Lunchbox Moments

AAPI artists and writers exploring our relationships with food and cultural identity. Charity zine available for pre-order soon.

09/26/2021

MASSIVE THANK YOU for all of your support. We have donated over $6,000 to and digital sales are continuing on our website through October.

08/11/2021

Believe it or not, this past weekend was the first time our three co-curators saw each other in person since the start of the pandemic!
Stop 1 was dim sum at

08/07/2021

Thank you for listing in your weekend roundup!

08/05/2021

Our designers and illustrated food items to match those referenced in some of our stories.

Each item can be found in the table of contents and in its corresponding piece in the exact same placement on the page. This choice emphasizes the paper cutout motif by making each drawing appear as if it was carved out of the page itself.

Which food items can you recognize?

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08/03/2021

Digital PDF version now available!

Thanks to all of your wonderful support, we have sold out our entire print run and have now raised over $6,000 for !

We still want to share our stories, so a PDF version is now available at a suggested contribution of $15, but with the option to name your own price. Link in bio.

08/01/2021

*Shipping Update* All orders will ship this week!

If you already received a shipping notification, your copy is with the USPS even if the tracking number doesn’t show the package as scanned.

07/21/2021

We are now shipping! And excited to announce that the print run has sold out.

Digital PDF versions will soon be available on our shop with a suggested contribution of $15.

07/06/2021

This isn’t our zine, this is the wonderful work of and their collection of work on Chinatowns.

We can’t wait to read it.

06/30/2021

The physical proof is here!
We’re getting ready to print, and it’s incredible to hold Lunchbox Moments in our hands.

It’s your last chance to purchase a physical copy (link in bio) so don’t miss out.

06/21/2021

AAPI cookbooks we love by Diann: Andrea Nguyen's Vietnamese Food Any Day. What I love about this cookbook is how she provides culturally appropriate substitutions to famed Vietnamese flavors and foodways. It's not just replace _ with _ because you can, but out of the necessity of creating similar flavor profiles with more accessible ingredients. Ever since I purchased this cookbook from , I've found myself "accidentally" having the right ingredients to make one of her recipes - a testament to the mileage of possibilities with her recipes. Notably, while doing a dumpling demo for my pro culinary program , Andrea was the first person I encountered who validated that it's *not uncommon* to use a tortilla press to make dumpling wrappers (as my grandma always did) - that such a practice was again a reflection of diasporic necessity.

06/18/2021

Shirley's comfort food this week: I've been missing that particular crunch meets savory sauciness that HK-style crispy noodles brings. I decided to make some with what I had in the pantry - spaghetti, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, baby bok choy, green onions, garlic, and fish-flavored tofu. Years ago, while married to a vegetarian, I started adapting recipes into vegetarian versions. I believe I adapted Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's recipe years ago, and now I just make this out of habit. (If using regular tofu, I would have marinated it.) Here, I used some of the mushroom soaking water for the sauce, thickened with cornstarch, and seasoned with shaohsing wine, vegetarian oyster sauce, soy, sesame oil, and white pepper. This hit the spot!

06/16/2021

Part of the inspiration for our zine was born out of the desire to showcase narratives above and beyond the disgusting immigrant food trope, much like this piece.

https://www.eater.com/22239499/lunchbox-moment-pop-culture-tropes

Posted • For I wrote about the seemingly ubiquitous “lunchbox moment,” and what happens when a story that is very real for a lot of immigrants/children of immigrants is flattened into a trope. Link in bio!

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