Year’s celebration their own is by making it an intergenerational affair — a party where, as they’re fond of saying, you can “bring your aunties \u003ci>and \u003c/i>your homies.” While the event has a sheen of coolness (with all the tattoos and the DJs and such) that will appeal to younger folks, there’s a conscious effort to build bridges to the older generation as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13971066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional Chinese teaware laid out on a slab of wood.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby-1020x663.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby-768x499.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby-1536x998.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/teahouse-_-silkpunkbaby-1920x1248.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tucked in the middle of the bustling party will be a quiet tea sanctuary. \u003ccite>(silkpunkbaby, courtesy of Neo Lunar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the best example is “Multi-Gen,” the party’s fashion show component inspired by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11151933/how-senior-fashion-is-turning-heads-in-san-franciscos-chinatown\">\u003ci>Chinatown Pretty\u003c/i>\u003c/a> photo project, which spotlighted the often bold and idiosyncratic styles of San Francisco Chinatown elders. The fashion show will start and end with drag performers, and it’ll feature a diverse lineup of amateur models, both young and old, who’ll show off looks by 10 Asian American designers. Both Yang’s and Patton’s mothers will be among those walking the runway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really special because I think a lot of our parents who are immigrants, they’ve sacrificed a lot of their own self-identity and desires,” Chen says. “So this is an opportunity to have them feel like superstars, without asking them to be people that they’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13924997,arts_13962284,arts_13970881']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Another attraction geared toward partygoers of all ages is the cluster of mahjong tables, which will be running games all day. Lui, who hosts \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2023/7/12/23792850/mahjong-restaurants-bay-area-asian-jewish-culture\">regular mahjong nights\u003c/a> at Baba’s House, says she’s found that the spirit of friendly competition that the game fosters is the perfect way to bridge the gap between young Asian Americans and elders who might not otherwise have much in common. “The younger generation wants to learn,” Lui says. “And the older generation gets surprised [by that interest]. They’re like, ‘Oh, so you want to \u003ci>play\u003c/i>?’ And then they get sassy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games are meant to be approachable for players of all experience levels, and Baba’s House will have coaches on hand to teach beginners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the most important way Neo Lunar’s organizers hope to attract a multigenerational crowd? Admission for both seniors and children will be free. The party will also be a masked event, to protect vulnerable community members from COVID and other airborne illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Year of the Snake sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/world/china/lunar-new-year-snake-china-asia-zodiac-ff5f5fcd\">gets a bad rap\u003c/a>, compared to some of the other zodiac animals, Yang says he can’t imagine a better mascot for this year’s Neo Lunar event: “The Year of the Snake is perfect for what we’re trying to do. It’s about shedding what’s old and coming into a new identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Neo Lunar will take place on Saturday, Feb. 1, 3–8 p.m. at Oakstop (2323 Broadway, Oakland). \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neo-lunar-lunar-new-year-reimagined-tickets-1124707453269?aff=oddtdtcreator\">\u003ci>Advance tickets\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> are sold out, but there will be a limited number of tickets available at the door.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Jonathan Yang was growing up, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lunar-new-year\">Lunar New Year\u003c/a> was marked by elaborate feasts at his immigrant family’s Chinese restaurant. “It was hyper-focused on food — and, obviously, being on your best behavior, being a good son and getting that ultimate red envelope,” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also never felt like a holiday he could truly call his own, or where he could be authentic to his identity as a gay man. Instead, those New Year’s gatherings were a time of deep anxiety. “It was just like, I have to live a lie,” Yang says. “I have to field questions from the aunties and uncles asking, ‘Oh, why aren’t you married yet? Do you have a girlfriend?’ It was always wrapped up in that kind of experience for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when Yang, co-owner of Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/laughing_gems_wine\">Laughing Gems Wine\u003c/a>, attended a boisterous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952052/lunar-new-year-party-oakland-cantonese-taiwanese\">next-generation Lunar New Year’s festival\u003c/a> in Oakland last year that bustled with DJs, tattoo artists, tea cocktails and a DIY red envelope station, he felt so inspired, he knew he wanted to be a part of it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to create a space that I felt represented all of us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Yang and his business partner, Tiffani Patton, joined forces with visual artist Hanna Chen (of the multimedia art brand \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsyangsheng/\">Yăng Shēng\u003c/a>) and Jenn Lui (co-owner of Asian snack shop \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thisisbabas.house/\">Baba’s House\u003c/a> in Oakland) to put on an even bigger, more ambitious party to ring in the Year of the Snake. Rebranded as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neo-lunar-lunar-new-year-reimagined-tickets-1124707453269?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Neo Lunar\u003c/a>, the sprawling, multi-experiential event will include a night market, a fashion show, a mahjong parlor, a natural wine bar, multiple tattoo artists and art installations, and much more — all crammed into \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakstop/?hl=en\">Oakstop’s\u003c/a> two-story Uptown Oakland event space on Saturday, Feb. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971056\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13971056\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man lifts up his shirt to reveal several tattoos, including a red flower on his sternum and a large cat across his abdomen. \" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/LNY-24-Flash-by-Proper-Tattoo-1920x2877.