{"id":402527,"date":"2026-07-17T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:56:08","slug":"thrift-store-find-reveals-musical-love-story-cooking-class-creating-connections-for-hmong-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402527\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrift Store Find Reveals Musical Love Story; Cooking Class Creating Connections for Hmong Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\"><a to=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-california-report-magazine\/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-california-report-magazine\/id1314750545?mt=2\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Jess Garcia loves perusing San Francisco thrift stores for treasures. One day, she came across a vinyl record titled Cora &amp; Santos In Baghdad by the Bay, which piqued her curiosity. She rushed home to listen, and was amazed at the sweet, nostalgic quality of the voices she heard. When she looked for more information on the couple. she couldn\u2019t find much, but she had this feeling there must be more to their story. It turns out this Filipino American couple were \u201cSan Francisco famous\u201d in the 1970s, playing a celebrated set in the Fairmount Hotel\u2019s Tonga Room among many other gigs. In this story from KQED\u2019s Bay Curious podcast, reporter Asal Ehsanipour found out Cora and Santos were also larger than life figures in their local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Fresno is home to the second largest Hmong community in the United States, with over 80,000 residents in the Central Valley. In 1992, Kristy Xiong immigrated there from Thailand as a child, and says she held on to her culture through traditional foods. These days, she\u2019s teaching a monthly class that helps young Hmong students cook these dishes and reconnect to their heritage. From the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative and KVPR, Esther Quintanilla takes us into the kitchen. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u00a0 Jess Garcia loves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-402527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}