Asian-American Archive

I’m so excited that it’s Friday! Not just because the weekend is coming up, but because my husband usually has Fridays off. That means I get to sleep in an extra hour because he feeds the kids breakfast and takes Sophia to …

Happy Year of the Snake! In case you missed my copious posts and tweets about it, yesterday was the Lunar New Year. Celebrations like these make me miss my extended family more. I remember big gatherings with my aunts, uncles, and cousins …

What the heck does that mean? We eat a lot of Chinese food. I can’t help it. I think I’m wired to love Asian cuisine. I have yet to try an Asian cuisine I don’t like. The rest of the family enjoys …

Front: Tia Shearer as Kiji the Bird, Jacob Yeh as Momotaro, Phillip Reid as Inu the Dog. Back: Rafael Untalan as Saru the Monkey.  Photo credit: Margot Schulman What happens you combine a boy born from a peach, a monkey, a bird, …

As you can tell, I’m excited about Tết (Lunar New Year). We’ve been reading our favorite picture books in anticipation of the Year of the Snake. Whether your family celebrates the Lunar New Year or you want to learn about how Asian cultures …

2012 DC Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade It’s the time of the year for firecrackers, dancing dragons, and red money packets. The Lunar Year begans February 10, year of the Snake. It’s biggest Vietnamese (and Chinese) holiday and you bet our family …