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The Son of Cambodian Refugees Cooking up a South Philly Legacy

VICE·VICE Staff·26 days ago
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Created in partnership with Toyota Phila Lorn’s name is broken English for Philadelphia. His mother, a Cambodian refugee who arrived in the U.S. in 1985, looked at her newborn son and named him after the city that took her family in. He’s been living up to that name ever since. Videos by VICE Lorn didn’t learn to cook in a classroom. He grew up on food stamps and government assistance, and food was whatever you could stretch into a meal. Fermented ground pork. Grilled fish by the river. Then his family landed in the U.S., and suddenly, he’s staring at American grocery stores trying to figure out what bologna is. Lorn just kept eating, kept paying attention, and somewhere in that chaos built a palate that no culinary school could replicate. He got his first restaurant job after high school as a food runner. A cook called out sick one day, a manager watched him cut scallions, and put him on the line.…

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