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IE EDITORIAL
MAIL BONDING
Letter from the Editor
What’s in
a Name?
DIEM LY
Editor in Chief
bears a made-up name. “Rango” was born
Ho Le. I don’t think his first name bothered
him as a child growing up in Arkansas
after his family escaped from Vietnam. But
when high school struck, the first name
began to weigh on him through taunts and
teasing, snickers and silence. He tried the
name Scott for a few weeks, Tommy on
another occasion. Then a lightning bolt
hit him. The perfect name. He watched
the 1990s film “Tombstone” — the one
about Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the
Ok Corral, starring Kurt Russell. In it, the
meanest antagonist of all (this
side of the Mississippi), was
a character named Ringo.
Ringo was a tough-talking
cowboy, fast with his sixshooter, and fearless. And
cool. A wide-eyed young
Ho Le thought that embodied who he wanted to be.
Unfortunately, who he wanted to be was
misjudged by a letter. He misunderstood
the “i” in Ringo and thought it was Rango.
Thus, I’d meet a Rango Le, who’d in turn,
meet a Donna Marie.
He’d later run into a young woman
also named Ho, but with a slight variation
in Vietnamese pronunciation. Her English
was poor and clearly had little idea her
name was a derogatory term. He didn’t
tell her. Maybe it’s better that way.
Over time, I ran into several other
instances of Asians and Asian Americans
trying to win the name game. Some
friends of a young man said he had socalled “black features” (whatever that
means) and nicknamed him “Jackson.”
The name stuck.
Teen cousins from Vietnam who
arrived just under a year ago, are changing their Vietnamese names to Western
sounding ones in an effort to assimilate
and fit in. It’ll make their transition easier,
they say. Chuc, pronounced “Troop” will
be “Jennifer” while a brother, Tan, will
be “Steven.” We shared with them that
Seattle is diverse and they’ll run into others with Asian names, so it wasn’t necessary to change it, but they’re adamant.
Ambition was on Rango’s mother’s
mind when she named their last son,
Richie. Enough said.
Every API has a story about names –
it’s really a story of identity. And since
identity is singularly a story of one’s own
creation, it’s up to each person to consider what story they want to tell.
So whether a person has an Asian name,
a Western one, or something in between,
it’ll have a role to play in one’s life, the
ultimate telling of their personal history. My
suggestion is, “Be authentic to you.”
It’s easier to remember.
DIANE
“It’s not Diem – it’s Diane!”
Fifth
grade.
Mukilteo
Elementary. The playground. I
was swinging upside down from the
monkey bars, legs folded over the metal,
talking to a friend who swung beside me.
Our hair nearly touched the bark on the
ground. It smelled of pine and recess. We
pulled ourselves up and jumped down.
“My real name is actually Diane, not
Diem,” I said matter-of-factly to my playground pal. “That’s just some Vietnamese
name my parents gave me.”
“Oh, ok. I like Diane,” she said. “It’s
easier to remember.”
The bell rang and we raced back to
class. The alternate name “Diane” never
caught on. By the mid-1990s, initialized
names were cool and I hopped on the
bandwagon. Instead of pronouncing my
name “Yeam” which is the correct way
to say “Diem,” over time, I pronounced it
“DM.” Some time during middle school I
fabricated that the initials were short for
“Donna Marie.” I did anything I could to
appear just as everyone else.
I dreaded roll call. Teachers could
never pronounce my name and looked
annoyed at me for putting them through
the ordeal. As I later learned, I wasn’t
alone in my name struggle.
My oldest brother is An — pronounced just as it appears, similar to
the girl’s name, Anne. For a brother who
was born and raised in the states and
had mostly Caucasian friends, this was a
blow. At one point, while answering the
phone, a person on the other end asked
for an “Anthony.” I said there was no
Anthony here, until my brother rushed
up, grabbed the phone, and began to
chat excitedly. He must’ve known where
Anthony was.
Years later, when I got married, the issue
of names came up again. My husband
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Jagged Noodles:
Portland:
Natural Habitat
of the Hipster
BY HUY X. LE
IE Columnist
After watching on average of four
hours of TV each day, Jameelah and I
have taken the first steps to doing more
self-actualizing hobbies (i.e., we ordered
a bunch of art supplies from Amazon).
Before I became addicted to Netflix and
reruns of Friends, I drew crap, wrote a
lot, and took pictures of stuff. Now,
it has been endless slogs through the
11-hour work day, followed by watching
other people do stuff. Sure, it was stressfree, but life is not about relaxation. It’s
about the struggles to create! To express!
To livvvvve, livvvvve….
And there is no better place to do all
the above than Portland, Oregon, one
of the most interesting cities we’ve been
to. We went there to visit our friends.
Portland is an awesome vortex of weirdness and kick-assery. Sure, we were only
there for a day and a night, but it’s enough
to get a good sense of the city, which is a
beautiful place and very clean.
Fifty percent of the people there are
hipsters. Hipsters are wackos who wear
horrible clothing, including impossibly
skinny jeans, stupid hats and scarves,
lens-less glasses, have asymmetric hair,
one or more piercings, don’t bathe for
days, and project an aura that make
you want to throw bars of soap at them.
Portland seems to be their natural habitat,
so it was fascinating watching them. At
one point, one of them passed by. He
was wearing tight blue spandex shorts,
a button-down yellow shirt with a black
vest, a pink hat, and his lips and brows
were pierced. On his back, I swear, was
a wooden sword!! Seconds later, a goth
hipster waddled by with her equally
bizarre-looking hipster boyfriend. I didn’t
notice the boyfriend much, since I was
distracted by the girl’s yellow and black
Batman underwear, which was showing
because her extra skinny black jeans were
sagging. The courtship habbits of hipsters
is something that would make an interest-
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The rest of the city comprises hippies,
yuppies, and homeless people. On every
street corner were homeless kids begging
for change or some Voodoo Donuts, which
is a famous donut joint in Portland. They
are famous, by the way, partly because of
the phallic shape of one of their pastries,
which we will subtly call “C & B.” The line
wrapped halfway down the block, past an
adult video store/movie theater. So there we were, waiting in line
for our donuts, observing the hipsters
as they socialized, hunted for food,
and avoided natural predators, which is
almost everyone. Jameelah was ordering for me, but she can be excessively
indecisive when the stakes are low. “Get
the maple bar and the vegan C and B,” I
said. “What’s C and B,” she asked. “@#%
and &^%$,” I whispered. “OK,” she said,
though it was obvious she was distracted. Five minutes later she asked, “What
did you want again?” “The C and B,” I
said. “What’s C and B again?” she asked.
“@#% and &^%$!” said our friends. Five
minutes later: “OK,” she said, “I’m getting anxious. There are so many options!
What do you want?” “C and B,” I said.
“What’s C and B?” she asked. ““@#%
and &^%$!!” we screamed in unison,
drawing the attention of several people.
The donuts were delicious, even better
with the dirty jokes we made while eating them.
At night, we ventured out to observe
the nocturnal hipsters, hitting a dance
club, where a dozen or so Yager Bombs
later, we were bouncing along with the
music and the scantily-clad women on
the platform overlooking the dance floor.
I noticed something. There were no hipsters in the club! Hipsters, apparently, are
averse to dancing.
Overall, I was quite fond of Portland.
The combo of hipsters, yuppies, hippies,
and homeless and how they interact is
fascinating — kind of like a movie or a
TV show, actually. The night scene is also
pretty nice, and there is quite a huge population of vegans, so there was vegan food
everywhere. And all sorts of art and handmade jewelry and crap like that. Hipster
lifestyle is the opposite of ours right now,
and I can’t help but envy it a little: to live
without caring that you look like you were
dressed by blindfolded monkeys, to be
free of societal rules of normal behavior, to
wear a wooden sword on your back for no
reason, to be free, free. Maybe the hipsters
are on to something.
