In Dallas, Texas, Korean American bartender-turned-cart owner Sunny Hatch had a largely Western upbringing, a common tale for children of immigrants who choose to immerse their families in American culture as a means of survival. “It didn’t feel safe to be Asian,” Hatch says. “I feel like a lot of hapas that I meet tell me the same thing — that their parents wanted them to be super Western. They don’t know the language, they didn’t really eat any of their cultural food, things like that.”
Growing up, Korean food was one of the only connections Hatch had to his heritage. He’d eat Hungry Man TV dinners alongside rice
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