Tiffany Luong — An Asian American Mosaic | Asian American Museum at Great Park

Handmade Heritage - Chiang family makes zongzi

Here, the Chiang family is pictured with the grandparents teaching the next generations how to wrap these rice dumplings.

Reclamation - Flower Bao

"Flower bao" is an effort to make up for my childhood disdain for Chinese food. In first grade, my parents brought me a dimsum lunch one day and I threw it away - I'm not sure what was more mortifying to me - the embarrassment I felt about eating Chinese food publicly or the punishment I faced afterwards. To this day, I still don't know why I did it... maybe someone had made fun of me? Maybe I had already internalized some sense of self-loathing for simply being Chinese.

Reclamation - Orange Cheat Sheet

This is an abstract reimagining of my grandparents' immigration story. “Orange cheat sheet” is a depiction of the Paper Son phenomena. Test questions were written and hidden into orange peels and delivered by Chinese waiters to patrons in restaurants, or sent back in fruit baskets at the dock back home.