Asian Foodies United

I have just found a great new way of spending even more time on the Internet than I already do - www.biggestmenu.com. It’s like the YouTube / Flicker / Chowhound / Myspace / Facebook of foodies. Users post pictures of their favorite foods and restaurants, and the site organizes that info around locations, making it really easy to find a place to eat in your ‘hood. The top cities thus far with the most pictures are in Southern California - Alhambra, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, Pasadena. The three founders of the site are UC Irvine grads (and surprise - they're Asian). There is picture after picture of food, food, food, with prices listed! Prices, hah, that’s so Chinese! said my friend B. I love the prices! It’s a menu after all. Also you can "lick" pictures you like. If you’re the first to put a restaurant up on the site, you "discovered" it. It's entertaining to put up a picture and see it get licked and drooled over with comments.

I was at work and I kept looking at this site. If I truly join the foodie cult, I fear I will gain weight. It’s particularly funny that the site profile asks for your exercise routine. Eat responsibly folks!

Funding Better Mental Health

Within a culture and community that still encourages the covering up of mental illness, we all know it is critical that more attention be given to the mental health of the Asian American population. We've heard it time and time again, with the statistics about AAs and mental health plastering mainstream news sites and programs. But forget the shock and awe of the numbers, what I've been waiting for is the action that will hopefully lead us to answers and solutions.

And finally a bit of good news, a step, it seems, in the right direction as the University of California Davis has received a five-year, $3.9 million federal grant to create a national center to study the matter. Get the full scoop here.