This work began because of this question: “Why do you think Daly City is so foggy?”

“Because all the Filipinos are cooking rice,” is the generations-old answer-punchline to the joke.

This zine enfolds the question and all its poetic implications into a written piece mixed together with interviews conducted with family members. On my mother’s side, we were part of the first wave of Filipino migrants to Daly City. Talking with my mom and my uncles, who themselves were second-generation immigrants, illustrated the difficult experience of growing up Asian-American in a Daly City that had not yet become the “Pinoy Capital” of the Bay Area. I also interviewed my brother, and with his experiences and mine, tried to briefly sketch a portrait of my family and its complicated diaspora. 

You can download the zine here.