Serena Puang

Serena Puang is a Taiwanese American cultural critic and journalist who has made Baton Rouge home. You can follow her on Instagram at @dear.yall, or check out her personal blog at www.dearyall.net.

A woman in a red chef’s coat stands in a bakery surrounded by racks of bread, holding a colorful cake with green, yellow, and purple icing in a white box.

Dong Phuong and the king cake that conquered Louisiana

The bakery’s products, including their award-winning king cakes, are developed and made by immigrants, and they’re proud of that fact