But Where Are You From?
By besea.n
But Where Are You From?May 29, 2020
Will South Asian & ESEA Communities UK ever be connected?
Viv Yau had the pleasure of speaking with legendary artist, Keith Khan about whether South Asian and ESEA communities are interconnected, whether it’s better to eat with chopsticks or your hands, how Shanghainese people dress so cool and of course, his upcoming show The Accountants, being shown at Factory International at Aviva Studios!
In partnership with Factory International, we have a limited amount of £3 tickets to attend the show across 4th, 5th, and 7th-11th of May 2024 at Aviva Studios, Manchester.
Discount code: ACTVIV3
Dates applicable: 4th, 5th, and 7th-11th of May 2024
2 tickets per transaction
Booking fee applies
Location: Factory International at Avivia Studios, Manchester
Book here: https://bit.ly/FactoryInternationalTheAccountants
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https://www.instagram.com/keithkhanlondon/
About The AccountantsExperience an electrifying encounter of cultures as China and India take centre stage in this awe-inspiring theatrical event from visionary artist Keith Khan, choreographed by Xiexin Dance Theatre and Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company.
This dance extravaganza challenges our notions of identity and cultural dominance.
Main characters Kash and Liam – voiced by the talented Josh Hart and actor and author Shobna Gulati – are of British-Chinese and British-Indian heritage. Delivered via texts and voice notes, their banter and soul-searching dialogues playfully debate which cultural superpower reigns supreme – from food to iconic landmarks and spiritual beliefs.
This battle is enriched by a high-tech visual and acoustic feast crafted by the ARIA-nominated sound artist Somatic and the award-winning design studio idontloveyouanymore providing stunning immersive visuals, plus lighting design from the award-winning Simon Corder and dramaturgy by Jude Christian.
Brought to you by Keith Khan, whose grand artistic creations have adorned events from the Notting Hill Carnival to the London 2012 Olympic Games, The Accountants invites you on a global journey right from your seat.
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Healed by New Jeans: Eating our way through South East Asia
besea.n co-founders Amy Phung and Charley Wong travelled to Asia together last year. In this podcast they discuss how transformative the trips were, their best food recommendations for Vietnam and Malaysia and future travel plans! Follow the hosts @_amy_pix and @CharFayeW on IG and TikTok, and joint account @eseagaleats on TikTok for future travel recs. -------------------------------------------- Follow besea.n and slide into our DMs and keep the conversation going! https://www.instagram.com/besea.n/ https://twitter.com/besea_n Support the podcast by buying besea.n a coffee, 100% of the donations now go towards besea.n! http://bit.ly/Kofibesean -------------------------------------------- Credits: Jingle by John Clapper: https://www.instagram.com/john_clapper/
Chatty Lunar New Year special!
Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome back to what we *think* is a new season of But Where Are You From?!
Mai-Anh Vu Peterson, David Kam and Viv Yau have a chatty catch up from what’s happened they last time recorded the podcast, they share their zodiac sign traits, Viv has an zodiac related identity crisis, they talk about making new traditions during lunar new year, and they share the story of when Viv ruined their team sound bath session by snoring…loudly.
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“I made him the Asian American phenomenon that I never had as a kid” - an interview with Marie Lu, 14-time bestselling writer
besea.n's own Isabelle attended the Waterstones x Penguin 'House of YA (Young Adult) LitFest' earlier this month, and got the chance to interview Marie Lu - 14-time New York Times bestselling writer, and author of the new YA novel ‘Stars and Smoke’ out now.
Isabelle and Marie chatted about the joy of YA (Young Adult) literature, BTS and K-pop, Asian representation in her new book, mental health and trauma, and Marie's relationship to London, which is one of the settings in the book.
Check out the transcript of this episode, together with Isabelle's writeup of the House of YA litfest, in our new Spotlight article.
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Two year relationship update - we've been bad, sad, mad but so glad for fufu and lo ba gok ft. Viv & Manny
Viv and her boyfriend Manny catch up on the podcast about their relationship; from meeting their family, farting, how they navigate racism with friends/family, whilst travelling, unpaid labour, eating lo bak go and fufu, learning Twi and Cantonese and so much more!
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*Bonus Episode* On Your Side - The UK's first ESEA Helpline Launches!
Our bodies our choice
(Trigger warning: abortion, sexual assault, miscarriage, body issues)
In our end of season finale, Mai-Anh and Viv Yau have a chatty catch up and talk a lot about TikTok, the anti-abortion law Roe Vs Wade, our body image issues and how messed up it is, allowing ourselves to look after our bodies, suncream and SO MUCH MORE!
Trust us on the sunscreen!
