Podcasts about Thai Town

Ben Camacho is a journalist who asked for, and received from the City, over 9,000 photos of LAPD officers. When the LAPD called foul, they sicced LA City Atty Hydee Feldstein Soto on him. Hydee knew Ben was protected by common sense and the First Amendment, but she didn't care. Hydee not only lost the first case, but as the second one was about to go down her team convinced her to just settle with Ben and pay his lawyers $300,000. We talk about that, Ground Game, Knock LA, and his favorite Thai spot in Thai Town.

Jof has brought some snacks back from Thailand for Max to try. From coriander chips to crispy mango brownies, it's an interesting mix! Check it out at https://www.facebook.com/OCRFMAfternoonDelight

We're joined on today's episode by the Infatuation's Brant Cox for the first-ever in person podcast in LA Food Pod history. Brant and I met up for lunch at Mae Malai in Thai Town for some wonderful boat noodles (and much more). We caught up about what it's like to be BFFs with Chris Pine, where he's been eating lately, and oh yeah, a little thing called EEEEATSCON. That's right - EEEEATSCON is back at The Barker Hanger in Santa Monica next weekend June 8 and 9. Brant's here to spill all the delicious details, and let me tell you, this is one of those food festivals you absolutely cannot miss if you call yourself an LA food lover.  But first, Father Sal is with us to round up the week's news, including the trailer to Season 3 of The Bear, a Cathy Chaplin Eater story on mental health and burnout in the service industry, a new food media company coming to LA courtesy of The Hundreds, and widespread fatigue with Instagram-famous cookware.   Helpful links: EEEEEATSCON 2024 https://www.eeeeeatscon.com/los-angeles?utm_source=google&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=conversion_la_ec_smart&utm_term=eeeeeatscon&utm_audience=la&utm_matchtype=p&utm_id=21258913198&utm_adgroup_id=165813394207&utm_ad_id=700539019081&gclid=CjwKCAjwx-CyBhAqEiwAeOcTdW3ubiuxq2xEpWI0ivw3wj1FTUOiZE_Q9doEL8vGKKiOXUkADzuR0hoCki0QAvD_BwE Brant Cox on IG https://www.instagram.com/brantcox/ Season 3 Trailer of The Bear https://youtu.be/UHiwdDFPsZY Eater's Cathy Chaplin mental health interview with Michael Scribner https://la.eater.com/2024/5/29/24166535/sommelier-michael-scribner-los-angeles-hospitality-career-work-life-balance-mental-health Family Style food publication https://la.eater.com/2024/5/30/24167704/family-style-festival-the-hundreds-food-publication-complex-new-ownership NYT on Instagram cookware https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/dining/instagram-cookware.html -- Get 10% off at houseofmacadamias.com with the code "LAFOOD" -- Get 10% off your first order at First Light Farms (https://www.firstlight.farm/us/) using code "LAFOOD10" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thelafoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thelafoodpodcast/support

Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's Wild Wild Web!  On this edition, we're diving into a intriguing story about a town overwhelmed by a rapidly growing population of wild monkeys! We'll explore the monkey-human conflict that's been going on. Tune in for all the wild details!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports a Thai town is using trickery and ripe fruit to trap an over-abundance of curious and aggressive monkeys.

ไทย ทาวน์ ที่เมืองซิดนีย์ ออสเตรเลียนับเป็นย่านคนไทยที่ใหญ่เป็นอันดับที่ 2 ของโลก ปีนี้ครบรอบ 10 ปีที่มีการขึ้นป้ายไทย ทาวน์ ฟังเรื่องราวว่าไทย ทาวน์เริ่มขึ้นได้อย่างไร และแผนการปรับปรุงโฉมใหม่โดยเทศบาลนครซิดนีย์

สรุปข่าวประจำวัน | ออสเตรเลียเร่งป้องกันภัยทางไซเบอร์ | ข่าวไทย: ปล่อยตัวประกันไทย นายกฯไปมาเล และจีนยกเลิกเที่ยวบินมาไทย | ประวัติ Thai Town และชุมชนไทยในวันครบรอบการขึ้นป้าย 10 ปีที่ซิดนีย์ | เรียนภาษาอังกฤษศัพท์ประเภทของหนังสือและนิยาย

