Some random articles for you to peruse from the last couple of months:
Vu’s View: We Can’t Let American Democracy Crumble
Classes help local Vietnamese Americans keep their language alive
In an Arlington classroom decorated with the Vietnamese alphabet on the wall, 20 primary school-age children are learning how to say their favorite ice cream flavors in Vietnamese.
A boy raises his hand. “Vanilla,” he answers as others try to remember words in the language spoken by their parents at home.
“In Vietnamese, please,” says teacher Ngoc Tran. Tran has taught children Vietnamese for the past four years in classes held at Arlington’s Holy Martyrs of Vietnam Church.
Congressional Representatives Correa and Steel Introduce Resolution Honoring Vietnamese Americans
Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46) and Michelle Steel (CA-45) introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing the contributions of the Vietnamese-American community to the United States on February 8, 2024. Orange County, California, is home to Little Saigon and almost 190,000 Vietnamese Americans, making it the largest Vietnamese diaspora in the world outside of Vietnam.
This New Vietnamese American Cafe Will Blend McDonald’s Breakfast With Pandan Waffles
For those uninitiated, the McDonald’s Big Breakfast consists of a biscuit, scrambled eggs, a sausage patty, and an order of hash browns — the heartiest, non-sandwich morning meal on the McDonald’s breakfast menu. Chef Richard Le (Matta), coffee roaster Kimberly Dam (Portland Ca Phe), and pastry chef Lisa Nguyen (Heyday) all share childhood memories of McDonald’s Big Breakfasts. Their fathers would buy each of them the plate as a treat, taking them to the chain’s PlayPlace as an inexpensive weekend activity. At their forthcoming Vietnamese American breakfast cafe, Mémoire Cà Phê, the owners will serve their own version of the McDonald’s Big Breakfast, swapping the biscuit for a pandan waffle.
“McDonald’s was a very Vietnamese thing,” Nguyen says. “It was a big deal. I think, for them, that American experience was really special.”
Vietnamese-American actress Ali Wong's awards-show dress requires van transport
Wong, nominated for her role in the TV series "Beef," arrived at the event in a sprinter van, standing up in the back throughout the journey, as revealed by Glamour magazine last week.
