NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Nite Yun, who was born in a refugee camp and went on to become an acclaimed chef, about her debut cookbook, "My Cambodia." ...

Cambodia's cuisine often gets less international attention than Thailand or Vietnam, but Khmer food is just as vibrant and steeped in history and culture. It's shaped by the country's rivers, rice ...

Editor's note: "A Passion for Cooking" is a series of personal accounts by some of the Bay Area's leading chefs about why they cook and how their ethnic roots have influenced the type of food they ...

Nite Yun has no memories of the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp in Thailand where she was born in 1982. The chef and owner of Nyum Bai in Oakland, California, a restaurant that has attracted national ...

It was in 1983 that Joanna Doung opened Angkor Wat, believed to be the first Cambodian restaurant in the United States. With the womblike decor with lots of pillows on the banquettes along the wall ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. Veteran Long Beach chef Visoth Tarak Ouk’s new ...

At Long Beach's Cambodia Town Food & Music, crusty edges on the beef jerky pull away like string cheese. You dip the meat in a vinegary black pepper sauce. (Ron De Angelis / For The Times) ...

Visoth Tarak Ouk is the child of Cambodian refugees who grew up in Long Beach’s Cambodia Town in the 1990’s. In his teens, he joined a gang, seeking protection from bullies. Eventually, he pulled ...

Watch as a Cambodian outdoorsman gathers fresh river snails and large red ants (អង្ក្រង) straight from nature. Using only ...

My grandmother, Ngorn Por, has a love for food; not just the final product, but how it’s made step by step. She learned how to cook from her mother way back in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cooking with my ...

Nobody told Sam Ung how to cook. But he was watching. His parents ran Ung Hong Lee, a popular noodle restaurant in Battambang, Cambodia, that operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a child in ...