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Meet Rich and X Wang, the cousin-duo behind Minyol

Meet Rich and X Wang, the cousin-duo behind Minyoli @minyoli.chicago, Chicago’s newest Taiwanese gem. Their restaurant pays homage to the juan cun (military dependents’ villages) where their family once lived, serving dishes inspired by a tapestry of Chinese regional flavors that shaped Taiwan’s culinary identity. From the boldness of their beef noodle soup to the comforting nostalgia of lu wei, every bite tells a story of resilience, community, and connection.⁠
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Explore how they’re navigating cultural expectations, sourcing rare ingredients, and connecting foodies with honest, heartfelt narratives about Taiwan in Chicago. ⁠
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👀 Read more about their journey towards Minyoli in the full interview with our Food Editor, Tiffany Ran @bb6twpopup
Linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/12/minyoli-taiwanese-noodles-chicago/

On #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting Taiw

On #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting TaiwaneseAmerican.org by making a monetary donation. Funds are used to support our programs, contributing writers, and project grants. All donations are tax-deductible, and letters acknowledging your donation will be sent by the end of the fiscal year.⁠
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TaiwaneseAmerican.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the State of California. We are run by an all-volunteer staff with a strong passion for our community.⁠
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To make a donation, please find us at: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/donate/⁠
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Thank you very much! to-siā! 多謝!

And here's part 2 of our 2024 #TaiwaneseAmerican s

And here's part 2 of our 2024 #TaiwaneseAmerican small business gift guide! From one-of-a-kind handcrafted gifts blending fine art and tradition to stinky tofu plushies to a perfect book for every kind of reader, we hope this series helps you shop and support our community this season.⁠
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We will continue to leave our nomination form open (linked in bio) to feature other small businesses and creators throughout the year as we can.⁠
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Updated gift guide, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/11/2024-taiwanese-american-gift-guide/⁠
#giftguide #smallbusiness #taiwaneseamerican

By popular demand, we’re bringing back our annua

By popular demand, we’re bringing back our annual gift guide, highlighting Taiwanese American small businesses, brands, and creators. ⁠
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This year, our nomination form included space for these folks to share any community affiliations (such as with the Taiwanese American Foundation summer conference or Taiwanese American Professionals chapters), and it warms our hearts to see all the connective networks throughout! ⁠
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Shop PART 1: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/11/2024-taiwanese-american-gift-guide/⁠
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#giftguide #smallbusiness #taiwaneseamerican

We knew this would be a special conversation as so

We knew this would be a special conversation as soon as we commissioned it! ⁠
*NEW on @taiwanesam_org* - Taiwanese American writer and civil servant Jasmine Fang interviews debut author Jocelyn Chung and illustrator Julia Kuo on their new picture book, “When Love is More Than Words.”⁠
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⁠From childhood summers with cousins to honoring our matriarchs, this story is a reflection of the love that shapes us. Jocelyn and Julia poured so much heart into this book, capturing the magic of Taiwanese American family life and traditions that span generations.⁠
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Swipe through to dive into their conversation about family, heritage, and what it means to pass down love and identity across generations. We hope this book brings comfort, recognition, and maybe a little nostalgia to readers of all backgrounds. 🌏💕 #WhenLoveIsMoreThanWords #IntergenerationalLove #TaiwaneseAmericanVoices #AsianAmericanStories #RepresentationMatters #FamilyLove #PictureBook⁠
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Read the full Q&A, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/11/when-love-is-more-than-words/⁠

NEW on @taiwaneseam_org — We’re thrilled to pr

NEW on @taiwaneseam_org — We’re thrilled to present this moving interview with Bo Lu (“Bao’s Doll”) @bowru conducted by first-time contributor Mikaela Luke, a Taiwanese Canadian children’s books reader, scholar, and aspiring editor. ⁠
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Inspired by Lu’s childhood, this poignant picture book brings emotional layers to the story of a parent and child learning to connect with their heritage and each other.⁠
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Read the full Q&A, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/10/bo-lu-baos-doll/

