Founded by Hue-Chan Karels, Alkemē reflects Karels’s Vietnamese heritage and a lifelong relationship to food shaped by migration. For her, cooking is both nourishment and continuity—holding memory and transformation together through flavor and craft. Executive chef Erica Tai brings her Taiwanese heritage to the restaurant’s culture-to-table concept. In this episode of 5-Minute Fridays, we talk with Karels and Tai about how culture, memory, and identity come together on the plate.
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