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at last year’s party shows off new ink, courtesy of Proper Tattoo, which will again be on hand at the 2025 edition of Neo Lunar. \u003ccite>(J-han, courtesy of Neo Lunar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The event’s organizers all had different experiences with Lunar New Year as Asian Americans growing up in the diaspora, but the common thread was this sense that the holiday never \u003ci>really \u003c/i>belonged to them. Lui remembers sitting in a folding stool and watching her grandparents play mahjong but not necessarily getting to play herself, and attending street parades that mostly only interested the elders in her family. And Patton, who is Black and Korean, experienced so much racism from Korean peers and family members that she never really felt like any Asian experiences were meant for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only in the past couple of years have I been able to participate in different Korean traditions,” she says. “It’s been really beautiful and affirming and heart-opening. To provide that for other people is one of the big reasons for me to do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the obvious ways Neo Lunar’s organizers hope to connect to other second- and third-generation Asian Americans is through food — in particular, new-school pop-up shops that share their aesthetic of remixing old traditions to create something new. For instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFXEnnex16a/?img_index=1\">Lion Dance Cafe\u003c/a>, the vegan Singaporean pop-up, will be on hand slinging mala douhua and kung pao shaobing sandwiches. Beloved Eastside San Jose pop-up \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_hetsay_/\">Hết Sẩy\u003c/a> will sling Mekong Delta–style Vietnamese dishes for Tết. 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And at Yăng Shēng’s immersive “Living Room” installation, partygoers can just chill on a couch that Chen made in collaboration with a local woodworker, with a Chinese-style lattice window carved into the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neo Lunar is also very explicitly not \u003ci>just \u003c/i>for young people. 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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend’s Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival celebration is decidedly new-school: Street food offerings will include Hong Kong curry fish balls, Malagasy hot pepper sauce and Oaxacan chocolate. In place of a traditional lion or dragon dance will be a performance by the Bay Area hip-hop dance crew \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iugrJyww1/\">Tribe of the Dragon\u003c/a>. A lineup of globally-inspired DJs will close out the holiday with a full-on dance party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that doesn’t quite sound like your grandmother’s Lantern Festival, that’s very much intentional — although Diana Wu, executive director of the nonprofit kitchen incubator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903133/oakland-bloom-understory-primas-corner-asukar-cuban-palestinian-pop-up\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, stresses that the event will still offer plenty to Chinatown’s longstanding communities of immigrant grandparents, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do want to share the legacies, themes and spirit of the festival,” says Wu, whose organization is co-hosting the event at Chinatown’s Pacific Renaissance Plaza for the second year in a row. “But we also wanted to make it reflect Oakland — to serve the different diverse communities that make up Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952750\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest.jpg\" alt=\"Five people pose for a photo; the two on the edges form a heart shape with their arms. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff from the kitchen incubator Oakland Bloom at last year’s inaugural Lantern Festival event. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Co-organized with the \u003ca href=\"https://stickyriceclub.org/\">Sticky Rice Club\u003c/a> nonprofit community development corporation and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aapih4l/\">AAPI Healers for Liberation\u003c/a>, this year’s two-day Lantern Festival celebration will build on the themes of last year’s inaugural event, which was conceived in large part as a “healing space.” That focus on self-care and community healing felt especially pertinent in light of the violence that had impacted Asian American communities both within and outside of Chinatown around that time, including mass shootings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938855/monterey-park-community-devastated-by-weekend-mass-shooting\">Monterey Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973071/survivors-of-half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-struggle-to-rebuild-1-year-later\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the Lantern Festival — aka Yuanxiao Jie — takes place on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, marking the end of holiday festivities with red paper lanterns symbolizing a prosperous new beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Oakland Chinatown event, even the most seemingly “traditional” aspects of the celebration will have a modern, multicultural twist. As part of an altar-building activity to honor the ancestors, the chef behind the Palestinian-Cuban pop-up \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/?hl=en\">Asúkar\u003c/a> will create an altar for Palestine. Even the guqin performance — featuring the traditional seven-string instrument with more than 3,000 years of history in China — will be slightly unorthodox: The performer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gabriellawen.com/about\">Gabby Wen\u003c/a>, uses synthesizers and field recordings along with the guqin to make experimental electroacoustic music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2.jpg\" alt=\"An egg custard tart topped with a marshmallow\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A non-traditional egg custard tart, topped with a marshmallow, from Hong Kong-style food pop-up M and D. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The emerging immigrant food entrepreneurs in Oakland Bloom’s incubator program will supply the food for the event — and here, too, Wu says, the idea is to engage the multiple generations and diasporas that make up Oakland. So, even though it’s a Lunar New Year event, not all of the food will be Asian. Alongside, say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3dmGChyFRv/?img_index=1\">Tabachito’s\u003c/a> Filipino fusion offerings, there will also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/?hl=en\">Palestinian-Cuban food\u003c/a>, and perhaps the only Bay Area food business that specializes in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ResataurantFelana/\">cuisine of Madagascar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13903133,arts_13952052,arts_13924997']Wu says one Oakland Bloom vendor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mandd_food/\">M and D Food\u003c/a>, is especially emblematic of the festival’s multigenerational approach. Known for its take on Hong Kong street foods like milk tea and curry fish balls, the business itself is a mother-and-daughter operation. Meanwhile, the chef’s father is visiting from Hong Kong, so he’ll be on hand to provide customers with auspicious, handwritten \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3mJFF_LXGh/?img_index=2\">Chinese calligraphy scrolls\u003c/a> — a traditional touch from the older generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the actual lantern component of the festival, Wu concedes that there won’t be quite as magnificent a display as there was during last year’s inaugural event, when 88 red lanterns soared over the Pacific Renaissance Plaza. This year, a smaller number of lanterns will be integrated into the festival decor, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsoflincolnsquarepark.org/\">Friends of Lincoln Square Park\u003c/a> will lead a hands-on activity that will give kids the opportunity to make small paper lanterns of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino pork skewers on a metal tray.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino barbecue pork skewers by Tabachito. