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Did You Eat Yet?
by Le Nguyen
A podcast for Asians and Asian Americans in America.Did you eat yet is synonymous with love and care. Growing up, my parents have always shown love and care to me by asking me that question and no matter if we were mad/sad/irritated at each other, it always comes back with making sure that I was not hungry.Food brings us all together universally and specifically in Asian culture. Quite literally we all come together but at a table and we share something that is crafted with time and effort with love and care. Even in our food we have a sense of together-ness when spices/flavors are incorporated in the food itself. That together-ness is important in a family because much like how amazing food can taste when you add in flavor, having a good bond with family/loved ones can help with having a healthier relationship with your parents and also yourself.There are lots of struggles as Asians living in America: the identity crisis of if you’re really an American in the eyes of an American to
Episodes
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Our Parent’s Table
In this season finale of Did You Eat Yet?, I sit down with my sister to reflect on the greater understanding we’ve gained of our parents—their sacrifices, their love, and the subtle ways they showed they cared. Framed through the warmth of a family cookout, we talk about the rare moments when...
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Receipt Wars
When the check hits the table, so does the love. In this episode of Did You Eat Yet?, I reflect on my recent trip to Vietnam and the familiar scene of families fighting to pay the bill — a ritual that’s less about money and more about care. Growing up, I watched my parents argue at restaurants,...
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Plate of Fruits
Fruit doesn’t come with a speech—just a quiet plate left in front of you, peeled and ready. In this episode, I reflect on the small, wordless acts of care our parents gave us—like fruit sliced with love instead of “I love you” spoken out loud. We explore the sweetness behind these gestures and…
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A Cup Meant for You
Tea isn’t flashy. It doesn’t come sizzling on a skillet or arrive with dramatic garnish. But somehow… it shows up right when we need it. In this episode, I reflect on the quiet, unspoken ways our parents tried to ease our stress—much like steeping a cup of tea without asking if we wanted it. It…
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Meat, starch, & soup
3 course meal is super fancy but we aren't at a Michelin restaurant, we're under the roof of my parents. Mom & dad always made sure I was well fed and making sure I had all the right things to have energy to go about my day at school or when doing extracurricular activities. Figuratively, they...
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Praying with Food
Often times I see my dad pray with food to offer thanks to our ancestors and/or higher power. Today I'm showing thanks to the person that I am today though my unique experiences in life that I have never found anyone been able to relate with aside from a few. I am giving thanks alongside with a...
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Seasoning Your Food
"Tell me when to stop," is not something that you hear at my dinner table but is what you hear all the time at Olive Garden. Growing up, it was hard to have the right amount of things you need to help nurture your growth. In this episode I sit alone talking about how even though I didn't get the...
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Food Critics
No I'm not actually cooking anything for you to judge. The name of this episode is a metaphor for the amount of judgement I've faced as a child. Being criticized in aspects of my life when I know that I'm not perfect but I'm expected to be. Now I end up being my worst critic because I adopted…
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Buffet/AYCE
Let's maximize our ROI... at a buffet. In this episode I am accompanied by my sister talking about the savings that we saw growing up that our parents have have shown us. Given today's day and age there is something I can learn from my parents. They have shown me that they have gone through so…
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Hotpot
Heated exchange are common between child and parent. For me that was no different. Being under the same house with parents can be difficult when you think you're ready for the outside world when in our parents' eyes, you're not. This episode is just me, myself, and I where I tell you a story…
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Why Can't You Cook Yet?
Literally am still learning how to cook more Vietnamese food, but figuratively I am trapped in my own thoughts. I want to express that even living on my own that the very thing that I was trying to break away from I'm still doing it to myself. The idea of second guessing where I'm at in life is…
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Who's The Best Chef?
No this isn't a show of the MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay. This is a new episode talking about the struggles of always being compared and having to fight to be the "better" child in the family. Who's the best chef is an analogy of our parent always finding some way to brag about us to other kids…
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Candy Jar
Have you ever tried to reach for that jar of candies/cookies in your pantry even though your parents told you not to? I haven't but I've always seen that in movies but figuratively I have. To me I've always found it hard to listen to my parents and I wonder why I feel so obligated to have such...