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at: www.jaggednoodles.com.
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April 18, 2012 - May 1, 2012 —— 3
IE NEWS
The Kong family: (left to right) Christopher, Lily, Alexander and David.
Viva Perché No!
A Queen Anne Italian eatery
specializes in homemade pastas
and authentic cuisine.
BY COLLIN TONg
IE Contributor
Collin Tong is a former International Examiner
staff reporter and contributing writer for
Crosscut Public Media.
It’s been a long odyssey from Southeast Asia for David
and Lily Kong, owners of Perche No Pasta & Vino, one of
Seattle’s most popular Italian restaurants. While Malaysia
NEWS PULSE > > >
After Shootings at Oakland
College, a Scholar Urges a
Nuanced Look at Stereotypes
and Bullying
In discussing the tragic incident
recently in which former student One L.
Goh, a 43-year-old Korean immigrant,
killed seven people at Oikos University,
a religious college in Oakland, Calif. on
April 2, professor Kevin K. Kumashiro
suggests that we re-frame the conversation from “What’s up with Koreans?”
to “What’s up with the way we view
Koreans?” Oikos-Daily reported that after
the Oikos shootings, conversations in
the fields of Asian American Studies
and Multicultural Education focused less
on the fact that the shooter was Asian.
Instead, their concerns were about bullying — and its potential repercussions,
and Burma may seem an unlikely beginning
for two restaurateurs, David and Lily’s journey has been improbable from the start.
A native of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and
the son of Chinese parents, David landed in
Berkeley, Calif. during the student upheavals
in the early 1970s and worked at King Tzen,
a popular Chinese eatery just north of the
University of California campus.
Lily was a waitress at the Pot Sticker,
a Chinese restaurant in San Mateo, when
they first met. She grew up in Chiangmai,
Thailand but was born in Burma. They were
married in 1983 and have two sons. During
his years in the Bay Area, under the tutelage of an accomplished Tuscan chef from
Lucca, Renzo Meraville, David learned the
fine art of Italian cuisine.
David and Lily always dreamed of
starting their own Italian restaurant, and
two years after their move to Seattle in
1990, they accomplished that goal when
they established Perche No [“Why Not”?]
in lower Queen Anne. They moved to
their present location near Green Lake and
Wallingford in 2006.
Housed in a handsome three-storied, custom-built
Italian-style building, Perche No Pasta & Vino, as it’s
now called, has a become a favorite, award-winning
restaurant catering to the likes of such diverse clientele
as the late Gov. Albert Rosselini, Shannon Lee, daughter
of Bruce Lee, Seattle Storm’s Sue Bird, and the Green
Bay Packers.
Inspired by a picturesque building that Lily visited in
Bologna, Italy, the restaurant sports a Tuscan red-tiled
roof, brick and plaster walls, and Italian lighting. The
spacious interior features an open kitchen, private dining
room, inviting wine bar and outdoor patio. The atmosphere is friendly and inviting.
Cooking runs in the family. David and Lily’s elder
son, 25-year-old Christopher, who was born in San
Francisco, is a Roosevelt High School and Western
Washington University graduate and the restaurant’s sous-
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chef. Alexander, 21, a Seattle native and also a Roosevelt
High School graduate, is the waiter/pre-cook. Lily manages the restaurant and David is the head chef.
David and Lily proudly showcased their restaurant
during my recent visit. Perche No Pasta & Vino has ample
indoor and outdoor seating that can accommodate large
groups. The bar features more than 150 hand-selected
wines, dozens of varieties of grappa, and an impressive
array of liqueurs.
The extensive cuisine features homemade pastas,
prosciutto, antipasta, and limoncello. “Each dish item
is made fresh to order,” David said. One of their favorite antipasta dishes is “Salume alla Perche No,” made
with home-cured prosciutto pork, wild boar and lamb,
served with green olives. Another signature appetizer
is “Portobello Funghi alla Griglia,” a marinated grilled
Portobello mushroom.
Their signature salad is “Arugula con Limone e Caprino,”
a very popular dish in Italy. The salad is a combination of
goat cheese, marinated pepper, and lemon dressing. An
excellent warm salad is “Lattuga alla Lily,” which is made
of grilled heart of romaine with melted gorgonzola cheese,
pine nuts, and reduction balsamic vinegar.
The local chef’s favorite dish is “Capellini con Sardine,”
a mouth-watering combination of garlic, sardine capers,
and parmesan cheese. My favorite pasta dish is “Ravioli
Portobello al Pomodoro,” cooked with handmade tomato
ravioli with Portobello mushrooms in fresh sage butter
and white truffle oil.
For children ages 10 and under, there is a Children’s
Healthy Menu. Catering and wedding banquet services
are available as well as private parties. David also offers
private cooking classes.
On the last Monday of every month, the restaurant
features “Malaysian Night” with a wide menu of dishes
from “Kari Puff,” “Satay Ayam” to “Laksa Lemak.”
For fine Italian cuisine and a unique dining experience, Perche No Pasta & Vino is well worth a visit.
The restaurant is located at 1319 N. 49th Street, Seattle,
WA 98103. It’s open Tuesday to Thursday from 4 to 10
p.m., Fridays to Saturdays from 4 to 11 p.m., and Sunday
from 4 to 10 p.m. The restaurant is closed on Monday.
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>>>
said Kumashiro, who is a professor of Oakland office park that enrolls fewer
Asian American Studies and Education than 100 students, professor Kumashiro
at the University of Illinois
urged colleges to view the
at Chicago.
incident through a differFor
some
Asian
ent lens. Whenever a stuAmericans, the deaths at
dent lashes out with vioOikos University rekindled
lent behavior, said Mr.
uncomfortable memories of
Kumashiro, the “richer conanother campus shooting
versation” focuses not on
perpetrated by a student of
quick observations about
Korean descent. Five years
race, gender, or sexual
ago this month, Seung-Hui
orientation, but on other
Cho shot and killed 32 peofactors that may also have
ple at Virginia Tech before
contributed to the outturning the gun on himself.
burst. The Oikos shootings
In the weeks following the
offer an opportunity to talk
crime, Cho’s ethnic idenabout broader tensions in
tity figured prominently
how students relate to one
One L. Goh
in news reports as details
another, Mr. Kumashiro
emerged that he had felt ostracized on the said. As the police investigation continBlacksburg, Va., campus.
ues, for instance, more information about
The day after the shootings at Oikos, the gunman’s background has emerged
an unaccredited institution in an east that may explain his motive: A former
nursing student, Goh is reported to have
been angry at Oikos administrators over
having been teased in class for his poor
English-speaking skills.
As these facts came into view,
Kumashiro said his conversations with
colleagues in the fields of Asian American
Studies and Multicultural Education have
focused less on the fact that the shooter
was Asian. Instead, their concerns were
about bullying — and its potential consequences.
“Here’s another example of someone
who’s experienced a pattern of harassment and then goes through this very
traumatic act,” he said. “I know so many
students at this university who hint, or
who will discreetly share stories of being
the targets of teasing — even light teasing
— for all kinds of reasons. So you wonder,
what’s under the surface that I can’t see?
What kinds of problems are brewing that
could lead to something like this?”
4 —— April 18, 2012 - May 1, 2012
IE NEWS
Left: Poncharee Kounpungchart “PK” and her husband Wiley Frank at Central District’s Little Uncle.
Above: Marin Caccam and her brother, Shota, at the ID’s Tsukushinbo.
Photo credits: Jintana Lityouvong.
Small Eateries, Big Appetite
BY Jintana lityouvong
IE Contributor
that we make,” said Frank. “If we had
a large grand restaurant I think it might
change the way our food comes out and
the way people might enjoy it.”
The quaint thing about the experience,
other than its intimacy, is that food is
delivered wrapped in brown paper and
twine — reminiscent of the way food is
served in some Thai villages.