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On both days of the event, the itinerary will extend after dark, until 8 p.m., when many of Oakland Chinatown’s businesses will have already closed. For a neighborhood still struggling to get on its feet in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851735/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown\">devastating pandemic\u003c/a>, the hope is that events like the Lantern Festival — with those red lanterns shining bright in the sky — can help bring a lively sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals was to create moments of community coming together in publicly accessible spaces in Oakland Chinatown and to really support people coming out at night there,” Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival will take place in and around the Pacific Renaissance Plaza (388 9th St., Oakland) on Saturday, Feb. 24 and Sunday, Feb. 25, from 3–8 p.m. each day. Check the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://stickyriceclub.org/lanternfestival2024\">\u003ci>full event schedule\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> for each day’s lineup of workshops, performances and food vendors, and follow \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandbloom\">\u003ci>Oakland Bloom\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> and \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aapih4l/\">\u003ci>AAPI Healers for Liberation\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> on Instagram for updates. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wu says one Oakland Bloom vendor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mandd_food/\">M and D Food\u003c/a>, is especially emblematic of the festival’s multigenerational approach. Known for its take on Hong Kong street foods like milk tea and curry fish balls, the business itself is a mother-and-daughter operation. Meanwhile, the chef’s father is visiting from Hong Kong, so he’ll be on hand to provide customers with auspicious, handwritten \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3mJFF_LXGh/?img_index=2\">Chinese calligraphy scrolls\u003c/a> — a traditional touch from the older generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the actual lantern component of the festival, Wu concedes that there won’t be quite as magnificent a display as there was during last year’s inaugural event, when 88 red lanterns soared over the Pacific Renaissance Plaza. This year, a smaller number of lanterns will be integrated into the festival decor, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsoflincolnsquarepark.org/\">Friends of Lincoln Square Park\u003c/a> will lead a hands-on activity that will give kids the opportunity to make small paper lanterns of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino pork skewers on a metal tray.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino barbecue pork skewers by Tabachito. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On both days of the event, the itinerary will extend after dark, until 8 p.m., when many of Oakland Chinatown’s businesses will have already closed. For a neighborhood still struggling to get on its feet in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851735/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown\">devastating pandemic\u003c/a>, the hope is that events like the Lantern Festival — with those red lanterns shining bright in the sky — can help bring a lively sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals was to create moments of community coming together in publicly accessible spaces in Oakland Chinatown and to really support people coming out at night there,” Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival will take place in and around the Pacific Renaissance Plaza (388 9th St., Oakland) on Saturday, Feb. 24 and Sunday, Feb. 25, from 3–8 p.m. each day. Check the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://stickyriceclub.org/lanternfestival2024\">\u003ci>full event schedule\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> for each day’s lineup of workshops, performances and food vendors, and follow \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandbloom\">\u003ci>Oakland Bloom\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> and \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aapih4l/\">\u003ci>AAPI Healers for Liberation\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> on Instagram for updates. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For Oakland small business owner Jenn Lui and San Francisco visual artist Hanna Chen, embracing the traditions of their Cantonese and Taiwanese ancestors is a kind of soul-filling nourishment. It’s an imaginative labor that allows for the multi-generational preservation of old-school memories, while forging exciting new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creative duo is behind an intimate Lunar New Year celebration happening on February 18 at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/groundfloorclub/?hl=en\">Groundfloor\u003c/a> in Oakland. The get-together will honor nostalgic Asian cultural cornerstones like mahjong, holiday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101904619/all-you-can-eat-ringing-in-the-lunar-new-year-with-asian-american-desserts\">desserts\u003c/a> and red envelopes. At the same time, it will also create space for modern, up-and-coming makers who are reshaping the possibilities of diasporic joy with tea-based cocktails, flash tattoos and tooth gems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just reimagining [our cultures] for the current times,” says Lui, the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thisisbabas.house/?hl=en\">Baba’s House\u003c/a>, a specialty Asian snack shop in downtown Oakland. “Mahjong was heavily played as a gambling game in my family, but now it’s a social community type of event. It’s about celebrating those blessings, prosperity, health, and doing it intentionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will feature live DJs (\u003ca href=\"http://inachu\">Ina Chu\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://jazz.fm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://JAZZ.FM&source=gmail&ust=1707862337560000&usg=AOvVaw02x83AbDHbRaxDA4ztH9Ee\">JAZZ.FM\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tomudj/\">TOMU DJ\u003c/a>), foodmakers (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oramasamadumplings/\">Oramasama Dumplings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandfortunefactory/\">Oakland Fortune Factory\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jasonbakessf/\">Jason Bakes\u003c/a>), tattoo artists (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/proper.tattoo/\">Proper Tattoo\u003c/a>), retail vendors (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/twotwo.online/\">Two Two\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jiahomeco/\">JIĀ HOME CO. \u003c/a>and more) and visual artists (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mag.dre/\">Mag Dre\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chrisjcheung/\">Chris Cheung\u003c/a>). In addition, there will be snacks provided by Baba’s House, a DIY red envelope station, an altar to commemorate deceased loved ones, mahjong, raffles and “tea-tails” (alcohol optional) mixed using KACE Tea, a local \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drinkkace/\">Taiwanese-Filipino brand\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2.jpg\" alt=\"a red table featuring Chinese cookies for Lunar New Year\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2-768x614.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/7._jason_bakes_2-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taiwanese pineapple cakes from Jason Bakes will be one of the desserts served at the Lunar New Year Festival. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jenn Lui)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festivities are part of \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/itsyangsheng\">Yăng Shēng\u003c/a>, a multimedia project launched by Chen and Cai that highlights the evolving expressions of Asian American artists through art installations, photography and community events (a book is forthcoming in 2026). The San Francisco-raised artist says that for her, Lunar New Year has always represented a connection to her parents’ homeland. It’s about transporting herself and others abroad, without actually going very far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13951648,arts_13924997,arts_13951382']“We want to recreate the feeling of a night market and also take elements from Bay Area events: art gatherings, supper parties, bringing in that club feeling, too. We’re pulling from different pockets of the world like New York, Taipei, Hong Kong, and putting all that into one space for people who might not be able to travel,” Chen says. “This is nudging American culture to be more community-oriented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two entrepreneurs, along with Lui’s partner, Alan Chen, are thunderously vocal when it comes to creating a safe space. It’s not something they’ve always experienced as first-generation children of Asian immigrants whose parents and relatives have sometimes questioned their artistic endeavors and cross-cultural expressions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re kind of reimagining everything,” Lui says. “When I told my mom about the altar, she asked why we’re doing that. I found that interesting, and I wonder if other folks from that generation don’t see what we’re doing as a positive thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952059\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952059\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn.jpg\" alt=\"a table altar featuring photos of deceased family members, incense and treats\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/altar_shot_by_jenn____soulrealjenn-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar will be provided inside Groundfloor for attendees to honor their loved ones. \u003ccite>(Jenn Lui)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The generational gap hasn’t stopped them, though. 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But we’re all Asian Americans who grew up in the Bay, and I think that connection is special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe you were an outcast growing up as a person of color, but now you’re a cool kid pushing the culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Lunar New Year Festival presented by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thisisbabas.house/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Baba’s House\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> and \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/itsyangsheng\">\u003ci>Yăng Shēng\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> will take place at \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/groundfloorclub/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Groundfloor\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> (4055 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) on Feb. 18, 1–6 p.m. \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/babas-house-x-yang-sheng-presents-lunar-new-year-festival-tickets-808221972677?aff=oddtdtcreator\">\u003ci>Tickets\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> are available online for $15–$25.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13924281 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Anh Nguyen poses in a poppy orange long-sleeved tee and a stylish hat and boots, inside her restaurant Cam Anh.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Anh-by-Andria-Lo-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Nguyen strikes a pose in a banh mi-themed shirt created by the nonprofit Cut Fruit Collective to raise funds for her Oakland Chinatown business Cam Anh. \u003ccite>(Andria Lo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To boost Oakland Chinatown restaurants struggling to survive the pandemic, Daphne Wu has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars through \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-our-chinatowns\">emergency GoFundMe campaigns\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cutfruitcollective.org/blogs/programs/pride-fortune-cookie-fundraiser\">fortune cookie bake sales\u003c/a> and the distribution of \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2021/1/21/22241666/oakland-chinatown-save-our-chinatowns-lunar-new-year-fundraiser-zine-daphne-wu\">limited-edition zines\u003c/a>. Still, the co-founder of the Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.cutfruitcollective.org/\">Cut Fruit Collective\u003c/a> says, recovery for the neighborhood has been slow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just in time for Lunar New Year, Wu and her collaborators have put together their most stylish fundraising project yet: \u003ca href=\"https://www.cutfruitcollective.org/collections/lunar-new-year-2023\">a collection of swag\u003c/a> that includes a trucker hat, a tote bag and a banh mi–themed long-sleeved shirt. Each item features a longstanding Chinatown food business that will receive 100% of the profits from each sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu explains that most of Cut Fruit Collective’s past initiatives, extending back to when the group was called Save Our Chinatowns, were more akin to emergency relief funds or mutual aid. Inspired by the work of a New York City-based organization called \u003ca href=\"https://welcometochinatown.com/\">Welcome to Chinatown\u003c/a>, the new, auspiciously named Community Prosperity Collection was born out of the desire to co-create something with Chinatown merchants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, Finnie Phung, the owner of Green Fish Seafood Market, had studied fashion design, so she worked with Cut Fruit Collective creative director Maya Kulkarni to design the collection’s Green Fish Seafood sweater and trucker hat. And both she and Cam Anh owner Anh Nguyen even helped model the merch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13924283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Woman poses in a trucker hat and a green sweatshirt, both promoting her business, Green Fish Seafood Market.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Fish Seafood owner Finnie Phong models a trucker hat and sweater that she co-created with the nonprofit Cut Fruit Collective. \u003ccite>(Andria Lo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, salvation rarely comes in the form of trucker hats alone. But the broader significance of the work of Oakland organizations like Cut Fruit Collective and \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodgoodeatz.com/\">Good Good Eatz\u003c/a> is the way they’re helping Chinatown stay relevant to younger generations of Asian Americans who are looking to connect, or reconnect, with their heritage. In the past, you wouldn’t have imagined that legacy Chinatown businesses, which have historically catered to an older, monolingual, first-generation immigrant customer base, would have hip, fashion-forward swag or a vibrant social media presence. Cut Fruit Collective’s mission, in a nutshell, is to help bridge that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if they didn’t grow up in neighborhoods like this, they feel that connection,” Wu says of the younger folks who, for instance, make up most of Cut Fruit Collective’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cutfruitcollective/?hl=en\">Instagram\u003c/a> following. “These neighborhoods help them explore their identities. And we can introduce them to these neighborhood shops that they might not be as bold to venture out to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s name alludes to the practice — ubiquitous in many cultures throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands — of sharing cut fruit as an act of hospitality. “It’s a love language for our communities,” Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That model of community care will also be on display next weekend during a Lantern Festival celebration in Oakland Chinatown’s Pacific Renaissance Plaza that Cut Fruit Collective is co-sponsoring on Sunday, Feb. 5, marking the end of this year’s Lunar New Year festivities. More than that, Wu says, it’ll be an effort to get people excited again about going to Chinatown in the evening time, when business in the neighborhood continues to be extremely slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Wu and her colleagues thought, “Why not bring an Asian night market to Oakland Chinatown?