Restaurateur Vivian Ku discusses why she chose to focus on Taiwanese cuisine when opening her Los Angeles restaurant Pine & Crane.
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“I'll always like to say that Taiwanese food is organically designed to appeal to the masses because of the way, you know, history and migration, you know, with all food kind of like shaped its, Culinary history and where it's going.”
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