Obama Fingers: FAIL

I love food, but... fail. Germany doesn't get it. I think Obama sushi has been the best food thing so far....

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Obama Food Cart?!!!

I have a love for food and I think the carts that decorate the streets of NYC are pretty badass. Combine them with our current president and you get the MEAL O'BAMA cart. Sadly, reviewers have said the food isn't as good as the owner of the cart could make it. But they can improve! Surely they can! Yes they can!

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Food Review: Ebikomaru

Aside from politics, Asian American randomness, Chicago drama, I love talking about food. I've always wanted to do random food reviews because my digital camera has so many pictures that I could essentially have my own collection of food p0rn. One of my goals in doing these reviews is to have an excuse to try food I haven't had before. Primarily food I have not eaten from the Tai Nam Supermarket, located by the Argyle red line station.



Today's snack is the Ebikomaru. I saw this and thought, hmm, shrimp wafers? Is it like the shrimp chips?

Upon closer examination and tastes, my partner and I agreed that while the snack is visually nice, it's taste was sadly blandish in flavor. We wanted it to work, but it didn't in the end. It had a weird light shrimp fishy smelling wafer deal. You know?


Poor Ebikomaru. Stay tuned for another blog post on another random food item from Tai Nam!

Wing Luke Asian Museum's 2009 Annual Dinner

NOTE: This event looks so badass because of this guy's picture pose. Makes me wanna go!
Wing Luke Asian Museum's 2009 Annual Dinner & Auction
featuring the Art of Cuisine with emcee Mark Dacascos, Chairman of Iron Chef America

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Bell Harbor International Conference Center
2211 Alaskan Way in Seattle's Pier 66
Tickets: $150-$500. To purchase, call (206) 623.5124 ext. 107.

Taste your way through a selection of art-inspired appetizers created by local chefs, learn about their inspirations and vote for a favorite. Culinary creations will be presented by chefs Gerold Castro of Kawali Grill, Gian Jaswal of India Bistro, Alex Nguyen of Saigon Bistro, Alan Quan of Four Seas, Christina Scholz of ATA Farms, and Rachel Yang of Joule.

Artists featured in the auction include: James Lawrence Ardeña, Alfredo Arreguin, Arturo Artorez, Barbara Barnes Allen, Sonja Blomdahl, Romson Bustillo, Virginia Causey, MalPina Chan, Diem Chau, Don de Llamas, Janell de Varona, Marita Dingus, Jack Eng, Catherine Foster, Akiko Graham, Aaliyah Gupta, Amy Hara, Mark Horiuchi, late Paul Horiuchi, Etsuko Ichikawa, Mary Ishii, Louise Kikuchi, Fumiko Kimura, Marilyn Kreft, Bobbie Larson, Alan Lau, Gwendolyn Lee, Cheryll Leo-Gwin, Kathy Liao, Lee Sik Lim, Lolan Lo Cheng, Jane Molnar McCormmach, Benjamin Moore, Saya Moriyasu, Benjamin Muchnick, Maureen Murphy Herward, Mira Nakashima, Jennifer Nerad, Thu Nguyen, Corrine Okada Takara, Nori Okamura, Reid Ozaki, Tommer Peterson, Michael Roco, Michael Ryan, Britt Rynearson, June Sekiguchi, Joby Shimomura, Evert Sodergren, Aki Sogabe, late Robert Sperry, Taiko Suzuki, Teresa Tamura, Gerard Tsutakawa, late Windsor Utley, ZZ Wei, Barry Wong, Rick Wong, Stewart Wong, Junko Yamamoto, and Thomas Zalewski.

All proceeds from the Dinner & Auction will go towards the Wing Luke Asian Museum's operations and programs.

The Wing Luke Asian Museum engages the public in exploring issues related to the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans. A Smithsonian Institution affiliate, the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle's Chinatown-International District is the premier pan-Asian Pacific American museum in the country.

Contact: Joann Natalia Aquino, Public Relations and Marketing Manager, at (206) 623-5124 ext. 106 or jaquino@wingluke.org.

