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These Rising Star Chefs Teamed Up to Become New York’s Asian Food Mafia

Medwin Pang needs help.

He emigrated from London to Brooklyn with his British-Irish mother and Chinese father when only a month old. His restaurant, Hunger Pang, is only a few blocks from where he grew up. When asked to define his cuisine, he gestures out the window and calls it “New American-Asian.” On the menu, popcorn shrimp come with a familiar Chinese salt-and-...