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13923548,arts_13903133']To create a celebratory vibe, local design firm Civic Design Studio will light up the plaza with paper lanterns and other light installations. AAPI Healers for Liberation will organize workshops and community healing activities, in light of the tragic mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay earlier this week. And of course, since it’s a night market, there will be food — mostly courtesy of four vendors from \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, a kitchen incubator for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903133/oakland-bloom-understory-primas-corner-asukar-cuban-palestinian-pop-up\">immigrant and refugee chefs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main focus, though, will be on encouraging customers to patronize Chinatown’s restaurants and other businesses. Toward that end, Cut Fruit Collective will create a scavenger hunt with prizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been so heavy for the past few years,” Wu says of the outlook and atmosphere in Chinatown. “We feel the Year of the Rabbit is the time to put forth a new vision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Community Prosperity Collection merch is available for purchase via Cut Fruit Collective’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cutfruitcollective.org/collections/lunar-new-year-2023\">website\u003c/a>. The Lantern Festival night market will take place on Sunday, Feb. 5. 3–8 p.m. at the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland Chinatown.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Inspired by the work of a New York City-based organization called \u003ca href=\"https://welcometochinatown.com/\">Welcome to Chinatown\u003c/a>, the new, auspiciously named Community Prosperity Collection was born out of the desire to co-create something with Chinatown merchants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, Finnie Phung, the owner of Green Fish Seafood Market, had studied fashion design, so she worked with Cut Fruit Collective creative director Maya Kulkarni to design the collection’s Green Fish Seafood sweater and trucker hat. And both she and Cam Anh owner Anh Nguyen even helped model the merch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13924283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Woman poses in a trucker hat and a green sweatshirt, both promoting her business, Green Fish Seafood Market.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Finnie-by-Andria-Lo-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Fish Seafood owner Finnie Phong models a trucker hat and sweater that she co-created with the nonprofit Cut Fruit Collective. \u003ccite>(Andria Lo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, salvation rarely comes in the form of trucker hats alone. But the broader significance of the work of Oakland organizations like Cut Fruit Collective and \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodgoodeatz.com/\">Good Good Eatz\u003c/a> is the way they’re helping Chinatown stay relevant to younger generations of Asian Americans who are looking to connect, or reconnect, with their heritage. In the past, you wouldn’t have imagined that legacy Chinatown businesses, which have historically catered to an older, monolingual, first-generation immigrant customer base, would have hip, fashion-forward swag or a vibrant social media presence. Cut Fruit Collective’s mission, in a nutshell, is to help bridge that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Annie Wang remembers eating hot tangyuan soup when she was a kid. On chilly nights — or whenever her parents felt the inclination to prepare them — she’d spoon the chewy, sticky-sweet glutinous rice balls into her mouth. She didn’t think of them as being associated with any particular holiday or cultural tradition. “They were just a treat,” Wang says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, Wang has run \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/anniestcakes/\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/a>, a home bakery that specializes in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908103/lunar-new-year-vegan-mooncake-biscuits-annies-t-cakes\">vegan Chinese and Taiwanese sweets\u003c/a>. The business has provided, among other things, an ongoing cultural education for the baker. Now, Wang knows that tangyuan are traditionally eaten during Lunar New Year — specifically to celebrate the Lantern Festival, which takes place on the 15th and final day of the holiday. She knows that the dessert symbolizes the big family gatherings that typically happen at this time of year because the word “tangyuan” sounds similar to the phrase “tuan yuan,” which means “reunion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course Wang also learned to make her own version, which Annie’s T Cakes will sell this year to help customers ring in the Year of the Rabbit (or the Year of the Cat, if you’re Vietnamese). The tangyuan soup kits can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">preordered from now through Jan. 15\u003c/a>, and they’ll be available for pickup in Oakland in the days leading up to Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 22 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame.jpg\" alt=\"Cross section of a tangyuan (glutinous rice ball) on a spoon, with the black sesame filling visible.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/tangyuan_black-sesame-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tangyuan come in four flavors: black sesame (pictured here), red bean, peanut and ube. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Annie's T Cakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days Bay Area dessert enthusiasts can buy decent frozen tangyuan all year round at their local 99 Ranch and other Asian grocery stores. Wang’s version is distinctive in part because her tangyuan are fully vegan — many old-school recipes call for the use of lard. And in addition to the most traditional flavors (red bean, peanut and, her favorite, black sesame), Wang has also added a nontraditional, Filipino-inspired ube filling to the lineup this year, using ube paste made by Filipino American chef Ace Boral of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bhk.oakland/?hl=en\">Baba’s House Kitchen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13911775,arts_13915004']Wang says selling the tangyuan as part of a kit is her way of providing some cultural education for her customers, too. When you buy a package of tangyuan from the grocery store, it might only come with very basic instructions on how to boil the glutinous rice balls. Wang’s kits, on the other hand, also come with a packet of brown sugar, ginger and goji berries and instructions for how to use them to prepare the sweet soup that the tangyuan are traditionally served in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Chinese families would already have these ingredients in their pantry, but for customers who are new to this holiday treat, Wang says she wants to provide “a window into how people usually eat [tangyuan] at home and share them with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a window into learning the culture of where something comes from,” Wang says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">\u003ci>tangyuan soup kits from Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> ($28 for a kit that includes 16 tangyuan) are available for preorder from now through Jan. 15. Pickup options are at Little Giant Ice Cream (1951 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) from Jan. 19–23 and at Baba’s House Kitchen (450 15th St., Oakland) from Jan. 20–21.