Celebrating The Mid-Autumn Festival
We all know that the Mid-Autum or Moon Festival is another reason to get together with family and friends to eat…and eat…and eat. Hey, we’re…
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Non-traditional Moon Cakes
The telltale signs that Mid-Autumn Festival season is upon us is when I receive a box of moon cakes (read Sonya’s post “Significance of…
HotDocs: Interview with Julia Kwan, director of Everything Will Be
I spent most of my childhood life hanging out in Toronto’s Chinatown on weekends at my dad’s office. We would get take out dim…
Celebrate Chinese Cultural Days at the ROM
If you haven’t visited the Royal Ontario Museum in a while, now is the time to go! The spectacular FORBIDDEN CITY Exhibition is definitely…
RECIPE: Mah Lai Go (DimSum Cake)
Over the weekend we had family over for dinner. The usual Thanksgiving prep with turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, rapini and mushrooms. The usual…
TIFF FILM REVIEW: American Dreams in China
The film description is a bit misleading, or perhaps, we are so in-tuned with social media that when the film descriptive italicizes the words…
TIFF • A Touch of Sin • A Tale of 3 Murders and a Suicide
A Touch of Sin is a movie that tugs you into your deepest, darkest core of your soul. The director Jia Zhang-Ke illustrates…
Words to Live By
One day, I’m going to write a book filled with quotes from my dad. He’s wise beyond words, although he would tell you otherwise….
Ai Weiwei at the AGO
I’m sitting on the floor next to Ai Weiwei’s installation, STRAIGHT, made of 38 tons of steel rebar. The security guard looks in my…
The Chinese Compliment
It happened again the other day. I received a lovely compliment…I think. You see, it’s taken me a few years of adulthood to understand…