Over the past decade, Melbourne's Bourke Street hill has slowly morphed into a vibrant Thai Town. The originator is Thai Tide, a dynamic restaurant which has changed menu direction a number of times in its 11-year history. The chef for all that time has been Nutchanun Thongsawat. She talks us through the current iteration of Thai Tide and its celebration of regional Thai cuisines and specialty ingredients alongside premium Australian produce and local natural wines. https://www.thaitide.com.au Follow Dirty Linen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dirtylinenpodcast Follow Dani Valent https://www.instagram.com/danivalent Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Follow Huck (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it's owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.  Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

New York City is the setting for this English lesson. In this lesson, we attempt to find Thai Town or Little Bangkok, but it is much more difficult than I thought it would be. You will learn some English terms along the way like OBG-YN and pediatrician, and you will improve your English listening comprehension. Ultimately, I feel sad because we don't meet anyone who might be Thai, and we don't see any of the Thai script.

Proposition 31 aims to ban the sale of almost all flavored tobacco in cigarettes, vapes, and enhancers in California. Visoth Tarak Ouk grew up in Long Beach's Cambodia Town and joined a gang. He later found his way off the streets and into the kitchen. Rad Na Silom is a family-run food stand deep in Thai Town serving traditional Thai food to big crowds nightly.

ABOUT HALLOWEEN COOKIE CHALLENGE, MONDAY NIGHTS ON FOOD NETWORK This Halloween, candy is not the only sweet treat we'll be enjoying. Expert chef Jet Tila and baking queen Rosanna Pansino bring together four of the best cookie makers in the country to compete in two rounds of baking, decorating and 3D cookie making to prove they are the cookier to fear! The winner will take home a trick-or-treat bag filled with $10,000 and the title of Halloween Cookie Champion SELECTED EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS Cute, Creepy and Spellbound - Hosts Jet Tila and Rosanna Pansino flip the switch on Halloween as four talented cookie makers swap good and evil with their cute and creepy Halloween cookie characters. Then, the cookiers use their most deviously delicious recipes to craft 3D ancient spell books with the right amount of black magic from ingredients like black cherries, black tea, black sesame seeds and blackberries. One cookie spellcaster will earn a $10,000 prize and the title of Halloween Cookie Champion. Halloween Costumes and Haunted Houses - Halloween is fast approaching, but don't fret if you haven't decided what to be yet! In round one, hosts Jet Tila and Rosanna Pansino task four expert cookie makers with creating two costumes out of cookies! Things start to get spooky in round two as the cookiers construct 3D haunted buildings. To make sure their displays have a hauntingly delicious taste, they incorporate spirits like black raspberry liqueur, melon liqueur, absinthe and orange aperitif. One cookie monster will walk away with a trick-or-treat bag filled with $10,000 and the title of Halloween Cookie Champion. Halloween Cookie Party! - Four fantastic cookie makers look to disguise hosts Jet Tila and Rosanna Pansino with festive Halloween masks made from cookies. Then, the cookiers really get the hang of things as they craft edible Halloween party banners that can actually be hung up. The competitors will have to indulge their sweet tooth while using ingredients like candy corn, chocolate taffy, grape-flavored lollipop, and peanut butter candy. One winner will claim sweet success as they take home the $10,000 price and the title of Halloween Cookie Champion ABOUT CHEF JET TILA From the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Normandie Avenue in the heart of Los Angeles to the Las Vegas Strip; from backyard cooking classes to battling legends on "Iron Chef America"-Jet Tila has carved a singular niche as a culinary storyteller. Thanks to his diverse background and education, Tila is as comfortable as chef and consultant as he is teacher and student in the art of food. His numerous accomplishments in the culinary world continue to grow. In 2013 alone, Tila has partnered with the Compass Group, the world's largest food-service company, to launch Modern Asian Kitchen, a new fast-casual Pan-Asian concept with locations nationwide. He is also set to separately open Kuma Snow Cream, a shaved-ice concept launching in Las Vegas this spring, all while continuing to build on his extensive national TV and radio appearances as a guest judge on "Chopped," as well as hosting his own radio show on KLAA in Los Angeles. Tila grew up in his family's restaurant kitchens and markets in Los Angeles, home to the world's largest Thai population outside of Thailand. As a boy, he spent time learning the ancient traditions of Asian cuisine from his Cantonese grandmother and working in the famed Bangkok Market, which opened in 1972, and Royal Thai restaurant, which opened in 1978. "I call it birth luck," he says. "I was born into the 'first family' of Thai food in Los Angeles. My parents came here separately in 1966 and went on to open the first restaurants and grocery stores in this country and I was the kid doing homework in the back corner of the restaurant." Not initially sure if he would pursue a career in the kitchen, in his 20s, Tila says he "got it together" and decided to build a foundation for his passion and completed his culinary education at Le Cordon Bleu, establishing a framework of classical French technique to match his extensive knowledge of Asian cooking. He also completed an intensive study program at the California Sushi Academy. "My food is predominantly Thai and Chinese because it was the food I was exposed to growing up," he notes. "And my cooking overall represents the neighborhood I grew up in LA: between Thai Town, Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo." Combining kitchen experience with the bold new world of food media was a natural move for Tila, whose backyard cooking classes attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Times. He has successfully transitioned from subject to producer by writing for the Times and contributing to many other publications and multimedia platforms, including National Public Radio, the Food Network, and his appearances on the "CBS Early Show," "No Reservations," "Best Thing I Ever Ate," and battling legendary Chef Masaharu Morimoto on "Iron Chef America," among many more. A highly sought-after consultant, Tila opened the cafe at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley and also currently maintains a wildly popular Asian food line through Schwan's Home Service. He keeps close to his roots by conducting "Melting Pot Food Tours" of Thai Town in Los Angeles, offering participants a curated tour of his favorite aspects of the neighborhood. In 2009, Tila debuted the acclaimed Wazuzu, a brilliant take on Pan-Asian dining, at Steve Wynn's Encore casino and resort on the Las Vegas Strip, which he was tapped to open in a record 98 days. More recently, he launched Bistronomics, an acclaimed series of pop-up restaurant experiences in Los Angeles. Tila has also set three world records: for creating the world's largest stir fry (4,010 lbs.); the world's largest seafood stew (6,656 lbs.); and the largest California roll (422 ft.). Tila's current and future projects promise to bring him and his culinary skills to more prominence. He is currently working with the Compass Group to open Modern Asian Kitchen, a fast-casual Pan-Asian concept with locations nationwide, and is branching out on his own to open Kuma Snowcream, a shaved-ice concept launching in Las Vegas in spring 2013-the product of which he says is "like fresh, powdered snow, but that is creamy and tastes like ice cream." "At this point, I am interested in creating concepts, not just one-offs," he says. "I am and always will be a chef, but I am also always interested in new ways to combine cooking, business, and communication, since I enjoy all of them as much as I enjoy teaching people about where I come from through my food." Tila currently lives in Los Angeles with wife, Allison, their two children, as well as two dogs.

