DUMPLING PICKS #013 outlines big and small, loud and quiet signals from Asia 🔮
🐉 In the spirit of a new year of the dragon, 🥟 wishes everyone health, prosperity and happiness!!
Lighter Fare 🧋
Exploring creativity across Asia.
Chair porn Bali 🪑 Local superfood science as a beauty product proposition 💥 More leisure listening culture in the region 🎼 Vietnamese antique vases 🏺 Sweet, vegetal and crafty 🧵 Glam up your toes 🦶 Dreaming up a vibey Sri Lankan holiday 🏝️ Happy Losar (ལོ་གསར) from the Tibetan Plateau 🐉
Serious Stuff 🍚
Factors influencing life, culture and business across Asia.
Japan is serious about studying its very old but very healthy people 👵🏻 Thailand is launching a 90 day Muay Thai visa soon (an initiative from its new National Soft Power Strategy Committee) 🥊 Tiktok politics is the norm in Indonesia (the world’s biggest single-day election is happening in 2 days) 🗳️ Japan’s youngest female city mayor comes on board 🇯🇵 Understanding Taiwan politics through election aesthetics 🗳️
China Special 🇨🇳
A tiny effort to decode China.
Single serve rice cooker recipes to make life easier (打工人下班如何快速吃上饭 aka ‘how to finish supper ASAP after work’) 🍚 A care community for young people (calls itself 青年养老院 aka ‘youth elderly home’) who want to explore a different way of life ✌️ A humble but culturally significant pushcart made with upcycled materials 🔨 Traditional Chinese Medicine Bagels signalling the reviving concept of 药食同源 aka ‘food as medicine’ 🥯 Exploring the cultural dimension of food through recreating recipes from Chinese movies and literature, such as Eileen Chang’s favourite stir-fried red spinach 🎞️ China’s ‘TV Series Economy’ 📺