The Little Uncle menu only has five
dishes Wiley and Kounpungchart have
perfected.
“We don’t feel like we need to have a
really large expensive menu,” explained
Frank. “Our pad thai is pad thai that some
guys were making in PK’s hometown for
20 years and he told us all the secrets.”
To differentiate themselves from other
Thai restaurants in the area, Little Uncle
uses organic and local ingredients as well
as homemade sauces in their dishes. “Our
pad thai is sublime and it’s simple. That’s
kind of how we approach all of our dishes
here. There’s a reason why we put each
ingredient into each dish.”
While Frank believes “it would be nice
to have 20 seats and a few more feet in the
kitchen someday,” Tsukushinbo’s Caccam
does not have any interest in expanding.
“We’re not going to expand,” she said.
“We’re not going to move. We’re going to
stay like this. We’ve been like this for 18
years so we’re going to keep it like this forever. We like how we’re kind of hidden.”
Both restaurants do not advertise but
are not worried with the help from loyal
customers and word of mouth. Hidden
gems don’t stay hidden for long when
word of mouth of a great restaurant
spreads like wildfire.
Frank said, “People always ask us what
our advertising budget is. We don’t have
one. We just serve good food.”
His answer is about as simple as the
way he serves food: traditionally, freshly,
and the way he chooses to. After all, you
don’t eat ambience.
If you blink while passing by, you might
miss it. If you didn’t blink, you still might
even miss it. The gray and aging exterior
of Tsukushinbo in Seattle’s Old Japantown
blends into the building and the restaurant’s lack of a sign does not help. But
pass by during a popular lunch rush (such
as one Friday afternoon when they have
their “special ramen day”) and you can’t
ignore the long lines of people waiting to
be seated in the tiny restaurant.
If you’re lucky and only have to wait
about an hour in line, you’ll enter a small,
laid back dining area that has shown definite signs of age and disregard with décor
that hasn’t changed in decades. But once
you’re seated and get your meal, you’re
reminded of why you waited.
“People definitely come here for the
food,” said Marin Caccam, the server
and general manager of Tsukushinbo, a
family-owned and family-run business
operating in the International District
since the early 1990s. Caccam’s parents
started the business around 18 years ago
and now work in the kitchen while their
son, Caccam’s brother, Shota, works as
the sushi chef.
“My brother’s sushi presentation is
extravagant. He puts so much effort into
it and went through a lot of training to
make what he’s making right now. And
the food in the kitchen is so traditional
and authentic that it’s so hard to get
nowadays,” said Caccam.
Like the décor, Tsukushinbo’s food and
values have not changed much since they
opened. Caccam’s family embraces tradition, fresh food and sticks to their own
way of doing things.
While Tsukushinbo has been around
for awhile, a Thai pop-up shop called
Little Uncle opened recently in the Central
District neighborhood and proves a business can still thrive in these times.
Started by Wiley Frank and his wife
Poncharee Kounpungchart “PK” in late
December 2011, Little Uncle is a food
stand serving dishes made everyday in the
homes and back alleys of Thailand.
With a small kitchen space, no seating, and no dining area, Little Uncle was
based off of “shophouse restaurants” in
Thailand, which is not necessarily street
food, but restaurants that have the family
residence right behind the business.
It’s a literal “hole in the wall.” Customers
walk up, order their food, and take their
eats elsewhere to dine.
“It kind of plays a role into the food
NEWS PULSE > > >
>>>
>>>
>>>
“People die every day to try
and go to America and for you
to come back here? They think
you’re some kind of terrible person,” Sam said.
At first he spent a lot of his
time with fellow returnees. Now
he said he doesn’t want to -—
that it doesn’t help him settle in.
Many, already suffering from
drug dependencies and untreated
mental illnesses, find themselves
drawn back into crime. It is not
uncommon for returnees to end
up trapped in Cambodia’s bewildering
and brutal penal system. The language
barrier and cultural shock can last years
for deportees and many cannot adjust.
Sam has tried to get work but in a
country where the average monthly salary
is considerably under $50 a month, it’s not
easy to find a job to support himself. He
told the BBC he feels like he’s in a “daze,”
a feeling that he can’t shake, a sense of
bemusement. “Although he knows it to
be true, he can’t accept that America has
shunned him so completely. That it won’t
forgive him. Ever.”
The BBC Profiles a Cambodian
American Deportee
The BBC recently ran a piece on Sam
[BBC withheld his last name], who twoand-a-half years ago, was deported from
the US to Cambodia, a country he had
no experience or memory of. Following
the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime,
the US granted asylum to thousands
of Cambodians fleeing the anarchy in
their home country. They set up home in
America, got jobs, went to school, learned
the language and became, in all but
name, Americans, wrote the BBC.
Given permanent resident status, many
never thought of applying for citizenship.
But in March 2002, in the wake of 9/11,
the US and Cambodia signed an agreement allowing any non-citizen refugees
who had committed felonies to be deported back to Cambodia.
Since then, several hundred have been
returned. Today deportees are stranded
and lost, a long way from home.
Born in a refugee camp in Thailand,
Sam arrived in the US one month old, with
his mother, brother and sister. He had a
stint in juvenile detention for refusing to
help a police investigation and a couple of
other short stays in prison, including one
for stealing a car radio and speakers.
But by 2009, he was working, liv-
Sam in Cambodia. Photo credit: BBC.
ing with his girlfriend and caring for his
young son. That was when the immigration authorities took him in. His earlier
robbery of the car stereo made him liable
for deportation at any time. After several
months in detention, he was forced on a
plane to Cambodia.
“Then we get out and it is hot. Hot!“
said Sam. “And all I’ve got is the clothes
on my back and 28 cents in an envelope.
And I was like, ‘What the hell am I going
to do? What the hell am I going to do?’”
Fortunately for Sam, the organization
RISC, which helps new returnees, picked
him up from immigration at the airport
and gave him a bed for a few nights. But
this support is unusual. Most Cambodians
have not warmed to the returnees.
Tsukushinbo is located at 515 South Main
Street, Seattle, WA 98104. Little Uncle
is located at 1509 East Madison Street,
Seattle, WA 98122.
April 18, 2012 - May 1, 2012 —— 5
IE NEWS
Success By
the Truckload:
Marination
Mobile
Heats Up
the Streets
of Seattle
g Roll
ID Sprin
Vendor
Spotlight
BY Celina KAreiva
IE Contributor
For the Marination Mobile team, the
workday begins at 7 a.m. as they load up
the truck, refill the gas tank and prep for
lunch rushes sometimes as large as 200
people. Using Twitter to inform customers
of their whereabouts, the staff crisscrosses
Seattle in their sleek silver bullet.
When Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison,
opened the street food truck in June of
2009, they never anticipated the success
they would eventually achieve.
“We got into this as street food, before
it was trendy,” said Saxton.
The two weren’t professionally
“
Roz Edison, left, and Kamala Saxton enjoy a bite in front of their catering truck.
Marination Mobile is even said to induce labor. On three separate
occasions overdue mothers reported eating from the truck’s menu
for lunch, and going into labor shortly thereafter.
trained as chefs. Edison is a University of
Washington adviser and Saxton is a selfidentified sports freak. But their diverse
backgrounds perfectly lent themselves to
their culinary aspirations. Saxton is from
Hawaii, and Edison was born in Greece,
though she spent three years in Romania
and was raised by a Japanese mother.
The two combined forces and
Marination Mobile was born, featuring a
wide array of dishes, ranging from kimchi
fried rice to spicy quesadillas sprinkled
with cabbage. There are Spam sliders,
miso ginger chicken tacos and the occasional special menu item.
Competition, of course, has grown
with Marination Mobile’s popularity and
Saxton insists that the food truck culture
is great for the city as a whole.
“If Seattle becomes known for street
food at an affordable price, that’s great for
all,” she explained.