In this episode, we're celebrating our recent Webby Nomination (vote here!) with a look back at some of our favorite segments about restaurants and bars. Featuring a dive into Waffle House Records, a trip through LA's Thai Town with Thrillist writer Kat Thompson (and her Mom), a profile on Jimmy's Corner (New York's best dive), an interview with the iconic Virginia Ali of Ben's Chili Bowl in D.C., and a look into finding the best cheesesteak in Philly (if that's even possible).  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of the California Now Podcast, host Soterios Johnson talks to three Los Angeles County locals about where they go to experience the best this SoCal destination has to offer. First, Johnson speaks with Food Network star Jet Tila. The L.A. native gives Johnson a brief history of Thai Town, sharing his go-to spot to grab jade noodles and exclusive stories from his tour through the East Hollywood neighborhood with Anthony Bourdain. Tila also chats about his favorite family-friendly stops, including Griffith Park. Next, Johnson connects with Mary Forgione, author of the Los Angeles Times' e-newsletter, “The Wild.” Forgione discusses extraordinary outdoor experiences, including hiking Mt. Baldy and spotting endangered green sea turtles. She then heads to San Pedro, crafting the perfect day-trip to this coastal community. And finally, Johnson talks to Zach Brooks, general manager of Smorgasburg Los Angeles. Brooks takes Johnson on an international culinary tour through the largest weekly open-air food market in the country, sharing insights on the best bites and hot tips along the way.

