"white people cuisine" 😂. My kids masked at school up until about a year ago. I was wondering if they were getting co-dependent on it and using it to hide (mind you, they are in their late teens). We were probably more cautious than most around us since my dad died of Covid, but I was sort of relieved to see that they came out of it. I think it would have blown my mind if my youngest went through the entirety of her high school years in a mask. You do what feels right for you and your family. We're all just kinda winging it.
Ha! I definitely use my mask to hide. It makes it even easier to be the impassive Asian at the office. At one meeting I was furious at a consultant for shoddy effort, but my coworker said it didn’t show (he knew I was agitated but we’ve worked together for 8 years).
And now that I think of it, we need to make some casseroles and meatloaf. Never knew these exotic foods are pretty straightforward to make!
I only just realized you were Asian for some reason. I have a white spouse and he loathes meatloaf. I don't know why I always think of that when I see meatloaf. He does all the cooking in the house so no meatloaf for me. I don't really mind it, but maybe it's because it's just an excuse for ketchup 🤣
hehehe, I don't talk too much about being ABC—certainly there since my parents grew up abroad, but the contentiousness of social media in the late 2010's makes me pause before dipping into those waters, even though I don't try to hide it either.
Plus I love this Johannes Itten color wheel more than my mugshot! It certainly helps that Las Vegas is pretty colorblind (and that I came here as an adult). Talking to folks who grew up here, it sounds like a much tougher childhood than growing up in Orange County.
As for meatloaf, since we lived with the in-laws for a while, the kids got ketchup in their lives only a couple of years ago so they love all those sauces, ranch, etc....
ABC is not a term I'm familiar with really. I guess because I'm not Chinese? I dunno. As for ketchup, Koreans love ketchup, especially on eggs. I learned this when I went back the first time when I was 10 and they served a fried egg on rice with ketchup in the dorms I was staying at for a week. Ketchup on eggs is so polarizing. This is a future newsletter, I can see hahaaaa.
"white people cuisine" 😂. My kids masked at school up until about a year ago. I was wondering if they were getting co-dependent on it and using it to hide (mind you, they are in their late teens). We were probably more cautious than most around us since my dad died of Covid, but I was sort of relieved to see that they came out of it. I think it would have blown my mind if my youngest went through the entirety of her high school years in a mask. You do what feels right for you and your family. We're all just kinda winging it.
Ha! I definitely use my mask to hide. It makes it even easier to be the impassive Asian at the office. At one meeting I was furious at a consultant for shoddy effort, but my coworker said it didn’t show (he knew I was agitated but we’ve worked together for 8 years).
And now that I think of it, we need to make some casseroles and meatloaf. Never knew these exotic foods are pretty straightforward to make!
I only just realized you were Asian for some reason. I have a white spouse and he loathes meatloaf. I don't know why I always think of that when I see meatloaf. He does all the cooking in the house so no meatloaf for me. I don't really mind it, but maybe it's because it's just an excuse for ketchup 🤣
hehehe, I don't talk too much about being ABC—certainly there since my parents grew up abroad, but the contentiousness of social media in the late 2010's makes me pause before dipping into those waters, even though I don't try to hide it either.
Plus I love this Johannes Itten color wheel more than my mugshot! It certainly helps that Las Vegas is pretty colorblind (and that I came here as an adult). Talking to folks who grew up here, it sounds like a much tougher childhood than growing up in Orange County.
As for meatloaf, since we lived with the in-laws for a while, the kids got ketchup in their lives only a couple of years ago so they love all those sauces, ranch, etc....
ABC is not a term I'm familiar with really. I guess because I'm not Chinese? I dunno. As for ketchup, Koreans love ketchup, especially on eggs. I learned this when I went back the first time when I was 10 and they served a fried egg on rice with ketchup in the dorms I was staying at for a week. Ketchup on eggs is so polarizing. This is a future newsletter, I can see hahaaaa.
hahah yeah, I prefer soy sauce on fried eggs more than ketchup, but I'll take it either way.
(ABC = American Born Chinese)
We try. But life I guess is always a bit more mundane than whatever is distilled on social media.