It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, …

- Thu Tran

My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you …

- Thu Tran

We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my…

- Thu Tran

I don't want to tell people what to think. I just want to show people what I think.

- Thu Tran

I don't have a very good relationship with baking. I do bake sometimes, but my natural instinct is to just do what feels right a lot, and that's what…

- Thu Tran

I look up to my father, because he's very, very experimental in his cuisine, and he puts a lot of love into things. He's the best. To me.

- Thu Tran

I always feel in a funny place when I'm really asked to inform people, so I just try to take the more absurdist route - like, "this is how you could …

- Thu Tran

It seems like it happens pretty often - there's always something that happens that's bad. About 40 percent of the food I make doesn't come out so goo…

- Thu Tran

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

- Thu Tran