And despite being on wheels, Saxton
said the truck actually allows for more
interaction with customers.
“There’s no divide between the kitchen
and the customers. Those that are cooking
get to see each other. And there are no
tables or chairs so customers are eating
with each other.” Such an intimate and
casual setting created loyal customers.
“Every location has its regulars,” said
Saxton.
During one sunny day in South Lake
Union, the truck posts up outside Cascade
Center. Customers wait for as long as 40
minutes, contemplating their options and
rethinking their orders.
Drivers will often report being wildly
honked at as they drive down the road.
And the Marination Mobile is even said to
induce labor. On three separate occasions
overdue mothers reported eating from the
truck’s menu for lunch, and going into
labor shortly thereafter.
The Marination Mobile was partly
inspired by Kogi, a Korean taco truck
from Los Angeles that has received near
cult status. Saxton and Edison visited the
like-minded business back in 2009 before
opening their own.
Three years later, the truck has proved
enormously successful and the team is
redirecting that energy into expanded
operations. They have 25 employees on
staff, a catering arm, and plan to open
a 4,000 square foot location in West
Seattle’s Alki.
“We feel pretty fortunate,” said Saxton.
Follow Marination Mobile on Twitter
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Sweet Tooth
A CD Japanese sweet shop
is the only one of its kind
north of California.
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With a name translated as “delicious
shop,” it’s hard to go wrong with Umaido when looking for something to satisfy
that sweet tooth. The bakery, located in
the Central District, is Seattle’s exclusive
Japanese sweets shop.
Umai-do is the brainchild of Art Oki.
After a 30-year career in government, Oki
spent five years of his retirement devising
a business plan, building and opening his
wagashi-do, or sweet shop. The establishment is now the only Japanese
fresh sweet shop north of the
California border.
A native Seattleite, Oki grew
up eating sweets and rice
crackers at Sagamiya on the
corner of 6th and Main Street.
Now a beauty parlor, the shop
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Art Oki, founder of Umai-do, poses with the traditional
assortment of Japanese confections his sweet shop offers.
Photo credit: CC Yaguchi.
was closed down around the early 1970s.
Tired of traveling out of state to get his
favorite Japanese sweets, Oki spent “five
summers and one winter” learning the
basics of the colorful delicacies.
“My favorite is my signature piece
called ‘imogashi’ which looks like a
mountain potato, but doesn’t have any
potato in it,” said Oki. Imogashi can be
seen as the Japanese version of the snickerdoodle, with a ball of lima bean paste
rolled in cinnamon.
If you aren’t familiar with Japanese
desserts, you certainly are in for a
unique treat. Since opening in Sept.
2011, Umai-do features about nine items
on the menu, including four flavors of
mochi-wrapped manju. The chewy confections are made up of sweet rice flour,
potato starch and contain a red azuki or
lima bean paste inside. A mochi-lover’s
heaven, Oki not only offers Hawaiianinspired flavors like guava and pineapple
but also chocolate and peanut butter.
The majority of the products are both
gluten and dairy-free.
The restaurant balances the traditional
desserts with a very casual vibe. The shop
typically plays contemporary Japanese,
Hawaiian and American tunes. With seating for about 20 people, it is a blend
of highly refined sweets with practical
design. Coffee, tea and water are available
for sit-in customers.
Customers range from local Japanese
sweets enthusiasts to those who travel from
out of town just to satisfy their palate.
For newbies, a popular choice is usually pink “manju” — a pink mocha with a
subtle and not-too-sweet white lima bean
paste filling. Umai-do also has two types
of pancakes on the menu. The dorayaki,
or chrysanthemum pancake, is made up
of two pancake-like pastries with red bean
paste stuffed in the middle. The matcha
dorayaki, or maple leaf pancake, is similar
but with a red bean paste.
Creating the desserts is a highly skilled
task that requires years of training and
much concentration. With textures and
bright colors not seen in the typical bakery, the pretty confections can be likened
to art.
“It is like the journey of the movie just
out ‘Jiro, Dream of Sushi’ but mine would
be titled “The Art of Manju” which is my
slogan,” said Oki.
ness owner, Ung is the author of “I Survived
the Killing Fields,” in which he documents
life under the Khmer Rouge. It is available
for sale at the restaurant, the Wing Luke
Museum and on Amazon. In it, he recounts
his painful memories, tracking his career
from a war refugee who couldn’t speak
English to the respected figure he has now
become in the International District.
“Never forget who you are and where
you come from” is the message Ung hopes
to send in his book to his grandchildren.
He watched his family lose everything
they owned and nearly starve to death.
The Khmer takeover meant living in a grass
hut, enduring multiple deaths and horrendous conditions as families were forced
to work in the fields for long hours with
meager compensations.
Yet, he remains proud of his story and
humble beginnings. As a result, the strong
work ethic employed at Phnom Penh, combined with the traditional ambience, has
made the well-known restaurant the favorite
of countless customers in the community.
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Sam Ung’s story is the quintessential American Dream tale. Once
a victim of the brutal Khmer Rouge
in the 1970s in his native Cambodia,
he had the opportunity to come to Seattle
with the one goal of putting the past behind
him and rebuilding his life. For years, he
spent his days working 16 to 18-hour shifts,
learning about the restaurant business and
saving money. Ung is now the well-known
founder of Phnom Penh Noodle House on
King Street in the ID.
As one of the only Cambodian restaurants in Seattle, Phnom Penh has scored high
on taste and customer relationships since
opening in 1987. Though distinct in spices
and ingredients, many dishes are comparable to Thai and Vietnamese cuisine.
The atmosphere is friendly, often
crowded with regular customers. The
vibe is casual and comfortable as patrons
sit down to generous portion sizes and
hearty food.
The many options for rice noodle soups
are the perfect comfort food for Seattle’s
chilly, rainy days. The special rice noodles
are made with gulf prawn, calamari, fish
cakes, fish balls and ground pork along
with an assortment of vegetables. Another
popular soup is the Cambodian beef noodle, consisting of a beef stew with sate
sauce. Numerous meat entrées, vegetarian
dishes and rice dishes are also offered.
The family-run business is now under the
yoke of Ung’s daughter, Dawn Cropp and
her sister. Larger than a typical mom-andpop shop, up to 120 people can be served.
The interior is heavily decorated with
traditional Chinese and Cambodianthemed décor and includes mementos of
the Ung’s personal history. Placed in the
front of the restaurant is a rugged brown
sack of heavily faded items, the only
possessions Ung had when he emigrated
from Cambodia as a refugee in 1980. This
included a small notebook of recipes Ung
had memorized from the time before the
war when he worked in his parent’s restaurant. He had dreams to open his own
establishment one day.
In addition to being a successful busi-
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A Dream
Come True
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A Case of “The Others”:
Asian-owned Businesses in
Black Neighborhoods
Commentator Kathy Khang weighs in
on cross-cultural “othering” in response
to former D.C. mayor Marion Barry’s comments about ousting Asian businesses out
of black neighborhoods, as well as her
own experiences as the daughter of Korean
Americans in the dry cleaning business.
Marion Barry, a recent victorious incumbent in a Democratic primary race for the
D.C. council seat he has held since 2005,
celebrated as cameras rolled by saying:
“We’ve got to do something about these
Asians coming in, opening up businesses,
those dirty shops. They ought to go, I’ll just
say that right now, you know. But we need
African American businesspeople to be
able to take their places, too.”
Khang comments on her blog, More
Than Serving Tea: “It’s typical. A politician/public figure says something offensive, people offended speak up, figure
claims it’s taken out of context and apolo-
Sam Ung showcases one of his artistic creations.
