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A Silk Network guide for finding Austin Asian food, AAPI-owned restaurants, Asian American community, local coffee, markets, makers, and culture through the people and places behind them.
Makers, markets & events
Artists, creative spaces, market organizers, pop-ups, and small businesses building Austin’s local culture.
Community spaces
Gatherings, cultural memory, mahjong tables, late-night food, and the people making belonging easier to find.
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Featured Austin stories
Local founders, culture bearers, makers, and neighborhood anchors moving community forward.
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A Table Big Enough for Everyone
Tiffany Chan Strategist, Artist, Community Builder Tiffany didn't set out to build a creative ecosystem. She set out with a question: What grows when we create together? It turns out that everything is interconnected. ... She grew up a Texan and the eldest daughter of Hong Kong immigrants. Summers
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Being Brave: Showcasing Her Culture
Lê Nguyên, Founder: Viet Delish Box (In Vietnamese naming order, Lê is her family name.) Nguyên was thirteen when she and her brother left Lăng Cô— a small coastal town tucked between mountains and sea in Central Việt Nam — and moved to Đà Nẵng for school. Lăng Cô didn'
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Building A Legacy
Hannah Foy Founder & Owner, Lau Lau It was 2020. Minneapolis. The pandemic had already taken her job and her husband's. Then George Floyd was killed. The streets filled. And Hannah — already experiencing the actions of racism — felt the weight of two things happening at once: grief and
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Carrying the Torch, Boldly
Bảo Anh, Founder: Đậm Coffee Bar (In Vietnamese naming order, Bảo is his family name.) “You’re going to forget Việt Nam.” Anh was eleven when he left Việt Nam in 2006. His family came from Đà Lạt, a place known for its mountains, cool air, and coffee. In the
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Places with a story behind them
A starting map of Austin-area food, coffee, founders, and community anchors worth knowing, with the story behind each place.
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Đậm Coffee Bar
Vietnamese coffee, memory, and promise carried forward by founder Bảo Anh.
Read profile → Food & communityLau Lau
A business rooted in legacy, care, and a clearer sense of when the right time begins.
Read profile → Culture & foodViet Delish Box
A founder using food to share culture with confidence and invite people closer.
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Community memory, in motion
Essays, profiles, and reflections that connect Austin life to culture, identity, history, and belonging.
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Tháng Tư Đen. Black April.
By Phu Trinh April 29, 2026 Half a century ago this month, Saigon fell. The Vietnam War ended. And for millions of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian people, the life they had known ended too. Families split across oceans. Entire communities rebuilt in cities they hadn't heard of six
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