Breaking fast with Diep

Introducing our May chef for International House of Breakfast

May 11, 2026

In anticipation for our summer breakfast pop-up series, we’ll be introducing our chefs every month! Tickets for May’s International House of Breakfast with Diep Tran go on sale on Wednesday, May 13th at 9am PST. We’re presenting this pop up in partnership with Arroz and Fun and Cipota Coffee at Chifa.

If you’re familiar with Los Angeles, you’ve heard of Good Girl Dinette. Back in the day, we used to visit when we lived in Highland Park—going for dinner occasionally but frequently going for breakfast. It was special: Maggi steak and eggs, porridge, roasted pork hash, and oh, those GGD tots!! Damn, we miss those days. Luckily, Diep does a number of pop-ups, and we’re lucky enough to host one this month in Los Angeles. She’ll be our inaugural chef for International House of Breakfast on May 30th, 9am–12pm.

All breakfasts will be ticketed with some walk-ups available. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 13th at 9am PST.

Neighborhood Seed Exchange will be hosting a seed exchange and we’ll, of course, have a table with some new merch and all our issues!

A little about Diep:

Diep Tran is a James Beard Award winner and former chef and owner of Good Girl Dinette in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. She is also the founder of The Bánh Chưng Collective, an annual event celebrating and communing friends, family, and chosen family for Lunar New Year by making bánh chưng together. It was initially created to celebrate and affirm community among LGBTQIA, women, and people of color. You can hear her talking about the collective here on Heritage Radio.

She has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Lucky Peach, Saveur, the Netflix series Ugly Delicious and KCET’s Migrant Kitchen.

Diep has been a longtime advocate for workers’ rights in the restaurant industry. She’s co-written The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cookbook and won a James Beard Award for her article in Food & Wine title “The Day My Cooking Ambitions Got the Best of Me.” She’s had her writing published in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times.

We’ll leave you with some interviews Diep has done with Thao Nguyen (of Thao & the Get Down Stay Down) and Dave Chang.