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Asian Girls Linking Arms: A Cultural Thing?
Fact: many Asian girls link arms when they are out and about. When I lived in Malaysia and Singapore, I saw Asian girls and women walking in pairs through shopping malls with arms linked around the elbows, touching skin-on-skin. Sometimes I saw them even holding hands, walking and chatting with one another. Today whenever I…
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The “Dimmy” Dim Sim: A Chinese Or Australian Culinary Item?
Last week in Asian Food in Australia: Not Authentic But Still Delicious, I briefly discussed whether it is actually right to classify one of Australia’s most popular snack the dim sim as Chinese cuisine. After mulling about this over the past week, I reckon: perhaps. The dim sim can be more accurately described as a…
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Asian Food In Australia: Not Authentic But Still Delicious
Asian cuisine is aplenty around the city of Melbourne today. But after eating this cuisine quite a bit here I must say that Asian food in Australia differs considerably from the exact same gastronomic fare in Asia. A large proportion of Asian food and the Asian eating experience in Australia is arguably unhealthy and often…
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What Does It Mean To Be Asian-Australian?
Growing up, I was always confused about what the term “Asian-Australian” meant, and today I still find it hard to define the term succinctly in a single sentence. Why? Firstly, the word “Australian” itself is a complex term. It fundamentally refers to someone who has Australian citizenship as outlined on a piece of paper. When…
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How And Why I Was A Victim of “Racism Towards One’s Own Race”
As a person of Chinese descent who has lived in different places and acquaints myself with various cultures, I am always discriminated by people of the same race as I am. To put it more simply, I am a Chinese-Australian who often see other Chinese people, especially those from East Asia, constantly distancing themselves from…
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How I Came To See ‘Whiteness’ As Just Ordinarily Beautiful
I used to be one of those people who honestly thought and held the perception that white-skinned Caucasians were the ultimate epitome of beauty. That is, when I was living in South East Asia, I genuinely regarded Caucasians and people with fair skin and blue eyes as physically attractive, thinking “whiteness” was what you needed…
Mabel Kwong 