Crystal Kung Minkoff Likes It Spicy

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images “Don’t use your favorite knife!” Crystal Kung Minkoff warns. This unfortunately isn’t a scene from her first season on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — as high-drama as the Bravo reality series may be, cutlery doesn’t usually get involved. No, we’re smashing cucumbers over Zoom. Minkoff is showing me step-by-step how to prepare the classic Chinese dish huang gua, a refreshing appetizer made with cucumbers, plenty of garlic, and a mix of various condiments.

A mother of two and married to The Lion King director Rob Minkoff, the Beverly Hills socialite runs a well-oiled operation of her household as a self-professed lover of scheduling. When Minkoff’s addition to the show was announced, it made the sort of big-deal headlines usually reserved for series veterans: She’s the first Asian American housewife on the Beverly Hills franchise.

While preparing the dressing for the cucumbers, Minkoff reminisces about her childhood summers visiting her grandparents in Taipei and how “Tawainese street food is the jam.” She grew up in Southern California, where her maternal grandparents eventually emigrated when she was 7. Like a lot of second-generation families, Minkoff’s parents only spoke to her and her brother in Chinese but as “rebellious American kids” they talked back in English.

Soon enough, Minkoff found herself in the position of having to educate white peers, something that many other women of color are charged with. It was only a few days into filming for Minkoff, just a few weeks ahead of the election, and the cast’s first night on a girls trip to Lake Tahoe when she got into a heated discussion about race with Stracke. “When I want to talk about race, I always want it to be positive, I want it to be not necessarily lighthearted but open-hearted,” she says.

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