The Mid-Autumn Festival this year falls on September 10, 2022. What do you eat on this festival? Mooncakes, of course! The Cantonese mooncakes are very common commercially and much more difficult and also time consuming to make at home and you also need a mooncake mould to shape the mooncake. However the Taiwanese versions are much more easier to make as they are made with the Chinese flaky pastry. Below are two cooking videos from 2016 demonstrating the making of two traditional Taiwanese mooncakes, one sweet (red bean filling) and the other savoury (mung bean filling) by Taiwanese food writer/instructor, 蔡季芳 (阿芳老師).
(more…)August 28, 2022
August 24, 2022
Takara-kun & Amagi-kun 高良くんと天城くん (Japanese Series OST)
Takara-kun & Amagi-kun 高良くんと天城くん is a new 8-episode Japanese BL series that premiered on the early hours of August 19, 2022 in Japan. It is based on the manga by Hanage no Mai はなげのまい. The theme song has just been released but only in audio format…
August 6, 2022
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw 3 (2022)
August 5, 2022
Random Ramblings on BL Novels – Top 50 New Chinese BL Novels (August 2022)
Last year, I posted a list of the all-time most popular Chinese BL novels published at Jinjiang Literature City 晉江文學城. The top novels in that list will stay quite stable without too much changes as long as their accumulated points remain high, or some new popular novels pushed them down the list; the only thing that will make them drop out of the list completely without warning is the banning of the novels! That was exactly what happened a couple of months later after I posted that list, the number 1 and number 3 novels respectively, 天官賜福 and 撒野, were banned and disappeared from the list, so if you go to check the current list now, those two novels are nowhere to be seen.
(more…)August 4, 2022
The Streets with Dan Hong (2022)
The Streets with Dan Hong is a new cooking series that will premiere tonight, Thursday, August 4, 2022, on SBS Food and streaming free on SBS On Demand. In this new series, Dan sets out to celebrate the national street icons from around the world, tracing them back to their routes and cooking them, and also creating a new twist for these global street food favourites.
(more…)July 28, 2022
Heart Says No (Australian Series “Neighbours” Finale Song) – MKM Groove Amati featuring Samara Louise
To commemorate the end of Australian weeknight TV soap opera, Neighbours, which will air its final episode tonight, July 28, 2022, after 37 years, here’s the official track to farewell the long running TV show…
(more…)July 26, 2022
Papa & Daddy 2 《酷蓋爸爸》第二季 (Taiwanese Series OST)
The second season of Papa & Daddy 酷蓋爸爸 will premiere on August 8, 2022. The audio version of the theme song has been released…
July 22, 2022
Pouring Rain (Japanese Movie “HiGH&LOW: THE WORST X” OST) – Deep Squad
Came across this new song by Japanese band Deep Squad which is from the OST of the seventh and latest movie franchise, HiGH&LOW: THE WORST Cross, which is set to premiere on September 9, 2022. The movie’s OST has 5 songs as far as I know, but the other 4 songs are not the type of songs I like to listen to. Only this song is generally the type of song I love with beautiful melody, although it’s only available in audio, short version currently, but here it is… I will add the full MV version when and if it becomes available.
July 18, 2022
No Regrets in Life 愛情發生在三天後 (Taiwanese Series OST)
No Regrets in Life 愛情發生在三天後 is a 12-episode Taiwanese drama series that premiered on June 18, 2022. The opening theme song is written and performed by JiaJia 家家, while the closing theme song is sung by the cast of the drama series.
July 15, 2022
Mom, Don’t Do That! 媽，別鬧了！ (Taiwanese Series OST)
Mom, Don’t Do That! 媽，別鬧了！ is a new 11-episode Taiwanese romcom series premiering today, July 15, 2022. It is based on a true story written into a short novel, 我媽的異國婚姻, published in 2018 about a 60-year-old widow who decides to find love again — to the joy and annoyance of her two daughters. The opening theme song (Update: Oops! This song is not from the OST, but a new single released on the same day! See update below…) is a remix of an old song from 1984 sung by Billie Wang 比莉 (王雪娥) who is also the actress playing the lead role of the mom in this new series. This new version of the song is remixed and produced by her real-life son, Nick Chou 周湯豪, a.k.a. NICKTHEREAL.
The audio version of the song was just uploaded a couple of hours ago, and the official MV will premiere at noon Taiwan time today…
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