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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Starry Kitchen: Underground dining club to hit restaurant

    Nguyen Tran and his wife started an illegal dining club in his apartment in North Hollywood, so he was good at coming up with creative workarounds. When he opened his legal resturant, Starry Kitchen, Tran had to go to unique lengths to keep it running.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 28, 2017 • 1 min read

    Nguyen Tran and his wife started an illegal dining club in his apartment in North Hollywood, so he was good at coming up with creative workarounds. When he opened his legal resturant, Starry Kitchen, Tran had to go to unique lengths to keep it running.

    Photos by Bao Minh Nguyen.

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    The full episode

    3 of 4
    Inside the ongoing debate over California's aid-in-dying law
    1. 0:00Should terminally ill patients be able to get prescriptions to end their lives?
    2. 18:06VR art exhibit shows harrowing experience of migrants
    3. 26:13Starry Kitchen: Underground dining club to hit restaurantYou’re reading this
    4. 40:29Blackest black v. pinkest pink: Can you own a color?
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