Who's Afraid of Chop Suey? Or, The Politics of Authenticity
I humbly report that I have a piece — “Who’s Afraid of Chop Suey?” — in the most recent Education About Asia (Winter 2011)...
Category: Food
Candy and School Lunches
In the New York Times yesterday there was an interesting article entitled, “Is Candy Evil or Just Misunderstood?” In particular it discussed the rel...
April Fool's Day, Self Puffery and Töfood
Hooray for me! China Beat, my second favorite China blog, has started a series of quizzes — why didn’t we think of that? The most recent asked reade...
Fortune Cookie History
A grad student from Kanagawa University may have cracked the great riddle of Asian cuisine: the origin of the Fortune Cookie! As the NY Times reports, the origi...
Oh Tempura, Oh Mores!
The New York Times has been on a Japanese culture kick this week which I just couldn’t let pass without note. There have been not one, but two articles in...
Someone’s class project….
Apparently, some English class at a Japanese university is exploring the Anglophone Blogosphere in search of pen pals and practice. (This is the closest thing t...