Originally posted on NBC Asian America. At a 2012 New York fundraiser for his short film series "I Am What I Eat," director Erik Shirai met a young man named Yasuyuki Yoshida, who had been hired to pour saké at the event. There, Yoshida invited Shirai to his family's...
written for PRI's Global Nation Natasha Panda Desai remembers watching the 1993 Bollywood filmKing Uncle when she was six years old and falling for Shah Rukh Khan. “I love him from his old-school mullet days,” she says, though she’s seen every one of his more...
Published in LA Weekly At a performance at KCON earlier this month, Tiffany Hwang, one of nine members of the popular K-pop band Girls’ Generation, recognized a fan in the audience. It was Oanh “Soy” Nguyen — who was particularly noticeable because she'd recently dyed...