Photo credit: Dawn Cropp.
gizes (in this case Barry actually says, ‘I’m
sorry.’) ... But the context is complicated
and entrenched in broken systems run by
broken people and then communicated
to the masses by more broken people
(myself included) who are missing each
other because, in some cases, they aren’t
even talking with and being heard by one
another … I know this because as a newspaper reporter in Milwaukee I reported
this story. A Korean American owned
beauty supply store in a predominantly
Black neighborhood became the target
of a protest. Black community leaders
wanted to know why Asian store owners
were rude, didn’t employ anyone from the
community, didn’t contribute to the community. Store owners didn’t want to talk.
But I understood why they didn’t want
to talk,” she said. Khang continued, “My
parents owned a dry cleaning business
for years. My parents, who hold degrees
in engineering and accounting, turned to
small business ownership to help pay for
college and weddings and to provide so
much more. They didn’t hire anyone from
the community. Why pay someone when
my sister and I could work for free and my
Umai-do is located at 1825 South Jackson
Street #100, Seattle, WA 98144. It’s open
Wed - Sat from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., and
Sundays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phnom Penh Noodle House is located at 660 South King Street, Seattle, WA 98104.
ible, blend in, assimilate, learn to
read the looks, the tone, the small
gestures because we learned to
‘speak’ American even though we
continue to be questioned about
actually being ‘American.’ So I took
that experience as the child of one
of those Asian store owners first to
my White editors and then to the
Korean American beauty supply
store owners … We learned that
we all considered each other as
‘the other.’ We learned about how
exchanging money – one-handed,
Protestors outside the Dallas gas station owned by a Korean
American which in part, sparked the conversation of Asiantwo-handed, eye contact, a nod
owned businesses in traditionally black neighborhoods.
or a look – can be rude to one
and normal to another. We learned
parents were willing to be there everyday that the owners were Americans, just not
… my parents experienced many cultural American-born. We learned that there was
clashes in an effort to make a living and great pain and suffering in the community,
provide a service that was in demand,” and community leaders wanted participation, not handouts ...” She continued, “I
she wrote.
She continued, “Most customers were hope we stop to learn about the corrupt,
fine … but there were plenty of custom- broken and racist systems and policies
ers who looked down on my parents that limit Black entrepreneurship. I hope
as if they were uneducated foreigners. we learn that life is more than Black and
Few of them ever had to say anything White and that we all need to develop
because those of us who learn to be invis- cross-cultural competencies. All of us.”
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Molly Moon
Scoops Up
Success
Back in 2008, Molly Moon Neitzel
opened up her first ice cream shop in
Wallingford: a quaint, modest storefront
with a couple tables off North 45th Street.
That store still exists. The difference
is the packed shop: the groups of jovial
friends and families huddling around the
small tables, each with a scoop or cup of
ice cream in hand, while a number of others gaze at the menu, hand-written on a
large black chalkboard overhead, contemplating the sweet possibilities on a warm
spring night.
Since then,
Molly Moon’s
has expanded
to Capitol Hill,
Madrona, downtown Seattle,
Queen Anne
and the streets
of Seattle with
their ice cream
truck. In addition, Neitzel’s
cookbook
“Molly Moon’s
Homemade Ice
Cream” will be available in May this year.
Neitzel had humble beginnings,
Jennifer Carroll, Molly Moon’s spokesper-
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Red Lantern
Lights Up
the District
son, noted.
“Neitzel worked at a scoop shop called
the Big Dipper in Missoula, Mont. while
attending college at the University of
Montana,” Carroll said via email.
After working for a few years for the
political nonprofit Music For America, who
works with popular bands to promote fans
to vote, she returned to Seattle to start up
Molly Moon’s.
For the ice cream aficionado, the options
range from the ordinary to seemingly-riskyyet-tasty creations.
“Our menu is comprised of 10 ‘always’
flavors that are a mix of classics, like
Vanilla Bean and Theo Chocolate, and
exotic, like Salted Caramel and Balsamic
Strawberry,” Carroll said. “Additionally, we
have four rotating ‘seasonal’ flavors that are
inspired from the Pacific Northwest’s bountiful harvests and Molly’s whims. Many of
the classic flavors are inspired by Molly’s
childhood memories.”
Yet even the common flavors are quirky
in its own way. Those flavors draw from
local popular foods, like Scout mint and
Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, and Pacific
Northwest staples, like Theo Chocolate
and Stumptown coffee.
The best-selling flavors? Salted caramel
and Scout mint. And for good reason too.
“It’s amazing,” first-time Molly Moon’s
customer Abhishek Gupta said about the
salted caramel ice cream. “I feel like I’m
actually eating salted caramel.”
Along with the Pacific Northwestinspired flavors, Molly Moon’s does its best
to obtain locally grown ingredients. Using
that, the ice creamery attempts to create
the richest ice cream possible.
“We also try to use organic when possible, and the thing that makes our ice
cream especially creamy and delicious is
that it’s made from milk with 19 percent
milk-fat — the highest you will find anywhere,” Carroll said.
In combination with organically grown
ingredients, Neitzel puts forward environmentally friendly practices, too.
“All of the scoop shops were built sustainably, and all of our cups, pints, spoons,
napkins, etc. are compostable,” Carroll said.
At the heart of the liberal owner of an ice
cream chain, Neitzel keeps her passion for
ice cream simple and straight-laced.
“Her favorite combination is a scoop
of Theo Chocolate and a scoop of Salted
Caramel on a fresh, warm waffle cone,”
Carroll said.
“We want to
help each other
grow,” Kent Li
said.
More than simply business, the
family wants to see
the area around
them develop and
flourish, and help
as much as possible to do so.
“Besides money, we try to help the
whole Chinatown to grow,” Kent Li said.
“My hope is to get more travelers, more
tourists, to stop in Seattle’s Chinatown.”
For the family, their best way to do so is
to merge differences on the dinner table.
“Food is central to everyone’s culture,” Tiffany Li said. “It brings everyone
together.”
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Owner Kent Li and daughter
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There’s a form of pristine sleekness
when entering Red Lantern, with the
glossy mahogany tables and polished
floors as a warm welcome offsets the cool
air from outside.
But more than the appearance, the
food is what really matters to the owners,
the Li family.
With a menu featuring dishes ranging
from all across East Asia, Red Lantern is
the outlier among the many restaurants
in the International District. Red Lantern
showcases the spiciness of Sichuan and
Korean cuisine, as well as the sweet-yetsour Shanghai dishes.
Kent Li, his wife, Eva, and daughter,
Tiffany, moved and started up the restaurant in 2010 in Seattle for one reason.
“My wife liked the Seattle area,” Kent
Li said. “That’s why we moved to the
Seattle area.”
From Chicago, they brought over a
comprehensive menu and 19 years of
experience running a successful Chinese
restaurant in the Chicago area.
The merging of the culinary cultures
goes beyond what’s offered at their past and
present restaurants; Kent himself grew up
in Shanghai and Eva was born and raised
in Korea. Yet, what the two can offer to the
table is much more than the culture.
“I have cooking experience for over
30 years,” Kent Li said “And my wife is a
French pastry chef.”
The conclusive element of a meal at
Red Lantern includes the creations of black
tea crème brulee and red tea tiramisu,
influenced by Eva, a graduate of the French
Culinary Institute in New York and the
French Pastry School in Chicago.
In the future, the family would like
to stretch their creativity and expand the
menu even more.
“Eva was telling me how back at the other
restaurant, they had dim sum, like steamed
buns and everything,” Tiffany Li said.
A small dose of their creative thought
was put into the sharp layout and interior
design of the restaurant. A designer from
b9 Architects, a local architecture firm,
guided their vision and fully designed the
restaurant. Finding someone within the
International District was a key to their
decision.
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IE EDITORIAL
The Mobile
Vietnamese
Dinner Party
BY AMIE THAO
IE Contributor
Last year while cycling around Europe,
I shared meals with people in 15 countries.
Sometimes plates of food appeared without effort from me. Sometimes I was at the
stove combining whatever ingredients I had
in my panniers along with whatever my
hosts had in their pantries. The results were
unremarkable: pasta, fried rice, that kind
of thing. During longer stays, I was often
asked to make “something Vietnamese.”
