…and the use of circle lenses, wigs, and double eyelid tape/glue.
I have talked about the power of makeup before, and some of these Asian girls seem to take it a little too far!
Via Absolutely Fobulous.
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My First Night as a Volunteer at the Homeless Shelter
This past Saturday, I left the girls with J and his parents and joined a small group of volunteers from our church to lend our hand at the local homeless shelter.
It was tiring. It was heartbreaking. And it was totally worth it.
Prior to joining this church, I had never even considered the possibility of a homeless shelter in the area. While J and I live in an city with great income discrepancies — and are exposed to poverty on a regular basis as a result — our church is located in Bergen County, NJ, which one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, and is even home to the most expensive zip code in the country!
There couldn’t possibly be as many homeless people in the county as to even warrant a homeless shelter…right?
As usual, I stood corrected as I entered the shelter, spoke to some of its employees, and learned that all of its 92 beds have often been filled to capacity since its opening in 2009, that they are always turning away people, and that a great number of those we would be serving tonight were only there for a warm meal despite not having a place to sleep for the night.
The Bergen County Housing, Health and Human Services Center,
where the shelter is located (image source)
Our job was to bring and prepare dinner, set up the dining hall, serve the food, and clean up afterwards. We were to prepare enough food and disposable dinnerware for 160 people. Since the cost for all this came from our church’s budget, the night’s menu was not too extravagant: fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, string beans, and brownies and cookies for dessert.
However, so many people told us that this was the best food they had received in a while that I couldn’t help but be sad. This meal, which didn’t seem that great to me and was definitely subpar compared to what I usually ate for dinner every night, was the best that most of these people had eaten in months. 🙁
It was even harder to learn that the shelter required volunteers to oversee EVERY part of the dinner — even the sugar packets for coffee! The employees warned us that if we do not set a limit of 2 packets per person, and have a volunteer standing there to make sure that rule is followed, the sugar packets would quickly be snatched up by people who would want to sell them, or hoard them for the future.
But perhaps the most difficult part of the night was limiting one serving of dinner per person. This was a rule that was strictly enforced by the shelter, and they even had a member of the staff standing by the serving line, acting as security to make sure no one would cause us trouble about this rule.
We sadly had to turn down many people who asked for seconds, or even just an additional piece of chicken. We did our best to pile on as much mashed potatoes and string beans on their plates in order to make up for this, but we still knew it wasn’t enough.
The majority of the people we served were in their 40s and 50s, but there were some young faces here and there. The youngest person I saw that night was probably in their late teens. I think I probably would have cried if I saw a young child, but seeing a pregnant woman — who told me that she wished she had a choice in the meals because her bad morning sickness did not allow her to eat many dishes that were served — was close enough. I had to blink back some tears after speaking with her, and it took everything in my power not to offer her to take my health insurance.
Seeing a man wearing a Giants jacket, I asked him if he was a fan (knowing that they would be playing in the NFC Championship game the following night). He replied, “Oh, I don’t watch football. Someone gave me this jacket, and it keeps me warm. That’s all I care about.”
Needless to say, I felt like a complete idiot.
(image source)
After our duties were complete, I drove back home in silence. I knew that this shelter was one of the better ones in the country. I knew that what we were exposed to that night would probably be considered luxury compared to other homeless shelters.
I was reminded of how, when my sister returned from a missions trip to Haiti, she told me that it’s amazing how much we take for granted every day, even just having clean — not HOT, but just CLEAN — water available at all times.
I was sad that we couldn’t do more. But at the same time, I couldn’t help but be SO thankful for what we did have.
I am ashamed to say that I haven’t done ANY volunteer work since my college days. 🙁 As someone who used to regularly volunteer at hospitals, retirement homes, mental institutions, etc. since I was a teenager, I must admit that my night at the homeless shelter seemed like a rude awakening — like a cold bucket of water had been dumped over my head to make me realize just how complacent I had become.
You can be sure that will be returning to the shelter, and seeking more ways to help the less fortunate whenever possible.
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Reverent Sundays: Cherry-Picking Bible Verses
Welcome to the very first installment of Reverent Sundays, where I write about an aspect of my faith. This can deal with recent books I have read on Christianity, my thoughts on religion and current issues, as well as particular messages I find touching and/or powerful. I am aware that most of my readers are not religious, and that is fine — you are more than welcome to not read these posts if they make you uncomfortable, enrage you, or bore you to tears. I am open to debates and discussions in the comments section as long as everyone remains respectful. Enjoy!
One of my biggest annoyances is when people — Christians and non-Christians alike — take certain Bible verses out of context, usually for their own gains.
The Christian Bible is history, philosophy, sociology, and theology all rolled into one. It is one of the most studied texts in human history — and yet I doubt no one human has ever completely understood it.