Links mentioned:
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
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Our Internet secrets: revisiting adolescence ft. Cynthia So
We're not monstrous, we've just got the munchies: The world of publishing ft. Claire Kohda and Kaiya Shang
Amy talked with Claire Kohda (author of Woman, Eating) and Kaiya Shang (Editor at Scribner), about Claire's wonderful new book (read it!), food as an identity, racial othering and "the monstrous", the mixed ethnicity experience, plus the good bits and the bad bits (think rampant racism and nepotism) of the publishing world.
Connect with our guests:
https://instagram.com/clairekohda
https://instagram.com/kaiyashang
Resources:
Books:
The Mixed Race Experience by Naomi and Natalie Evans
Mixed-race Superhuman by Will Harris
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/mixedracefaces
https://instagram.com/mixedbloomroom
https://instagram.com/themixedfamilyconversation
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Trauma as a Pendulum between Rice and Chilli ft. Jambo Dragon
Our hosts, David Kam and King-Wey Hii-Ko speak with Jambo Truong on wellness encompassing relationship with our ancestors and reframing the way we see trauma and our relationships to practice of honouring ancestors.
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Whitewashing tofu ft. Feiya Hu
Mai-Anh and Viv chat with the wonderful Feiya Hu on her experience with the BBC Panorama documentary on racism, we also talk about her charity that she founded, as well as certain brands whitewashing tofu.
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Baking 'Asians' into your bread ft. Subtle Asian Baking, Kat Lieu
Mai-Anh chats to Kat Lieu of Subtle Asian Baking (go follow!) about starting her page, the Subtle Asian community, how Kat used to be a personal training, her contribution to #StopAsianHate, the food she ate growing up and so much more!
https://www.instagram.com/katlieu/?hl=en
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Anti-racism as collective healing with Nova Reid
Amy & Viv had the pleasure of speaking with anti-racist activist, Ted Speaker and author of 'The Good Ally', Nova Reid. We cover A LOT. A trigger warning to our Black and people of colour friends, it's a heavy, heavy episode, BUT we also talk about joy, and we loved hearing about Nova and who she is outside of her job function (spoiler, she used to be a pro-singer - and hates karaoke!) We learnt so much, what an honour to have her on. Please follow her work and buy her book, it's an invaluable piece of anti-racism work that will stand the test of the time.
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Reaffirming Queer ESEA identity, homecomings and the importance of kindness with David Kam
Karlie introduces one of our (no longer so new) new core team members, who is already known to the community as the founder and director of Kind Red Packet, - David Kam! Karlie and David chat about being British and Malaysian, David's journey of movement and yoga, and his experience as a Queer ESEA.
Episode notes
David Kam IG: https://www.instagram.com/davidkamkw/
Kind Red Packet website: https://www.kindredpacket.com/
Kind Red Packet IG: https://www.instagram.com/kindredpacket/
Nike Red Packet advert https://youtu.be/Fu8T-7Ct6Oc
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Chatty, juicy Q&A - love, dealbreakers, fame, quitting jobs
Mai-Anh Peterson, Charley Wong and Viv Yau chat absolute shit in Viv's flat in Manchester, they answer some questions from the New York Times '36 Questions to fall in love', they talk about Viv internalising racism towards her vagina, whether they want to be famous, if the government are not letting us teleport, relationship dealbreakers, short kings and so much more.
Mentioned:
Angela Hui's Takeaway book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/takeaway/angela-hui/9781398705548
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Being loud and proud in your Disability identity ft. Tiffany Yu (Disability Rights advocate)
Charley and Mai-Anh speak to Asian-American disability rights advocate Tiffany Yu, who was incredibly generous with her wisdom regarding advocacy, allyship, and how we can all work to improve accessibility. We could have listened to her speak for hours! Listen to find out how she maintains joy i her advocacy work, why allyship to her must be rooted in intimacy, and how she keeps up the marathon relay that is the fight for justice for Disability communities.
Tiffany Yu on Instagram: https://instagram.com/imtiffanyyu
Diversability on Instagram: https://instagram.com/diversability
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Spring cleaning friendships ft. King-Wey and Peiwen
Viv introduces two new besea.n core team members King-Wey and Peiwen onto the poddy! We talk about things Peiwen notices moving over to the UK aged 14, like how we have separate taps and daylight savings (didn't realise that wasn't a thing in other countries?!), as well as delving into our turning points for thinking about race, identity. King-Wey shares her stories around friendship breakups, and uses a great phrase about spring cleaning friendships - perfect reason to dust the ol' friendship cobwebs.
