This story is the first of an occasional series about ethnic dishes from around the globe. Sorya Nees sliced bamboo shoots and pushed them aside to a growing mound next to her. Mrs. Nees, of Silvis, ...

Chef Phila Lorn was not necessarily aiming for “quote-unquote authentic” Cambodian food when he opened Mawn in his native Philadelphia two years ago. So when he approached some Cambodian teen patrons, ...