Ming-Na Wen is the voice of Mulan, Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian, and, now, a cookbook author. She grew up in her family’s Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh, the Chinatown Inn, which has been open since 1943 and which her brother still runs today.
Ming-Na’s debut cookbook, Have You Eaten Yet?, started as a recipe collection and turned into a memoir she didn’t know she was writing. She talked with Kate and me about the two lives her father lived at the Chinatown Inn, the chop suey he made for Pittsburgh, the five course dinners he cooked at home, and what the phrase “have you eaten yet?” actually means when someone says it to you.
Get Ming-Na’s recipe for 12345 Spareribs here.
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