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]D[/dropcap]eep clean your home, settle your debts, and get your haircut. Lunar New Year is just around the corner. In Vietnamese culture, the holiday is known as Tết, and this year it falls on Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here in the Bay Area, Tết provides no shortage of opportunities to participate in tradition and culture, but the holiday and its seasonal eats aren’t prescribed or stagnant. Diasporic Vietnamese communities have always been proficient at recreating nostalgic homeland flavors with local ingredients—incorporating, for instance, Mexican jalapeno as garnish for what we know as American-style phở. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, nearly 50 years after the first wave of refugees arrived in the United States, Vietnamese Americans are still finding ways to augment the foods associated with Tết. In San Francisco, San Jose and beyond, young, 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese chefs are using banana leaves instead of arrow leaves for rice cakes or lucky sticky rice dyed with red coloring in place of baby jackfruits. In doing so, pop-ups like Het Say Cali, Claws of Mantis and Bánh Chưng Collective pay homage to tradition while also helping to evolve Vietnamese American cuisine—and creating more inclusive, new communities along the way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hetsay.cali/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a colorful pop-up at the Rose Garden Farmers Market in San Jose, approaches Lunar New Year as just one part of its founders’ continued practice in honoring the craftsmanship of regional Vietnamese cuisine—always with plenty of verve and style. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Saturday, you’ll find the booth decorated in vibrant Vietnamese opera paraphernalia. Owners DuyAn and Hieu Le, who dress just as colorfully, became engaged after only three days of knowing one another. Their Tết offering is a continuation of their decade-long love story—one that includes a passion for DuyAn’s Miền Tây heritage, the Northern California landscape of Hieu’s upbringing and the couple’s desire to carry on the culinary legacy of Eastside San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a brief while the couple traveled across the Bay Area, until they noticed an aging generation of Vietnamese cooks retiring in their old neighborhood. The slow but steady decline of legacy restaurants inspired the couple to hunker down in San Jose and focus on making their own contribution to the “ESSJ Vietnamese” food scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of banh tet, a kind of savory rice cake served on top of a banana leaf.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hết Sẩy Cali’s main Tết offering this year is bánh tét thịt chiên, a kind of savory pan-fried rice cake. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At their Saturday, Jan. 29 farmers market pop-up, the duo will celebrate Tết by passing out lucky red envelopes to children and encouraging customers to dress in áo dài and áo bà ba. This holiday, they’re serving bánh tét thịt chiên, a pan-fried version of the southern Vietnamese steamed glutinous rice cake that’s most commonly filled with pork belly and mung beans. Even as Hết Sẩy references these familiar flavors, Hieu clarifies that he’s “not romanticizing the past either,” unlike older-generation cooks who tend to prefer the 1970s Saigon-centric style of Vietnamese food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908709\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An oatmeal cooking on a plate, on top of a stack of books.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki and creme fraiche is one of Hết Sẩy’s not-so-traditional Lunar New Year items. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the Les follow tradition—cooking glutinous rice for over 10 hours with banana leaves, coconut cream, black beans, mung bean puree and pork belly—they also incorporate a very Californian emphasis on artisan ingredients and processes. They source Koda farm glutinous rice for the cylindrical rice cake, and top the dish with pickled dried shrimp, muskmelons, Asian pear and housemade fermented shrimp-and-krill sa tế.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the weekend before the holiday, you’ll also be able to order a serving of thịt kho, Hết Sẩy’s homey version of the classic caramelized pork belly stew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to their entrees, a special selection of pantry items inspired by trips to Vietnam’s Miền Tây region are available for purchase. Bring home your own full-sized bánh tét or its vegan counterpart, bánh tét chuối sứ, which replaces the pork belly filling with a sweet Southeast Asian banana. To commemorate DuyAn’s hometown specialty, Hết Sẩy offers two types of Chinese sausage: Mekong lạp xưởng, which is air-dried using all-natural ingredients, and lạp xưởng hot vit, a version with salted duck egg. While their homemade tôm ớt sa tế—a funk-filled, umami-packed fermented chili oil made with wild shrimp brine—holds true to form, the real star is the vegan ớt sa tế chay, made with preserved lemons from a maker in DuyAn’s hometown. It brings a one-of-a-kind, pungent zest that can be served with rice and noodles, as a soup base or however you enjoy chili oils.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Busy that weekend and can’t make it to San Jose? Order a Lunar New Year meal kit for pick-up in the East Bay, Peninsula, SF and North Bay exclusive to the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/discoverpastel/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Pastel delivery service\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The meal kit contains a flakey patê sô starter; thịt kho served atop bánh tét with pickles; and a fudgy style oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki, creme fraiche and other fixins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked to describe \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clawsofmantis/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis’\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cooking style, chef Kevin Trang echoes the founders of Hết Sẩy Cali: “Eastside San Jose Vietnamese food.” The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://clawsofmantis.com/about\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelin-experienced chefs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> behind the buzzy pop-up restaurant started out selling takeout dinner sets during the first summer of the pandemic, with a menu that interprets memories from Trang’s childhood in the Vietnamese enclave. The pop-up’s approach to Tết is similarly nostalgic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 2021’s Year of the Ox, which arrived just before vaccines were widely distributed in the U.S., the Claws crew wanted to provide a way for people to enjoy festivities at home in lieu of being able to host large gatherings. So, they created the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1v1PjBuEm/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Tết Power Pack,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a 10-item takeaway New Year’s spread for four. Trang made sure to include all of the important symbolic dishes—banh tét for gratitude to the ancestors, thịt kho for wealth and prosperity, xôi gấc for fortune and joy, mì xào for long life and chives for everlasting eternity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcatNxBkkU/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was for Vietnamese people either missing their families for Tết,” Trang explains, “or people not necessarily knowing why we do the things we do.