On this week's episode, host Jon Steinberg gives you his top ten list of Southern California's most underrated international enclaves. His list includes: Kingsburg, Cambodia Town, Little India, the San Gabriel Valley, Little Arabia, Solvang, Thai Town, Little Italy in San Diego, Little Saigon in Orange County and Little Ethiopia on Fairfax. Instagram: @livinginthesprawlpodcastEmail: livinginthesprawlpodcast@gmail.comCheck out our favorite CBD gummy company...it helps us get better sleep and stay chill. https://www.justcbdstore.com?aff=645Check out Goldbelly for all your favorite US foods to satisfy those cravings or bring back some nostalgia. Our favorites include Junior's Chessecakes from New York, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago and a philly cheesesteak from Pat's. Use the link https://goldbelly.pxf.io/c/2974077/1032087/13451 to check out all of the options and let them know we sent you.Use code "SPRAWL" for (2) free meals and free delivery on your first Everytable subscription. Support the podcast and future exploration adventures. We are working on unique perks and will give you a shout out on the podcast to thank you for your contribution!Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast is on Podfanhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprawl  Looking to start a podcast? Buzzsprout is the best and easiest way to launch, promote and track your podcast...trust me, I did a lot of research beforehand. Let Buzzsprout know we sent you, support the show and get a $20 Amazon gift card when you sign up.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1735110Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/livinginthesprawlpodcast)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/livinginthesprawlpodcast)

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In the east side of Hollywood lives a community of immigrants who have struggled with social and economic inequalities for over 60 years. In this episode, Corey and Steve talk with Chancee Martorell, the founder and executive director of Los Angeles’ Thai Community Development Center. Chancee oversees a wide range of initiatives, including human rights advocacy, affordable housing, healthcare access, small business promotion, social enterprises and neighborhood empowerment. Together, they discuss the story of Thai Town and some of the challenges and opportunities for LA’s Thai community.

James and Danny talk about the excellent food at Ruen Pair, combos, and Sam the Cooking Guy Merch.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

คุณธนาวรรณ โรจนเวทย์ (คุณจอย) พูดคุยถึงงาน Thai Town Lunar Week ที่ซิดนีย์ จัดโดยสมาคมนักธุรกิจไทยทาวน์หรือ Thai Town Business and Thai Community Association (TBC)

Opening rather quietly without fanfare in September was the Cara Los Feliz (Hotel,) a boutique luxury property with 60 well-appointed rooms located on the western edge of Thai Town adjacent to the Los Feliz neighborhood. It’s the result of a … Continue reading → The post Show 406, January 2, 2021: Executive Chef Michael Patria and Assistant General Manager, Lana Nguyen, Cara Restaurant at Cara Los Feliz appeared first on SoCal Restaurant Show.