A portion of this episode is sponsored by Barnardo's charity.
https://helpline.barnardos.org.uk/hong-kong-bno
The UK’s leading charity for children and families Barnardo’s launched a dedicated helpline last year to support ethnic community families. Since Feb 1st the helpline has been expanded to also offer dedicated services to Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) relocating to the UK. In the first half to 2021, 65,000 Hong Kong nationals arrived in the UK and the government expects around 475,000 to arrive over the coming years. Barnardo’s Boloh helpline, offers support in Cantonese and English, provides a free psychotherapy to support the mental health and wellbeing needs of those who will be resettling into a new culture, education system and employment, and challenges integrating into communities. You can find out more and access support on : 0800 151 2605 to speak to a friendly advisor or make an online referral visit their website.
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Being Black & Chinese, love languages, compassion for white people ft. Ryan Alexander Holmes
Kai and Viv chat to LA based actor and content creator, Ryan Alexander Holmes about British accents, being Black and Chinese, his relationship with social media and trolling that he experiences from different communities, the pressures of speaking about multiple causes, love languages, toxic men, his acting career, Ryan was so philosophical....we covered a lot of ground!
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'Why aren't you BROWN?': Adoption stories ft. Pippa Hollington and Emily Couch
Mai-Anh speaks with transracial adoptees, Pippa Hollington and Emily Couch on their experience, growing up in Hong Kong, being mistaken for other ESEA backgrounds, Pippa talks about being Filipina and her relationship with her white British parents and her sister, Emily talks about her dual heritage of being ethnically Chinese and her British and American nationality and her experience growing up.
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Jade bangle lube, Chinglish and TVB Dramas ft. Georgina Leung
Amy and Karlie spoke to Georgina aka https://www.instagram.com/chop_stick_n_poke/ about her parents, working as a tattoo artist, then they started veering off into korean and Chinese TV dramas, Speaking Chinglish and Asian uncles lubing Georgie up.
Georgina Leung is a British Chinese tattoo artist and illustrator. Spending her formative years in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, Georgina later went on to study Illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art, and is now based in London.
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Asians Have Feelings Too, ft. The Mollusc Dimension
ESEA Cancer Experiences
Order! Order! What working in the Commons is REALLY like, feat. Sarah Owen MP
Who can cook ESEA food? Ft. Little Yellow Rice Co - Hannah Hosanee & Rob Allen
Charley & Viv were joined by Hannah & Rob of Little Yellow Rice Co. to talk about their business, Little Yellow Rice Co, we discuss Hannah's heritage that is the heart of the brand, with Rob being the chef, we discuss gatekeeping of food, white washing, and who can cook ESEA food? Such a fun discussion with our friends!
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Don't get into art, you'll be poor Ft. YukFun (Lucy & Patrick)
Amy and Viv go off on a little ramble about Amy's school report, the #VeryAsian call in, Viv being a twin and then we chatted with co-founders of YukFun - Lucy & Patrick on everything creative, being Chinese and whether it needs to inform your work as an artist, being in a white dominated industry, and Amy & Viv's 'ray-cism' sunglasses gets a mention again.
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Chasing the taste of home (with Jenny Lau and Tiffany Chang): cooking, finding your path and navigating generational divides
Chasing the taste of home (with Jenny Lau and Tiffany Chang): cooking, finding your path and navigating generational divides
We interviewed food goddesses and influencer BFFs Jenny Lau (@celestialpeach_uk) and Tiffany Chang (@tiffcooksalot) on all things food, covering disaporic cooking, motherly disapproval, making a fool out of yourself in front of famous people, and the quest to #FindBrettLove!
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Entering journalism: starting out, rejection and writing about Anti-Asian racism and community ft. Suyin Haynes & Angela Hui
besea.n turns 1 year old!
1 year of besea.n - we recently went on a betreat, where, among the hike, cooking, games, and besea.n meeting, we also recorded a bonus episode for you, as our birthday gift to you! Listen for lots of crying, laughing and seeing how well we know each other.
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We interviewed Simu Liu, Fala Chen and Destin Daniel Cretton of Marvel's Shang-Chi!! *Bonus Episode*
*Squeeeaaaal* besea.n were invited to the UK premiere of Marvel’s latest action-packed film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (released 3rd September 2021).
Kai, Karlie, Amy & Viv (sorry Charley and Mai-Anh!) strolled down the red (blue) carpet and experienced the film before its release, and it was EPIC! At a time when our community has been suffering, this film has felt like a big win for the ESEA representation and we’re so proud to have been there to see it all happening.
We got the opportunity to chat with actors of the film, Simu Liu, Fala Chen and director, Destin Daniel Cretton on everything ESEA representation. Also, have a guess whether they are all team rice or noodles...Find out from our interviews: https://www.besean.co.uk/spotlight/shang-chi
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We have day jobs too! Get to know the besea.n gals Q&A
This is our third season finale as we take a break to plan ESEA Heritage Month. Join Amy, Charley, Karlie & Mai-Anh in a Q&A, with some near death experience stories (trigger warning 10-15 mins in), find out their day jobs and find out which recent Hollywood film Karlie featured in!!!! We're in the presence of stars!
