Reader’s Digest: 21 Best Korean Dramas You Can Stream on Netflix Right Now
Looking for the next Squid Game? Prepare to get addicted to these highly rated, totally bingeable Netflix Korean drama series.
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Taste of Home: How to Make Dalgona Candy
My Korean mother has fond childhood memories of dalgona candy, or ppopgi, so we relived them while making a batch in her New York apartment. Here’s what I learned.
Death Anniversaries & Good Fortune: A Korean American Ghost Story
Thousands of miles away from the motherland, in the outer boroughs of New York City, my immigrant family performs a modified jesa every year that fits our evolving family dynamic and belief system.
Legitimate Tech: How NFTs Are More Than Just a Buzzword for Emerging AsAm Fashion Designers
NFTs: a concept that I initially dismissed as ridiculous, then deemed too complicated for my smol brain, and now am finally accepting as the future — complexities, controversies, and all.
Immigrant Songs and Unexpected Love Stories: Why You Need to Read Yoon Choi’s “Skinship”
My immigrant mother’s love language was not hugging and kissing, but rather cutting mangoes into neat cubes and plating it neatly for us, while she scraped the remaining fruit off the pit with her teeth for herself. As Sae-ri observes, “The American marriage is talking and hugging. But that is not the Korean marriage. The Korean marriage is — what. It is one day after the other. It is the breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
“Instead of Paddling Frantically, I Turned Onto My Back and Began to Float”: On Drowning … and Finally Seeking Mental Health Care on My Own Terms
Like most children of self-employed immigrants, I didn’t have health insurance, so I was amassing a massive debt in hospital bills and medication … No one seemed to be truly listening, just switching my medication and raising the dosage. I lost faith again, this time in psychiatry.
6 Ways to Know Your Date Has An Asian Fetish (And How to Respond!)
Immediately swipe left on pictures of non-Asian men wearing conical hats in China. However, if your otherwise “normal” date begins to wax philosophic about their travels in Asia to impress you, they may be harboring Western imperialistic ideals — bonus points for a white savior complex.
Lazy Sundaes’ Recipe for Sweet Success during a Pandemic
Perusing through the mouthwatering menu Na and Luan curated for the new business instantly evokes a certain Asian American nostalgia. There are classic boba and pat bingsoo flavors, but also innovative ones like White Chocolate Matcha Latte and White Peach White tea (reminiscent of Japanese peach candies), as well as Matcha Bingsoo and Dirt Oreo Bingsoo with oat milk shaved ice.
SPONSORED POST: Finding Home & Belonging in “While I Was Away”
For many second-generation Americans, visiting the “motherland” can be a jarring experience. We’re initially delighted to be around people who look like us and speak like us — only to find out the way we dress, pronounce words and behave are all “wrong.” That, even in our “home countries,” we are outsiders. And yet, we might have sparkling experiences as well, ones that cross borders and place us in the cosmos, leaving us thinking, I can’t wait to come back.
Balancing Cultural Flavors and Identity in “Measuring Up”
“A Tween Immigrant Chef Finds Courage in this Graphic Novel for Readers 8+”
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