The holidays are right around the corner, and we'r

The holidays are right around the corner, and we're excited to bring back our "Made by Taiwanese American" Small Business Holiday Gift Guide! If you're an artisan, small retailer, or creator offering heritage-inspired or handmade items, we’d love to feature your products.⁠
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Let’s make it easy to shop small and support #TaiwaneseAmerican businesses this season! 🌟 ⁠
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This form is due November 10, 2024> bit.ly/ta-gift-guide-24⁠
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We’re looking for gift ideas that celebrate heritage, creativity, and craftsmanship across every category:⁠
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🌱 Food & Drink⁠
🎨 Art & Home Decor⁠
👚 Fashion & Accessories⁠
📚 Books & Stationery⁠
🧸 Kids & Family⁠
✨ And more!⁠
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This form is for proprietors to nominate themselves (don't be shy)! If you're a fan of a small business, send them this form or nominate them via our DMs (@taiwaneseam_org) or email.⁠
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If you've previously been featured in our gift guides, please feel free to participate again! We're so grateful to support you in any way we can. Please note that not all submissions are guaranteed coverage and are subject to editors' curation.⁠
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#smallbusiness #asianamerican

Some familiar faces in this @gwuterp lineup! Join

Some familiar faces in this @gwuterp lineup!
Join George Washington University’s Taiwan Education & Research Program for a virtual symposium on Taiwanese and Taiwanese American identities through the multidisciplinary lens of the arts. The panel is open to the public; RSVP for the link!
Kicking off the symposium is a welcome keynote address by @taiwaneseam_org editor-in-chief Leona Chen, in which she will chart the formation of a distinctly Taiwanese American space, culture, and identity, as well as share her reflections from “growing up Taiwanese American” and her observations on its increasing legibility throughout the last decade.
The first panel will examine documentary film as a powerful medium to tell the stories and experiences of Taiwan. The second focuses on the role of visual arts and music in expressing the intersections of Taiwanese, American, and diasporic identities. The final roundtable will dive into how Taiwanese American stories are being documented, articulated, and preserved for future generations. This symposium invites scholars, artists, students, and the public to reflect on how art transcends borders and how communities far and wide can engage with these vital stories.

NEW on @taiwaneseam_org - We are pleased to presen

NEW on @taiwaneseam_org - We are pleased to present this Q&A by Taiwanese American journalist Bing Wang, in conversation with artist and community educator Ellie Yang Camp on her debut non-fiction book, “Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love.”⁠
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“This is not a typical book about Asian Americans— it does not read like an academic text. You don’t have to open a dictionary or read three articles just to understand a word. Instead, Louder Than the Lies uses accessible language and even visual charts to explore how Asian Americans are racialized in the United States.”⁠
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Bing Wang (he/him) is a Taiwanese American journalist based in Chicago, IL. His main focuses are human rights, marginalized peoples, and issues regarding Asian Americans. He received a B.A. in Asian American Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. also in Asian American Studies from the University of California Los Angeles.⁠
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Ellie Yang Camp is an artist and community educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. The proud daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she has been a high-school history teacher, a full-time parent, a calligrapher, an anti-racist educator, and now an author. She has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in Education with an emphasis in Teaching of Social Studies from Stanford.⁠
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Read the full Q&A, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/10/ellie-yang-camp/

@taiwaneseam_org staff celebrating with Taiwanese

@taiwaneseam_org staff celebrating with Taiwanese American author and educator Ellie Yang Camp @eeewhysee at her launch party at @onwaverly for her debut, “LOUDER THAN THE LIES: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love” 💛❤️
Synopsis: What does it mean to be Asian American? How does our racialization in the United States shape our lives and our worldviews? With candor and care, Ellie Yang Camp, a Taiwanese American educator, offers a set of ideas and frameworks to guide us toward a more nuanced understanding of these questions. Drawing on her experiences and observations from history, conversations with Asian American peers, and lessons derived from other people of color, Camp unpacks the confusing dynamics that underlie anti-Asian stigmas and stereotypes in the US. From the model minority myth to yellowface to anti-Blackness among Asian communities, Camp presses into hard questions and moments of discomfort, naming fears so that we might dispel them.
📸: @annawuphoto

