Golden Blood is a new BL series from Thailand that premiered on June 23, 2021. This is a bodyguard/gangsters story which thankfully is moving away from the omnipresent Thai BL series set inside universities. The proper OST is not available yet, but they have released 2 songs sung by the two lead actors.
Stumbled onto this new 8-episode BL series from Thailand called Hometown’s Embrace. I have not heard of this series until it popped up as a YouTube recommendation. It looks like it is a web series, as I have not seen or heard any promotion for it? Episode 1 is now available to watch on YouTube, and it looks interesting with the story set in the countryside of Isan, northeast Thailand. Thus the setting has that same feeling of the rural areas of Thailand in 1000 Stars which is refreshing from all the university BL settings. I also like the theme song, so here it is…
Season 11 of Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield starts June 21, 2021 at 4pm on Channel 10.
Jiang Chao Ge and the Spirit Weapon 魂兵之戈 is a fantasy, action adventure genre BL novel written in 2014 by Shui Qian Cheng 水千丞, who also wrote the 188 series of BL novels. It is also the third novel in this genre from this author I’ve read after Dragon Blood 龍血 (also called Foster Father 養父) written in 2012, and The Return of Cambrian Period 寒武再臨 written in 2013.
(more…)Just saw this video yesterday about the Chinese Steamed Bao 包 or Baozi 包子 (also spelt as Pau in Malaysia or Singapore) and it has quite a detailed explanation of how to wrap the buns into goldfish-mouth 金魚嘴 shape. This style of wrapping the dough is used for raw meat filling as the little opening (the goldfish mouth) on top of the bun allows the steam to penetrate the inside of the bun to ensure proper cooking of the filling. Keeping the video here for future references.
(more…)Recently Zhejiang Satellite TV 浙江衛視 has been showing old music clips of songs from their 2016 variety singing show Sound of My Dream 夢想的聲音 on their YouTube channel. As a result, a song performed by Sam Lee on the show became one of the most viewed music clips the last couple of weeks on their music channel. Hmm, and then I realized I haven’t listened to his songs for a number of years, and dug out one of his hits from 2008 to listen to again. Interestingly I have not seen a lot of the Mandopop music videos pre-2010, or until music companies started to upload old MVs onto YouTube, so it is also the first time I have watched the MV for this song! So here it is…
(more…)This is a new MV from JJ, a song to commemorate the end of his two-year, 43-city Sanctuary World Tour concerts which will culminate on July 10, 2021 with an online finale. The Chinese title of the song translated as the Light that Wraps around the Heart. The song is very heart warming, while at the same time bringing with it a melancholy feel, and after first listen, in my mind it very much felt like a graduation song, LOL…
(more…)Just saw this Cantonese documentary of the 5 most popular dim sum dishes in Hong Kong last night. Very insightful unravelling the secrets of the making of these dishes. I especially love how they show us the techniques of how the dim sum masters wrap these little morsels of delight, and also give us some fantastic details of the pastries and fillings! Even though the documentary is in Cantonese, there is Chinese subtitles, and even if you don’t read Chinese or understand Cantonese, watching the techniques of making these dim sum dishes is still very rewarding. In fact I finally found out the reason, after so many years, of why I got two different colour tones on my Ma Lai Koh!
(more…)Love Area the Series ครั้งหนึ่งเราเคยรักกัน is a new 10-episode Thai BL TV series that was scheduled to premiere last month, May 8, 2021, but was postponed. The new premiere date has not been announced yet. The theme song, Stay Together แค่เธออยู่, is sung by Jeff Satur.
(more…)This is a new cover of a hit Mandopop song from the 1990s by Della 丁噹. The song was composed by Malaysian singer Eric Moo 巫啟賢 in 1993 to give to his junior, Mindy Quah 柯以敏, another Malaysian singer for her first album. Eric covered the song the next year, 1994, and his version also became a classic and has been a favourite of mine ever since. I have included all 3 versions below.
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Corner Café 