My posts on 8AsiansSo, on a mailing list at work, there is this:
From: A Yahoo! employee
To: internal-food-mailing-list@yahoo-inc.com
Subject: Does anyone have any recipes for Chinese soup? [eom]
To which, Eric sends a couple of us his reply:
From: Eric
To: (A bunch of us)
Subject: Re: Does anyone have any recipes for Chinese soup? […]
I took this photo at the Molly Stones across the street. If you look carefully, the box says chow mein, but it contains rice. Mein, as you may or may not know, means “noodles.”
Some marketter for Stouffers was probably all, “CHICKEN STIR-FRY is such a tame name for our Lean Cuisine brand. […]
And this is a picture with Margaret Cho and myself while she was doing a reading for her new book, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight up in Berkeley.
I’ve been a fan of hers when she was “just” an stand-up comic focusing on Asian issues and even more so when she talked […]
I think I speak for Asian-Americans everywhere when I say this: HOLY FUCKING CRAP, THEY FINALLY PUT AN ASIAN PERSON ON SURVIVOR! For a minute, I figured that Survivor contestants represented a cross-section of the United States, and we simply didn’t exist. Some thoughts:
She has no chance of winning. […]
Asks Steve:
Oh Ernie.. I have to ask you something … What is it with Chinatown and store names like “Very Trendy Fashions” , and “Delicious Food Grocery Store” and “Gorgeous Pretty Beauty Nail Salon”? I don’t want to sound racist, I’m just wondering why it is.
In a nutshell? A lot of store owners […]
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