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Kitchen’s Best practice
The chef knows what's best... or do they? Not in this case because the sous chefs (us) might know a little more than what our parents do, especially when we're a little older and are progressing into our adulthood. Kitchen's Best Practice is an analogy that our parents always know what's best and...
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Dining Room
Welcome to the dining room! A place where I invite you to come eat and feel safe. To me the dining room was never a place to show vulnerability but more so about business of what I needed to do and/or to discuss what I've done well. Accompanied by my friend and my sister they do their best to…
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Undercooked
"Undercooked" is a metaphor of the feeling that you will never be ready when they want you to be. Even if it's not them I find out that it's me that also ends up putting myself down through the same things that I grew up with. That thought of making you think that you aren't ready for the next...
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Getting Grilled
"Getting Grilled" is a metaphor saying that you have been humbled by someone's feedback. Parents roasts you for the things that you've done and how it's not up to their standard. With this feedback, parents will feel like this is disciplining you as their child but do they really know the...
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Don’t Waste Your Food
"Don't waste your food" is a metaphor in regards that work is not finished or there are still crumbs left over. The idea is the doubt that is put in your mind that you haven't done enough or reflecting retroactively and finding more ways to have finish the job better. In this episode, I am...
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Finishing Your Bowl
Finishing your bowl is a metaphor on "is your work done yet?" The often self inflicted question that you ask causing you to be aware about your efforts towards something. In this episode I am accompanied by a great friend who helps guide me to being more confident in my actions. All while…
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Digestion
Digestion is all about taking the time to take in what you are given and in this episode I talk about the challenges that I was faced at a young age. Being told to basically know anything and everything is unrealistic but how do I cope with that today? This episode is a good seg-way to the next…
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Some Soup
Soup is a comforting dish that is warm most times and nourishing. In this episode I talk about how I felt on edge and the moments in life that have translated to how I am today. The parenting of making your child be fearful is a very effective way to have a child understand concepts but what else...
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Broken Rice
Broken rice, is very good and is exactly the same thing as your normal jasmine. In this episode I'm accompanied by two of my good friends that helps me talk through certain situations where I am still not over an issue that I had when I was young. This episode is important to me as my friends…
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A Bowl
Bowls serve an important role in the dinner table as it is the main tool to help carry/hold the food that you eat. In this episode, I talk about how I wasn't being held like how a bowl would hold. The constant falling of my young naive self with no one around to catch me. This was a harder topic…
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Spoon
Spoons serve an important purpose of carrying your food with ease and also holds nutritious food like soup! In this episode I vent to you about how I felt unsupported and the parenting was harsh and not useful to help me at the time when I was struggling. It's difficult to look back and see that...
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Chopsticks - Special Guest
Things work better in pairs. What happens if one of the two fails? Complications in ideas, philosophies, and up bringing is hard and to balance between them is just as difficult. In this episode we talk about how the lack of supportiveness of our parents and the un-aligned ways of raising us as...
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Did You Eat Yet? - Introduction
Hi everyone! I'm your host Le Nguyen and this is an introduction of Did You Eat Yet? I wanted to share my vision on what I hope to get out of this podcast and to create a greater community around me. I look forward to beginning this new journey of my life to see where this takes me! <3
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast for Asians and Asian Americans in America.Did you eat yet is synonymous with love and care. Growing up, my parents have always shown love and care to me by asking me that question and no matter if we were mad/sad/irritated at each other, it always comes back with making sure that I was not hungry.Food brings us all together universally and specifically in Asian culture. Quite literally we all come together but at a table and we share something that is crafted with time and effort with love and care. Even in our food we have a sense of together-ness when spices/flavors are incorporated in the food itself. That together-ness is important in a family because much like how amazing food can taste when you add in flavor, having a good bond with family/loved ones can help with having a healthier relationship with your parents and also yourself.There are lots of struggles as Asians living in America: the identity crisis of if you’re really an American in the eyes of an American to
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Did You Eat Yet? currently has 26 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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A podcast for Asians and Asian Americans in America.Did you eat yet is synonymous with love and care. Growing up, my parents have always shown love and care to me by asking me that question and no matter if we were mad/sad/irritated at each other, it always comes back with making sure that I was...
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Did You Eat Yet? is created and hosted by Le Nguyen.
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