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This project was supported by a grant from Baylor University Institute for Oral History & the interviews are archived there. The photographs are archived at UNT and are also part of the Digital Wall Dallas Public Library downtown branch. The full interviews are also at https://tinyurl.com/bdfn5c6a
04:57 PM - Apr 12, 2023
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The exhibit will be in Dallas Hall through mid-May. Each portrait is accompanied by a QR code through which you can listen to a clip of the subject’s #oralhistory interview. It was a sweet surprise to see many of the narrators at the event on Monday night. #Photography
04:55 PM - Apr 12, 2023
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I enjoyed sharing the themes that emerged from my interviews of Vietnamese North Texans and hearing Byrd Williams IV explain the process he used for the portraits we shot of the participants. These photographs, processed with gold and selenium, will last over 500 years!
04:53 PM - Apr 12, 2023
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Clips from Daisy’s interview & her portrait, shot by Thanin Viriyaki, will be featured on the library’s Digital Wall. The project is possible thanks to an ACLS/Mellon Faculty Fellowship & the generosity of the Asian grocers, chefs, & restaurant owners who shared their stories. #Food
07:21 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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This interview is part of the project, “Digging In: How Food, Culture, and Class Shape the Story of Asian Dallas” and is archived at Baylor’s Institute for Oral History. The Chuskul family has donated digitized photos & menus to the Dallas Public Library’s downtown branch.
07:18 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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that's how people greet each other, making sure that you entered someone's heart through their stomach, make sure they're fed, that warmth and care that's taken through food. With the restaurant, we wanted an atmosphere that's like, come into our home & we're going to feed you.”
07:18 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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Daisy Chuskul studied hospitality management at UNT & started running the restaurant with her siblings after her parents retired.She reflects on the centrality of food & hospitality in Thai culture, pointing to the Thai “phrase ‘kin khao reu yang’ [which] means ‘have you eaten?’
07:18 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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…She knew the most popular one was the one to look for, so she would spy at their trash & see which trash had the most eggshells because, at the night market, they would crack an egg for each order. So the one that had the most eggshells had the best Pad Thai”
07:17 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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Chuskul’s mother was from the town of Ratburi in Thailand and learned how to make her popular Pad Thai by observing the night market vendors there. Chuskul recounts that her mom “would go to the night market and watch how they were making Pad Thai…
07:16 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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She reflects that, “One of the biggest draws…was just my mom. She was just so hospitable, and everyone called her "Mom" and just wanted to be around her and spend time with her. I think that's why they enjoyed coming to the restaurant.”
07:16 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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Chuskul remembers growing up in the restaurant, “We only had maybe six or seven tables. So we would have people line up in the parking lot, waiting to eat and would bring coolers and kind of tailgate our parking lot, wanting to try my mom's Pad Thai.”
07:15 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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