8 Asians

This week, popular food blog Serious Eats put up a Flickr photo of a popular Taiwanese dessert hongdoubing, or shaved ice with condensed milk, red beans and flan. It was meant to be taken as food porn, but to a couple of the commenters it was anything but: “That looks terrible to me,” said one. [...]

And sometimes, the blog entries write themselves. 20-year old John Hopkins student John Pontolillo took a 3-5 foot long samurai sword that he had in his room when a burglar came into the house and pretty much Kill Bill’ed the intruder, nearly severing his left hand and giving him a “spear laceration.” (Meaning, he [...]

Let’s face it – there are more wall calendars that exist of Asian women than Asian men, and the Asian male calendars we have seen around are marketed less for the ladies and more for, say, your closeted high school vice-principal. But the new Asian Pacific Male 2010 calendar goes a different direction as far [...]

Every once in a while, we get e-mail asking us to discuss particular subjects. In this case, an article last month from The Seattle Weekly:
Thought I’d share this slap in the face to my local Asian Community, here in Seattle: Seattle’s Ragin’ Asians.
The author is a complete hypocrite, when it comes to binge drinking and [...]

From the Philadelphia Weekly comes this article about how Asian high schoolers — specifically recent immigrant kids from China and South and Southeast Asia, are not just bullied, but outright assaulted at South Philadelphia and Fels High Schools in Philadelphia. As someone who went to Portola Junior High School in Richmond, CA — a low-income, [...]

We like Paul Dateh. Really, we do, even though Paul himself may not think so after his kinda-sorta defensive comment to a kinda-sorta critical concert review of an International Secret Agents show in San Francisco this past March. But March was six months ago, and six months is like four years in Internet time, so [...]

As previously blogged by Moye, the Asians Arts Museum — note the plural, it’s what threw me off — is a pretty detailed parody site of the Lords of the Samurai exhibit in San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. So much so that I forwarded their press release to the active blogger’s e-mail list, thinking it [...]

Another year, another season of Survivor and — for better or for worse now — another token Asian contestant.  This year’s Asian contestant on Survivor: Samoa comes in the form of 33 year old Liz Kim, an attorney out of New York City. For those wondering if she’s going to play the typical dragon lady [...]