A Little Bit Sweet: A Taiwanese American Documentary About Grief, Family, and Hot Sauce

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When Sophia Chang visited the BB Hot Sauce factory in Tainan, a family business she only learned about during a family trip to Taiwan in 2015, she was surprised to walk into a large facility, having pictured at some point a mom and pop operation out of a family residence. Then: there it was, the very bottle of BB Chili Sauce at a table at a night market. Then: another chili sauce sighting in her in-laws kitchen cupboards. Most everyone she encountered in Taiwan seemed to recognize and know this…

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Claiming Taiwanese American Identity: A Third-Generation Perspective

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Being a fresh-out-of-undergraduate 22-year old is not fun in the current U.S. job market. Luckily, I've decided to leave the country for a year, delaying the mundane process of the job search—or as I like to call it, “delaying adulthood”—to spend a year in Taiwan as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. It sounds like a laissez-faire dream, but I didn’t stumble upon this opportunity by happenstance. Bicultural Upbringing I come from a family that takes immense pride in their Taiwanese…

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