Vietnamese people and cuisine are scarce
outside of France and cities in the former
Eastern Bloc, such as Berlin, Krakow, and
Prague. Many of my hosts wanted me to
give them their first taste of Vietnam.
What could I make to represent a country that I have never been to?
The thing I cooked most often was “ca
ri ga” or Vietnamese chicken curry. The
Vietnamese version of this popular Asian
dish features sweet potatoes and bone-in
chicken. It is mild, soup-like, fragrant with
Photo credit: Amie Thao
lemongrass and ginger, topped with cilantro, and eaten with a fresh-baked French
baguette. It is not my favorite Vietnamese
dish or the most iconic. Ask an average
American to describe Vietnamese cuisine
and they would say, “pho” — rice noodle
soup with beef broth — or “banh mi” —
the ubiquitous Vietnamese sandwich. Those
who frequent Vietnamese homes or restaurants might mention “goi cuon” — fresh
salad rolls, “banh xeo” — sizzling crepes
— or one of my favorites, “bun cha gio” –
cold rice vermicelli topped with deep-fried
spring rolls, served with fresh herbs, and a
generous splash of garlic-lime fish sauce.
Ca ri does not come to mind. Maybe
because it lacks a couple key elements that
mark Vietnamese cuisine: the first being
rice. So beloved is this ingredient that the
phrase for dinner is “an com,” literally:
eat rice. Jasmine rice can be difficult to
find. The myriad of other rice products
–– rice paper, rice flour, rice noodles —
even harder. “Hung que” (Asian basil),
“rau ram” (Vietnamese coriander), and the
other fresh herbs that are used generously
in Vietnamese dishes (especially from the
South) are virtually impossible.
The reason I chose ca ri ga is because
it can be made anywhere. Ginger, cilantro,
and baguettes are widely available. Even a
market with a tiny Asian section (picture:
instant noodles, soy sauce, and frozen
“wok” vegetables) has cans of coconut
milk and curry powder.
Ca ri ga is also flexible. For the vegetarian, tofu is swapped with
chicken. When tofu isn’t available, an extra portion of veggies is heaped into the pot.
Soy sauce can take the place
of fish sauce. White potatoes
used instead of sweet. Rice
will do if a suitable baguette
can’t be found. Fresh lemongrass, so central to the
flavor, presents the greatest
challenge, but I have found
it frozen in Chinese markets,
dried as a spice or tea, or growing wild by
the road (Portugal only).
Most of the time, the final product is
only a shadow of the ca ri ga of my childhood. When I cook a Vietnamese dish, the
goodness, the authenticity, is measured by
one thing: does it or does it not taste as
good as my mother’s cooking? More often
than not, that answer is “no.”
However, only I am unsatisfied. My
ca ri was well received in England, the
Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Austria, and
Portugal. For my hosts, asking for “something Vietnamese,” meant asking for is a
taste of the unfamiliar, something that represents a cultural heritage that differs from
their own, something from my experience.
When they prepare food, they are sharing
a part of themselves with me. It is in this
exchange where the true measure of goodness and authenticity can be found.
My mother was just a young teenager
when she arrived in Seattle. She and her
sister, Di Van, are talented cooks. When Di
Van’s kids visited Vietnam, they were dis-
appointed by the food, declaring that our
mothers cooked better.
Every day, every spin of my wheels
brings me just a bit closer to finding out for
myself. I wonder how much of my Vietnam
I will share along the way.
Amie Thao is cycling 15,000 miles across
Europe and Asia to document people,
food, and stories. Follow along at www.
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A Spoonful
of Promises:
Stories &
Recipes From A
Well-Tempered
Table
BY janet brown
IE Contributor
The trouble with a cookbook, any
cookbook, is that it arranges food according to a theme — one of the four seasons,
one of the three meals, one of the world’s
countries or regions, one of the multitudes
of weight-loss regimens — and that isn’t
the way people think about food. Memory
is the province of food. Just ask Proust as
he brandishes his madeleine.
The most satisfying way to think about
food is during a conversation with a good
friend. And when you pick up “A Spoonful
of Promises” by T. Susan Chang (or Susie
as she introduces herself to readers at the
book’s beginning) that’s exactly what’s
offered — if your good friend happens
to be the granddaughter of a Chinese
financier, millionaire, and “mobster (prob-
ably),” the daughter of the man who practically invented the coffee –table book in
all of its sumptuous glory, and an adventurous eater whose tastes embrace the
cuisine of every country on the planet.
Approach this book with the advice
Susie Chang gives her children — “Try
One Bite.” Whether it’s paella
or phad thai, scallion pancakes
or stroopwafels, you’re going to
find something that you’ve never
tasted before and certainly never
dreamed of cooking, or drinking
either. No matter if it’s a Basil
Mojito, a Lavender Vodka tonic,
or the non-alcoholic Longest Day
Tea, this lady is going to convince
you to make and sip a “Garden in
a Glass.” After all, she’s the kind
of friend who confesses to “standing clueless in the pantry at 4:30,
thinking wistful thoughts about
beer, and walk to the table with
a meal for six an hour and a half
later.” Sound familiar to you? Oh
no, not me either…
At times Susie Chang seems formidable. She’s the kind of mother
who has been known to spend
half an hour making steamed eggs
or a soufflé omelet for a very
young son who would eat eggs in
no other form until she introduced
him to egg crepes with truffle
oil. But she becomes less terrifying when she provides no-hassle
recipes for apple sauce, pumpkin
bread, or a cold mixed-berry soup
for those days when cooking is the
last thing on anybody’s mind. She
admits to almost committing arson
with a funnel cake and to succumbing
to a mint ice cream addiction — yes,
she will tell you how to make both of
these indulgences — as well as how to
cook pilfered chanterelles with roasted
monkfish and garlic chives. “It was good
enough to be a last meal on Death Row
What’s
For
Dinner?
Food is an intimate
expression of who
we are and what
matters to us. We
ask food bloggers
from the Seattle
area to share
what’s for dinner.
Collected by
Tanantha Couilliard
IE Contributor
April 18, 2012 - May 1, 2012 —— 9
… amorally delectable.”
She’s the kind of friend who assumes
nothing and tells all — how to clean a
monkfish, how to use a knife, how to
cook rice, how to make a simple syrup,
how to roll “jiao zie,” the traditional New
Year’s dumpling, in three easy steps, with
photographs. And she doesn’t ignore her
single friends — there are six glorious
recipes that will make a number of meals
for one solitary eater, including an enticing chocolate mousse that “serves one on
a bad day.” I tell you, you have to love
this woman.
Hungry for Braised Chinese-RestaurantStyle Spareribs? Daunted by the thought
of tracking down ‘the Elusive Red Bean
Curd?” Look for it in “the Scary Inscrutable
Jars section” of an Asian grocery, and if you
“just can’t find it, make the recipe anyway.”
Want Thai food without leaving the house?
Yam Neua is worth the “tearful complications” of slicing those lethal little bird
chiles and the four or five shallots. “Mere
flickers of agitation,” Susie Chang warns the
unwary cook, “could prove incendiary.”
A Spoonful of Promises offers more than
recipes. It is studded with wit — “There’s
nothing wrong with canned pumpkin
puree, other than it lacks poetry.” An
essay about saffron leads to an insightful
examination of living with an aging father,
and the unfading presence of a mother
who died young pervades the page of this
book, evoked in tender stories and the fragrance of baked apples. “We are dreamed
of by our parents and remembered by our
children,” is a sentence that is a gift. There
are many gifts in Susie Chang’s collection
of stories and recipes. Read her words and
savor them all.
