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For readers of The Wild Edge of Sorrow and Crying in H-Mart--a profound and searching …
Got this on sale from a secondhand book store. I'm interested in learning more about Buddhism because of a friend, and I like getting to hear an Asian American perspective of it.
Got this on sale from a secondhand book store. I'm interested in learning more about Buddhism because of a friend, and I like getting to hear an Asian American perspective of it.
As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined …
I mean this is obviously a romance novel but I thought maybe i would enjoy the world building. I kinda did but it’s not enough loool
From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a …
Freaking amazing. This is the queer realistic fiction I've been craving. Still a bit coming of age but in the way that people in their mid twenties get caught between youth and adulthood. Was wondering why it was set in 2008 but it makes sense I think.
Freaking amazing. This is the queer realistic fiction I've been craving. Still a bit coming of age but in the way that people in their mid twenties get caught between youth and adulthood. Was wondering why it was set in 2008 but it makes sense I think.
From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, …
I get that this is a book of satire but the way that the author writes queer characters is extremely uncomfortable and I couldn’t find out more about what’s up with that. The book is fun but feels predictable. Skipping mostly because I don’t feel a need to read more literature like this but if I hadn’t already read more like it, maybe it would be a good start.
I predicted a plot twist but it was satisfying when it was actually what I thought
Move Slowly and Build Bridges tells the story of activists, software developers, artists, and everyday …
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese …
Is this plot made of local honey because it’s freaking thick
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese …
Pretty good but a lot of raunchy humor I’m not a huge fan of
Morbid and surreal and great
Really cool creative writing. Was better than expected just from the first few stories.
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey …
Hmong memoir
In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, …
In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. …
It’s not a perfect story but I think it is pretty honest and probably the best he’s got right now. David is a man who is struggling. He tries to take ownership of his harms but maybe not in the way the public expects of him. It’s really hard to tell amid the eye of public judgement. I saw someone call his food gentrified. It’s amazing how he both acknowledges the ways diaspora needs to overcome their fear of appropriation of their own culture to the point of being frustrated with the legitimacy of appropriation completely and yet also says that every reference in your cooking needs to come with a citation. I think that is a real struggle among diaspora about “getting things right” and some people unfortunately (or sometimes, just as fortunately) fail many times before getting to a point they feel they can take accountability for. I …
It’s not a perfect story but I think it is pretty honest and probably the best he’s got right now. David is a man who is struggling. He tries to take ownership of his harms but maybe not in the way the public expects of him. It’s really hard to tell amid the eye of public judgement. I saw someone call his food gentrified. It’s amazing how he both acknowledges the ways diaspora needs to overcome their fear of appropriation of their own culture to the point of being frustrated with the legitimacy of appropriation completely and yet also says that every reference in your cooking needs to come with a citation. I think that is a real struggle among diaspora about “getting things right” and some people unfortunately (or sometimes, just as fortunately) fail many times before getting to a point they feel they can take accountability for. I had no idea about his relationship with Anthony Bourdain either.
In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. …
There’s a lot I didn’t know about how momofuku came to be. It’s really interesting learning more about it and thinking about where I was in my life as it evolved. I share sentiments to David’s complicated relationship to his dad as a kid (though I don’t have the resolution he found) and with the Presbyterian church. I like what he says of giving credit to where things come from and it’s clear that he doesn’t think he has all the right answers. Asian rage is complex and not always something we can be proud of. It takes a lot of guts to lay it all out the way he has. There’s admittedly a lot of toxic stuff going on early on in his book even if you can get where he’s coming from (wasn’t sure what to think of his friendship with David Choe being mentioned so early). However …
There’s a lot I didn’t know about how momofuku came to be. It’s really interesting learning more about it and thinking about where I was in my life as it evolved. I share sentiments to David’s complicated relationship to his dad as a kid (though I don’t have the resolution he found) and with the Presbyterian church. I like what he says of giving credit to where things come from and it’s clear that he doesn’t think he has all the right answers. Asian rage is complex and not always something we can be proud of. It takes a lot of guts to lay it all out the way he has. There’s admittedly a lot of toxic stuff going on early on in his book even if you can get where he’s coming from (wasn’t sure what to think of his friendship with David Choe being mentioned so early). However knowing about some of his current work I’m curious to see how things will turn in the second half of the book especially as I know parenthood is on his horizon and the NYC we both knew isn’t what it was.