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Should Vegetarian Hindus Sue Over Being Served Meat?
Poor Moghul Express of Edison, NJ. An Indian restaurant in the heart of Edison’s Indian community owned by a Hindu, Moghul Express (reported at CNN as “Mughal Express”) is being sued by a group of 16 Hindus who felt harmed “emotionally and spiritually” for accidentally being served meat in a tray of samosas two summers ago and want to be flown to India to “purify their souls.” Strict vegetarian Durgesh Gupta and Sharad Agrawal had [...] Continue »
Facebook Giveaway: Harry Potter Exhibition in NYC or HP7 Prize Pack
UPDATE 7/24/2011: Congrats to the Harry Potter Exhibition winner: MaiHan Nguyen. Congrats also to our runner ups: Frank Huynh, Kimberly Pham, ting ybanez, Calvin H, & Lily Le! Now that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2– the final installment of the Harry Potter movies– has been released, fans are wondering what else they can do to get their Harry Potter (and Cho Chang) fixes. Other than re-reading all the books, or watching a [...] Continue »
Is The Breakfast at Tiffany’s Boycott Unnecessary?
In New York, an Asian American group is planning to boycott the 1961 Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany, which is being screened in Brooklyn Bridge Park on August 11th. The film is being shown as part of the Park Conservancy’s free outdoor “Movies With a View” series, which receives some city funding but is primarily sponsored by the SyFy network. While mainstream audiences will remember the film as a classic, it is also notorious for featuring Mr. [...] Continue »
Maternity Tourism Not Only Used For Anchor Babies
A new article from Star News on Maternity Tourism in Queens, NY challenges the previous assumption that Maternity Tourism — the act of a foreigner coming to the U.S. solely for the purpose of delivering their baby in the U.S. to get citizenship — in the Chinese community is just for citizenship. I previously wrote about a house that was shut down in San Gabriel, CA for code violations and was obviously housing Chinese moms [...] Continue »
Why Do Asians Suck at Offering Pregnant Women a Subway Seat?
By Anonymous What do you get when you combine one HEAVILY preggers Asian American woman and the NYC subway system during rush hour? An ideal opportunity for an informal social experiment, of course. During the last three months of my pregnancy, there was no denying my protruding mid-section. I wasn’t fat. I wasn’t bloated. I was pregnant. Pregnant in that “you can see the outline of my belly button through my shirt” sort of pregnant. [...] Continue »
American Casinos Play to the Asian Demographic
From the New York Times: “…It is part of an unspoken compact among the casinos, the bus companies and the city’s vast Chinese population, rooted in tradition, opportunity and vice. But it has come under a public spotlight after a bus crash on Saturday that killed 15 people returning to Chinatown from an outing to the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. [Because] For years, casinos and bus companies have relied on a symbiotic relationship to [...] Continue »
Asian Americans Burglarized Because They Are Less Likely To Speak Up
Households listed with an Asian surname have been the target of a rash of burglaries in the New England area. This has been happening since 2008. Poughkeepsie police are warning residents about burglaries in Westchester County, NY and Stamford, CT that are aimed at Asian Americans. Five burglaries were reported in June and July of 2010. Ten additional burglaries were reported in nearby towns. Even more have been reported all around the greater New York [...] Continue »
Will Comptroller John Liu Be New York’s Future Mayor?
This past week, the Wall Street Journal had a high profile article on New York City’s Comptroller, John Liu. Last year, Liu became New York City’s first citywide elected Asian American. His past first year has had its up’s and down’s: Naked ambition — a blessing or a curse, depending on the observer and the situation—has dominated every aspect of Mr. Liu’s near decade in New York public life. His tenure as the city’s 43rd [...] Continue »
Hate Crimes in the U.S. Under-reported
I happened to catch “All Things Considered” late last night driving home. The program that was airing was on hate crime statistics and how they are generally under-reported. It was the lead that caught my attention. Lara Pellegrinelli started her piece by talking about a murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant that occurred in Patchogue, NY in late 2008. It wasn’t until she reported that prior to 2008 Suffolk County (the county in which Patchogue is [...] Continue »
Eddie Huang Mans-up on his Restaurant Review, Posts Mom’s E-mails
And now for what may just be a great documentary film subject in the making: after Chinese American urban chef Eddie Huang gets zero stars (!) for a review of his restaurant Xiao Ye in the New York Times, he just mans up about it instead of, say, putting mafia hits on the food critic like the Italians. (What? It’s New York! Isn’t that just what they do?) Huang then follows up the post with [...] Continue »
How Segregated Is Your City?
Love & Solidarity with the Muslim American Community
On September 9th, the NCRR (Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress) and the JACL (Japanese American Citizens League), in cooperation with the Japanese American National Museum and other groups held a vigil in Little Tokyo to show their support for Muslim Americans. Their timing couldn’t have been any more perfect as the day was also Eid Ul-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. I got there around 7:15pm and was quickly joined by swelling [...] Continue »
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