To tell you the truth, I probably would have signed up for something like this 10 years ago. Back then, I was 22 years old, never had a real boyfriend and had been kissed perhaps two or three times. I wasn't (and still am not) unattractive, nor was I super-awkward. It's just that guys didn't bother to talk to me…

I've never really seen this in Toronto, but we have a pretty decent sized Chinese population. Perhaps this happens "old Chinatown" (i.e. downtown, yet-to-be-gentrified Chinatown), but certainly not in Markham or Scarborough, which is where much of the Toronto Chinese community has settled. And considering that these…

I asked Coke the same question when they sent me a release about the polar bear cans! Anyway...

Maybe it depends on where you live? I haven't had issues either (but then again, most people don't seem to care about Asian female/white male couples).

You'd think that a man named Stacy would be more sensitive on issues (I once knew of guys named Kelly and Ashley. Both put "Mr." in parentheses next to their names in letters and emails).

I think some Christians/vaguely Christian people "go out" for Christmas too. More and more restaurants (at least in Toronto) are now offering Christmas dinner on the 25th. It's for people who don't want to cook!!

I always only partially got the Chinese food during Christmas thing since I grew up not knowing any Chinese people who DIDN'T celebrate Christmas. Sure, I heard of those who didn't, but they all lived in China, not Canada or Hong Kong.

It's from Banana Republic's Mad Men collection. Some stores MIGHT still have them (I know they're available at the Canadian online store)

Enhance the pics? I bought a third party (i.e. non-Adobe) program called RadLab.

Sometimes, changing the tone of the photograph (cooling it or warming it) will change skin tone. I cool or warm photos for my blog all the time. It just makes pictures look better.

Like many Chinese families, my family often makes turkey congee or turkey fried rice.

Good luck! :)

I've had fake cheese free vegan pizza before - basically pizza crust, sauce and veggies (and garlic and olive oil)... pretty good, but not available in all pizza places.

and if you're a "good girl" and don't date, you're shamed eventually because you aren't getting married. And if you're not married by the time you're in your early 30s, there'll likely be some sort of "arrangement" - leading to certain circles to believe that there might be "something wrong" (unless you were very…

Don't forget that some Chinese parents don't like the idea of their kids (girls usually, but sometimes, guys, too) dating while they're still in school (this goes for high school as well as post-secondary. I never got that kind of slutshaming. It's not like a girl is necessarily doing anything! Dating can be…

Yeah....the media issue there is scary. Wasn't there a radio talk show (TV talk show) guy/shock jock from Hong Kong who is now banned from entering the mainland or something like that? Sorry, I get a lot of the info second hand from the parentals.

Yes. To buy pastries from a pastry shop (sometimes, but not always from the cake place where couples get their wedding cake). Not too different from the favours given to guests at the wedding (we did chocolate. I was very hesitant about the gift cards, but my mom said that my Chinese relatives expect them and that…

Interesting. My parents' friends tried to set me up with a guy 10 years my senior (I was about 26 or so then) who was a doctor. I said no because he was like mid-30s and hadn't dated in a long time. I told my parentals that this guy probably had something wrong with him, perhaps deeply closeted (he was from a more…

Yeah but aren't guys over, say 30 or 35 who have never married seen by women as "odd"? As in there's probably something wrong with him (closeted, awkward, combination of the two and perhaps a whole host of other issues)?

They're thinking relative to back home. XS in Canada is probably close to a medium there.