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We all know that Asians (at least the ones that I know) are obsessed about food. When thinking about food tv and Asians, what comes to mind is Iron Chef. A series about Chinese Restaurants are the best that could be hoped by me. Greg Pak’s Asian American Film website is pushing “Harold & Kumar [...]

1421, The Year that China Discovered America?, the book about the Ming dynasty treasure ships that may have discovered the Americas decades before Columbus, is now a PBS documentary. Watch it Wednesday night at 9 ET on WNET 13, or at 3 PM ET August 1 on WLIW 21. Doki-Doki, the short film from yesterday’s [...]

Some people arrive at this blog for some really wierd reasons. First of all, thanks MSN search for entirely bloating our page hits by insisting on pulling all of our pages every morning. I’m not sure why they’re doing it. The vast majority come by from a Yahoo search link. Get a load of these [...]

If this year’s crop of short films at the 27th Asian American International Film Festival in New York is any indication, we’re really good at being stalkers and stalkees. Here’s some lessons based on the films that I’ve seen so far: You need a go-between if both parties want to simultaneously stalk each other. Bicycles [...]

The New York Times > Washington > Dress Code May Hinder Their Work, Air Marshals Say From the article: Andrea Houck, 52, who was traveling through New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this week, said that she thought federal air marshals should be “totally undercover.” “Look around you,” Ms. Houck said as she pointed [...]

Central American chicken chain Pollo Campero opens in Corona, and on 5th Avenue and 45th Street in Brooklyn. Supposedly the chicken is so good that people would carry boxes on the plane back home to the U.S. Turkey is transporting the Trojan Horse from the movie Troy to Canakkale (the real one, not a computer [...]

Rain, rain, and more rain in the NYC metro area. It’s practically flooding in Jersey. Yech. Interesting little quiz on Slate.com: “Red or Blue—Which Are You?”, wherein you fill out the on-line Scantron sheet (so reminiscent of my public school days, when we were inundated with Scantron sheets) and see what state (of mind, anyway) [...]

Major League Baseball All-Star Game on right now. What the heck was going on with that top of the first inning? Pitcher Roger Clemens giving up all these runs; his nemesis Mike Piazza catching him, but definitely not making Clemens feeling very comfortable. Crazy stuff that the NY baseball fans/NY media will feed on… What’s [...]

When is a Chinese wedding not a Chinese wedding? When it’s at Rudolph Valentino’s house at Caffe on the Green in Bayside. Excellent food and fantastic service; I’d go back again – check out the photos. Except for the alleged January bias incident between a group of Chinese women and a group of Family members [...]

Ah, back to work? Geez. I don’t even want to think about what’s on my desk for tomorrow. Yesterday, I saw “King Arthur.” Not spectacular, as the professional critics already observed, but I enjoyed it. My apologies to the male audience of the blog, who may very well think the world of the actress Kiera [...]