Steamed
ma lai buns
- Amy Eam,
Renton
Chicken satay pizza
- Tanantha Couilliard, Bothell
Panko fried cod with lime red curry
served with herbed basmati rice
- Tanantha Couilliard, Bothell
Manila clams with chorizo mushrooms - Eddie Chang, Bellevue
Veal osso bucco
- Jennifer Phang,
Kirkland
Vietnamese grilled pork and rice
- Howard Wu, Seattle
Tonkatsu ramen and tare
with sous vide egg and
braised pork
- Eddie Chang, Bellevue
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IE ARTS
What Have You
Done To Our
Ears To Make Us
Hear Echoes?
BY Amy schrader
IE Contributor
Poet Arlene Kim
Arlene Kim’s first book of poems, “What
Have You Done To Our Ears To Make Us
Hear Echoes?” is a wide-ranging collection
that includes sonnets, prose poems, free
verse, and a poem constructed through a
cowmputer program. At its heart, the book
focuses on stories: how and why we tell
them to each other and ourselves. Kim
incorporates characters and narratives from
seemingly disparate sources (Grimm’s fairy
tales, Greek mythology, Korean fables, and
Biblical stories), but it soon becomes obvious how similar these culturally diverse
tales really are.
I recently had the opportunity to sit
down and chat with Arlene Kim about
these stories and how her book came to
tell its own tale.
Arlene Kim: The book came out of this
fixation I had with literary echoes — the
passing down and repeating of stories, the
confusion of voices. Echoing is how we
learn to talk, to write. But writers are in this
vulnerable position of being influenced by
other writers and also potentially contaminated, hijacked. So the book is partly about
what it’s like to find your voice as a writer.
It’s similar to how immigrants find theirs
— how they copy the sounds of a new language while mixing in the old one until a
new, hybrid voice emerges. I want to reflect
that, but I don’t want to get pegged only
as an “immigrant” or “Korean American”
writer. Instead, I hope the poems convey
how our varied histories keep echoing
through us as our identities shift.
IE: One thing that fairy tales often have
in common is children behaving badly,
as you mention in your poem “TigerBrother” (Dear/ naughty children, there
is no negotiating, no/ escape by riddle.)
But very often the parents in the stories
are just as naughty! For example, in
“Hansel & Gretel” the children’s stepmother concocts a plan to abandon them
in the woods.
AK: Yes, there’s so much wrongness and
brokenness in those stories! Stories of
migration and exile also start with something being wrong. If you have to leave
home, it’s often because there’s violence,
war, famine. What a weird place to start
a story — walking out on trouble! I think
that’s why folk tales attracted me. They
stand in for all the missing beginnings.
There’s something of the trans — as in
transgression, transportation, connecting,
crossing — in the nature of language. It’s
naughty, too! It also starts from a point of
brokenness and fragmentation; it always
needs putting together. I wanted to figure
out ways not to go wrong. So I started
playing around with poetic forms: syllabics, made-up rhyme schemes, using the
Markov text program to create patterns.
Then I’d go completely the other way —
I’d free up a poem in prose form to see if
it behaved. I was surprised at how comforted I was by numbers — their stability
and basic-ness. The alphabet can be like
that, but counting really gave me a sense
of order and correctness.
IE: Let’s talk a little bit more about poetic
forms. I write sonnets, so I was very
interested in your “fallen sonnet” which
is based on the true story of a horse that
keeps losing races.
AK: When writing that, I had Eadweard
Muybridge in mind. Muybridge was an
English photographer hired to investigate
whether all four of a horse’s hooves lifted
off the ground at the same time when galloping. He was interested in how things
move. For a horse, moving is about gradually lifting all of its hooves at once, but
it’s also about coming back down from
that impossibly levitated state — in other
words, about how it falls. And falling is
just another way of moving.
The thing about writing sonnets is that
you’re under Shakespeare’s shadow all the
time. You’re destined to fail, to fall. No
one beats Shakespeare. But literary history
is so duty-laden; you have to try. Making
up a form that embraced the fall was my
only way out.
IE: You describe “Translation Plundered”
as an echo translation of Anna Akhmatova’s
“Everything is Plundered …” How did
you write that poem?
AK: First, I listened to Akhmatova’s poem
in Russian and did a “sound translation” of it. Then I listened to English
translations by Stanley Kunitz and Judith
Hemschemeyer, and I rewrote my lines in
response to each of those. I’m fascinated
by the process of translation. When do
you translate literally vs. poetically? How
do you translate for a specific audience or
cultural aesthetic?
As poets, we are all really just translating again and again from the same
language, from similar stories and experiences and ideas.
I wrote that poem after realizing that
for lots of my friends and family — who
don’t read much poetry — reading my
book was like my hearing Akhmatova in
Russian! Things sound familiar but you
don’t really get it. It’s like having a conversation in a noisy place. If you can anticipate what the other person is going to say,
you can “hear” them even when you can’t
hear them. But if you can’t predict, if what
they’re saying is unexpected — and good
poetry should surprise you with language
— then you have to work to understand
even simple things, you have to let go
your expectations and really listen.
The space between not understanding
and completely understanding is waferthin. Language is very fragile in that way.
Seattle poet Arlene Kim shares a reading
with Portland poet Emily Kendal Frey at
Open Books on Friday, April 27 at 7:30
p.m. Open Books is located at 2414
N. 45th St. in Wallingford. Call (206)
633-0811or go to www.openpoetrybooks.
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Talk about perfect timing! Besides having just won a long fought-for parliamentary seat in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi
is also the subject of two newly released
films. Placed under house arrest for 15
years by the ruling military junta (who
changed the country’s name from Burma
in 1989), Suu Kyi became a worldwide
symbol for democracy. Winning the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1991 sealed her fate as an
icon for nonviolent activism.
Appearing in the documentary “They
Call It Myanmar: The Lifting of the Curtain,”
Suu Kyi remains resolved. In spite of having
spent over a decade isolated from those
she loved — both family and followers, the
slender daughter of assassinated General
Aung San radiates poise.
Clandestinely shot by Cornell physics
professor Robert H. Lieberman, the film
unravels like a picturesque travelogue,
showing off some of Myanmar’s most
stunning scenery. But, unlike an official
tourists’ guide, it also reveals the country’s
seedy underbelly.
For more than two years, Lieberman
shot 120 hours of footage often with a
hidden camera and sometimes chased by
authorities.
Capturing the beauty of local culture, he lovingly frames Burmese faces
often adorned with beige-colored paste
to ward off the 85-degree tropical heat.
Then, training his camera on the impoverished, he spotlights those who pawn
their blankets each morning in exchange
for bus fare to get to work. After coming
home and cooking dinner, they pawn
their dishes to buy back their bedding so
they can sleep. Children of poor families
that can’t afford school end up working as
young as nine in a country, ironically, rich
in natural resources.
With 132 spoken languages, Myanmar
is diverse with a complex history of colonization and dictatorship. Lieberman
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Spotlight
Pramila Jayapal
Motto: “Proceed and be bold” and “If politics is the art of the possible, then our job
as activists is push the limits so that what
we want for our world becomes possible.”
Pramila Jayapal was born in India
and grew up in India and Indonesia. She
arrived to the US in 1982 at age 17 for
college and struggled to “fit in” despite
manner while questioning subjects in
his abrasive voice.
While
the
accompanying
music is quite
good, the same
can’t be said for the
feature narrative,
“The Lady.” Here,
mood-shattering
rock music seems
inappropriate for
this film’s message
about love.
Director Luc
Besson (“The Fifth
Element”,
“La
Femme
Nikita”)
seems an odd choice for telling the
deeply personal story of Suu Kyi
(Michelle Yeoh) and her British husband Michael Aris (David Thewis).
After receiving a call that her
mother is sick, Suu Kyi leaves her
family in England to nurse her in
Myanmar. But upon seeing the mess
her country has become and sought
out by the opposition, she’s determined to stay. Alarmed, the military
begins plotting ways to get rid of her,
including placing her under house
arrest. Then, David learns he’s terminally ill.
