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Category Archives: Family
8Books Review: “Natalie Tan’s Book of Love and Fortune” by Roselle Lim
Natalie Tan’s Book of Love and Fortune is a delightful summer read. It’s got good food, a Chinatown community, and more than enough heart to guide you through. I confess to reading it in a single day, and loving every … Continue reading
Posted in 8Books, 8Series, Books, Entertainment, Family, Food & Drink, Lifestyles, Reviews, San Francisco Bay Area, The Arts
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Modern Love: When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul Searching
Since the beginning of time (or at least me being on the Internet since in the Fall of 1989), I’ve seen the topic of Asian American women having a preference for white men being a subject of consternation. And certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Discrimination, Family, Lifestyles, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Andrew Lee, dating
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Three Hearts Home: A Story about Adoption, Diving, and Fish
Randy Kosaki is the NOAA’s Deputy Superintendent of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a notable specialist in Marine Biology, and an adoptee. Three Hearts Home is a short film featuring the story of Kosaki finding and his biological mother and … Continue reading
8Books Review: “I Love You So Mochi” by Sarah Kuhn
Sarah Kuhn’s new YA novel I Love You So Mochi is an utterly delightful book about self-discovery, romance, family relations, and good eats. Kimi is at the end of her senior year in high school when she receives an unexpected … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is Ocean Vuong’s novel debut. In 2016, Vuong’s poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, earned national recognition, winning the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and … Continue reading
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Eating at The Kid’s Table
I read about the Kids Table from this article from Vice, so I decided to check it out. Mentioned as an Asian American story about friends, it has a lot that I could identify with. Although I am not Chinese … Continue reading
Asian American Medical Hazard: Somatic Symptom Disorder
When she was 14, Diana Chao began experiencing severe pain in her eyes. The pressure buildup in her eyes was diagnosed as uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease that caused her to go temporarily blind. For the next four years, she … Continue reading
Posted in Asian American Medical Hazard, Family, Health
Tagged Diana Chao, Health, mental health, somatic symptom disorder
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8Questions with Barney Cheng, Director of “Baby Steps”
Back in September 2018, I did a review of a movie Baby Steps on 8Asians. The movie was written, directed and starred Barney Cheng. I was still so intrigued with the movie, that I got in contact with Barney and asked him … Continue reading
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“Baby Steps” Review: A film about two gay dads, surrogacy and a tiger mom
“Baby Steps” is a film released in 2015, written, directed and staring Barney Cheng. He plays the lead character, Danny Lee, a Taiwanese-American living in Los Angeles with a Caucasian boyfriend, Tate. They’ve decided to have a child, through surrogacy, … Continue reading
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Wong Fu Productions First Season of Yappie (Young Asian Professional)
I first learned about Wong Fu’s ‘Yappie’ scripted web series on this NBC Asian America article about Wong Fu Productions & Yappie: “With more than 3 million subscribers on YouTube now, and 500 million-plus views, Wong Fu Productions — created … Continue reading
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Tagged Wong Fu Productions, Yappie
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Some People Just Don’t get Pixar’s Bao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZayYWpkUkzs I wrote a review about how I really liked the Pixar Short Bao that appears with The Incredibles 2, but apparently not everyone one likes as much as I did or even gets it. A number of articles (some … Continue reading