I Was Told I Was Black, But Then I Found Out I Was Asian Pacific Islander (feat. Logan Sandoval, Chef)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Logan Sandoval is a talented chef and co-founder of Zef BBQ, which was recently named by Eater as one of California’s best new restaurants. Logan grew up thinking he was Latino, then Black then discovered he was, in fact, Asian. We know it sounds confusing lol but it will all make sense once you hear Logan share his incredibly unique story. We also discuss how chefs avoid gentrification of cuisines! Follow Logan at on ig at @zef_hawaiian. Also please like, subscribe and support us on Patreon :)
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asian a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Brian Park. |
| 0:21.0 | And before we get to our guest, we're going to do our patron shout out, like always. |
| 0:25.9 | If you like the podcast, please support us on Patreon at patreon.com |
| 0:29.7 | slash feeling Asian. |
| 0:31.2 | We offer different exclusive benefits benefits but any donation amount gets |
| 0:34.4 | to you a shout out on the podcast where young me and I guess who you are based on your name |
| 0:38.8 | alone. Young me are you tapped in? Are you I'm so tapped in. I'm ready. |
| 0:43.4 | People get so excited about these so I feel like, |
| 0:46.0 | I feel like I have to make it good, you know? |
| 0:48.8 | Our first shout out for this episode goes out to |
| 0:51.6 | one name,azu. |
| 0:53.6 | Oh man, I know this is sorry, but that just reminds me |
| 0:57.9 | of like my favorite restaurant where Brian and I went to |
| 1:01.6 | called Kazunori, the hand roll restaurant. |
| 1:04.7 | And I just want everyone, I don't know if I said this yet, |
| 1:07.3 | but I have not really eaten out with Ryan that much. |
| 1:11.9 | Like we hang out, but we rarely go to restaurants and I'm about |
| 1:16.9 | to call Brian out he's going to be upset. We went to this restaurant right and if anyone's |
| 1:22.1 | ever worked at a restaurant as a host, which I have for years, you know the |
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