There’s no escaping the layers of meta around “Interior Chinatown,” an adaptation of Charles Yu’s award-winning satirical novel that jabs at how Asian American men have been treated by Hollywood — and in life — one trope at a time.

Celebrate the release of Hulu's "Interior Chinatown" with a walking tour of NYC's Chinatown, including a few special stops at small businesses recommended by the cast themselves.

Created by Charles Yu based on his eponymous novel, ‘Interior Chinatown’ follows Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang), a waiter at a Chinatown restaurant who dreams of being the hero of his own story. Willis is accompanied in his melancholy by fellow waiter Fatty Choi (Ronny Chieng) while working as a background character in a cop

There’s an inherent power in the art of the meta-narrative—stories that construct an obviously fictional, heightened version of a reality we recognize, only to peel back the layers one by one, exposing a truth we may have never allowed ourselves to acknowledge.