Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Various Hmong dishes sitting on a table. - Mark Wiens/YouTube Minnesota has tasty traditional dishes like its famed juicy Lucy ...

LA CROSSE, Wis (WKBT) – Wisconsin is known as America’s Dairyland, but that’s not the extent of the state’s culture. When Hmong refugees came to Wisconsin after the Vietnam War, they brought new ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Yia Vang never wanted to be a chef. His siblings received postgraduate degrees, while Vang just ...

St. Paul, Minnesota, is home to the nation’s largest population of Hmong, an Indigenous people from Southeast Asia. After the Vietnam War, thousands of Hmong refugees ended up in the Upper Midwest and ...

The Hmong people have been in Minnesota since 1975. The food that the prodigious farming community grows has been all over the Minnesota State Fairgrounds for decades — but always served in someone ...

Hmong cuisine is slowly getting attention beyond its immigrant roots. Once mostly confined to home kitchens and community gatherings, it’s now stepping into the American culinary spotlight - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Union Hmong Kitchen made its Minnesota State Fair debut, becoming the first Hmong food vendor at the event in its 160-plus year ...

“I believe that Hmong food isn’t a type of food, but it’s a philosophy of food,” says chef Yia Vang of Vinai in Minneapolis. “It’s a way of thinking about food. It tells the story of our people.” The ...

Chef Yia Vang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and moved with his family to the U.S. when he was 5. They eventually settled in Minnesota, where his family was part of the large Hmong community ...

A Union Hmong Kitchen employee holds out two of the restaurant's signature dishes at their booth in the International Bazaar at the Minnesota State Fair on Thursday. Fair patrons can try skewered ...

“It wasn’t my proudest moment,” chef Teng Xiong says, somewhat sheepishly, about the familiar fried Brussels sprouts I spotted at Nam Pa, his year-old Hmong food cart. Let’s back up: Last year, the ...

The Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) is helping to feed kids in East St. Paul child-care programs by delivering fresh, healthy produce that connects them to their culture. HAFA wanted to help ...