July 2009 Blog Posts (2)

We're tea fanatics. Since the beginning of Chinese culture, the presence of tea has been in our lives- you see it served in restaurants before every meal, regardless of the time of day you're eating. Heck, I bet when the Chinese heard about the dumping of tea into the Boston Harbor, they were more than traumatized (come on, those Americans shouldn't have wasted anything in the first place..). Unlike the Brits, to us tea possesses more of a stigma- not to just class behavior, but to age as well.… Continue

Up here in the North of the North, also known as Canada (Happy belated birthday to us!), the size of the Asian population is continuously expanding. At twenty-something, I may not be far from contributing to that phenomenon, if you know what I mean. Also at twenty-something, I have developed a desire to take part in the global conversation; and to do so as the proud Asian-Canadian that I am. The blogosphere is vast. The Asian-Canadian blogosphere? Not so much. I would like for The Tofu Press… Continue