Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots (James Syhabout, Jon Birdsall) Dairy Free whose family has deep roots

whose family has deep roots in Shanghai and grew up eating homestyle Shanghainese food

With fail-proof recipes and information on the desserts' cultural origins and context

and sauces

Several iterations and millions of copies later

her baby on her back in a colorful pouch

Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots (James Syhabout, Jon Birdsall) Dairy Free whose family has deep rootsJames Syhabouts hugely popular Hawker Fare restaurant in San Francisco is the product of his unique family history and diverse career experience. Born into two distinct but related Asian culturesfrom his mothers ancestral village in Isan, Thailands northeast region, and his fathers home in Pakse, Laoshe and his family landed in Oakland in 1981 in a community of other refugees from the Vietnam War. Syhabout at first turned away from the food of his