Current Musings: East Asia

Korea. Japan. China.

In your typical working-class Black girl's life, these cultures would only manifest around my community in my local hair store, "Chinese" food take-out, or ethnic grocery store.

But as we all know, I am not the typical working-class Black girl.  I mean, who is, really?

But anywho, I find myself continually looking to these cultures for guidance in the most varied ways:

fashionista advice for "small but mighty" women

Wendy's Lookbook

healthier eating habits

Let's Nabe from Tofugu.com

and even how to color my super dark hair successfully using four ingredients

(thanks beautyklove: youtube):

It's been this long-lasting musing.  Stay tuned as I crash this page with all kinds of stuff from my journey around the web.

-T

Crashes:

1. So my mind is kinda blown - I mean I knew that the "food" at the Chinese food place in ANY Black neighborhood probably wasn't authentic, but I didn't know just how fake it all was.  So thanks to this video, learned the top foods most Chinese folk would not eat/order/consider real in any way (or if they do eat it, its as an American snack food):

• fried moon-crater-looking egg rolls
• ANYTHING with American broccoli
• General Tso's Chicken - or Sesame Chicken (which is essentially the same)
• Crab Rangoon (but its SOOOO tasty!)

Instead I discovered this super amazing looking dish from Shanghai, now enjoyed across the world:

 Now, she's a top chef and all, but I had to verify that this would be somewhat similar to what others have enjoyed.  Then I found this blog post via The Woks of Life and am feeling pretty good about it.

Will be a food adventure soon!