{"id":97284,"date":"2026-11-03T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97284"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:03:59","slug":"awkwafina-goes-from-kitchen-nightmares-to-cooking-for-her-heritage-will-grandma-approve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97284","title":{"rendered":"Awkwafina goes from kitchen nightmares to cooking for her heritage. Will Grandma approve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/02\/18738b72-d02b-46f2-84eb-2cafe1df33ac_c19ba9f0.jpg?itok=6EDCt9gc&amp;v=1793610603\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nora Lum is a hapless, clueless kitchen klutz who cannot tell one end of a wok from the other.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And with that as her default position as she embarks on an Asian, primarily Chinese, culinary exploration of the United States, with the aim of mastering stove, saucepan and skillet, her prospects look decidedly dim.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the outset of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook<\/em> on Apple TV, Lum confesses that she cannot even \u201csteam an egg\u201d; yet she is an expert at incinerating trays of spare ribs; at turning any sort of cooking into a \u201cnightmarish hell\u201d; at fumbling and clattering utensils at a prestigious culinary institute; and at smoking out a teacher-chef with smouldering vegetable oil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3372957\/awkwafina-goes-kitchen-nightmares-cooking-her-heritage-will-grandma-approve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nora Lum is a hapless, clueless kitchen klutz who cannot tell one end of a wok from the other. And with that as her default&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32162,32367,5897,8472,2382,5723,3294],"class_list":["post-97284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-approve","tag-awkwafina","tag-cooking","tag-grandma","tag-heritage","tag-kitchen","tag-nightmares","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}