You’ve just been invited to eat by your best Asian friend and their family. You all enter a wonderful smelling restaurant I will stereotypically call, “Seafood Paradise.” Everyone orders, and you wait for your food to arrive. You expect your own plate. You expect your own food. Instead, the waiter brings all the food to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Habits'
#133 Putting Food On Other Peoples’ Plates
Posted August 25th, 2010 by Peter · 5 Comments
Tags: Activities · Cuisine · Culture · Customs · Environment · Food & Beverage · Habits · People
#131 Snails
Posted March 23rd, 2010 by Peter · 6 Comments
This is a guest submission from “Lamstah” that was so interesting that we had to feature it and make it a post. We hope you enjoy this look into Asian Snail Etiquette and Lam’s story about trying to unravel its mysteries.
“Food is my favorite topic so going to a food court of a different [...]
Tags: Activities · Animals · Cuisine · Culture · Customs · Environment · Featured Topic · Food & Beverage · Habits · People · Vietnamese
Asian Flush (“Blame it on the Ah-Ah-Ah-Alcohol”)
Posted March 12th, 2010 by Peter · 6 Comments
Hello SAPL Family! It’s been a while since our last post, but I would like to announce one of Vannie’s last posts before she takes an extended leave from guest writing here at SAPL. Her submissions have been great for the Asian Community in that they’ve urged us to think deeper about our lives as [...]
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Open Dialogue: Northern vs. Southern Asians
Posted February 20th, 2010 by Peter · 18 Comments
Vannie Sung’s latest submission is about latitudinal differences between Asians in their own countries. There is definitely a divide that keeps Asians everywhere (especially in areas torn by war and ideology) from achieving true unity because they are so caught up in upholding their own cultural identities. Vannie poses a larger question at the end– [...]
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