Various Hmong dishes sitting on a table. - Mark Wiens/YouTube Minnesota has tasty traditional dishes like its famed juicy Lucy burger, the lesser-known Minnesota-style pizza, and its surprisingly ...

Yia Vang has a set of classic stories he loves to tell. He's just told me the one about the guy who comes up after a Hmong cooking demonstration, cups Vang's big right hand in both of his, looks up ...

“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 ...

The wood-burning grill that takes center stage of an open kitchen is a gleaming, magnificent beast flanked by two bumper car-sized wheels — a hangar for various meats, engulfed in flames that swell ...

The Hmong people are nomadic indigenous tribes from the northern mountainous regions of Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and China.

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 - ...

Chef Yia Vang and his team have revamped their menu and space at 901 W. Lake St. in Uptown to launch a new pop-up concept, “Mee-Ka,” geared toward the merging of Hmong and American dishes. Vang’s ...

For over 20 years, Diane Moua worked as a pastry chef at top restaurants across the Twin Cities. But when she wasn’t working, she preferred to cook savory food — the dishes that reminded her of her ...

Special to the SentinelI’m pleased to showcase another new global food offering in the Grand Valley, this one featuring Hmong food and the talented cook, Mee Lor. Lor is the owner of Mee Hmong Cuisine ...

After the Halloween horrors, it's time to eat. There are a host of culinary events in New Orleans in early November and beyond. Here are some of them. Kenji Omakase opens. Matthew Nguyen is the chef ...