Helicopter journalist Stu Mundel gives us a bird's eye view of L.A.; Thrillist contributor Keisha Raines visits restaurants name-dropped in her favorite hip hop songs to see if rappers give good food recs; Producer Gabrielle Williot takes a drive with L.A. icon Angelyne the Billboard Queen; Thrillist Staff Writer Kat Thompson and her Mom visit some of their favorite places to eat in Thai Town; Thrillist LA Editor Danielle Dorsey speaks with Host Wil Fulton about her favorite bars, neighborhoods, and her Tarot-aided predictions for 2021. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Chef, TV star, and cookbook author Jet Tila's parents helped bring Thai food to the United States, and he's done his part in introducing others to Asian food, too. Tila tells Homemade host Martie Duncan about balancing flavors in a stir fry, using tamarind, and cooking with his family. The host of the Emmy- and James Beard-nominated show "Ready, Jet Cook" also shares his career highlights: competing against Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto and showing Anthony Bourdain around Thai Town on "No Reservations." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Squiz Kids is a free daily news podcast just for kids. A short weekday podcast, created here in Australia, that gives kids (and their adults) the rundown on the big news stories, delivered without opinion, and with positivity and humour. ‘Kid-friendly news that keeps them up to date without all the nasties’ (A Squiz Parent) This Australian podcast for kids easily fits into the daily routine - helping curious kids stay informed about the world around them. LINKS Thai town overrun with monkeyshttps://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/lopburi-monkey-temple-thailand-intl-hnk/index.htmlLeBron's awesome cubby: https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1316071781476704257Jet-fighter of the bird worldhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/13/jet-fighter-godwit-breaks-world-record-for-non-stop-bird-flightSquiz Kids Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/squizkids/?hl=en See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew regales us with the history of his old LA neighborhood known as East Hollywood aka Little Armenia aka Thai Town. The boys discuss the presence of the Church of Scientology in the area, the delicious Thai food they used to eat there, and Seth talks about a time he vomited on the subway!Follow us @yourenotgonnnalikethispod on Instagram and @yonopod on TwitterEmail us at yonopod@gmail.com Subscribe to our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj6BMgBD29WAHi9xbYLK8WwSources:Early History of East Hollywoodhttps://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-east-hollywood-20160903-snap-story.htmlhttps://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Hollywood_(1850-1920).htmlCedars of Lebanon and the Church of Scientologyhttps://www.cedars-sinai.org/content/dam/cedars-sinai/about-us/documents/HistPersp703.pdfhttps://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/los-angeles-in-buildings-scientology-pacific-area-command-base1992 civil unrest's affect on the neighborhoodhttps://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fw-times-riot-photos-unfurled-20170427-htmlstory.htmlhttps://spreadsheets.latimes.com/la-riots-deaths/Armenian Immigration to Southern California https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6v04w06xhttps://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-armenian-immigration-to-glendale-struggle-soujouk-and-the-survivor-generation-20150424-story.htmlCreation of Thai Town and Little Armenia https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/thai-town-20/http://thaicdc.org/research/swotfullreport.pdfhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-07-me-32895-story.htmlLA Times Statistical Profile of East Hollywoodhttp://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/east-hollywoodGentrification in East Hollywoodhttps://www.lataco.com/side-hoover-archiving-gentrification-east-hollywood-one-portrait-time

We're back again with another quarantined episode, and we're also straying away from California's Gold a bit to check in on one of the most entertaining episodes of Visiting! Huell is visiting Thai Town in Los Angeles and a quick concert by none other than Thai Elvis! This episodes can not be missed. Thanks again for joining us on our most excellent Huell adventures!!!

Patrick Jenkins, an Australian who can speak Thai, tells us why he goes around Thai Town to interview Thais in Sydney about their opinions on various topics for his YouTube channel. He also reveals how he learn Thai and how he keep his Thai speaking skills up with out any opportunity to use Thai language in his daily life. - คุณแพดดี แพทริก เจนคินส์ หนุ่มออสซีที่พูดไทยคล่อง เล่าถึงความสนุกในการตระเวนสัมภาษณ์คนไทยที่ซิดนีย์เพื่อทำวีดีโอยูทิวบ์ Thai Talk with Paddy พร้อมเผยเขาเรียนภาษาไทยอย่างไรจึงได้พูดเก่งเขียนเก่งขนาดนี้

Flavorcast gets a care package from Thailand! When Adam and Jesse open the box they find that two chip bags exploded and they rush to record an episode before the chips get stale. The chips are down. Will Flavorcast turn it around? Thank you Joe for the flavors, and Ben for the music. Thai Town episode on Sound Contours - http://soundcontours.octofoil.info/2017/11/01/episode-28-thai-town/ Twitter: twitter.com/flavorcast Email: flavorcast.podcast@gmail.com Leave us a voice message: speakpipe.com/flavorcast

