alum, interviewed her “actors” and braided their stories into her plot. Although they had a script, Ito also gave them free rein to ad-lib. Fabro’s off-the-cuff remarks about Janet tossing Chef Jo’s deep fryer out the door ended up becoming part of the episode.
Hayashi shared biographical stories with Ito that also made it into the script. In the first episode, Janet talks about being a child and eating at a restaurant — the Fuji Café — next door to a Boyle Heights dry cleaner owned by her mother.Hayashi’s memories of making cheese gyoza and the way her mother makes tempura are also part of the narrative.
Fabro, whose career has expanded into social-justice work, is happy to not be pigeon-holed. “I don’t want to just label myself as a character that is specifically one [type of] Asian American,” Fabro said. “Don’t just label me as a woman, Asian or pastry chef. … You have to look into everyone’s body of work to really appreciate the breadth of work.”Ito has roots in East L.A. She recalled how her Japanese American father, who lived there, incorporated tamales into his family’s holiday traditions.
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