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

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.

“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 ...

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: We have our pork belly. We have our Hmong sausage of Kelsang, which is our noodles and then we have our purple sticky rice here because if everything is too flavorful, it's too big for you.

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.

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.

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 ...

In the Twin Cities PBS show Relish, chef Yia Vang learns to make dishes like Nepali momos and indigenous wild rice while ...

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 ...

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.