So why do so many people, even those claiming to be Christian, cherry-pick verses, quoting them to get their agenda across? If anything, we should treat each verse of the Bible with as much respect — and probably even more reverence — than any other scholarly, religious, and/or ancient work.
Yep, I’ve heard them all. (image source)
When reading the Bible, it is important to consider two things. The first is that we should interpret the Bible according to “progressive revelation.” This means that although God is unchanging, the way that He has chosen to deal with humanity has changed throughout history, as He has gone through different covenants/agreements with mankind.
For example, much of the rituals we read about it in the Old Testament have been fulfilled by Christ. Colossians 2:17 is referring to these rituals when it says “These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ” (NIV). This is why we are no longer practicing the Old Testament sacrificial system: because Christ fulfilled our need to atone, once and for all.
And this is why I get tempted to roll my eyes whenever someone tries to challenge my faith by saying something along the lines of, “Your Bible also tells you that you are ‘unclean’ when you are having your period and you should be isolated. Why don’t you follow that rule?”
Because it is an Old Testament law that has been fulfilled by Jesus. Because these laws were designed to protect and provide for the purity of the Jews until the Messiah came, and when Christ tore down the barrier between Jew and Gentile — the Old Testament laws being a huge part of that barrier — the laws became no longer necessary.
(It should be noted that moral laws, such as what we find in the Ten Commandments, will never pass away because they are rooted in the very character of God.)
I found this image at this now-defunct Tumblr blog whose aim was to post the “most atrocious
bible verses” he could find. I agree with the author of the blog that Christians should know
what’s there in the Bible, including the ugly stuff.
Secondly, we must always remember to interpret a passage in light of the context and history of the passage. What else is being said before and after this passage? Who was the original audience of the passage? What sorts of things were going on at that specific time and place?
For example, in 1 Corinthians 11:6, Paul says it is a disgrace for a woman to pray with her head uncovered, and that she “might as well have her hair shaved off.” (NIV). The historical context for this passage is that Corinth was a very raw city — as a port city, it was the center of action and was very focused on hedonism, sex, money, and such.
Also, in ancient culture, for these particular people at this particular time and place, wearing head coverings was the cultural norm. The only women who didn’t wear head coverings were prostitutes, who advertised themselves by walking around with shaved, uncovered heads.
The Christian women in Corinth were enjoying their freedom in Christ, that they didn’t have to wear head coverings anymore…but they were getting confused by others for temple prostitutes. So here, Paul is pleading with them to sacrifice their freedom in order to protect their witness/the witness of the church.
You could read the passage at face value and think it’s telling you to wear a head covering, but if you delve into the historical situation, you take away an even greater theological truth and the real spirit of the passage: the idea that sometimes it’s better for sacrifice your freedom rather than flaunt it, for others’ sakes.
And the same goes for all the other contested passages in the Bible. 🙂 It may be a Levitical Law that no longer pertains to those who believe that Christ died for their sins. It may be part of a historical record of things that have passed. It may be pointed specifically at the people for whom the passage was written. Whatever the reasons for the existence of these passages, they are always included as a part of a larger story and message.
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All 117 Things That Leslie Knope Supports, and Negative Campaign Ads
I did not like the first season of Parks and Recreation. I couldn’t help but think that the show was a major waste of talent and was annoyed at how Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler’s character) was written as a moron who didn’t know when to give up.
Now, four seasons in, Parks and Recreation is currently my favorite television show. It is quirky and charming with lovably flawed characters you can’t help but root for. And yes, Leslie is still determined more than ever, but she is no longer the vapid idiot I rolled my eyes at in season one.
