Mama Yang on the pod, Bon Appetit still trash?, Being woke is a walking nightmare, Fujoshi life - Soleil Ho, Mama Yang (S1E4)

Soleil Ho on life after being THE food critic for the SF Chronicle, Mama Yang has a secret Japanese name, and Jenny Yang was taking down Bon Appetit before it was cool.

SEASON 1, EPISODE 4! If you’re a FREE SUBSCRIBER, you can watch this shorter 1 hour and 9-minute PREVIEW. It’s the same thing but with it’s own INTRO and OUTRO. You can also head to any podcast platform to listen to the FREE VERSION. But I will always save the FULL, extended cut only for Paid Subscribers here on Substack. http://jennyyang.substack.com

PAID SUBSCRIBERS will hear Soleil NAME HER NEMESES and see bonus video of Soleil, my mom and me getting yummy Cantonese Chinese food in Chinatown. Mmmm….crab! (And a dish I had never tried before involving steamed egg and mussels!)

It is THURSDAY, MAY 15TH, 2025 and it is a gorgeous day here in San Francisco. And how am I this week? Like the TV channel MAX calling itself HBO MAX again, I’ve been…a messy bitch.

This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Submit a topic: Leave a voicemail or text 323-250-3589

ON THE AGENDA:

1. PODCAST UPDATES

2. Bon Appetit 2021 Reckoning and Where Are We Now in Food Media?

3. The death of alt weeklies and “weird” news

4. The politically very confounding Cybertruck in the Bay Area that sports a custom keffiyeh wrap

5. White South Africans accepted in America as refugees

6. East LA College Asian American / Ethnic Studies Professor Aki Maehara believes he was targeted in a possible hate crime (Professor Maehara’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Victim-of-Hate-Attack-Aki-Maehara-Needs-Our-Help)

7. Medicaid funding cut for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

8. Ben and Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen among protesters at RFK Jr. Senate hearing

9. TASTE TEST

10. ACTION ITEMS

11. SHOW ME SOME LOVE

12. RESTAURANT OUTING: R&G Lounge, San Francisco, Chinatown

Out in the wild we have, SOLEIL HO! Soleil Ho is a writer and former restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Subscribe to their NEW media platform COYOTE MEDIA when they launch later this week! https://www.coyotemedia.org

Our next guest is a retired garment and factory worker and mother of three. She loves filling in adult coloring books with fancy colored pencils, the bright colors of fuschia pink and red for her flowers, and I’ve known her since I was born. Please welcome MAMA YANG! She’s got nothing to promote. Just staying healthy and tasting things her daughter buys her while managing her blood sugar.

ME? I was prepping for a one-hour keynote speech about comedy and mental health for the Mental Health Association of San Francisco!

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