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This is what America greatly lacks – street vendors/foods. In Asia, for those who have lived or traveled to Asian countries, they’re everywhere. It simply is the best food. It’s mostly I’d say Asian comfort food for hella cheap but the taste and quality is not bad at all. One of my fondest memories of walking around the city such as Seoul, are the delicious street foods I can eat for less than $3. It’s mostly finger-type food so I can either eat it while walking or sit down. In Korea, they have tents where you can eat there and believe me, the food is so good.

Why doesn’t the U.S. have this? Granted, there are couple of hot dog stands but that’s about it! Once in awhile, I’ll see roasted corn for sale. It’s sad. I terribly miss it. With the amount of food Americans eat, why don’t we have these type of food stands? Agh, it’s probably due to politics and economics such as zoning laws, high rent, competition with fast food joints, etc.

Obviously, it’s more feasible to have these in crowded heavily concentrated metropolitan cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, etc but even big cities like NYC or Chicago do not have them.

What’s a completely atrocity is white people taking this very idea and translating into “street food” for Happy Hour in fine dining type restaurants, such as Asian Fusion. Ridiculous! You can’t take this idea and present it in a nicely furnished fusion bar for happy hour! That’s just wrong.

Check it out!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restaurants/2010244573_thaihappy11.html

In the old days, American men had bridal catalogs of foreign Asian women – those who were willing to come to the U.S. through marriage to a white man. Of course they still have these even today but they mostly target Eastern European women such as Russia and the Czech Republic. But nowadays, white men go directly to Asia…to “teach” English!

White men who join “English Teachers” organizations that take them to Asian countries to become English “teachers” pretty much go there to get laid by as many Asian women as possible, teach them the ABC’s, and bring them back to marry. Not all but most. It’s the perfect setup – room and board are paid for, they get a salary, and in the meantime, they get to enjoy a buffet of Asian hotties who view the western man as the sexiest thing since George Clooney. And I assure you, these white fellows get plenty of ass down in Japan, Korea, and all over China. Do these men go to the Phillipines or Vietnam? Hells no! If they go, they want the best poon that the ABC’s can buy and the best of course reside in East Asia. To them, East Asia is like a giant pussy, just waiting for them, with their short bowl-legged legs spread apart, with tattoos all along it saying “This Way John Doe!”

Granted…there are white men who actually sincerely love the Asian culture and the people and just want to be a part of it. I can respect that. They learn the language, learn to speak it, and learn its rich history, all the while, being respectful to Asian peeps. But even they want a little raw sushi from time to time, so they end up dating the native Asian women. I mean, why not? I would too if I was them. So I don’t blame them.

What sucks I think is that sometimes, I think these Asian women just make it too easy for these white men. The word spreads around and white men flock to these countries. It’s like the organizations that set up these joints are advertising: “$800 airfare to Japan, room & board all paid for, professional English institute environment, and unlimited tight Asian vaginas ready for you to pummel”.

I’ve never heard of an Asian boy coming to the U.s. to teach Korean and getting laid by hundreds of beautiful DD blonds. Have you? No…they come here, can barely speak English, starting taking classes for the TOEFL, and end up only hanging out with other Asian male virgins. None of them ever even try to date a hot white girl. Shit, they can barely talk. They all sound like Shorty from Indian Jones – “doctor jones! doctor jones!”

Caption: "Chink? Gook? You're lucky you didn't call me Jap, else I would've kicked your ass!"

I saw an interesting interview of JAY-Z on TV the other day.  The interviewer said that Barrack Obama thinks that blacks should stop calling each other ‘nigga’.  Jay-Z disagreed, and said it in another interview as well:

“People give words power. For our generation, what we did is that we took the word, and we took the power out of that word. We took a word that was very ugly and hurtful into a term of endearment,” Jay-Z said Thursday.

Jay-Z is referring to the fact that brothas will call each other ‘nigga’, kind of like they used to say ‘homie’. He thinks by doing that, they have somehow taken the power out of the word.   ?????

I totally disagree. If your buddies call you ‘nigga’, and that’s how you greet each other, then you might be all cool with it.  But, if some angry redneck called a black guy ‘nigger’ out of the blue, you know that brotha is gonna be mad as hell!  Same goes for Jay-Z; he’d be furious, and start throwing punches!

My point is that Jay-Z hasn’t taken any power out of the word.  Read the rest of this entry »

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One thing when you’re raised in a traditional Asian home is that you learn to obey your elders.  It can be a good thing, but it can also give you bad habits since your values at home will conflict with what is the norm out in White society.  By obeying elders, you give them all your power and decision-making rights.  This may work to keep harmony in the house, but when you do this in white society, you’re perceived as weak and a pushover.  In the states, you gotta be tough, you gottta challenge the status quo, and you gotta speak up to get what’s yours.  The worst thing you can be is a polite, quiet, model minority who follows orders, because most of your managers are probably white dumbasses with a lot of stupid ideas that need to be checked.  You should respect your elders, but respect is earned, and if they have weak ideas, they should be challenged.  It’s for everyone’s sake: yours and theirs.

Black people are really outspoken, and they get what they want.  They are raised to hustle.  They go for what they want, and they learn to negotiate and be persistent.  Asian people tend to give up after one ‘No’, but black people will continue to push for what they want since they understand they got nothing to lose.  I really respect that part of their culture.  When they’re mad, they will vent.  When they want the attention of a girl, they’ll act.  And, many a time, they GET. Read the rest of this entry »

She probably had McDonalds on the way to work

Sushi is the rage.  Sushi is exotic, it’s delicious, it’s classy, and it’s cool.  Every major city in the US now has sushi, and Seattle is no exception.  People here love it!  There’s not only classic sushi restaurants, but also three or four conveyor-belt sushi chains.  The demand is so high!  Now, every now and then, there will be talk about which sushi restaurants people like, and you know how outspoken white people are!  They love to voice their opinions, and they’ll start telling me which sushi restaurants are their favorites. “Oh, you gotta try Mashiko!  It’s the best!”  Or, “My favorite place is Hiroshi’s” or “Wasabi Bistro is the best sushi in town!”.  Now, I have had an open mind and have taken their word and tried these various places my Caucasian friends and coworkers have told me about.  And sure enough, I’m disappointed every fuckin’ time!

Conclusion.  White people don’t know sushi.  Just like you don’t ask a black man to teach you how to swim, you don’t ask a white person to tell you where to get the best raw fish.  Read the rest of this entry »

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I read an interesting book on the fear of confrontation, and the effects of what happens when you don’t speak up.  I never thought about it, but in the USA, if you don’t speak up, it implies to others that you agree with them.  Whether you’re in a group of friends or at work, if you sit there quietly and don’t voice your opinion, it is implied that you agree with the opinions of the outspoken ones.  I didn’t really realize this.  In my Japanese American upbringing, I somehow learned to be non-confrontational, and I would be quiet even when I disagreed with what was going on.  I’ve been this way since childhood, and it’s only recently that I realized what I was doing, and what that implies here in the states.  In Japan, I think silence can mean both agreement and disagreement.  But in the states, I guess it’s viewed as agreement. So, basically, I have been misunderstood all these years!  Shit.

What this means to me is that I have to speak up and assert my differences wherever I am.  Not to confront, but to voice my opinion just so people don’t assume I agree with everyone.  More often than not I disagree.  In Japan, people are very good at sensing what others feel and think.  They are almost telepathic.  Here in the states, people are so self-centered that they can’t imagine what is going on in other people’s heads.  So, in a culture like this, you gotta speak up, SAM.