My brother passed me this link about the Chinese “Beastie-Boys” group called “Notorious MSG“. I watched the video for “Straight Out of Canton” and I LOVED it. Personally, I think they’re awesome and I hope their video gets on MTV.
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I just realized moon cake festival is in two weeks on September 23. It’s time to buy some moon cake! FeeiAng suggests the Kee Wah bakery. I checked out their very well designed website and the moon cakes look really tasty! The packaging is also very well designed. I will definitely be ordering some moon cake from them! I think I might try the assorted pack which contains four different kinds of moon cakes: lotus seed, red bean paste, date paste and mixed nuts and ham.
BTW, they have an online store and will ship the moon cakes anywhere. So buy some now!
1 CommentI think someone needs to do a film similar to How Stella Got Her Groove Back but make it about a women who goes to Jamaica to escape her crazy executive life and falls in love with a young athletic Chinese Jamaican who is a runner and wishes to join the Jamaican bobsled team…
Or some other story where a very attractive leading lady falls for a very attractive athletic Chinese Jamaican. Wouldn’t that be great? It definitely would catch people’s attention.
I bring all this up because I have been receiving interesting emails from people who are Chinese Jamaican. They have stories that should be shared with others.
0 CommentsA kind visitor to my site had an interesting link as part of their signature in their email. The link was labeled “Second Generation” and it caught my curiosity. So I clicked on the link and was taken to the Second Generation website where I discovered:
“Founded in 1997 by Artistic Director Welly Yang, Second Generation is a non-profit theater company dedicated to bringing Asian American stories to the world’s stage. “
This is a very well designed website about an organization I have never heard about until now. Their upcoming production is called “Concert of Excellence” and will be staged at the Lincoln Center in NYC. Very classy and very exciting. It is very cool to see this kind of production being produced by the Asian community.
Thank you “sy” for your email.
1 CommentA co-worker showed me this site. It is a photo blog of various signs and products from Japan and China which have “engrish translations”.
UPDATE: Here’s my favorite - “Make You White“
0 CommentsThe third biggest celebration on the Chinese calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month every year. It is also known as the Moon Cake Festival because of a special kind of sweet cake made for this special celebration. There are many different kinds of moon cakes. The most common have a flakey crust and are filled with ground sweet lotus seed and sometimes also contain a duck egg.
As an acknowledgment to my Chinese heritage I try to get moon cake at this time of the year. I’m currently searching for the best place to get moon cake in Los Angeles. Any suggestions? I’ll probably just go to a Chinese market…
2 CommentsI received a response from DJ K-Sly regarding my original post. I think this is an interesting and important topic so I am posting this entry to make it easy for people to find my original posting and read the comments from DJ K-Sly and others.
2 CommentsOver at the Rice Bowl Journals forum I am in an interesting discussion started from my initial post “Asians Dissin Asians” mirrored here. The current reply to my post raised an interesting question: “are we (the Asian community) too sensitive?” Are we complaining about every little instance that we feel is remotely racist? Should we just be passive about these issues as to not perpetrate an image of humorless whiners?
I’m not sure I quite agree that we should be passive.
Yes, I do agree that as a community, we should not be “too” sensitive, but where is the balance? Here in Hollywood, the Asian community has been in an uproar about several issues over the past year: the “Fu Man Chu” costume put out at Halloween by one company, the “Charlie Chan” TV series being re-aired on TV, the “racist” t-shirts being sold at Abercrombie and Fich, the Bonzai show on FOX, the lack of Asian representation on TV shows, etc, etc, etc. Should we not complain about these things? Moreover, if fellow Asians are perpetuating Asian stereotypes, does it not give a signal to the rest of the world that it is ok to make fun of Asians? The only way this will change is if there is a balance of Asian representation. If there are more positive Asian images that break stereotypes this would offset the negative ones. But that is part of the problem. How do we get more positive images in the media when Hollywood does not think Asian people are “marketable” or “bankable” in the box office? Forget about Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chow Yun Fat. Yes they are superstars and marketable, but here in Hollywood they still perpetuate negative Asian stereotypes - Asian people don’t speak good english, Asian people are foreign, and all Asian men known Kung Fu (although not necessarily a bad thing).
Then there is the whole “Asian community” issue. Are we really a community? Yes we are trying to help each other but I still do not see a complete cohesiveness. We are still segregated into our own ethnic groups with our different cultures and pride. I think an analagous question would be, would there ever be an “Asian Town” as opposed to a Chinatown, or a little Tokyo, or a Korea Town, or a Filipino Barrio, etc, etc, etc? I don’t think so. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work together.
2 CommentsYesterday I was listening to the “B-Side” on 100.3 The Beat with K-Sly and Eric Cubiche and got a little offended. They were trying to get a listener to call in to claim his prize. When K-Sly mentioned the listeners last name was Chow, this prompted a stereotypical Chinese accent from Eric Cubiche, “You bang my head, I bang your wife!” and K-Sly joining in with racial innuendo.
WHAT THE HELL!?!? K-Sly is Asian as well and she is supporting the continuation of Asian stereotypes? Just because she is Korean, talks like she’s from the “hood”, and is a DJ on a popular hip-hop radio station in Los Angeles does not give her the right to make fun of Chinese people. Would it be acceptable for me to make fun of Koreans, or Japanese, or any other asian ethnic group? I think this is part of the problem. There is no real “togetherness” in the “Asian” community. Each Asian community view themselves apart, different, and/or superior to the other group. It’s a part of all our histories and ties to our Asian heritage and roots. Then there’s this whole “I’m more assimilated than you (therefore I’m better than you)” attitude perpetrated by some Asians (I’m guilty of that too).
Will there ever be a strong “Asian” community made up of different Asian ethnicities?
I don’t know.
46 CommentsI’m sad to say that some stupid a$$holes in Hong Kong have made Nazi symbols into popular fashion. Us Chinese Americans here in the US are working hard to break through stereotypes in mainstream media and now we have to deal with this sh!t. How can these people be so idiotic to try to make fashion out of these symbols of hatred and horror???
I’m disgusted, appalled, and ashamed.
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