Hey hey cosmic cousins! Welcome back to another week of soul-centered astrology. I am currently couch surfing at the moment, in Thai Town in Los Angeles, so definitely riding the ocean wave’s of Pisces Season. What an incredibly magical and mysterious time of year. Now is a time for us to stay focused and grounded in our rituals. This is super important during Pisces time of year, and it’s something the Virgo Moon invites us into this week. So we’ll talk about that on the show today. You can look forward to a deep dive into understanding of the Virgo Moon, how it balances Pisces energy, and ritual and meditation you can partake in to make the most of this transit.    We’re also going to be honoring the life of and celebrating the birthday of the incredible Pisces Sun, Nina Simone. As a trained musician, jazz vocalist, and social activist in the civil rights movement, Nina Simone helped to usher in a world in alignment with the higher virtues and values of universality. So to be sure, she is a Cosmic Cousin we can all look up to. Her chart is off the wall, with 5 planets in the first house, and her Sun Moon and Rising are the last three signs of the cosmic wheel of expansion, Capricorn Moon, Aquarius Rising, Pisces Sun. So we’re gonna get into all of that! And listen to some clips of her songs for research purposes, including: 'Mississippi Goddamn,' 'Sea-Line Woman,' 'Feelin' Good,' and of course the great 'Young, Gifted, and Black.' If you are familiar with Nina Simone, you know her voice and music is filled with an Ocean of Emotion, so it’s no surprise she’s a Pisces Sun!   And then this episode rounds off with an incredibly intimate and sweet interview with incredible Pisces Sun Birth Doula, Catalina Clark. Which her birthday is today. Happy Solar Return Catalina! She shares her journey transitioning from working in Night Life in NYC, to finding yoga, moving into pre-natal yoga, and then working with pregnant women and mothers as a doubla. Which is super cool, because she’s a Cancer Rising, so we see that being reflected there too. Beautiful beautiful Pisces woman, and it was such an honor to interview her. So I hope you stick around for that too! Check her instagram out at @catalina.clark   Now that I am in Los Angeles, I have more time and space for astrology readings. I will also be adding space for some deep dive one-on-one mentorships in the weeks to come. You can find out more informtion on that at www.astrologycousins.com. You can also follow @astrology.cousins. And please remember to rate, subscribe, follow, and share. Happy Virgo Full Moon, y'all!

