Lifestyle

After years of making every Xmas toy and decoration in the world, China gets into Christmas spirit

Date posted: December 24, 2007

Warm-and-fuzziness without the family drama

Date posted: November 21, 2007

Think you’re a sexpert? Not till you’ve read these sex manuals from Asia

Date posted: October 26, 2007

Hey, let’s fetishize Asian men for a change!

Date posted: October 24, 2007 12:36 PM

Intrepid Travel promises a real-life experience in Cambodia—and ultimately delivers

Date posted: September 11, 2007 1:41 PM

Asians take first and second place in the World Series of Poker? It’s a good thing, right?

Date posted: July 20, 2007 6:53 PM

The singer-designer sues cheapo fashion chain Forever 21

Date posted: July 18, 2007 5:58 PM

A monkey tourist in the monkey mecca of Borneo

Date posted: July 12, 2007 12:18 PM

Our traveling monkey eats his way through the food capital of Asia: Singapore.

Date posted: May 29, 2007 10:08 AM

Skinny pants, Ramones tees, shaggy hair. Korea’s rockin’ the punk look (if not the attitude)

Date posted: May 18, 2007 11:01 AM

In honor of Mother’s Day, TMM pits Jewish moms against Chinese moms, head-to-head in… the Ultimate Showdown!

Date posted: May 11, 2007 2:52 PM

A New Yorker’s adventures—and misadventures—in Southeast Asia

Date posted: May 4, 2007 6:44 PM

You are cordially invited to share an Indian American experience, complete with Bollywood and…Bryan Adams

Date posted: April 23, 2007 12:33 PM

When Liz Hurley married her Indian groom, she managed to offend a whole culture. Here’s how to avoid the Hurley-burly

Date posted: April 23, 2007 10:44 AM

Bridezilla Liz Hurley’s Indian wedding caused an international incident, while Bollywood’s Brangelina (AbhiAsh) pull off the ‘Wedding of the Century’

Date posted: April 21, 2007 8:15 PM

A ranking of Asia’s five most spectacularly strange buildings, from the quirky to the downright ugly to the utterly forsaken.

Date posted: March 20, 2007 12:05 PM

She was 7 when she ate the little green leaf, and there the battle began. The tale of a lifelong struggle with bad taste.

Date posted: February 21, 2007 5:45 PM

Which expensive, red-themed holiday wins out?

Date posted: February 13, 2007 1:17 PM

A ramen lover’s tribute to the late Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles

Date posted: January 9, 2007 12:26 PM

From Long Duk Dong to Chow Yun Fat, Asians have had to face the fact that one stereotype about them is true: They’ve got some pretty wacky names.

Date posted: December 14, 2006 12:16 PM

Shoes on or shoes off? That’s the awkward question faced by partygoers this holiday season now that Asia’s no-shoes policy has caught on Stateside

Date posted: December 11, 2006 2:01 PM

Celebrate Pearl Harbor Day the way our grandfathers did—by drinking ourselves into oblivion!

Date posted: December 6, 2006 11:57 AM

Black sticky rice puts an Asian American twist on Thanksgiving stuffing. Rice, rice baby!

Date posted: November 22, 2006 5:28 PM

Which wines to drink with Nature’s most perfect food: fried pork dumplings.

Date posted: November 21, 2006 10:11 PM

Macau’s got the goods, but Vegas has the glitz. A TMM Ultimate Showdown!

Date posted: November 3, 2006 8:42 AM

The day after Halloween, there’s nothing to do but salivate over the favorite Asian candies of our youth.

Date posted: November 1, 2006 10:20 AM

A truly frightening survey of TMM’s primal fears

Date posted: October 31, 2006 4:38 PM

Hopping Corpses, Drunken Devils, oh my!

Date posted: October 29, 2006 7:46 PM

Ever wondered what wine to serve with pho or tandoori chicken? Okay, how about kimchee? Drunken Monkey goes where other sommeliers fear to tread

Date posted: October 25, 2006 9:42 PM

In this dish, Kangkung Belacan, water spinach is sautéed with a flavoring paste of chiles, shallots, garlic, and shrimp paste. It personifies the Nyonya way with vegetables.

Date posted: October 18, 2006 2:36 PM

Saveur’s new editor James Oseland wants to bring the “three-dimensional concept of eating” to America. This time via Asia.

Date posted: October 18, 2006 6:00 AM

Nasi Kuning (from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore) is a tumeric-flavored variation on coconut rice.

Date posted: October 17, 2006 2:21 PM

Rendang Daging Sapi is a rich, dry-braised beef curry from the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Date posted: October 17, 2006 2:09 PM

China’s wine business is booming. But take one sip, and you’ll be asking: Who drinks this crap?

Date posted: August 31, 2006 12:41 PM

In this new column, TMM explores the uneasy confluence of Asian and African American cultures

Date posted: July 23, 2006 8:17 PM

Lucky food. Transliterated food. Food with its own bedtime story

Date posted: June 14, 2006 1:17 AM

Summer’s here, and Asian Americans are dreading the inevitable—being forced to translate malformed Chinese and Japanese tattoos

Date posted: June 4, 2006 8:05 AM

How can 3 billion Asian mamas be wrong? A molecular biologist's take on the controversial flavor enhancer

Date posted: May 26, 2006 7:18 AM