Fans of the show know that Leslie is currently running for City Council, and that the latest episode featured a naively-optimistic — and completely hilarious! — campaign ad:
To my utter delight, BuzzFeed has compiled the full list of 117 things that Leslie Knope supports (funniest ones in blue):
- Parks
- Public Safety
- Environmental regulation
- Local proposition 45
- Local proposition 86
- Local proposition 102F
- More Dog Parks
- Senior Citizens Rights
- Safe Streets
- Safe Sidewalks
- Better Schools
- Lower Taxes
- Better Parks
- Better business climate
- Better Better Business Bureau
- Cleaner Streets
- Improve greenways
- More snow plows
- Protecting Pawneeans
- Improving tourism
- More trash cans
- Energy-efficient street lights
- Westside Detoxification and Revitalization Project
- Repaving Grand Avenue
- More Teachers
- Fewer Libraries
- Improve intergovernmental agency communication
- Clean-up barefoot lake
- Passing Pawnee Jobs Bill P-129.4
- Playgrounds in every park
- Playgrounds in every schoolyard
- Playgrounds in every residential block
- Clean energy
- One police officer for every 5 citizens
- One park ranger for every 10,000 raccoons
- Resodding Hilltop Cemetery
- Start talking to Cuba again
- Emergency evacuation drills
- Plow For Charity
- Forming an Ad Hoc Sub-Committee Oversight Committee
- Challenging the norm
- Pawnee Corn Subsidies
- Finally Passing PR-61, formally recognizing South Korea
- Official peace treaty with Wamapoke Tribe
- Four-way stops at every intersection
- Unionizing ice cream trucks
- Get Europe out of debt
- Free trade with Illinois
- Enact RRP- Raccoon Relocation Project
- Pawnee Community College tuition in exchange for 4 years of public service
- Doubling Pawnee Hospital’s emergency room nurse staff
- Legalize Korean
- Lower the obesity level
- Stop global terrorism
- Re-open the toucan exhibit at Pawnee Zoo
- Find Gabe the Toucan
- More community gardens
- Ordinance 11F: To re-pave City Sidewalks
- Budget Reform
- Updated Technologies for Local Schools
- Better retirement benefits for city employees
- Edward Phillips Senior Center Remodeling
- Speed bumps in front of elementary schools
- Unemployment benefits
- Re-installing the Main St. Farmers Market
- No turtles as pets
- New uniforms for youth sports programs
- Free Public Wi-Fi
- Updated childcare facilities
- Shutting down the Child Left Behind program
- Handicap parking placards for the obese
- FREE PARKING EVERYWHERE
- Cleaner drinking water
- Regulate heights of trampolines
- Memorial for those lost in the trampoline “incident”
- Control the floods
- Funding for public art commission
- Fencing in correctional facilities
- New police patrol cars
- Funding overtime for police
- Rebuilding the PTA
- Prosecuting former PTA president Linda Trifle
- Profitable government organizations
- Shutting down underground shooting ranges
- Making sure city contracts employ local workers
- Providing more economic development grants and micro-loans to small businesses
- Foster partnerships with sister cities
- More buses to speed up morning commutes
- More streets to accommodate additional buses
- Require all city employees to check and respond to email
- Working sewers
- More parades
- Grants for scientists to discover new forms of energy
- Leave a lasting impression on all visitors
- Challenge the norm (Ed. note: So important it’s listed twice.)
- Finish the statue of Burt Bacharach
- No more conflict diamonds
- Bulletproof glass everywhere
- Free cookies at every street corner
- One school for every student
- Require flattering mirrors in public restrooms
- Develop a municipal composting operation
- Enforce existing speeding and noise ordinances
- Upgrade existing parks
- Create an anti-graffiti youth outreach program
- Free cake when it’s your birthday
- Reevaluate NAFTA
- Rickshaw Wednesdays
- Making it illegal to refuse a hug
- Make downtown more people-friendly
- Sell candy in government buildings to pay down the debt
- Get Pawnee a licensed pharmacy
- Better screening processes at local adoption agencies
- Finding homes for the adopted children of Day Labor Corp.
- Prop 6A: To Recognize All Five Food Groups
- Pawnee
- Hot Dogs
I personally loved Leslie’s video and her disdain for negative campaign ads, where a candidate paints his/her opponent in a negative light. It is precisely for this reason that I look forward to each election season with about as much enthusiasm as I look forward to a root canal: I can’t stand the smear campaigns! In fact, I can’t remember an election since I turned 18 where a candidate did not resort to negative ads. 🙁
Would a positives-only ad campaign — where the candidate only focuses on his or her merits and never says a bad thing about their opponent — ever work in the real world? Do voters need to hear crap about your opponent in order to vote for you? If anything, I get turned off by a candidate whenever I see them running a smear ad.
Am I being too naive here?
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Lunar New Year Paper Crafts by Canon
This weekend, as he does every year, J will be decorating our home for Lunar New Year with various Chinese paper cutouts and prints which are meant to ward off bad spirits and bring good fortune to the household in the new year.
For those who may be unfamiliar with Chinese culture, the Lunar New Year is a BIG deal in China. Workers usually take an entire month off so that they can travel to be with their families, and the weeks-long celebrations are loud, exuberant, and can be pretty intense. Since J’s birthday falls in the same week as the Lunar New Year Day this year, he will be taking the entire week off next week to properly celebrate both. 🙂
Koreans are not quite as into the Lunar New Year as the Chinese are, so I usually just sit back and watch him do his thing and only participate when asked to. However, when I happened upon these adorable paper crafts by Canon, I just knew that I needed to add to our New Year decorations with them.
The best part? They are all FREE and available on the Canon website! All you need to do is print them out and follow the accompanying instructions.
