Nature: Merganser
Find out about ducks who fish. Join KBCS’s Yuko Kodama on the shores of Lake Washington with Ed Dominguez, Lead Naturalist of the Seward Park Audubon Center, and discover Merganser water birds around Seattle.
Nature: Bald Eagle
Join KBCS’s Yuko Kodama and Ed Dominguez, Lead Naturalist of the Seward Park Audubon Center, for another stroll through Seattle’s Seward Park, as they encounter and discuss our national bird: the bald eagle.
The Music Under the Alaskan Way Viaduct
As the Alaskan Way Viaduct closes and is demolished this year, Cynthia Brothers, Founder of Vanishing Seattle shares stories about the grunge, gay and hip hop subcultures that flourished in the shadows of the structure over the past half century.
produced by Yuko Kodama, Noah Allen and Jesse Callahan
photo by Stephen Cysewski
The International District’s Fortune Cookie and Noodle Factory
Take a tour of a local fortune cookie and noodle factory with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama and Dawn Nguyen of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, otherwise known as the Wing. Speaking of food, The Wing offers a tour called the International Dumpling Crawl, now through march, to tour and try dumplings at various restaurants in Seattle’s Chinatown, International District.
Producers: Yuko Kodama Adria McGhee and Jesse Callahan
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Next, we take a field trip into a fortune cookie and noodle factory in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. Yuko Kodama goes on a tour of the neighborhood with the Wing Luke Museum’s Dawn Nguyen.
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Oh wow, look at all these fortune cookies. And all these flat ones! Are they called misfortune cookies?
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Misfortune cookies or unfortate cookies. Where we have stepped in is Tsue Chong. Our very own local fortune cookie and noodle factory that’s been here for 100 years now, in the corner of Eighth and King and this is their little shop where you can buy a super fresh fortune cookies, dried noodles, fresh noodles. Everywhere you look there’s all sorts of different kinds. So anytime you crack open a fortune cookie and you’ve got those two roses on your piece of paper, you now know it comes from this place here.
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Oh, it’s made in the international district. What kind of different kinds of noodles are there here?
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We’ve got, I think at one point they’ve had, like, maybe 14 different kinds? We have wonton noodles, egg noodles, dried noodles, wonton wrappers, they’re all packaged here for you to grab super fresh and super cheap too. So sometimes you might find these in other shops but when you come straight to the source, it’s a little bit more of a better deal.
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They have siu mai wrappers, which are kind of like wonton wrappers and they have like a thin kind and a medium kind of thickness ones.
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That’s depending on what you’re making. So if you’re making siu mai, that’s the pork kind of meatballs with the wrappers on the outside, you want a thinner kind of wrapper versus let’s say, doing dumplings, right? Dumplings, you’ll need something a little bit thicker to house all of that, like yummy goodness that you’re going to make.
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So a lot of people might think you know, “there’s only Chinese dumplings.” What are some of the different kinds of dumplings?
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Some of the more surprising dumplings that people find are the Vietnamese ones where you’ve got like things steamed and banana leaves with tapioca and then they’re savory, but they can also be sweet too. So those ones are always a really big surprise. But there’s just a lot of different kinds besides the jiaozi kind that you find and…
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What’s jiaozi?
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Jiaozi is the type of dumpling that kind of looks like an ear, right? That gets crimped on the side. That’s your general like moon shaped, kind of like yoga, right? So jiaozi is more of the Chinese traditional dumpling the story behind it is about like, how in the winter time, people’s ears were getting so cold that they were like cracking. And so this doctor was like, “hey, I’m going to make something that will fix this” and he put in like different kinds of ingredients that would warm the body during the winter times to prevent the whole ear cracking business, so he called them jiaozi because of that, you know that ear shape and then it’s interesting because, you know, these, these foods, they don’t just stay contained in one country. There’s movement. So the dumpling that we know, gyoza right? The Japanese gyoza that’s coming from jiaozi so you can kind of hear it in the linguistics of the food too.
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Oh, jiaozi versus gyoza.
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That was a tour of a local fortune cookie and noodle factory with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama and Dawn Nguyen of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, otherwise known as the Wing. Speaking of food, The Wing offers a tour called the International Dumpling Crawl, now through March, to tour and try dumplings at various restaurants in Seattle’s Chinatown, International District.
Election 2018 – False Election Mailers in Washington State
You may have heard about the false campaign flyers mailed to voters in Pierce, Spokane, Kitsap and the Olympic Peninsula districts this election season. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama speaks with Kent City Councilwoman, Brenda Fincher, whose identity was misused in a false election mailer.
Produced by Ruth Bly and Yuko Kodama
Election 2018 – The Washington Bus: Encouraging Young People to Vote
The Washington Bus is a youth driven organization that encourages young people across Washington State to vote and get politically involved. During this elections season, The Washington Bus is busy with campaigns to “Get Out the Vote!”. In addition to door-knocking, the organization hosts phone banking and text banking parties – with a twist.
Election 2018 – BYOB: Bring Your Own Ballot Party in Seattle
In an effort to help get out the vote, El Centro de la Raza in Seattle’s Beacon Hill, is hosting the BYOB: Bring Your Own Ballot Party!; an event on Saturday, October 27th, 2018, to help voters understand their ballots. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with Miguel Maestas, El Centro De La Raza’s Housing and Economic Development Director, about the event.
Election 2018: Initiative 940 on Law Enforcement Training
KBCS continues its Elections 2018 coverage, taking a look at Initiative 940 on law enforcement training and use of deadly force. The measure would require law enforcement to receive violence de-escalation and mental health training, as well as change standards for use of deadly force and require independent investigations in the case that an officer’s use of deadly force results in death or substantial or great bodily harm. In addition, law enforcement would be required to provide first aid to save lives. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with Leslie Cushman, Citizen Sponsor for Initiative 940 and Co-Chair of De-Escalate Washington, and Teresa Taylor, Executive Director of the Washington Council of Police and Sheriffs, who opposes Initiative 940.
Election 2018: 28th Legislative District Position 1
The KBCS Elections 2018 coverage speaks with two candidates for the Washington State House of Representatives for the 28th Legislative District, Position 1. KBCS’s Gregg Selby spoke with Dick Muri, Republican candidate running for re-election to a 3rd two-year term, and Mari Leavitt, Democratic candidate.
Elections 2018 – State Senate 47th Legislative District
The KBCS Elections 2018 coverage continues, focusing on the Washington legislative race for the State Senate, 47th District. KBCS’s Gregg Selby spoke with Mona Das, Democratic candidate running for re-election to a 3rd four-year term. KBCS reached out to Joe Fain, Republican candidate for this contested State Senate seat, for an interview or a statement but he wasn’t able to accommodate either request.