In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, empire, race, immigration, and Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century. Flavors of Empire explores how Thai food became hyper-visible in the United States, and yet Thai people have remained relatively invisible in American life. The story of Thai food in America begins with U.S. informal empire and culinary tourism in Thailand in the 1950s. Subsequent migration and settlement in LA spurred a Thai restaurant boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Padoongpatt investigates how these culinary contact zones helped shape Thai identity while remaining attentive to tensions over ethnicity, class, and gender in these spaces. The commercially driven, multicultural sensibility that made Thai cuisine popular among Angelenos had its limits, however, and Padoongpatt uses the clash over a weekend food festival at a Thai Buddhist temple to highlight conflicting modes of suburbanization. By the 1990s, the Thai community could organize politically, and used local culinary tourism to stimulate equitable economic development in the newly designated Thai Town neighborhood of LA. As the story of Thai cuisine in the U.S. continues to unfold, Flavors of Empire urges readers to think critically about the long journeys—both geographic and historical—that our food has taken to get to our plates. Ian Shin is C3-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the History Department at Bates College, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century. Ian welcomes listener questions and feedback at kshin@bates.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, empire, race, immigration, and Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century. Flavors of Empire explores how Thai food became hyper-visible in the United States, and yet Thai people have remained relatively invisible in American life. The story of Thai food in America begins with U.S. informal empire and culinary tourism in Thailand in the 1950s. Subsequent migration and settlement in LA spurred a Thai restaurant boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Padoongpatt investigates how these culinary contact zones helped shape Thai identity while remaining attentive to tensions over ethnicity, class, and gender in these spaces. The commercially driven, multicultural sensibility that made Thai cuisine popular among Angelenos had its limits, however, and Padoongpatt uses the clash over a weekend food festival at a Thai Buddhist temple to highlight conflicting modes of suburbanization. By the 1990s, the Thai community could organize politically, and used local culinary tourism to stimulate equitable economic development in the newly designated Thai Town neighborhood of LA. As the story of Thai cuisine in the U.S. continues to unfold, Flavors of Empire urges readers to think critically about the long journeys—both geographic and historical—that our food has taken to get to our plates. Ian Shin is C3-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the History Department at Bates College, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century. Ian welcomes listener questions and feedback at kshin@bates.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, empire, race, immigration, and Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century. Flavors of Empire explores how Thai food became hyper-visible in the United States, and yet Thai people have remained relatively invisible in American life. The story of Thai food in America begins with U.S. informal empire and culinary tourism in Thailand in the 1950s. Subsequent migration and settlement in LA spurred a Thai restaurant boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Padoongpatt investigates how these culinary contact zones helped shape Thai identity while remaining attentive to tensions over ethnicity, class, and gender in these spaces. The commercially driven, multicultural sensibility that made Thai cuisine popular among Angelenos had its limits, however, and Padoongpatt uses the clash over a weekend food festival at a Thai Buddhist temple to highlight conflicting modes of suburbanization. By the 1990s, the Thai community could organize politically, and used local culinary tourism to stimulate equitable economic development in the newly designated Thai Town neighborhood of LA. As the story of Thai cuisine in the U.S. continues to unfold, Flavors of Empire urges readers to think critically about the long journeys—both geographic and historical—that our food has taken to get to our plates. Ian Shin is C3-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the History Department at Bates College, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century. Ian welcomes listener questions and feedback at kshin@bates.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, empire, race, immigration, and Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century. Flavors of Empire explores how Thai food became hyper-visible in the United States, and yet Thai people have remained relatively invisible in American life. The story of Thai food in America begins with U.S. informal empire and culinary tourism in Thailand in the 1950s. Subsequent migration and settlement in LA spurred a Thai restaurant boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Padoongpatt investigates how these culinary contact zones helped shape Thai identity while remaining attentive to tensions over ethnicity, class, and gender in these spaces. The commercially driven, multicultural sensibility that made Thai cuisine popular among Angelenos had its limits, however, and Padoongpatt uses the clash over a weekend food festival at a Thai Buddhist temple to highlight conflicting modes of suburbanization. By the 1990s, the Thai community could organize politically, and used local culinary tourism to stimulate equitable economic development in the newly designated Thai Town neighborhood of LA. As the story of Thai cuisine in the U.S. continues to unfold, Flavors of Empire urges readers to think critically about the long journeys—both geographic and historical—that our food has taken to get to our plates. Ian Shin is C3-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the History Department at Bates College, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century. Ian welcomes listener questions and feedback at kshin@bates.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, empire, race, immigration, and Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century. Flavors of Empire explores how Thai food became hyper-visible in the United States, and yet Thai people have remained relatively invisible in American life. The story of Thai food in America begins with U.S. informal empire and culinary tourism in Thailand in the 1950s. Subsequent migration and settlement in LA spurred a Thai restaurant boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Padoongpatt investigates how these culinary contact zones helped shape Thai identity while remaining attentive to tensions over ethnicity, class, and gender in these spaces. The commercially driven, multicultural sensibility that made Thai cuisine popular among Angelenos had its limits, however, and Padoongpatt uses the clash over a weekend food festival at a Thai Buddhist temple to highlight conflicting modes of suburbanization. By the 1990s, the Thai community could organize politically, and used local culinary tourism to stimulate equitable economic development in the newly designated Thai Town neighborhood of LA. As the story of Thai cuisine in the U.S. continues to unfold, Flavors of Empire urges readers to think critically about the long journeys—both geographic and historical—that our food has taken to get to our plates. Ian Shin is C3-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the History Department at Bates College, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century. Ian welcomes listener questions and feedback at kshin@bates.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, empire, race, immigration, and Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century. Flavors of Empire explores how Thai food became hyper-visible in the United States, and yet Thai people have remained relatively invisible in American life. The story of Thai food in America begins with U.S. informal empire and culinary tourism in Thailand in the 1950s. Subsequent migration and settlement in LA spurred a Thai restaurant boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Padoongpatt investigates how these culinary contact zones helped shape Thai identity while remaining attentive to tensions over ethnicity, class, and gender in these spaces. The commercially driven, multicultural sensibility that made Thai cuisine popular among Angelenos had its limits, however, and Padoongpatt uses the clash over a weekend food festival at a Thai Buddhist temple to highlight conflicting modes of suburbanization. By the 1990s, the Thai community could organize politically, and used local culinary tourism to stimulate equitable economic development in the newly designated Thai Town neighborhood of LA. As the story of Thai cuisine in the U.S. continues to unfold, Flavors of Empire urges readers to think critically about the long journeys—both geographic and historical—that our food has taken to get to our plates. Ian Shin is C3-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the History Department at Bates College, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century. Ian welcomes listener questions and feedback at kshin@bates.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Al talks about his birthday, New Years Eve, eating in Thai Town, having a low key Christmas, encouraging a panhandler to pursue a career in sales and going to the DMV.