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The set also included bầu cua tôm cá, a gambling game popular during the holiday (putting our red envelope money to work!), and variations on the game’s rules. Trang realized that each member of his crew grew up with their own way of playing the game: “Everyone had different rules. Sharing different traditions. Making it our way.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year’s Tết set ($125 for two people) is available for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcZBAqP7vy/?utm_medium=copy_link\">pickup on Sunday, Feb. 6\u003c/a>. It features bánh tét, crab garlic noodles and half a fish sauce–glazed chicken\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bánh Chưng Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether you’ve stayed up late making pots of bánh chưng or this is the first time you’ve heard of it, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.banhchungcollective.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bánh Chưng Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> welcomes you to their 10th annual workshop on Saturday, Jan. 29 via Zoom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshops began as a way for Diep Tran, the community organizer-turned-restauranter and now R&D chef at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://redboatfishsauce.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Red Boat Fish Sauce\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to create her own New Year’s traditions. After coming out to her family, she didn’t feel as welcome at Tết gatherings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I really missed [making bánh chưng],” Tran explains, referring to bánh tét’s northern cousin, the only difference being the cakes’ square shape. “I couldn’t remember how to do it. So maybe, I thought, I could just make it for myself.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, she was far from alone. Many of her queer friends had similar experiences with their families—they, too, were “people that also feel like they had to mute themselves when they go to these functions.” Tran’s informal bánh chưng parties helped them build a new sense of community. Together, they formed the Bánh Chưng Collective.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908707\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 805px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung.jpg\" alt=\"A spread of ingredients for making banh chung, a northern Vietnamese steamed rice cake.\" width=\"805\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung.jpg 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bánh Chưng Collective’s virtual workshop will teach participants to prepare bánh chưng—a kind of savory rice cake popular in northern Vietnamese—in the comfort of their own home. \u003ccite>(Bánh Chưng Collective)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After hosting a second private bánh chưng party in Los Angeles, where she’s based, Tran decided to open the third year’s edition to the public, attracting attendees across generations. When the pandemic forced the workshop online, Tran worried that the collective’s momentum would come to halt. Instead she found that the online format brought in more attendees than ever. This year, over 450 people, from the West Coast to the East, registered for the class. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tran notes that it’s not merely a queer-friendly space, but instead a queer-centered one. She reflects on her own ostracization as a queer woman, and the ways that this collective has allowed her to reclaim her heritage, which she would like to extend to both LGBT and diasporic youth: “If you’re young [and] you don’t have a connection to culture, you’re not making a good bánh chưng. Somehow you think you’re not ‘Vietnamese enough.’ I always start the class telling people to let go of those expectations. We’re not here to perform ‘enough.’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, Bay Area attendees who were lucky enough to order a bánh chưng kit before they sold out can pick them up from the San Francisco-based Vietnamese catering business \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.noodlegirlrestaurant.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noodle Girl\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Chef Hang Truong will include a Đà Lạt style papaya salad, the snack she spent all of her lucky money on as a child. Class begins with Tran demonstrating the overall process over Zoom, and then transitions to small breakout groups where attendees will learn more intimately with an instructor. Small groups will learn how to create banana leaf boxes, assemble the bánh chưng, and cook them on the stovetop or with a pressure cooker. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diep Tran of the Bánh Chưng Collective\"]“You don’t have to worry about what other generations have done. Culture belongs to you. It belongs to every generation.”[/pullquote]Though the class features bánh chưng at its simplest, Tran encourages curiosity and creativity. In the last decade, the collective has experimented with sous vide bánh chưng, resulting in the “most béo (rich and fatty) bánh chưng ever” and even an Elvis bánh chưng, adding banana, bacon and maple syrup. She encourages students to make bánh chưng with butter, shallots, mushrooms, crab—whatever your heart desires: “We don’t care; we’re a bunch of queers!” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13904913,arts_13908103,arts_13905293']At the end of the class, participants will have four delightful handmade cakes to eat and share with loved ones. Although kits are sold out, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/banh-chung-collective-2022-kit-with-zoom-class-tickets-235348923967\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tickets are still available for the Zoom class\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for those who are willing to make a grocery store run for ingredients and supplies. A recording of the session will also be available for those who want to make bánh chưng at their leisure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the heart of these three next-generation Tết offerings is a focus on education and community-building. The chefs behind pop-ups like Hết Sẩy Cali and Claws of Mantis scoff at the notion that “tradition” is rigid and uncompromising. Instead, they celebrate the new year on their own terms by educating customers who haven’t had a chance to learn about their heritage with empathetic welcomes, starting with what’s on the plate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They get to engage in culture on their terms,” Bánh Chưng Collective’s Tran says of the Vietnamese Americans who attend her workshops. “You don’t have to worry about what other generations have done. Culture belongs to you. It belongs to every generation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: This article has been updated to include details about Claws of Mantis’ \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tết set—a late addition on the part of the pop-up.