Shana Nys DambrotLi Wei Yang, curator of the Pacific Rim Collection at The Huntington, retraces the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus from the You Chung Hong Family Collection — a beautiful investigation of food as an intersection of not only cuisine but cultural identity, heritage, tradition, graphic arts, family, civic stake-holding, language and foundational city history.
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