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Mee-Ka will serve Hmong comfort food influenced by American cuisine, offering ramen and Hmong sausage as a stand-in for spaghetti and meatballs, among other twists on familiar favorites.

Category: Food

Chef Yia Vang calls new Mee-Ka pop-up restaurant a ‘beautiful collision’ of Hmong and American cuisine

Keefer Court ends nearly 40-year-run, closing a shop that served as a second home for many.

Rice Street Garden is a gathering place for many east metro immigrants. A potential development project has them on edge.

Kham Su Lor was working too hard in his computer repair business, eating badly, and getting sick. Then he discovered his neighboring shop owner’s special tea.

Halwa is the ultimate Eid treat for many Somalis in Minnesota. This month, Abdinasir Aden will cook 10,000 pounds of the dessert and sell it by the bucket.

Red Wolf Chai debuts at farmers markets with chai and chapatis from East Africa.

Judge finds Minnesota Department of Education in contempt for go-slow approach to meal program.

Chef Yia Vang on his Minnesota Rice initiative, discovering his father’s heroism, and what he tells the kids with the ‘stinky’ lunches.

Mekfira Hussein’s meal programs have been feeding 5,000 children a day in the Twin Cities. A state effort to discipline an intermediary nonprofit forced her to suspend operations.

Chef Soleil Ramirez left Venezuela after an armed militia man broke a chair over her back, and threatened to kill her. She recently launched her own Minneapolis restaurant.

The perfect COVID-19 restaurant is a tiny Mexican take-out kitchen in Minneapolis that provides real family meals twice a week.

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