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Joann Natalia Aquino
Public Relations and Marketing Manager
Wing Luke Asian Museum
719 South King Street
Seattle, WA 98104
www.wingluke.org
(206) 623.5124 ext. 106
(206) 623.4559 fax
jaquino@wingluke.org

Not a Tasty Cookie at All

Agh, I saw this pocky-gone-wrong-cookie-snack on Angryasianman's site. I just knew that ONE day, there will be some horribly misspelled/offensive snack. I love food, but this doesn't sit well with me. It's manufactured by Want Want China Holdings Limited.

For people wondering, gook is the offensive term and actually, Sen. McCain has used it to describe his enemies during the Vietnam War. So why is it offensive? Well, wikipedia has a WEAK definition of it (except for mentioning the g word is like the n word for African Americans) and even 'cited' an apology made by Sen. McCain by AsianWeek. Exactly, not the best reference. In any case, here's a way better definition of the word.

1. n. [1920s+] (orig. US military.) a derogatory term for foreigners, especially south-east Asians, e.g. (in chronological order of use) Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese.

If I can find a photo I took some time ago, I purchased a snack called "Crack Sandwiches" and had Asian American pop singer, Coco Lee on the packaging. And yes, it was tasty and no, there was no crack.

Not Eating Meat = Not Manly?

Long story short, a man is suing his former employer for laying him off because his boss found out he's a vegetarian and deemed his eating habits to be 'gay.'

He said his work at the Credit Agricole subsidiary had been going "great" until his boss discovered he was a vegetarian.

"Then everything changed drastically," Pacifico said.

Catalanello did everything he could to make Pacifico uncomfortable - including only ordering hamburgers and pepperoni and sausage pizzas for the weekly team lunches.

What kind of crap is this? If anything, being a vegetarian is very healthy and takes a lot of dedication! This guy's former boss has some personal issues (beef, haaaa...) and decided to offset his insecurities onto this vegetarian.

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Oh Glorious French Fry & Hot Dog Pizza

I really really want to try this, even though it looks like I'd get a heartattack just from looking at it, let alone attempting to consume it. Too bad it's only in NYC, NY. For now...!

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Is My Kung Pao Chicken Really Asian?

Is My Kung Pao Chicken Really Asian?

-soup and talk with Monica Eng,Chicago Tribune food and culture writer
-Tuesday, February 10th- Noon to 1:30 PM (Soup starts at noon, Talk at 12:30 PM)
-Hull-House Museum, Residents' Dining Hall

-800 S. Halsted St.

Please join the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Asian Americans inpartnership with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in an upcoming talkfeaturing Monica Eng, food and culture writer of the Chicago Tribune onTuesday, February 10th, 12:00-1:30PM.

Is my Kung Pao Chicken really Asian? Is there such a thing as "authentic"Asian food and if there is, where the heck do you find it in Chicago? Whatis the role of immigration history in shaping food and cultural identityhere in the US? Join us for a lively conversation lead by Monica Engabout the different waves of Chinese migration to the United States andhow this impacted the history of Asian food here in the United States.

This talk will be a part of the Hull-House Kitchen noontime weekly series, Re-thinking Soup, a weekly forum bringing people together to eat healthy,delicious soup and discuss social, cultural, economic, and environmentalfood issues. Soup will be served from 12:00-1:30PM andEng will begin speaking at 12:30. Please join us at Hull-House Museum'shistoric Residents' Dining Hall. For more information about Hull-HouseMuseum, please call 312-413-5353 or visit http://hullhousemuseum.org./

For the past eleven years, Eng has worked as an editor and reporter forthe Chicago Tribune. Eng reviews restaurants and cuisines and explorescultural events and issues around Chicago. She also writes for theTribune food blog, The Stew. As of late, she has covered issues relatedto sustainable food and will begin a series about improving the ChicagoPublic School lunch program.

Details about the event can also be found at CCSAA's updated website: http://ccsaa.uic.edu./ For questions regarding the event, contact Betty Yung,CCSAA's graduate assistant, at mailto:byung2%40uic.edu.