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Tien Nguyen writes about food and culture. She co-authored the New York Times bestseller &#8220;L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food&#8221; with Roy Choi and Natasha Phan, and her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Lucky Peach.

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Chuck Morse is a writer, editor, and translator living in Los Angeles. He’s on Instagram (@thechuckmorse) and Twitter (@thechuckmorse) and occasionally blogs here http://www.cwmorse.org.

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