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• Eric Nakamura in the spotlight
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  Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 3:35PM / Standard Entry

  If you're in Japan town LA come see my friend Eric. I have been a contributor to his magazine Giant Robot for over 10 years. Now I get to interview him live on stage. I like being on this side of an interview. That's a silly picture of me, not sure where they got that from.
  
  

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• Asians need to represent in America!
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  Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 1:19PM / Standard Entry

  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAbJgXUM4o4
  

  I'm back home in SF right now and my Mom of all people showed me this last night so I had to put it up. I blogged about this topic before a while back but it's good to hear the young kids out there voicing their opinion. I don't know KevJumba but he's speaking the truth, saying things I've been thinking since I was a kid. It's not that there are not any cool Asian guys out there, it's that mainstream America won't let us be anything more than than the "Long Duk Dong", asexual nerdboys or chopsocky kung fu guys or broken ass English triad guys.  I mean now you have guys like Masi Oka, Daniel Dae Kim and John Cho, but they are only given variations of that same old sterotype. Many people have asked me why haven't I made the transition back home, well to tell you the truth it's not up to me. It's up to America and the people in power in Hollywood to take the initiative to put someone like me or any one of the many other talented and cool Asian American Male actors out there in good roles. Just look at the talent on this site alone! Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Dustin Nguyen, Roger Fan, Andrew Lin. Terence Yin, Andy On, Johnny Lu, Vanness Wu the list goes on and on. We all speak perfect English and were either born and/or raised in America and we have all paid our dues. Like the prelude to the Beijing Olympics motto: "We Are Ready!". Just open the doors, because we are ready to represent.
  To all the KevJumba's out there, keep it up and make the message loud and clear because it's people like you that will help make that change. Peace!
  
  

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• Matsumoto's Hawaiian Shaved Ice!
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  Saturday, Apr 11, 2009 10:44AM / Standard Entry

  
  OK, I guess I grossed out some people in the last blog, but I guess that was the point. Here's something better. If you follow this blog it probably seems like I'm constantly traveling, that's because I am! Whether for work or pleasure I have been on the go quite a bit these days. The best part about traveling is seeking out great local food. I have become a food snob. Bad food really upsets me so I make it  a point to search out the best food I can find. Here's a couple of nice spots to hit up in Hawaii:
  As soon as I got here I could only think about Matsumoto's, that's because when I was here in 07 for the Hawaiian International Film Festival I didn't have time to make it to the North Shore. This time I made sure we all had a go at it.
  
  First they pack the shaved ice onto the cone.Mine had ice cream and red bean in the cone.
  
  Then they pour on the delicious flavorings. I think I had Pina Colada, Guava and Watermelon.
  
  My nephews and niece love their Uncle Dan! Sean, Quinn and Kira.
  
  Afterwards we decided to hit up one the shrimp trucks scattered along the North Shore. We chose Hono's because it had the most people in line.
  
  Turns out Hono's served Korean style shrimp. I got the beef Kalbi/ spciy shrimp combo. The Kalbi was excellent and the shrimp were fresh and succulent. We were lucky with this place.
  
  Afterwards they even had the kids leave their mark on their truck. Nice people, nice truck, great food!
  
  
  

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• Blogging backlog: I ate bugs!
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  Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 5:52PM / Standard Entry

  Promoting Shinjuku Incident was a crazy whirlwind of work that was not fun but had to be done, I barely had enough time to eat and sleep much less blog. Now that that's all over, I've got a bca log of stuff that will slowly make it's way onto this blog. Here's one of them in no particular order:
  
  Yes, those are bugs and yes I tried everyone of them. I was in Yunnan, China filming a tv commercial and they had these in a restaurant so we decided to have a try. The thing on the far left is a dried shrimp but the big ones are deep fried Dragon Flies and the little white ones are some kind of caterpillar. The dragon flies were pretty good and actually tasted better than the dried shrimp. Crispy and crunchy. That caterpillar was edible but I wouldn't try it again. When I bit into it oily guts squished out. Did not like that.
  
  I actually tried them first then got everyone else to try.
  
  I've actually had bigger and grosser looking insects in Thailand. Grasshoppers and scorpions both taste kind of like soft shell crab. What weirdness have you consumed?
  
  
  

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• Robbie Madison is SICK!
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  Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009 11:43PM / Standard Entry

  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1e51mxulA
  

  
  This is insane! I have nothing else to say. If you can't see the video it's probably because you are in China and the government has blocked youtube, sorry nothing I can do about that.
  
  
  

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