About

Hong Ta (she/her) is a food + culture writer born and raised in Seattle, Washington.

She believes food reviews goes so much more than the actual dishes themselves, but exploring the political, familial and historical context behind each food. She challenges the meaning of using the label “authenticity” to describe dishes and uses a more cultural lens to view their migration journey to become the foods presented in restaurant menus and homes.

Previously, she has been a news producer-in-residence at NBC news affiliate KING 5, and intern at KING 5 Evening.

Currently, she works at the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition as the marketing and communications coordinator.

She is trilingual and triliterate in Spanish, Vietnamese, and English. She graduated with honors from the University of Puget Sound with a B.A. in Politics and Government, with an emphasis in U.S. Politics, as well as a degree in Spanish Literature Language and Culture.

Her thesis was on the Geopolitics of Phở and traced its origins to the French colonial period, its move down South after the 1954 Geneva Accords and its migration to the diaspora after the Vietnam War.

She is also a digital content creator on Tiktok @hungryhong.

Contact: honglta01@gmail.com

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