From the L.A. Times Studios, this is Asian Enough.

Each week on this podcast, we talk to one Asian American celebrity about the joys, the complications, and everything else that comes along with

being Asian American.

I'm Frank Schoen.

And I'm Jen Yamato.

This week on episode six of our podcast, Chef and Food Network star Jet Tila joins us.

He'll explain the tight connection between Thai food and Hollywood.

Little known fact was Star Trek Food, The Next generation, Voyager, all the Klingon food was like Durian and Jackfruit.

We'll also talk about his family's horticultural banditry and ask Jet for his bad Asian confession.

So let's do it.

So the show is called Asian Enough. I don't know what you feel when you think about the name

but I feel like a lot of Asian Americans have had trouble kind of feeling like they're

enough whether you visit the home country and they make fun of the way you speak the language.

Yeah, totally.

Someone has their own ideas about being Asian is and you just like you don't live up to it.

We're kind of like about the idea that everyone's Asian enough and there's this thing.

There's also a culinary Asian enough as well.

I mean there's a lot of double standards

when it comes to non-Asians cooking Asian

versus Asians cooking Asians.

So yeah, yeah, you're never enough when you're never American enough you're never Asian enough and I'm Thai and Chinese so there's two cultures I'm not enough so you know

Perfect that was like the intro to our podcast thank you

...