April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
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Why ‘Forever Chemicals’ Don’t Have to Stick Around … Forever

by Aurora Hao

Rain jackets, shampoo, meat, and cookware might wear out and go away, but they might never leave you. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are integrated into almost every aspect of daily life. Given their strong carbon-fluorine chemical bonds, PFAS take an extremely long time to break down, lingering in the environment and the human body, and thus coined “Forever Chemicals.” These persisting forever chemicals can be found in water and soil, especially near waste sites as they enter the environment through production […]

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Chinatown Bakeries Keep August Moon Tradition Alive

by DongDong Yang

The mid-autumn festival, also known as the August Moon festival, is often celebrated with mooncakes – round pastries with sweet or savory fillings that symbolize the full moon. But the tradition of hand crafting the delicacy is slowly changing, say some pastry chefs, who are keeping the tradition alive locally.“The most difficult part of making mooncakes is cooking the syrup, which needs to be prepared a month in advance. It’s a very skillful process. Traditional hand-made mooncakes are the most […]

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Golden Monkey Cafe, a Cambodian Restaurant in Lynn, Is Full of History, Flavor and Family

by Christopher John Stephens and Ingrid Stendhal

The Golden Monkey Cafe is a small, cozy restaurant located at 468 Chestnut St. in Lynn. The restaurant speaks to the perseverance, resiliency, and history of the food it serves and the people that prepare and present it. Unpretentious, the cafe is decorated with soft pink pastel walls and white trim, and is neat and tidy in its simplicity. In addition to offering free parking, the place affords some seating both inside as well as outside on the veranda for […]

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Don’t Throw Away That Yogurt Yet: Sampan Interviews Expert on Confusing Sell-by, Use-by Dates

by Derek He

Say you’re grabbing a bottle of milk from the fridge, and see its expiration day passed three days ago. It smells fine, but is it safe? The answer isn’t always clear. In many parts of the world, expiration dates are a familiar sight on a variety of foods, particularly those that are perishable such as meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy. The dates play a crucial role in influencing consumer behavior and managing store inventory. But the dates are not always […]

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Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to Cancer: An Interview with Tufts University’s Dr. Fang Fang Zhang

by Kristen Si

Last month, a study published in the medical journal The BMJ (a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the British Medical Association) connected the consumption of ultraprocessed foods to a higher risk for colorectal cancer. Dr. Fang Fang Zhang, a researcher at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, led this project, focusing specifically on the effects of ultraprocessed diets on cancer risk through a large cohort study over 28 years. A key finding in her study […]

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District Kitchen: the Modern Chinese Restaurant

by Anna Ing

The modern Chinese food restaurant District Kitchen, located just steps from the Malden Center T station, is open for dine-in, takeout and delivery.  It has a cozy, but casual bar and dining room, differing from the usual, simple mom-and-pop takeout Chinese restaurants. We dined there recently for Lunar New Year, enjoying some appetizers to-go. Since it was the holiday, we wanted to order dumplings, or jiaozi. The dumpling shape resembles the ancient Chinese gold ingot. For Chinese people during the Lunar New Year, […]

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Dine Like a Tiger: How Local Asian Americans Ate on Lunar New Year

by Winnie Huang

For many, the Lunar New Year brings back fond family memories, filled with tradition, lively celebration, and, of course food. Let’s look at how several area Asian Americans celebrated with their favorite dishes: China Pearl Style New Year For Patty and Brian Moy, owners of China Pearl and Shojo restaurants, the dish that defines new year is nian gao (年糕). “I love the savory version with snow cabbage, shredded pork, and the nian gao is cut up from a thick, […]

Bubble Tea
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Bubbles: It’s America’s New Cup of Tea

by Moninisha Yadav

Asia has a long history of drinking tea. But one style of tea has long been bubbling above the other vareties — and taking the global market by storm. Originating in Taipei in the 1980s, bubble tea made its way to the United States in the 1990s. It became extremely popular within the Taiwanese American community on the West Coast. Shops began opening up all over California, becoming well known with the surrounding Asian American communities. But how did it […]

Japanese food Futago
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Japanese Favorites at Futago

by Anna Ing

I was happy to see Futago restaurant (Japanese for “twins”) still open during a recent lunch time visit. Its owners also run the izakaya and soba house, Sugidama. They have been dishing up solid udon dishes at Futago since opening almost three years ago. The open and minimally decorated dining space has two beautiful paintings featuring steaming udon bowls ready to be enjoyed by a hovering hand with chopsticks.  I started with a favorite, takoyaki, a dish of grilled octopus […]

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