Yia Vang and Diane Moua have created a moment in the Twin Cities for the emergence of a cuisine virtually unknown outside its ...

Hmong food is finally getting the attention it deserves. From family kitchens to food fairs in Minneapolis, discover how a ...

“When the Hmong community wins, Minneapolis wins. St. Paul wins. Minnesota wins,” said Chef Yia Vang of Vinai about a sweeping story in the New York Times that features both Vinai and Moua’s Diane’s ...

Yia Vang’s dream restaurant Vinai is finally a reality. A sneak peek inside the chef’s meaningful restaurant, which opens next week in Minneapolis. By Sharyn Jackson.

Yia Vang: We have our pork belly. We have our Hmong sausage of Kelsang, which is our noodles and then we have our purple sticky rice here because if everything is too flavorful, it's too big for you.

And Vang, as host, has become a household name — among a certain PBS-watching set, anyway. “I’m like, I need to do stuff where women in their 30s think this is cool,” he joked.

Yia Vang. TV personality, and highly decorated chef Yia Vang is the owner/chef of the James Beard-nominated restaurant Union Hmong Kitchen in Minneapolis.

YIA VANG: Yeah, that was one of the things where it's like on Friday, when everyone was like, man, this is sad. And again, you want to-- it's like you don't want to reveal it first, ...

Guest chefs brings BIPOC food to St. John's University students 02:41. COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Celebrity chef Yia Vang is back in a university dining hall for a first-time visit to Saint John's ...

C hef Yia Vang’s new Hmong restaurant, Vinai, is set to finally open in Northeast Minneapolis July 30, almost four years after it was first announced.If you’ve been following along with Vang ...

This particular assignment allowed Vang to repurpose a traditional recipe and put his own spin on it. More: Hmong chef Yia Vang grew up in central Wisconsin.Now he's taking the foodie world by storm.