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Awkwafina was feeling under the weather recently and decided she was going to make soup. And that startled her because she hasn t always been the kind of person who made soup. “If I had told myself like a year or so ago that I would be looking at ingredients to make a soup, that would be like insane,” she says, laughing. “Like, a soup? ‘Hell, no, it’s just a hot liquid.’” The actor-comedian-rapper s 180-degree shift is largely thanks to her latest project: Putting together a menu and finding a location and staff to open her own restaurant. The eight-episode Apple TV series “Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook” premiering Friday follows her journey, from learning to make stir-fry at the Culinary Institute of America to waitressing in downtown L.A. Along the way, she turned herself into a pretty good cook. “I have these friends that are cooking up all kinds of stuff all the time. And I always felt like I was never going to be really a member of that club,” she says. “But it’s so