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hetsay.cali/?hl=en\">Hết Sẩy Cali’s\u003c/a> Jan. 29 Lunar New Year event will take place at the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hotplate.com/hetsay\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Rose Garden Farmers Market (577 Dana Ave., San Jose)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or order the pop-up’s New Year’s take-home kit for 1/28 and 1/29 pick-up on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.discoverpastel.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clawsofmantis/?hl=en\">Claws of Mantis’\u003c/a> take-home Tết kit is available for pickup on Sunday, Feb. 6 at Joint Venture Kitchen (167 11th St, San Francisco). Limited quantities are for pre-order on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.exploretock.com/clawsofmantissanfrancisco\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tock\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebanhchungcollective/?hl=en\">Bánh Chưng Collective’s\u003c/a> virtual bánh chưng workshop will take place on Jan. 29, from 10 to 11:30am PT. The prepared kits are sold out, but tickets are still available via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/banh-chung-collective-2022-kit-with-zoom-class-tickets-235348923967\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventbrite\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>eep clean your home, settle your debts, and get your haircut. Lunar New Year is just around the corner. In Vietnamese culture, the holiday is known as Tết, and this year it falls on Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here in the Bay Area, Tết provides no shortage of opportunities to participate in tradition and culture, but the holiday and its seasonal eats aren’t prescribed or stagnant. Diasporic Vietnamese communities have always been proficient at recreating nostalgic homeland flavors with local ingredients—incorporating, for instance, Mexican jalapeno as garnish for what we know as American-style phở. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, nearly 50 years after the first wave of refugees arrived in the United States, Vietnamese Americans are still finding ways to augment the foods associated with Tết. In San Francisco, San Jose and beyond, young, 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese chefs are using banana leaves instead of arrow leaves for rice cakes or lucky sticky rice dyed with red coloring in place of baby jackfruits. In doing so, pop-ups like Het Say Cali, Claws of Mantis and Bánh Chưng Collective pay homage to tradition while also helping to evolve Vietnamese American cuisine—and creating more inclusive, new communities along the way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hetsay.cali/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a colorful pop-up at the Rose Garden Farmers Market in San Jose, approaches Lunar New Year as just one part of its founders’ continued practice in honoring the craftsmanship of regional Vietnamese cuisine—always with plenty of verve and style. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Saturday, you’ll find the booth decorated in vibrant Vietnamese opera paraphernalia. Owners DuyAn and Hieu Le, who dress just as colorfully, became engaged after only three days of knowing one another. Their Tết offering is a continuation of their decade-long love story—one that includes a passion for DuyAn’s Miền Tây heritage, the Northern California landscape of Hieu’s upbringing and the couple’s desire to carry on the culinary legacy of Eastside San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a brief while the couple traveled across the Bay Area, until they noticed an aging generation of Vietnamese cooks retiring in their old neighborhood. The slow but steady decline of legacy restaurants inspired the couple to hunker down in San Jose and focus on making their own contribution to the “ESSJ Vietnamese” food scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of banh tet, a kind of savory rice cake served on top of a banana leaf.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hết Sẩy Cali’s main Tết offering this year is bánh tét thịt chiên, a kind of savory pan-fried rice cake. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At their Saturday, Jan. 29 farmers market pop-up, the duo will celebrate Tết by passing out lucky red envelopes to children and encouraging customers to dress in áo dài and áo bà ba. This holiday, they’re serving bánh tét thịt chiên, a pan-fried version of the southern Vietnamese steamed glutinous rice cake that’s most commonly filled with pork belly and mung beans. Even as Hết Sẩy references these familiar flavors, Hieu clarifies that he’s “not romanticizing the past either,” unlike older-generation cooks who tend to prefer the 1970s Saigon-centric style of Vietnamese food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908709\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An oatmeal cooking on a plate, on top of a stack of books.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki and creme fraiche is one of Hết Sẩy’s not-so-traditional Lunar New Year items. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the Les follow tradition—cooking glutinous rice for over 10 hours with banana leaves, coconut cream, black beans, mung bean puree and pork belly—they also incorporate a very Californian emphasis on artisan ingredients and processes. They source Koda farm glutinous rice for the cylindrical rice cake, and top the dish with pickled dried shrimp, muskmelons, Asian pear and housemade fermented shrimp-and-krill sa tế.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the weekend before the holiday, you’ll also be able to order a serving of thịt kho, Hết Sẩy’s homey version of the classic caramelized pork belly stew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to their entrees, a special selection of pantry items inspired by trips to Vietnam’s Miền Tây region are available for purchase. Bring home your own full-sized bánh tét or its vegan counterpart, bánh tét chuối sứ, which replaces the pork belly filling with a sweet Southeast Asian banana. To commemorate DuyAn’s hometown specialty, Hết Sẩy offers two types of Chinese sausage: Mekong lạp xưởng, which is air-dried using all-natural ingredients, and lạp xưởng hot vit, a version with salted duck egg. While their homemade tôm ớt sa tế—a funk-filled, umami-packed fermented chili oil made with wild shrimp brine—holds true to form, the real star is the vegan ớt sa tế chay, made with preserved lemons from a maker in DuyAn’s hometown. It brings a one-of-a-kind, pungent zest that can be served with rice and noodles, as a soup base or however you enjoy chili oils.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Busy that weekend and can’t make it to San Jose? Order a Lunar New Year meal kit for pick-up in the East Bay, Peninsula, SF and North Bay exclusive to the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/discoverpastel/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Pastel delivery service\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The meal kit contains a flakey patê sô starter; thịt kho served atop bánh tét with pickles; and a fudgy style oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki, creme fraiche and other fixins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked to describe \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clawsofmantis/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis’\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cooking style, chef Kevin Trang echoes the founders of Hết Sẩy Cali: “Eastside San Jose Vietnamese food.” The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://clawsofmantis.com/about\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelin-experienced chefs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> behind the buzzy pop-up restaurant started out selling takeout dinner sets during the first summer of the pandemic, with a menu that interprets memories from Trang’s childhood in the Vietnamese enclave. 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