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Author: “THE GIRL WHO BECAME KING: A MEMOIR” — OUT NOW! 📕 James Beard Winner/Cookbook: “COOK LIKE A KING”🥇Top Chef All Star Winner 💫 SF🐒NY 📧: @WME
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I’M GOING ON TOUR!! for my upcoming memoir “The Girl Who Became King”.
I’m excited to see you in your city, hang for a while, and go deep together on some life stories! Some events are Q/A style with familiar friends, others are meet and greets with a book signing.
Tell your friends, grab your tickets, and I hope to see you there.
Visit the link in my bio or website for tour dates and tickets!
📷: @ashleybatz 🖤
Design: @henrique.penha.fotografie ❤️
10 Aug 2026
THERE SHE IS. ❤️👑
I wrote another book and this one doesn’t have recipes! 🥹
I am so proud to share this deeply personal memoir I’ve been quietly chipping away at for the past 6 years. I thought writing my cookbook was the biggest challenge of my career, but this one took everything in me. (Btw, never let me write 2 books at the same time ever again 🤣😵💫).
“THE GIRL WHO BECAME KING” is about the version of me I thought I had to be, and the person I was slowly becoming underneath it all.
A part of me is nervous to tell some of these very intimate vulnerable stories from coming out, my relationship with my family, all the anxieties and emotional dialogue that can sometimes trap me in my mind, but I hope in letting you see more of me, they help you feel a little less alone in your journey.
I like to think of my book as part The Bear, part The Joy Luck Club meets baby queer coming of age rom com! But you tell me!
Your messages, kind words, and personal stories many of you have shared with me over the years are what gave me the courage to continue sharing mine, so thank you. If you’ve ever felt caught between who you are and who the world expects you to be, I wrote this for you. 💋 (And baby me❤️)
Pre-orders mean everything for a book like this so if you’re able to support, order a copy at the link in my bio for yourself or someone you love. Or just a simple share of your excitement will mean a lot!
Thank you all for always showing up for me! You have my food & recipes in “COOK LIKE A KING”, now I can’t wait to share the mush gushy parts of me with you. 🫶
THE GIRL WHO BECAME KING, available Oct 6.
Cover Design: @henrique.penha.fotografie
Photo: @ashleybatz
Publishers: @thedialpress
Baby Rambo
16 Jul 2026
Want to see the best day of my life?! Want to know how to make me scream? Want to know how to make me cry? 😭
I’m beyond excited to finally share with you that I’ll be visiting @sesamestreet as they introduce their first ever Asian American muppet named Ji Young — she’s 7 years old, Korean, and loves tteokbokki! I’ll be in the kitchen cooking with the best sous chef in town: Cookie Monster! 😭😭😭 Sweet Little Gonger was hanging around too (not enough cry faces for all of this!) #monsterfoodie
This was such a bucket list moment for me. Growing up as a Chinese American, Sesame Street helped me learn English when my parents spoke only Cantonese at home. My all time favorite, Cookie Monster, inspired me to explore new foods while also remembering to eat all the cookies in my mom’s cookie jar. I was probably Ji Young’s age when I was glued to the tv juggling Sesame Street and episodes of Julia Child and Yan Can Cook on PBS. I couldn’t be more proud and honored to be a part of this special AAPI episode to empower Ji Young and other children to embrace the beauty of Asian foods and other cultures, support one another, and know that we all belong. 💕
You’ll see me and a few other amazing AAPI friends like @padmalakshmi @simuliu @naomiosaka @jimlee @annacathcart on this special episode of “See Us Come Together” airing on @hbomax and @pbskids Thanksgiving day!
Thank you to my amazing @wme @staym88 teams @adelineporis @jbider12 @ericalingg @gingypants @ranaburgundy @psun68 and the SS family for making this dream happen. Can’t wait to share more of my experience with you after it all airs. The nieces are going to lose their 🤯🤯
15 Nov 2021
Even Top Chefs have kitchen nightmares. 🔪👩🍳 Tegan gets the dish on Melissa King’s dreams, her new book, family, and more on Dream Dump this week! 🍽️ #dreamdump
03 Nov 2026
The girl who became Vampire King 🩸⚰️🧛 #halloween2026 #gayhalloween
02 Nov 2026
Bite me. 🩸🧛
📷: @frankiefictitious
#halloween2026 #vampirelife #queerfashion
01 Nov 2026
Remember when we won Halloween? @padmalakshmi
The Paddam’s Family Forevermore 🥀
#halloween #adamsfamily
29 Oct 2026
Celebrity chef Melissa King talks about her new memoir, “The Girl Who Became King,” and how she learned to embrace her identity on “Top Chef” and in the kitchen.
27 Oct 2026
Just two girls healing our inner children, one boba at a time.🧋❤️💫 Love you, Drew! Until our next bedtime girl talk!
@drewbarrymore @thedrewbarrymoreshow
My memoir “THE GIRL WHO BECAME KING” is out now! (link in bio)
27 Oct 2026
Girl in red. 💋
Thank you @kohlerwi for the beautiful weekend together and to everyone that came out to learn more about mushroom congee, ginger scallion sauce, and my mom’s lettuce wraps. I feel grateful to share my childhood dishes and Chinese culture with you over a plate of cheese curds and brats on a Sheboygan hard roll.😋
Full recipes available in my cookbook COOK LIKE A KING (link in bio).
#kohler #wisconsin #cheesecurds #sheboygan
26 Oct 2026
Why didn’t anyone tell me I laugh like that! 😂 I am my father’s daughter. 🍜
📍Vien Huong, Oakland, Chinatown
#oakland #chinatown #oaklandchinatown #noodles
22 Oct 2026
The Real Housewife of SGV really knows how to throw a party with @opentable. 🧧🦁❤️
My mom brought together 120+ of my Chinese aunties and uncles in the San Gabriel Valley to celebrate our birthdays and the release of my memoir. At one point, my mom, dad, stepdad, and I were all onstage singing along with my mom’s live band. 🥹😭 It was a beautiful, healing moment for our family that I’ll always cherish.
Thank you to my mom for throwing the most epic parties, to my aunties, uncles, family, and friends for showing up with so much love, and to @opentable @debbysoo @weiweieatswell Robin for helping make this celebration extra special. ❤️
#GIRLKING #memoir #liondancers #sgveats
21 Oct 2026
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