Comments on: Three Asian American Perspectives on Thanksgiving

By: Carol Lee Hall

Carol Lee Hall — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:31:42 +0000

Our Chinese American Thanksgiving consisted of turkey and sticky rice, gravy with jumbo canned button mushrooms from Chinatown, and American apple pie from a Chinatown bakery. I blog about it at www.CarolLeeHall.blogspot.com.

By: Carol Lee Hall

Carol Lee Hall — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:31:42 +0000

By: fkwang

fkwang — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:37:27 +0000

Thanks for the link. After you posted this, I got accused of all sorts of un-American activities. check the article again for the comments. And here's the link to the follow-up conversation. Who knew teriyaki turkey and sticky rice stuffing were so threatening? http://www.annarbor.com/passions-pursuits/one-r...

By: 8Asians.com » My Asian American Thanksgiving

8Asians.com » My Asian American Thanksgiving — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:27:13 +0000

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By: ednacz

ednacz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:38:13 +0000

We only recently started celebrating Thanksgiving, but even still it's just another day of home-cooked Chinese food, just more of it. Tonight's dishes were Boston cod, pork dumplings, seaweed, rice, green beans in soy sauce, peeled shrimp, and bean curd strips. Dessert was green tea from Taiwan. As much as I love mashed potatoes and gravy, I don't mind our version of Thanksgiving- I don't feel so calorically guilty in the morning!

By: jeffat8asians

jeffat8asians — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:59:41 +0000

@moye: My parents also stuffed our turkeys with rice, and I liked them that way too!

By: simbuyong diwa

simbuyong diwa — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:26:53 +0000

For as long as I can remember, Thanksgiving in my family's home was a fusion. My mother would prepare Turkey with all the fixings while the other relatives that came over would bring Filipino, Spanish or Chinese food. Over the last few years, as my parents got older, we would travel to Los Angeles to be with our extended family. During those celebrations, the food that was prepared was more American (mac & cheese, stuffing, turkey, cranberry sauce w/rum, etc.)

I think the one of only reasons why we really celebrate it is to get together and have quality time. Getting sloshed with family is quite fun too.

-Rosemary

By: moye

moye — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:54:14 +0000

Half of my family is purely American, so my childhood Thanksgiving dinners were full on dinners with turkey, stuffing and the works. Also, lots of watching-your-elderly-relatives-get-plastered. Then my mom put her foot down about her in-laws so we had our own turkey (stuffed with rice. I'm not even kidding).

Nowadays, we like to do both: turkey, cranberry sauce and osekihan.