Asian & Asian American Stuff

06 Feb 2009 0723H

Shooting in San Gabriel

Two dead, five injured, some critically at this hour, after gunmen opened fire at the Coffee House in that predominantly Asian American city near Los Angeles. Out of curiosity, looked up the Coffee House where the shooting occurred. Might it have been gang related?

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04 Dec 2008 1731H

Why did Prop 8 pass?

NPR offers us the sad, emerging truth that white LGBTs ran a poor campaign that did not reach out to LGBTs of color, basically. Is it surprising that white LGBTs, liberal and conservative and everything in between, living in the state of California, would be insensitive to the issues of people of color? Why should [...]

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24 Sep 2008 0904H

White Rabbit candies contain melamine

Tesco is pulling the sweets, which are sold worldwide, found in every Chinatown and not a few non-Chinese supermarkets. Holy cow, no pun intended, this is an enormous problem. White Rabbit is practically one of China’s oldest and strongest brands.

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20 Sep 2008 0812H

The museum fire

Several years ago, working with the emerging Chinatown Museum Foundation, I remember telling them, regarding the building they were about to inherit, that they should establish a relationship with the national archives, or with the Chicago History Museum, or a local university or college, and not store anything of historic value inside that building in [...]

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18 Sep 2008 1009H

Excuse me?

Probably being baited here, but, as a resident of a Chinatown, I kind of take offense when I read this sort of thing:
Along with shopping malls, petrol stations and branches of McDonalds, the old China Town renders all of our cities boring and alike. It is nothing more than restaurant streets and fake traditional buildings [...]

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16 Sep 2008 0712H

Happy (belated) Mid-Autumn Festival

Was yesterday, technically Sunday (since it’s a day ahead in Asia). Go out and look at the moon, have a mooncake, maybe play a few rounds of mah jongg.

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15 Sep 2008 0918H

I have a modest proposal

Been saying this for years now. Let’s just catch ‘em and eat ‘em.

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01 Sep 2008 0708H

If there ever was a patron saint of Asian Am

… in my mind, Yuji Ichioka was it. Today, as every year in the past five years, I commemorate his life, his work and his commitment to social justice.

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14 Aug 2008 2129H

Chinese Halloween

Yes, really and for true, there is such a thing. The doors between this world and the next are opened. The 13th day of the 7th lunar month is Ghost Day, and the 7th month is considered to be a Ghost Month. What all significance does any of this have? Yesterday, the dead visited the [...]

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06 Aug 2008 2037H

The sweets of Antique Bakery

There’s actually a fairly sophisticated knowledge of patisserie in the world of Antique Bakery.

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