From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman, and this is Good Food.

So if you've ever visited San Francisco, you might realize that there's a heavy Asian influence throughout the city, all different types.

I lived in inner Richmond for about six years, and it was the first time in my life that I lived in a place where a majority,

so many people looked like me. I could go to the Chinese grocery store or go to a bakery,

just a block away from my house and hear Cantonese spoken in the restaurants, walking down the

street. Living in inner Richmond

allowed me to experience a life that I didn't really know was imaginable and that was just

not being so different. Belonging is powerful. Growing up in Ohio, Christina Cho didn't realize

her mom's spaghetti mirrored to spaghetti

other Chinese immigrant families were eating around the country.

Now in a new cookbook, she addresses the challenges of many first-generation kids, one of bridging

cultures and feeling complete.

Today she joins us to discuss Chinese enough home style recipes for noodles,

dumplings, stir fries, and more. Hi, Christina. Hey Evan. Thanks for having me back. Oh, I'm so happy to

have you. We loved your first book. Oh, thank you. Um, you live in the Bay Area now, but grew up outside of Cleveland.

Can you describe your early years and how they sort of informed the title of your latest

cookbook? Yes, and Ohio. My grandparents actually lived in downtown Cleveland and what's

considered Chinatown. It's called Asia Town now.

But I kind of spent a lot of my childhood going back and forth between the suburbs where my

parents lived, where my grandparents lived in Chinatown, and then also at my grandparents'

restaurant, which kind of gave me a, I think, a dynamic childhood.

I grew up around a lot of food, a lot of cooking,

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