Yia Vang: I think if you look at all these Pan-Asian restaurants, a lot of them were Hmong-owned, but they had to do the Chinese or the Thai or the Vietnamese.Because if you said Hmong food ...

Yia Vang is opening one of the country’s first dedicated Hmong restaurants, Vinai in Minneapolis, and with it, a crucial window into what it really means to be Hmong.

Hmong food is finally getting the attention it deserves. From family kitchens to food fairs in Minneapolis, discover how a ...

Yia Vang and Diane Moua have created a moment in the Twin Cities for the emergence of a cuisine virtually unknown outside its ...

With a name like Yia Vang, he was destined to work in kitchens. In the Hmong language, Yia means “iron skillet” or “wok.” The Hmong (pronounced with a silent h) are a stateless, nomadic ...

Yia Vang, Hmong Chef: So this is the rice and here's our big rice steamer, that is hot. To be completely honest, I never wanted to do this. I tried my hardest to get out of it.

When chef Yia Vang was a kid, anytime his large family gathered for the holidays, his extended relatives went to work making the most labour-intensive Hmong dishes. That usually meant the girls ...

It wasn’t always chef Yia Vang’s dream to open a restaurant. “I had to be dragged to this thing kicking and screaming,” Vang said, talking about Vinai, the Hmong-centric restaurant he is ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Yia Vang is living his American dream in the Twin Cities. Earlier this month, the lauded chef, who was born in a Thai refugee camp, became a naturalized U.S. citizen. This ...

Chef Yia Vang's new restaurant to honor Hmong cooking A Kickstarter campaign to raise $75,000 for the Vinai restaurant is less than $10,000 away from reaching its goal. To stream KARE 11 on your ...

"I'm not a writer, I'm a cook," said Yia Vang. He's the chef/owner of Union Hmong Kitchen, and the force behind Vinai, which is slowly but surely coming to life in northeast Minneapolis. Vang has ...

Yia Vang: Hmong people were part of the conflict in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War in northern Laos. Our people were hired out as paramilitary troops for the U.S. government.