DUMPLING PICKS #012 outlines big and small, loud and quiet signals from Asia 🔮
Lighter Fare 🧋
The fun, creative or unexpected side of Asia.
Tiger Beer created a puffer jacket 🍺 Gundam is real (giant human-piloted robot) in Japan, and here’s a video of it here 🤖 You can throw all your preconceptions about kimchi out the window at this kimchi-focused tapas bar in Seoul (cannot wait to come here in December!!) 🥢 Not sure if I’ve posted this before but this is a table made of crab shells by a Thai design studio 🦀 Plastic chairs have never looked so cool until these guys made some 💺 Objects that bring back the joy of childhood 🪑 Fun 80s Chinese pop-culture mix Sesame Street tee collection 💥
Serious Stuff 🍚
A mixed variety of factors influencing life, culture and businesses across Asia.
What an effort to document 100 years of recipes from an archipelago aka The Philippines 🇵🇭 Let’s protect our rice 🍚 Chinese expands climate change surveillance in the Himalayas 🏔 AI for public health 🩺 Seriously though, Asia is in an age of hydropolitics 🌊 A unified dictionary for the two Koreas due in 2028 📖
Wise Words 🧠
South Asians are grouped together in the Western world, diluting each one's unique journeys. These portraits aim to show the versatility of different South Asians and their views, breaking the existing norm of the one-directional generalisation towards South Asia.
Two Odd • Berlin + Bombay + Dubai 🌐
가장 한국적인 것이 세계적인 것이라고 믿습니다 (I believe that the most Korean things are global)
온6점5 • South Korea 🇰🇷