Rolling World Premiere 

Aurora Theatre, Berkeley, CA, Nov. - Dec. 2022

Chance Theater, Anaheim, CA, March - April 2023

Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, May - June 2023

6th Reading 

Aurora + Chance, CA via Zoom, February 13, 2021

5th Reading 

Ars Nova, New York, NY
November 22, 2020

3rd/4th Readings 

Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco, CA
July 22, 28 2018

Second Reading 

Ma-Yi, New York NY
October 29, 2017

First Reading 

Berkeley Rep, Berkeley CA
July 12, 2017

Director

Oanh Nguyen

Director

Oanh Nguyen

Director

Mei Ann Teo

Director

Ken Savage

Director

Rachel Dart

  Director

Mina Morita

Cast

2M / 2F

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This play was inspired by two Internet dust-ups around food. The first was when chef Tyler Akin cut a video for Bon Appetit titled "PSA: This is How You Should Be Eating Pho." That you can't find the video anymore speaks for itself. The second incident was when Dan Pashman of The Sporkful suggested you could improve bibimbap using a bundt pan. So I followed the rabbit hole down a discussion of food culture.

“Playwright Dustin H. Chinn uses a deceptively simple subject – the Vietnamese noodle dish, phở — as the launching pad for an incisive play about Western hubris, the endemic tendency of outsiders to set themselves above the regional cultures they so blithely appropriate.”
- Stage Raw

“The larger point about the way a dish can preserve the relentless discord of history is delectably served.”
- LA Times

“A great comedic script with a powerful message… near-perfect direction”
- Orange Curtain Review

“The sub-themes are numerous and given a light touch. For example, cultural appropriation, assimilation vs. tradition, gentrification, class, language barriers and racism. Fortunately, these subjects are addressed playfully. There is no preaching, exposition or repetition. The playwright, director and cast respect the audience’s intelligence.”
- Arts & Culture OC