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This is part two of our cover series on the top 10 Asian American blogs to read (or watch) right now. (Read part one here.)
Sarah J. Gim
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The Delicious Life
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Since 2005, food porn galore has been featured on Sarah J. Gim’s blog, The Delicious Life, but don’t dismiss the blog as just another site on grub. And whatever you do, do not label Gim as just another “foodie.” Gim, 36, despises the term because of its pretentious connotation. According to her blog, she prefers the self-concocted term “eifnaj” (pronounced ife-nazh), a word born out of Gim’s knack for making up words by closing her eyes and hitting random keys. “Eifnaj,” therefore, is Gim’s term for anyone who “absolutely adores food, whatever that adoration entails, without the pretensions of luxury foods and esoteric food knowledge,” explains Gim, who lives in Los Angeles. But with all the topics Gim touches on (travel, lifestyle and dating), in addition to food, it’s safe to say that The Delicious Life is a full-on, five-course meal with all the trimmings and dressings.
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Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man may be the reigning king of the Asian American blogosphere, but a handful of wired scribes could soon inherit the throne.
This is part one of our cover series on the top 10 Asian American blogs to read (or watch) right now.
Jen Wang (left) with Diana Nguyen
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Disgrasian
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The Los Angeles-based duo behind Disgrasian, Jen Wang and Diana Nguyen, consider themselves to be Disgrasians rather than Amazians, but don’t think that they’re suffering from low self-esteem—they’re just Asian. “We totally think we’re Disgrasians,” says Wang. “Asian people are incredibly hard on themselves, so unless you think you’re doing something wrong, you’re not really Asian. So if you’re Asian, by nature and by design, you think you’re a Disgrasian.” But both Nguyen and Wang should be proud of what they’ve achieved in a little over three years. Although their blog isn’t the go-to site for breaking news, it’s become one of the most popular sites for abrasive, but hilarious commentary on Asians who are a “disgrace to the race.” Nguyen and Wang are also contributors for The Huffington Post, where they write snarky posts on topics such as U.S. Rep. Joseph Cao and the Miss USA pageant. But somehow, it’s easy to believe that the famed site stemmed from gabfests exchanged while buzzed off wine. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands are reading their entries every day, there are enough posts about babes and bad behavior for Disgrasian to feel like a good, no-holds-barred convo between friends.” I think about Jen reading my post and almost no one else,” says Nguyen. “In a way, it’s made it possible to keep writing the way we have and preserving that original energy. That tunnel vision has been the reason we’ve been able to do it for so long.”
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This is part three of our cover series on the top 10 Asian American blogs to read (or watch) right now. Read part one and part two here.
MetroDad
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Family-oriented sites are prolific on the web, but father-penned parenting blogs who don’t hold back on the curse words and musings about poo? Meet Metrodad, aka Pierre Kim, who writes about Peanut, his 6-year-old daughter. And in case you were wondering, Kim isn’t claiming to be metrosexual; the blog’s moniker is simply a nod to his home base of New York City. The entries are comedic gold (he and his ex-wife, Boss Lady, once dressed their kid up as an underage Chinese Olympic gymnast for Halloween). And although the site has been popular enough to garner talks of a television sitcom, Kim still shies away from the idea of playing to an audience. “I want to remain faithful to the writing,” he says. “I never want to feel like I’m writing for the press, or writing to the readers,” says Kim. One person he does hope will appreciate the posts in time is his daughter—who has no idea her father blogs about her bowel movements and propensity to stick fingers up a statue’s butt. “My love for my daughter is clearly evident in the blogs, so I think there are parts she’ll appreciate and parts she’ll find embarrassing,” says Kim, 41. “But whether I do it in the blog or in real life, it doesn’t matter. At some point I’m going to embarrass her regardless.”
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