Our next chef-to-chef interview by Food editor Tif $Our next chef-to-chef interview by Food editor Tiffany Ran features Chef James Chang @jchang.kitchen and it’s a fun one!⁠ Known widely for his “chonky chili crunch” labeled “He Thicc Tho” (and its sequel, “He Thicc Tho 2.0),” Chang is a Kansas City-based Taiwanese American chef who hosts frequent pop-ups, delighting in playful mashups of American classics with Taiwanese flair, a nod to his “fat kid tendencies.”⁠ ⁠ For those in Rochester, MN, don’t miss his next dinner service in collaboration with @choochoocachew on October 23 (see the link in his bio for more information). ⁠ ⁠ For everyone else, 🍴feast your eyes 🍴on this very funny, heartwarming conversation spanning weird American cheese on Taiwanese breakfasts and what it’s like to have cooking “in your blood” for generations but be pressured to do something else with your life. \_(ツ)_/¯⁠ ⁠ Linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/10/chef-james-chang/$

@taiwaneseam_org guest contributor @catielila has

@taiwaneseam_org guest contributor @catielila has co-written what is sure to become seminal text on Taiwan and its revolution over centuries.
📖: Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World by Catherine Chou and Mark Harrison
🤍: Common ideas about Taiwan—that it “split with China in 1949” or “sees itself as the true China”—fail to explain why the Taiwanese withstand pressure from the PRC to relinquish their democratic self-governance. Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order sheds light on this. Each chapter shows how democratization in Taiwan constituted a revolution, changing not just the form of government but also how Taiwanese people conceptualized the island, coming to see it a complete nation unto itself. At the same time, however, Beijing has blocked the “normal” endpoint of this revolution: an open declaration of statehood and welcome into the global community. Revolutionary Taiwan brings the Taiwan story to a general audience. It will appeal to students and readers interested in international relations, contemporary geopolitics, and East Asian Studies. Informed by years of academic research and life in Taiwan, this book provides an entry point to a remarkable place and people.
🔗: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=1164
💸: Use coupon code SAVE15 for 15% off.
Ends October 10, 2024, at midnight EST.
Applies to publisher-direct orders and print editions only.

“Raising the Next Generation” aims to feature

“Raising the Next Generation” aims to feature and connect stories of Taiwanese American parenthood, caretaking, and community-building across generations. We want to hear from our community on the unique challenges they navigate, the resources and tools they can share with each other, and the triumphs they want to celebrate with us all.⁠
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We’re pleased to continue this series with first-generation Taiwanese American bilingual children’s author, pediatric music therapist, and concert pianist Isabelle Engler @musicandtales 💛
“The Fishing Song” from her “Learning Songs by Colors” series has been one of our favorite resources in the last few years and contains adapted scores to help families enjoy English, Mandarin, and music together. ⁠
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To nominate a #TaiwaneseAmerican parent to be featured in this series (including yourself) who’d like to share their experience of Raising the Next Generation, DM us!

NEW: Our Food editor Tiffany Ran interviews Cat Ch

NEW: Our Food editor Tiffany Ran interviews Cat Cheng @itscatcheng @catsbakesny whom you may recognize as the bubbly, youngest contestant Netflix’s “Blue Ribbon Baking Championship.”⁠
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Cat Cheng became a music teacher straight out of college, but found herself struggling to continue down that path despite devoting much of her life to the craft. When COVID hit, she, like many, took to baking as a hobby and a distraction. But her skills quickly flourished and she saw the potential for baking to become a small business. Within a few short years, she launched Cat’s Bakes, a home baking business, and made her TV debut this year as the youngest contestant on Netflix’s new baking show, “Blue Ribbon Baking Championship.” At age 27, Cheng has undergone a career reinvention, overcoming the “feeling dumb” part of the journey and embracing newfound creativity and potential for future collaborations. ⁠
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Read the full Q&A, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2024/09/cat-cheng-bakes-netflix-blue-ribbon/

On this 9/11 anniversary, we remember seven known

On this 9/11 anniversary, we remember seven known Taiwanese Americans dedicated to their communities, careers, and their families. Visit @taclorg to learn a little bit about each of the seven Taiwanese Americans and honor their memory, as well as an in-depth editorial about one of the victims from the perspective of a family member. Link here and in bio: https://tacl.org/remembering-the-taiwanese-americans-of-9-11/

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