February 15, 2025

Kelley Bayern, Elizabeth Dinh journey the cuisine bridge

Kelley Bayern, Elizabeth Dinh journey the cuisine bridge

May well is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Editor’s Be aware: May well is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Thirty day period. This is one of a collection of KOIN 6 News studies to celebrate the month.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Over lunch of xiao (soup dumplings), eggplant in incredibly hot garlic sauce, sauteed snow pea leaves, a beef roll and salt-and-pepper squid at the Duck Property Chinese restaurant Portland, KOIN 6 News anchor Elizabeth Dinh and KOIN 6 Meteorologist Kelley Bayern shared stories about their heritage.

Under is an edited model of what they talked about during lunch, a cuisine bridge to different cultures.

The Duck Household cafe in Portland, April 2022 (KOIN)

Kelley Bayern

“I was born in Seattle and my mother actually immigrated from Taiwan in her 20s and fulfilled my dad. I think what’s intriguing about my history is that individuals can not seriously notify that I look or that I am Chinese. I imagine a lot of folks glimpse at me and say, possibly there is a little something there, but it’s hardly ever Chinese as the very first guess. …

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Kelley Bayern receives her hair braided by her mom in this undated family members image

“Teachers even have explained that I lied all over during university. So that was just kind of unusual for the reason that there’s almost nothing to lie about, you know? I have a Chinese mother. I’m 50 %-Chinese. I’m quite very pleased of it. And that was a thing that was bizarre to me expanding up.

“I’m a very white-passing Asian man or woman, so I also in no way had as well lots of struggles with racism in that sense. And I know that is a large concern however in this day and age. And things that my mother has faced, much too, heading out to suppliers and being harassed by persons. So, I obtained that stop of the adhere and didn’t offer with that. But folks like my brother and some of my half-Asian friends who did turn out to seem far more Asian than I did dealt with all those troubles.”

Elizabeth Dinh

“Whether you go out to eat here, you’re with your good friends or you’re at house in your kitchen area, I assume which is like, it goes over boundaries of language. Meals connects us.

“I make steamed baos. And I think that is what connects me generally to my mom, just working with the steamer, acquiring to pleat the dough. And I make them quite normally also. So my baos, I usually fill them with some variety of meat filling, like a floor pork or at times, much more of like a sweet, sticky style of pork. I uncovered by watching my mother and then also a lot of stuff on the web. …

Baos created by KOIN 6 Meteorologist Kelley Bayern, April 2022 (KOIN)

“That’s one of my most loved dishes I had the initial time when I was in Taiwan and a little something about the texture of the vegetables. It is amazing. …

“To see all of the structures, see Tiananmen Square, see the Great Wall and just do all of these things and actually immerse myself in the lifestyle and genuinely the foods. Was just one of the greatest journeys I have ever taken.”

Kelley Bayern

“I have been to Taiwan and China. I have relations in Beijing… It was really amazing to go there. I was a senior in university, so when I was more mature and adequate to, kind of, realize the culture and have additional in depth discussions with my family members who ended up all English-speaking.

“Comfort foods is what delivers you again to a wonderful place and a dish that reminds you of that.

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Kelley Bayern and her boyfriend, Ben, April 2022 (KOIN)

“My boyfriend is 50 %-Korean, so I’ve been equipped to find out about his culture. He also has a white father and a Korean mom. So I’ve realized a great deal of cooking approach from her. And it’s just since I’m interested in this, it’s brought our romantic relationship closer.

I believe meals is so excellent simply because it seriously opens the door and permits you to see other people’s perspectives on matters on lifetime, their viewpoints and food stuff is just the gateway to that.”