This episode contains a reference to a drogatory slur.

A lot of parents will tell their kids not to talk to strangers, right?

My parents actually gave us the exact opposite instruction.

They said talk to strangers, and who they were talking about were the people sitting in

our dining room.

They didn't really know what opportunities existed for us outside those walls of that Chinese

restaurant, but they knew that there was this dining room full of people that had experiences,

right?

When my dad met somebody that had an interesting job, he'd like call all six of us to run over

and like barrage these people with questions like, well, what do you do for a living?

How did you get your job?

You know, I mean, how much money do you make?

And because of that, you know, I loved meeting people, and so I feel like that is something

that I take with me.

This is the sportful.

It's not for food, it's for eaters.

I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.

Curtis Chen is a documentary filmmaker.

His work focuses on Asian Americans who've left important legacies, but who might not be

well known in the broader culture.

One of his subjects is Korki Lee, a photographer who chronicled New York's Chinatown for over

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