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Why Garlic Noodles Are So Bay Area

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Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When asked to name some of the Bay Area’s signature foods, many would jump to name Mission burritos, It’s-It ice cream sandwiches or — especially for tourists visiting San Francisco piers — clam chowder. KQED food editor Luke Tsai is adding another food to that list: garlic noodles. “Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere,” Tsai writes in his recent article. So what’s behind the love for this dish born in San Francisco’s Vietnamese community? We’ll talk to Tsai about how garlic noodles became one of the Bay Area’s most iconic foods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. When asked to name some of the Bay Area's

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signature foods, many might name Mission Burritos, Delicate Organic Fair,

1:12.3

it's it, ice cream sandwiches, or especially for tourists visiting San Francisco Pierce, clam chowder.

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But KQED Food Editor Luke Sy is adding another food to that list, garlic noodles. Here in the Bay Area,

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Asian Americans love garlic noodles, black and Latino folks love garlic

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noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere,

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he writes. And he's here with us today to talk about all this. Welcome back to forum,

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Luke Sy. Thank you, Alexis. Glad to be here. So what is it about garlic noodles? How are they typically made and how do people

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typically eat them? So the first time I had garlic noodles was probably a couple of years after I moved

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to the Bay Area at this spot called PPQ Dungeness Island, which a lot of our listeners probably know

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