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 —

Charles Yu’s adapts his surreal-comedic novel for Hulu, about a guy working his uncle’s Chinatown restaurant who is actually a TV character trapped in the background of a police

The Hulu series unfolds in a Chinatown that “is both physical and psychological,” said Charles Yu, the creator. Here’s a look at how four key settings bring the story to life.