Phila Lorn’s name is broken English for Philadelphia. His mother, a Cambodian refugee who arrived in the U.S. in 1985, looked at her newborn son and named him after the city that took her family in.

Nite Yun has no memories of the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp in Thailand where she was born in 1982. The chef and owner of Nyum Bai in Oakland, California, a restaurant that has attracted national ...

When Nite Yun cooks, she's telling her family's story. The Cambodian-American chef, best known for her restaurant Lunette in San Francisco, has long used food to honor her parents' country. But as she ...

Chef Phila Lorn was not necessarily aiming for “quote-unquote authentic” Cambodian food when he opened Mawn in his native Philadelphia two years ago. So when he approached some Cambodian teen patrons, ...

When Nite Yun cooks, she’s telling her family’s story. The Cambodian-American chef, best known for her restaurant Lunette in San Francisco, has long used food to honor her parents’ country. But as she ...