This comic was drawn and edited from an interview I conducted with Chef Peter Wu and his mother in 2015.

I was interviewing second generation Vietnamese in the restaurant industry to discuss tensions between assimilation and 'authenticity' for migrant children. In the unfinished dining room of a restaurant they were preparing to open, we talked about what honoring tradition and loyalty look like when a new culture, community and environment demanded innovation and transformation for old traditions to survive and reach new audiences.

PUBLICATIONS

This comic originally appeared in Comic Sans #1 (2018), an imprint of Liminal Magazine curated by Rachel Ang & Leah Jing, and launched at Melbourne's Sticky Institute.

Peter Wu’s reading was originally recorded for FBi Radio for ‘Or It Didn’t Happen’ Ep 4, ‘Family’, by Zacha Rosen.

The comic was included in a portfolio of work in Verge 6.1: Studies in Global Asias, “Displaced Subjects: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Critical Refugee Studies” by University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2020.