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18 stories on food across film, TV, music, fashion, food, and diaspora culture.
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Utah Korean American founders put microwave tteokbokki into about 300 Targets in nine months. Getting the shelf was the sprint. Staying there is the test.
Image: Pil Oh / Korean Bros
Apple TV dropped the trailer for Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook, an eight-episode food docuseries premiering November 6. Nora Lum tries to revive her family’s Flushing restaurant while admitting she cannot cook.
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Korea McDonald's named G-Dragon the face of a gochujang butter campaign across 13 Asian markets, starting September 17 in Korea with McCrispy and McSpicy builds plus PEACEMINUSONE merch later this month.
Image: Korea McDonald's
Seafood City opened its first Arizona store at Chandler Fashion Center on July 30, a nearly 66,000-square-foot Filipino supermarket and food hall that drew overnight lines and more than 100 local jobs.
Image: Jean Clare Sarmiento / KJZZ
Netflix stacked July deals for Mythical Kitchen, Nick DiGiovanni, and Wishbone Kitchen while The Dave Chang Show already sits on the platform, turning creator cooking into a day-and-date streaming category.
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Five August 2026 night markets that still justify the trip: Richmond for North America's largest Asian-style market, 626 Arcadia for the SoCal destination weekend, Queens for last Saturdays before the US Open break, Toronto Waterfront for a ticketed lantern weekend, and Argyle Chicago for Uptown Thursdays through late August.
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From July 23 through early August, North America stacks Comic-Con, Anime Matsuri, a West Coast Obon weekend, Toronto Chinatown, Vegas Japan expo, and Otakon. This Scene Report sorts the weekend by trip type so you pick one lane instead of doomscrolling five metros.
Image: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Chef Aarthi Sampath worked from Taj hotel kitchens to Junoon, Food Network, and CookUnity before self-funding Drāvida, her East Village restaurant built around South Asian food traditions carried across countries and generations.
Image: Drāvida
Ten pan-Asian and diaspora food festivals across North America worth planning around in summer 2026, from night markets to waterfront weekends and theme-park-adjacent Japanese fairs.
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Little Saigon Night Market returns to Asian Garden Mall in Westminster, California, running Friday through Sunday evenings from June 19 through August 9 with rotating Vietnamese street food, bubble tea, and live DJ sets.
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Chef Aarthi Sampath's East Village restaurant follows South Asian food traditions through India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Trinidad, Guyana, Malaysia, South Africa, and the neighborhoods that reshaped them.
Image: Drāvida
Chef Austin Kang is running MLB Breakfast Club at his Seoul restaurant Mukjung, turning awkward morning game times into a Korean-Mexican brunch ritual with player-named dishes and a social watch-party format.
Image: Yonhap News Agency / Photo via The Korea Times
As shopper interest in Asian food grows, large retailers including Whole Foods and Target are stocking more Asian grocery items in pursuit of a one-stop-shop experience.
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The AAPI Night Market returns on Capitol Mall, billed as part of the city's largest Asian American and Pacific Islander celebration.
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T&T Supermarket is opening its first California location in San Jose on June 18, marking the Canadian Asian grocer's U.S. expansion into Silicon Valley.
Image: Wolfmann / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The 2026 Sacramento Valley Korean Culture Festival ran May 30 at KP International Market in Rancho Cordova with free admission, K-pop finals, taekwondo demos, and food vendors across six hours of programming.
Image: Guillaume Paumier (user:guillom) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kimberly Kong, known as Nomtastic Kim, and her partner are building #100AsianRestaurantsInMaryland series spotlighting mom-and-pop Asian eateries statewide.
Image: Valerie Plesch / The Banner
Velveting is the Chinese prep step that keeps stir-fry chicken and shrimp tender instead of rubbery: a cornstarch-and-oil coat, a rest, then a quick par-cook before the wok. Here is how it works and why diaspora cooks are finally seeing the name match the method.
Image: Wok to Walk International, S.L. / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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