This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on October 1, 2020, which is tomorrow. So it is just the right time to make mooncakes at home. This is the easiest mooncakes to try at home, the classic Taiwanese mooncakes with red bean paste filling and a salted egg yolk inside, resembling the moon. Taiwanese mooncakes is different from the widely available Cantonese mooncakes which is much more difficult to make at home. Taiwanese mooncakes use the Chinese flaky pastry which I have written about before, but here you can see the actual demonstration of it.
(more…)September 30, 2020
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A Quest to Heal (TV Theme Songs) 新加坡電視劇《我的女俠羅明依》主題曲片尾曲
A Quest to Heal (我的女俠羅明依) is a new TV series from Singapore. It is a time-travel period costume drama which began airing on July 20, 2020 in Singapore. These are the OST songs from the TV series. Love the songs!
(more…)September 26, 2020
Reason (日劇《他愛上我的理由》主題曲) – Yuma Teranishi 寺西優真
It has been a busy couple of months for BL drama fans! There are so many BL series going on at the moment, from Thailand of course (at least 4 series airing at the moment that I know of), but also from South Korea with “Mr. Heart” and also from the Philippines with “My Day: The Series” and “Quaranthings: The Series”! This is another new BL series from Japan, The Reason Why He Fell in Love with Me 彼が僕に戀した理由(ワケ), which premiered on August 9, 2020, with only 4 episodes. This is the theme song sung by one of the lead actors.
(more…)September 24, 2020
Crescent of the New Moon 小尖尖 – Joker Xue 薛之謙 & Han Hong 韓紅
This song was released under no promotion whatsoever on Chinese Valentine’s Day, Qixi Festival, last month. So this is a Valentine’s Day song. I only found out about the song today when it appeared as a recommendation for me on YouTube, haha… I am also a big fan of Joker’s vocal which is very distinctive, I don’t know how to desribe it, but just very soothing to listen to.
(more…)September 22, 2020
Even Though I Called 불러봐도 (Korean Webdrama “Mr. Heart” OST Song) – Kim Jae Joong 김재중
Yet another new BL webdrama! This one is from South Korea, Mr. Heart (心動先生／匆匆心動), with only 8 episodes of about 10 minutes each. This is the OST song sung by Kim Jae Joong 金在中 titled Even Though I Called (即使呼喚你), also translated as Even If I Called. Only the audio version is available on YouTube at the moment. I have also linked to another unofficial video with English lyrics included and also some teaser/trailer videos of the drama below.
Update October 2, 2020: Added the official MV for the song, plus 3 other songs from the OST.
(more…)September 21, 2020
If You Try To Be Me ถ้าเธอลองเป็นฉัน (“My Gear and Your Gown” TV Theme Song) – Arm Weerayut อาร์ม วีรยุทธ
Theme song to Thai BL series, My Gear and Your Gown, which is airing at the moment. My Gear and Your Gown (เกียร์สีขาวกับกาวน์สีฝุ่น – I’ve added episode links below) is one of the four Thai BL dramas I am following at the moment, and I am also reading Chinese BL novels currently. What a big contrast with storylines from Thai BL and Chinese BL, haha… Thai BL are all sweet and innocent, while the Chinese BL novels I’ve just finished reading in the past 2 or 3 months (撒野 Saye, 格格不入 Gegeburu – Out of Place, 大哥 Dage – Big Brother) all have terrible, sad beginnings, then heartbreaking storylines and then you cried and laughed all the way to a happy ending!
(more…)September 16, 2020
No Turning Back 交換餘生 – JJ Lin 林俊傑
Brand new song from JJ Lin. Very classic JJ-esque love song, love it! Just listening to it only once and already starting to hum along with it, LOL… The direct translation of the Chinese title is “Exchanging the Rest of My Life” and the lyrics are just too deep for my lazy brain to understand. I’m already struggling with the first verse, “the lone cat listening to the rain saw me through the cracks of time”, whaaattt? I think the song is all about parallel universe, wormholes, destiny, fate, haha…
(more…)September 14, 2020
Just Friend? เพื่อนเธอ (“Love by Chance 2: A Chance to Love” TV Theme Song) – Boy Sompob
So many new Thai BL TV series being broadcast currently. I am getting a bit dizzy, LOL… Apart from Love by Chance 2: A Chance to Love, I am also watching So Much in Love, Oxygen, and just waiting to watch the first episode of My Gear and Your Gown which just went online today, but no English subtitles as yet. (Update September 15, 2020: Haha, last night no Eng sub, but this morning Eng sub already added, so fast, can start watching today!) At least I know the characters in Love by Chance 2 (but they re-wrote the TinCan storyline by shifting the time of their first meeting which confused me), but the other 3 are all brand new series, so trying to remember the faces of actors and their character names are doing my head in, hahaha… Anyway this is the theme song from Love by Chance 2, but it is only the lyrics version at the moment, hopefully a full MV will be released soon.
(more…)September 13, 2020
Give Me Time To Forget ขอเวลาลืม – Boun Noppanut บุ๋น นพณัฐ กันทะชัย & Prem Warut เปรม วรุศ ชวลิตรุจิวงษ์
This music video popped up today! Gave me a surprise, LOL… The song is sung by Boun Noppanut and Prem Warut, or most BL fans would know as BounPrem who played the side CP WinTeam in Until We Meet Again! They will be the leads in the sequel, Between US, which will air later this year.
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Corner Café 