When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

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I blog because I have something to say.

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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

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I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

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I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

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