As we approach the end of the year and welcome a new one, we turn to chewy rice cookies (you may know them better as mochi) to celebrate the coming and going of good times. In Asian traditions, rice cakes have always played a symbolic role in lunar New Year celebrations in countries from China and Korea to Thailand and

2007 New Years Resolution - QUIT SMOKING! More than 500,000 Americans die each year from tobacco-related illnesses. Will you be one of them?

Born in Beijing, China in 1964 into an intellectual family, Joanne Cheng's childhood is tinted with vivid memories of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when Western thought was severely condemned. Nonetheless, Cheng received a private family education in English from age seven.

Crystal Lowe was born in Vancouver, BC. During her adolescent years, Crystal and her family moved to Hong Kong for a short period of time where she became fluent in Cantonese.

Back from Korea, making a name for himself in his mother country, Flowsik has returned to a co-hosting gig on MTV K and the announcement of his long awaited and highly anticipated mix tape, "Before the Beginnin”. For a while, Flow Sik was nowhere to be found.

My mother has a Chinese saying for just about every situation. I'll say this and she'll respond with a four word idiom dating back to Confucius. I'll do that and she'll somehow use 5000 years of collective wisdom to shoot me down.

Is Asian cuisine, literally, the hot food of the moment? In a trendsetting mecca known as New York City, where thousands of restaurants open and close in a New York minute, Asian fusion has been reigning at the city’s latest hotspots. Even the hottest Asian restaurants with a following in other cities have

As one of the most sought-after personal fitness trainers out of Vancouver, BC, people wonder what Anna Wong's secret is in creating incredible results. From corporate titans to Hollywood movie stars, magazine cover girls to Platinum-selling music artists, her clientele list of V.I.P.'s is extensive and

Argyle sweater man is standing on the corner of the bar with two of his friends. My friend Ellie spots him like an eagle spots its prey and begins making eye contact. They don't budge. Time for plan B.