Enjoy a mix of vintage Luk Thang 45s, ripped from a stack of singles brought over from Thailand by our cousin and good friend. Here's the best hour of material. I try to provide an authentic rendering of each disc, while avoiding the harsher surface noise, clicks, and scratches from the vinyl. Information about some of these Luk Thang picks is available online, but many remain mysterious. My partially reconstructed tracklist has tunes by Sangsuree Rungroj, Sayan Sanya, Winai Bundarak, and Chaloemphon Hit Donchai, but we know up to ten other unknown artists are featured. Who, for instance, is behind the cover of Serge Gainsbourg's J'taime Moi Non Plus? Whatever the answer, dip into the retro vibe of Thai Town, the first of four new episodes to be released over upcoming weeks tracing the varying strains of sound among international musics. Tracklist: Sangsuree Rungroj - Mixed, Sayan Sanya - Unknown, Sayan Sanya - Some Old Love, Sayan Sanya - Do Not Fall For The Rumor, Sayan Sanya - Borderman, Unknown Artist - J'taime Moi Non Plus, Chaloemphon Hit Donchai - Past Love Buddhist Lent Day, or Past Love Rainy Season, Chaloemphon Hit Donchai - Won Mae Engagement Girl, Winai Bandurak - Mexican Sunflower, or Tree Marigold

My guest this show is Dwayne Perkins - standup comedian, actor, author, and fellow podcaster. In this episode, we discuss: What is a "foodie?" How Dwayne likes his sandwiches at Subway, and his tea at Starbucks. PG Tips n Toast. Body Image, Diet, The Four Hour Body, and Dwayne's Morning Shake Recipe, and the wonderful world of Green Smoothies. Eating at Comedy Clubs - The Glee in Birmingham, Hunan Food in China, Comedy Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, The Ha Ha Cafe and The Improv. Thai Town food (Ruen Pair) Theme music by Goh Nakamura. Keep in touch via Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @mslynnchen. xo Lynn

Colin Marshall sits down at the intersection of Los Feliz, Thai Town, and Little Armenia with Caleb Bacon, writer on the TBS sitcom Sullivan and Son and host of the podcast Man School (as well as the podcast Sullivan and Son: Behind the Bar). They discuss his feeling in his own guest seat; his move to Los Angeles from Albany purely in search of "good times and good weather"; the deliberately old-school-sitcom nature of Sullivan and Son, and the opportunity its Philadelphia setting provides for racist jokes; how it feels to work simultaneously in "old" and "new" media; how he fell into television, and how he deliberately entered podcasting during the Great Podcasting Boom of '09; why he even focused his first podcast The Gentlemen's Club on men's interests; how he soon came to interview, alternately, comedians and pornstars, and what the overall combination taught him about humanity and the Los Angeles entertainment industry; the conversations he had with other men as he pulled his own life into shape, what he learned from them, and how that experience fueled Man School; the riches of "real stuff" yielded by genuine-curiosity-driven conversations, even outside of podcasting, as when he once met a retail clerk who mentioned getting kidnapped in Africa (and then invited him to come on Man School); whether our generation has become worse at being men than previous generations; how social fragmentation, of Los Angeles' type and others, has led men to have less meaningful communication with one another; his interest in the rules that new-media creators, in their ostensibly rule-free environments, inevitably create; Thai Town's enduring Seinfeld billboard; Man School's first live show at the Los Angeles Podcast Festival; the grand lessons he's learned from man-to-man conversations, such as the importance of slight progress adding up to big progress, and what travel teaches you about yourself; and the value of simple suggestions like "Hey man, just be cool," or, simpler still, "Don't be a jerk." 

Ep. 39 - Coachella is just two weeks away, and this week our guest is Cut Chemist (aka Lucas MacFadden) the brilliant turntablist from one of the headliners we're most excited to see, Jurassic 5.  Lucas tells us what it was like growing up in what's now Thai Town w/ musicians like Biz Markie, Wil Dog from Ozomatli, and Zach de la Rocha. Plus he shares his recipe for amazing chicken wings, shows us how to eat horse dick, and most amazingly gets Zach to consider juicing. Follow him on Twitter @cut_chemist and for god's sake, like his food photos on Instagram so he'll post more of them!