Yia Vang and Diane Moua have created a moment in the Twin Cities for the emergence of a cuisine virtually unknown outside its ...

“When the Hmong community wins, Minneapolis wins. St. Paul wins. Minnesota wins,” said Chef Yia Vang of Vinai about a sweeping story in the New York Times that features both Vinai and Moua’s Diane’s ...

Yia Vang’s dream restaurant Vinai is finally a reality. A sneak peek inside the chef’s meaningful restaurant, which opens next week in Minneapolis. By Sharyn Jackson.

Hmong cuisine is in the spotlight thanks to this week's New York Times article celebrating Twin Cities chefs Yia Vang and Diane Moua.

And Vang, as host, has become a household name — among a certain PBS-watching set, anyway. “I’m like, I need to do stuff where women in their 30s think this is cool,” he joked.

YIA VANG: Yeah, that was one of the things where it's like on Friday, when everyone was like, man, this is sad. And again, you want to-- it's like you don't want to reveal it first, ...

Yia Vang. TV personality, and highly decorated chef Yia Vang is the owner/chef of the James Beard-nominated restaurant Union Hmong Kitchen in Minneapolis.

Chef Yia Vang is the executive chef and owner of Vinai, a Hmong restaurant in Minneapolis that has been named one of the best in the country by the New York Times, Esquire and Eater.

Guest chefs brings BIPOC food to St. John's University students 02:41. COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Celebrity chef Yia Vang is back in a university dining hall for a first-time visit to Saint John's ...

For chef Yia Vang, live-fire cooking isn’t a trend. “This is actually a part of who I am,” he says. “This is how our people cooked hundreds of years ago.

This particular assignment allowed Vang to repurpose a traditional recipe and put his own spin on it. More: Hmong chef Yia Vang grew up in central Wisconsin.Now he's taking the foodie world by storm.

When chef Yia Vang was a kid, anytime his large family gathered for the holidays, his extended relatives went to work making the most labour-intensive Hmong dishes. That usually meant the girls ...