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Meet Viv's boyfriend: interracial dating, who's funnier, Jollof rice & noodles
Chats on mixed identity: Only you can define who you are
Chinese school: tuck shop, fake tummy aches and abusive teachers
besea.n Boys Part 1: Jamie & Mai-Anh
Join host Amy in Part 1 of a series on interethnic dating as she chats to our very own Mai-Anh and her partner of 12+ years, Jamie (or Jai-Anh, if you will). Amy grilled them on how they met, how they navigate the world as a multiethnic couple and what they’ve learned along the way. Expect chat on Scottishness, microaggressions, feminist pockets and sweaty pits!
CONTENT NOTE: expect strong language (naughty Jamie).
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Pee in a Bike Helmet! aka ESEA Parenting
Amy talks to Huong (@mrshuongblack), Liz (@themodernchef) and Georgie (@chinesechippygirl) about parenting as ESEA mums including how we try to instil a sense of ESEA heritage in our kids, introducing durian, the dreaded poonamis, and everything in between!
Huong is one half of @themsgpod. Listen as she and MiMi Aye talk life and debunk food myths along the way.
Visit Liz at Mei Mei in Borough Market London or grab a taste of Singapore at home with her new shiny cookbook, Makan.
Check out Georgie’s podcast, Chinese Chippy Girl where she connects with all kinds of people in the ESEA world including her interview with Katie Leung!
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Q&A: What would you say to your ten year old self?
We answer your Q&A's! We go from deep questions like 'what would you say to your ten year old self?' to 'is coriander nice or nasty?'
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F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Amy, Mai-Anh, Karlie and Viv chat everything FWENDSSSSS.
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Decolonising Green Spaces: calling plants 'native' is racist
Mai-Anh Peterson is joined by Hollie and Sui on a bloomin' brilliant and insightful discussion around decolonising green spaces. They dig into how poc and marginalised groups feel in green spaces, they then branch out into discussing the history, why gardening is gate kept, how gardening isn't about perfectionism. and then Hollie even graces our ears with a cluckin' chicken impression! Join in on the convo over at besean!
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body image: looking like Gok Wan, critical families and ugly faced sex positions
Welcome baaaack! Me, Mai-Anh Peterson, Karlie Wu and Charley Wong are your co-hosts this week and we chat about beauty standards from an ESEA perspective. We talk about our weird and wonderful bodily functions, people saying we look like Gok Wan, and critical families, colourism, fatphobia and so much more. Join in on the convo over at besean!
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I'm an imposter and it really fucks with my mental health ft. Kim Richards
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I hate in dating when.... ft. Shu Lin
We're joined by our pal, Shu Lin, food and lifestyle content creator and who loves to eat (her words!) to talk everything dating. Enjoying being single, dealbreakers in dating, why do people put strange stuff on their dating apps, and our deal dating scenarios. Was such a fun episode!!
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An ESEA woman walks into a pub...
The besea.n babes join our podcast!
Soo...the podcast is growing up and we've now got FIVE new hosts. You'll be familiar with the besea.n babes if you've listened before! We talked about ethnicity and race, pride in where we're from, then things get a bit silly when Amy introduces a slightly controversial 'most likely to' game (spoiler, turns out they all think I'm dirty and no use in a zombie apocalypse)
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Let's talk about sex: porn, STDs, sexuality, shaming, vaginas ft. Dr Felicia Yeung
*SPECIAL GUEST* The woman who bore me celebrates the podcast turning 1!
A solo safe, happy ramble: cleaning, TV shows, dating, shopping
It me. rambling at you. It's a safe space for any ESEA folks who just wants to hear me chatting about absolutely nothing.
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Are traditional takeaways dead? ft. Julie Ma AD
This podcast is sponsored by Welbeck Publishing for the promotion of Julie Ma's debut novel, Happy Families: Winner of the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller 2020. I was joined by my co-host and pal Karlie Wu and we had such a fantastic chat with the author, Julie Ma. Hear about her taking over the family takeaway, becoming an author some really interesting insights in writing the book, and we also try to convince Julie to watch Bling Empire!
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Online friendships, food, body image, raising kids ft. The MSG Pod, MiMe Aye and Huong Black
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Random life chat: periods, existing as women ft. Mai-Anh Peterson
A co-host impromptu chat with the wonderful Mai-Anh Peterson, fellow besean co-founder and all round good egg.
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Why I am no longer dating white men
I share recent story of a woke white man that still didn't cut the mustard. Enjoy.
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