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Recreating recipes grandma made in Shanghai: Young Chinese Americans promote Chinese food, culture
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Ms Liu Mei Fung (left) and her fiance Han Kyong-soo run the Two Plaid Aprons blog, where they share recipes for Chinese American and other Asian dishes. Ms Britney Wang runs a website where she posts recipes for Shanghainese fare.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF MEI FUNG LIU AND BRITNEY WANG
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WASHINGTON - As a young girl, Ms Liu Mei Fung would help out in her parents’ Chinese takeout restaurant in Louisiana after school, making wontons and taking customers’ orders.
Having experienced first-hand the amount of work that went into running a restaurant, she swore not to get into any culinary-related line of work – but fell in love with cooking as a teenager, and eventually began helping her parents man their restaurant’s fryers.