Top: Michelle Yeoh stars as Aung San Suu Kyi in “The Lady.”
One glaring error in this film
Above: A scene from “They Call it Myanmar.”
is that almost everyone speaks
English, even when the exchange
shows everything from hill tribes, whose is between two native Burmese like Suu
lives haven’t changed in over a hundred Kyi and her mother. Yeoh, a Hong Kong
years, to the urban poor surviving under action star who was deported by Burmese
the merciless government. One intrigu- authorities for portraying Suu Kyi, seems
ing scene features Buddhist pilgrims on overly glamorous for this role. Besson
their way to a mountain temple. With mistakenly creates a Suu Kyi that’s almost
an 80 percent Buddhist population that regal, even having her ascend above a
believes ‘any suffering is a result of some- crowd of supporters. For someone who
thing done in a previous life,’ political sacrificed 15 years, unable to watch her
children grow up or to be with her husprogress is slow.
After winning independence from band as he was dying, this hardly seems
Britain in 1948, Burma suffered a military an authentic image.
Thewlis, though, is astonishingly
coup that killed Suu Kyi’s father. Its current
regime is one of the most brutal employ- believable as a husband whose unaduling torture and imprisonment without terated love for his wife allows him to
recourse. Many of its educated, especially understand her need to save her country.
doctors, left the country leaving medical It appears that the real Suu Kyi is now
poised to do just that.
treatment in the hands of the untrained.
The best thing about having professor
Leiberman as the filmmaker is his ability to “They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain”
present difficult material in an understand- shows at Metro Cinemas. “The Lady”
able style. The worst part is his brusque shows at the Harvard Exit theater.
being fluent in English.
“It wasn’t until later in life that I
embraced my immigrant and my Indian
identities,” said Jayapal. “Those identities — whether recognized or not — have
always shaped me and how I interacted
with the rest of the world.”
She expressed that because she immigrated alone while her parents still resided
in India, “I understand the pain that separation causes and I also understand the privilege that I had in becoming a US citizen,
eventually, in 2000.”
Pramila has served her local and global
community since 1991 working in rural economics, international health, social justice,
and domestic violence work. She has volunteered with Chaya, a nonprofit organization
serving South Asian victims of domestic
violence, worked on the early iterations of
the Making Connections project of the Annie
E. Casey Foundation in White Center, and in
2001, started Hate Free Zone, now known as
OneAmerica, an immigrant advocacy organization. Today she is considered one of the
nation’s leading advocates for immigration
reform and empowerment.
“I know I’ll always be doing something
that is in service to the community,” she
said.
“It is what makes my heart sing and
makes me go to bed at night feeling I’ve
lived my life well.”
Her parents always encouraged her to
care about others, she said. “My grandmother used to always make donations to
organizations that helped needy kids …
Even though we were not rich growing up, I
always felt very lucky that we had so much
compared to so much poverty around us
in India and Indonesia both. I was also
inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance to achieve social change.”
We asked Pramila what charitable
moment stood out to her.
“I still remember, as vividly as if it were
today, the 2002 Justice for ALL hearing that
we did at Town Hall in Seattle. For the first
time in Seattle’s history, I think, we filled
Town Hall with 1,000 extremely diverse
community members — Arabs, Muslims,
Sikhs, Latinos, APIs — who were able to
tell their own stories and be heard at a time
when so much was at stake. It was a beautiful expression of democracy — in fact,
one NPR reporter reporting on it said, ‘This
is what democracy looks like!’ I love seeing people show up and speak out, telling
their stories, and coming together to call
attention to what is wrong and working to
make it right.”
Pramila Jayapal will receive the Executive
Director of the Year Award on May 16. For
more information about the Community
Voice Awards, see our ad on page 16.
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Over the past week, news headlines, talk
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of 14-year-old Trayvon Martin. Martin was
shot by Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman
has claimed self defense, but there is strong
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wore a hoodie and was black. Now reports
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great deal of outrage and media responses.
One piece that moved me was Michael
Skolnik’s powerful and, dare I say, confessional response: “White People, You Will
Never Look Like Trayvon Martin.” He
wrote: “I was born white. It was the card
I was dealt. No choice in the matter. Just
the card handed out by the dealer. I have
lived my whole life privileged. Privileged to
be born without a glass ceiling. Privileged
to grow up in the richest country in the
world. Privileged to never look suspicious.
I have no guilt for the color of my skin
or the privilege that I have. Remember, it
was just the next card that came out of the
deck. But, I have choices. I got choices on
how I play the hand I was dealt. I got a lot
of options. The ball is in my court.”
But social privilege is not exclusive to
white people in America.
As Asian Americans, if we are going
to stand in solidarity with our African
American brothers and sisters, we must
not only acknowledge our forms of privilege, but leverage the influence that
comes with that privilege in order to serve
as allies to Black communities as well
as other marginalized groups. There is
privilege for many Asian Americans in not
generally being perceived as threatening,
which allows us to move about public
spaces without eliciting suspicion.
On the other hand, Laotian American
teen Fong Lee who was shot eight times
and killed by Minneapolis police because
they claimed to see a gun on him while
he was out riding his bicycle. Korean
American artist Michael Cho was shot and
killed by police, allegedly for approaching
officers with a tire iron in his hand which
he refused to lower. In post-9/11 America,
Sikh and Muslim Americans are unjustly
clouded with suspicion, by fellow citizens
as well as the government.
While privilege exists in various forms
specific to Asian Americans, strong parallels can be drawn between the African and
Asian American communities and their
histories. African Americans like Martin,
who are followed and feared, have more
in common with Fong, Cho and other
racially profiled Asian Americans than
one might think upon first glance.
And while there is privilege in the
“model minority” myth that that gives
Asian Americans access to academic settings because of assumed hard work, high
standards and good intentions, there is a
well-publicized debate about discriminatory admissions practices with regard
to Asian American applicants in higher
ed. In K-12, meanwhile, researchers in
lower-income school systems such as
New Orleans have found that of 450 students surveyed (almost half of them Asian
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tion systems. Many undocumented Asian
immigrants currently live in the shadows
and toil under exploitative labor conditions; speaking out against abuse exposes
them to deportation and separation from
their families.
Coming to recognize our forms of
relative social privilege in the context of
such histories and complicating realities
is how Asian Americans may experience
Martin’s death as relevant, and part of
“Please do not hear any of this as my trying to discount the very
real racism and violence that are directed toward either community; this moment is not about oppression Olympics. This is
about the Asian American community standing with the Trayvon
Martins and Fong Lees of the past, present and future.”
American), “over 70 percent don’t have
textbooks to take home from school or use
in class.” In New Orleans, where African
Americans are 60 percent of the city’s population, black and Asian American students
enduring the same educational inequalities
have a chance to unify.
There is privilege in how Asian
Americans came to the United States,
which does not include a history of slavery. Yet, although the public imagination
envisions Asian Americans as entering
the country on H1-B visas or as scholars,
many of us come from a legacy of being
exploited “coolie” labor on Hawaii plantations, subject to unjust taxes based on
race, targeted by immigration bans and
quotas, or considered less than human
in the eyes of the judicial and immigra-
”
our causes, too.
Not sure where your privileges do and
don’t lie? Take the White Privilege Pop
Quiz (www.mollysecours.com), for some
food for thought. What your answers may
say: that privilege isn’t just white, and the
lack of privilege is not just black.
Please do not hear any of this as my
trying to discount the very real racism and
violence that are directed toward either
community; this moment is not about
oppression Olympics. This is about the
Asian American community standing with
the Trayvon Martins and Fong Lees of the
past, present and future and doing our
part in a united struggle for justice.
This article first appeared in Hyphen
Magazine and is reprinted with permission.
Sam Ung, Phnom Penh chef
and author of
“I Survived the Killing Fields”
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