July, 2010 // Posts published in July, 2010
Grassroots efforts on saving old Chinatown restaurant make front page news
Yesterday, respected community leader and author, Jim Wong-Chu, met up with a few of us to celebrate yesterday’s Vancouver Courier newspaper article on the banana lead effort on saving Foo’s Ho Ho restaurant ( read our earlier articles here, here, and here) Jim was delighted of the community news coverage, and mentioned, We’ve got no budget for ...
Is there more to the Richmond racist graffiti?
Yesterday, we received an email from Adrian MacNair, a blogger colleague, whom we had communicated with a few years earlier. Adrian writes the blog Unambiguously Ambidextrous. Back in 2007, Adrian had shared some thoughts on another blogger colleague’s site “Chinese in Vancouver“. Mr MacNair had written about what bothered him regarding the insular nature of the Chinese ...
Lazy …23 years old with a gay roommate, and in a band
Yup. This is Scott Pilgrim. A character created by Asian-Canadian, Bryan Lee O’Malley. Bryan was born in London Ontario and is an amazing cartoonist as well as being a musician. His cartoon Scott Pilgrim has a cult following, is appreciated by a wide cross section of youth and by old curmudgeons (ie. Me, the UGLY Chinese Canadian). ...
Chinese cafés played an important role in the development of Canadian small towns
Almost all bananas, had a close relative or an ancestor who had worked or operated a small restaurant somewhere in a town in Canada. A new book by Lily Cho explores this bit of historic Canadiana. Here is the article from Bruce Ward, of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper: Chopsticks and onion rings A lively new history ...
Assaulted Fish & Japanglish… this weekend at Powell Street Festival
The Powell Street Festival is a free community event that occurs every summer in the heart of one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood, Japantown. As in years past, the offerings include authentic Japanese performances, Asian-Canadian music, food and much more. The Festival Society’s mission is to celebrate the arts and culture of Japanese Canadians and Asian ...
Sex trafficking in Canada
On-line documentary on the story of sex trafficking in Canada, and/ or by ugly Canadians who participate in sex tourism. Video courtesy of Hope for the Sold on Vimeo. ENSLAVED AND EXPLOITED: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada from Hope for the Sold on Vimeo.
Jadin Wong: pioneering Asian performer 1913 – 2010
Jadin Wong – pioneering Asian performer – dies from San Francisco Chronicles Jadin Wong was so devoted to entertainment that, in the throes of World War II, she jumped out of an airplane about to go down and into German territory, snuck across the Black Forest and made her evening appointment to perform with Bob Hope for ...
new iPhone 4 has iMovie, here’s our fav (old) Ad
Trés cool. The newest iPhone 4 will be available later this week in Canada, and it has the built-in app, iMovie. Here’s our all time favourite Apple ad. It’s the one for iMovie and was aired a few years back with with the Brazilian supermodel, Gisele Bundchen: Mac Home Movie. And it was only a matter ...
Conservatives review Affirmative Action policy
Ms Chen eyes at her white colleague and applies for a job at the city of Vancouver. Chen smiles and says, Even though I’m less qualified, I’ve a better chance than you at getting the job. Unfortunately, this scenario plays out over and over again in our politically-correct-gone-wild state of affairs in North America. We don’t think any of ...
Boarder Alexa Loo retires
We were all hoping Richmond, B.C. born Alexa Loo would have picked up a pile of medals this past Winter Olympics at Whistler/ Vancouver. We had posted a thought earlier, “Chinese Grocers and an Accountant… uh, Olympian!“, when news was out that a local grocer was helping sponsor Alexa on her Olympic quest. Many of us had ...
Ask Larry!
The new UGLY Chinese Canadian blog would like to introduce a few new contributors to our blog. We know that a few readers are offended by our blog’s title, “the UGLY Chinese Canadian“, but you’ve got to admit, it does attract eyeballs and controversy. And to reiterate our original thought for this blog: …let’s look at the ...
New Chinatown mural by Arthur Cheng
Everyone who has visited Vancouver’s Chinatown has seen at least one of Arthur Cheng’s (Cheng Shu-Ren) works of art. He is the artist / sculptor who designed the Chinatown memorial square statue at the Keefer triangle, of the Chinese Railway Worker and the World War Two soldier. It is here that Vancouver pays respect ...
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