1. Comments (View) / 1 month ago  from bookmarklet
    Commercialization of the Moon Festival | Red Cook But nothing beats the creativity of a Hong Kong lifestyle merchant GOD. Last year they started marketing a line of “moon” cakes in the shape of four buttocks at various stages of exposure. You may already know that the Moon Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. But you may not know that “15th day of 8th Month” also means the buttocks in the Cantonese dialect. Playing on a multi-lingual pun GOD created an irresistible concept. The “moon” cakes were so popular that this year they’ve expanded the line to eight designs. oh capitalism. you offer commercialism and creativity (born out of competition) in one very ambivalent package. although … the commercialization of the mid-autumn festival / capitalizing on selling mooncakes doesn’t really bother me … at all. i mean, does it really take away from the delectable joy of eating mooncakes in the fall if we get to eat more varieties for more weeks? i think our asian ancestors would say no, eat as much as you want for as long as you want because plentifulness is a luxury and a modern circumstance that we take for granted. the very spirit of the mid-autumn festival entitles us to celebrate the fortune of having bountiful and beautiful food in our lives.

    Commercialization of the Moon Festival | Red Cook

    But nothing beats the creativity of a Hong Kong lifestyle merchant GOD. Last year they started marketing a line of “moon” cakes in the shape of four buttocks at various stages of exposure. You may already know that the Moon Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. But you may not know that “15th day of 8th Month” also means the buttocks in the Cantonese dialect. Playing on a multi-lingual pun GOD created an irresistible concept. The “moon” cakes were so popular that this year they’ve expanded the line to eight designs.

    oh capitalism. you offer commercialism and creativity (born out of competition) in one very ambivalent package. although … the commercialization of the mid-autumn festival / capitalizing on selling mooncakes doesn’t really bother me … at all. i mean, does it really take away from the delectable joy of eating mooncakes in the fall if we get to eat more varieties for more weeks? i think our asian ancestors would say no, eat as much as you want for as long as you want because plentifulness is a luxury and a modern circumstance that we take for granted. the very spirit of the mid-autumn festival entitles us to celebrate the fortune of having bountiful and beautiful food in our lives.

     
  2. Comments (View) / 1 month ago  from bookmarklet
    Fried Chicken - A Migratory Bird - NYTimes.com Congee Village is now at the #1 spot on my list of places to go eat at in NYC. Congee and Cantonese fried chicken? OMFG!

    Fried Chicken - A Migratory Bird - NYTimes.com

    Congee Village is now at the #1 spot on my list of places to go eat at in NYC. Congee and Cantonese fried chicken? OMFG!

     
  3. Comments (View) / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    Culinary Diplomacy With a Side of Kimchi - NYTimes.com CULINARY DIPLOMACY will save the world. The government’s Korean Cuisine to the World campaign began in April, with official goals that include quadrupling the number of Korean restaurants abroad and lifting Korean food into the “top five rank of world cuisines” by 2017. Putting aside that such a ranking system does not exist, the campaign shows how seriously food is now taken by many governments, especially in Asia. “First was Chinese food in the U.S., then Japanese and Thai,” said Min Mon-hong, director of tourism for Korea. “Korean is the next big boom.” I would not say no to the First Lady of South Korea hand-feeding me Korean food. But then again, I would not say no to being fed Korean food, period.

    Culinary Diplomacy With a Side of Kimchi - NYTimes.com

    CULINARY DIPLOMACY will save the world.

    The government’s Korean Cuisine to the World campaign began in April, with official goals that include quadrupling the number of Korean restaurants abroad and lifting Korean food into the “top five rank of world cuisines” by 2017. Putting aside that such a ranking system does not exist, the campaign shows how seriously food is now taken by many governments, especially in Asia.

    “First was Chinese food in the U.S., then Japanese and Thai,” said Min Mon-hong, director of tourism for Korea. “Korean is the next big boom.”

    I would not say no to the First Lady of South Korea hand-feeding me Korean food. But then again, I would not say no to being fed Korean food, period.

     
  4. Comments (View) / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    The 50 best foods in the world and where to eat them | Life and style | The Observer

    Also known as, 50 Things to Do Before I Die.

  5. Comments (View) / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    How to Cook with Under a Buck: A Talk with the 99-Cent Chef - The Cheapskate Blog - TIME.com

    I am at once intrigued and repulsed. 99 cent stores are awesome but I don’t know if I would get food there. But I like this guy’s philosophy.

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酸甜苦辣 · suān tián kŭ là
sour sweet bitter spicy
all the pleasures and pains of life

an Asian food blog // features food pornography, recipes, foodie links, tales of kitchen disasters adventures, restaurant reviews and culinary homilies. partly inspired by the Julie/Julia project.

portrait of a gourmand // i am Cantonese or southern Chinese. we eat everything on four legs except the table. amateur cook, eating virtuoso. the perfect dinner consists of: green tea, stinky tofu, roast duck, Korean barbecue, garlic clams, pork bone soup, stir-fried pea shoots and red bean dessert soup. i also blog, tweet, dance, design, take pictures.

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