This article includes spoilers of the Netflix series “Bojack Horseman.” If you have spent any time around me at all, you would probably know that my all-time favorite TV show is “Bojack Horseman” which ran from 2014 to 2020, an animated adult comedy-drama series set in a humanoid,…

We all know and love Din Tai Fung, the world-renowned Chinese restaurant chain famous for their 小笼包 (xiao long bao). In fact, I’m no stranger to the Century City location, as I’ve been there a number of times with family and friends. My personal favorite is the garlic…

The life cycle of a single plate of food is fairly short. Conceived of ingredients brought together from a grocery store, a dish lives a quick life in the time it takes to migrate from kitchen to table, only to disappear quietly in the shuffle of forks and…

Check out some cultural traditions important to some members of the Pacific Ties staff, and how we manage to keep in touch with our roots at UCLA.

One of my earliest memories is of panic. At four years old I returned from a summer with my family in India and struggled to take hold of English. It was in many ways an unbalancing, a question posed with no clear answer – if I could hold…