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Hmong food is finally getting the attention it deserves. From family kitchens to food fairs in Minneapolis, discover how a ...
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.
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, so the pop up-- actually, our Hilltribe building is on the corner of Lake and Bryant in uptown. So it's actually our commissary kitchen too because every year, we have a state fair.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
C hef Yia Vang’s new Hmong restaurant, Vinai, is set to finally open in Northeast Minneapolis July 30, almost four years after it was first announced.If you’ve been following along with Vang ...
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.