{"id":16419,"date":"2022-05-23T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:36:51","slug":"using-food-to-fight-anti-asian-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2022\/05\/using-food-to-fight-anti-asian-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Food to Fight Anti-Asian Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"1\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2015-09-16-20.38.21.tif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16801\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2015-09-16-20.38.21.tif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">When Tim Ma, MS \u201905, left his job as a senior hardware engineer with Raytheon to attend culinary school, his parents, both Chinese immigrants, worried. After all, they had \u201ccome to America to work insane hours in a Chinese restaurant so their kids wouldn\u2019t have to work in restaurants,\u201d Ma says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">But Ma didn\u2019t let his parents\u2019 aspiration for him to \u201cwork as a doctor, lawyer, or engineer\u2014that was their American dream,\u201d he says\u2014deter him from his passion. He negotiated an engineering consulting gig, snagged an unpaid internship at a Michelin-rated eatery, and enrolled in the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center) in New York City. \u201cBefore this, I had never really handled a knife,\u201d says Ma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">After culinary school, Ma and his wife moved to balmy St. Thomas to slog long hours working and learning in the finest restaurants while spending downtime on the beach, dreaming up plans to open a restaurant. But moving back to the continental U.S. came with obstacles. \u201cI\u2019d barely been a line cook, and we struggled to find funding,\u201d Ma shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">Eventually, Ma bought a restaurant off Craigslist in northern Virginia and went on to run a series of bistros serving contemporary eclectic cuisine. In 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Ma surprised everyone with a return to his roots. He opened a temporary Chinese takeout restaurant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckydanger.co\">Lucky Danger<\/a>, in Washington, D.C., which he later relocated to Arlington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">Part of the appeal came from the pandemic-fueled business opportunity in takeout. But another came from an intrinsic interest in his heritage. \u201cPeople in this country perceive Chinese food as takeout, and I wanted to explore the food\u2019s history and what it means to be Chinese-American,\u201d Ma explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">Ma describes Lucky Danger as \u201cupdated Chinese-American takeout.\u201d His menu features traditional dishes like spring rolls with twists like whitefish with pickled mustard greens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">With plans underway to open a second Lucky Danger in Washington, D.C., Ma not only cooks and sells food but also uses it to combat the wave of anti-Asian attacks coinciding with the pandemic. \u201cThe situation reached a boiling point,\u201d Ma says. \u201cI had no choice but to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">He and another chef, Kevin Tien, devised a way to donate proceeds from takeout to organizations fighting anti-Asian crime while teaming up with chefs nationwide to do the same. \u201cWe raised more than $200,000, and we\u2019re applying for our nonprofit status to continue the work,\u201d Ma says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textLayer\">\u201cWe\u2019re just using what we know how to do: cook food,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"2\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<p class=\"textLayer\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tim Ma, MS \u201905, left his job as a senior hardware engineer with Raytheon to attend culinary school, his parents, both Chinese immigrants, worried. 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