 Message Dolls (Wealth Dolls) |
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 Chinese Lantern |
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 String Decoration: Lion Dance |
 String Decoration: Fortune |
 Chinese Dragon |
 Lion Dance |
I had no idea such a fun section existed on the electronics giant’s website. I am particularly in love with the Milky Way Decoration Set, which is inspired by one of my favorite tales from childhood. (I thought for sure that this was a Korean fairytale, but apparently the same story exists in China and Japan too.) You can be sure that I will be making it for — or even with — my girls in the near future.
Be sure to check out the rest of Paper Crafts by Canon site for more great projects!
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Bloggy Thursdays: The Internet Writing Guide
Welcome to the very first installment of Bloggy Thursdays, where I share with my fellow bloggers tips and tutorials to maximize and better your blog. While I do not consider myself an expert, I do like to think that after 10+ years of blogging — in addition to my technical knowledge — I know more than the average blogger when it comes to making your blog more appealing to readers.
Do you have any comments, questions, or topics you’d like to see covered here? Please send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy!
I know that I said I will not be covering content in Bloggy Thursdays, but I have decided to make an exception for this particular topic. Because not only does it cover a (small) personal pet peeve of mine, it also goes back to the basics of writing — and in this case, blogging — on the internet.
Back in 1999, right after the web really took a stronghold in American society and everyone was IM’ing and chatting away on message boards, an author by the name of Timothy Campbell created a small website called The Internet Writing Guide. (The site, unfortunately, is no longer online.)
It was not a fancy site by any means, and taking a look at it via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, you can see how simple and unobtrusive it was.
(Did anyone else notice the use of HTML frames? Oh, the horror! 😉 )
However, this small, 8-page site quickly became a favorite reference guide for millions of internet users, especially moderators of message boards whose job was to not only keep users in check, but to remain an example of proper internet writing.
I will not be regurgitating The Internet Writing Guide here. Rather, I will take from it a few key points which I believe help tremendously with a blog’s content — points that I try my best to employ every time that I sit down to write a post.
(image source)
Now, some of the bloggers reading this may be thinking, “But I’m a blogger. I already KNOW how to write.”
Yes, you may. And you may even be an excellent writer. But what you fail to realize is that writing for academia, work, and such is usually different from writing for an online audience.
The main difference in online works is that the average reader’s attention span and concentration shorten significantly online. Not only is your content competing with other online content, it needs to deal with real-world distractions too. Additionally, the glare of a computer screen is much more tiring on the eyes than paper.
So what exactly do you need to do to combat these problems?
- Keep it short and to the point. The Internet Writing Guide has an entire section devoted to brevity. I myself am guilty of this as I like to write verbose pieces that articulate exactly how I feel about a particular topic in the way of verbal diarrhea. (See what I did there? 😉 ) But always ask yourself — does my audience need to hear this?
- Break up blog posts with images and/or lists. This will give the reader’s eyes and mental processing a much-needed break, especially when the post is a long one. I always try to include at least one image with each blog post for this reason. (It also doesn’t hurt that it makes the post more visually appealing too!)
- Keep your paragraphs short. This is the small pet peeve mentioned above. I know that I’m not the only one who finds it hard to read loooong paragraphs online, especially when they are right next to each other. Once again, bear in mind that it is more difficult to read text on a screen than on paper. If you need to use long paragraphs, try to use a short paragraph — even if it consists of one brief sentence — right after it.
Along the same line, the use of one-sentence paragraphs can really help emphasize your points.
Other tips in The Internet Writing Guide, such as proper capitalization, spelling, and grammar, is a no-brainer. And I must admit that sometimes, being polite ALL the time does not always make for good blog content. 😉 But the rest — while written with message boards in mind — are very applicable to blogging.
And if you need more tips on writing? Go check out Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style. This book should play an essential part in any writer’s arsenal. As for online sources, you can’t go wrong with ProBlogger (check out their “Writing Content” category for more focused pieces on this subject).
I know that the contents of a blog are entirely up to its author and the author can choose to write whatever and however they see fit. But I guarantee that these small tips will help your blog posts be more appealing and better understood. And if you already use these tips? Good for you!
Do you have any additional blog content tips that should be added to this post?
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Walking Without Support
I am happy to announce that, at 15 months of age, Claire has finally started walking.
Let me rephrase that. She has finally started walking without support. Because she has been walking with one hand against the wall or along some furniture, or one hand holding someone’s hand, for over a month now. We all knew that she could physically walk by herself, but that she was too afraid to let go.
Then, just this past weekend, BAM! It’s like she suddenly happened upon a chest full of courage and started walking everywhere by herself.
Dim light + fast-walking kid = blurry picture
I have been so proud of our firstborn lately. Everyone tells us that she’s one of the smartest babies they’ve ever met, and even I get amazed by her quick wit and intelligence from time to time. (I get worried too, because I just know that she’s going to outsmart me and her father…she’s already playing mind games with us and trying to pit us against each other to get what she wants!)
She has not exhibited any signs of teething since my last teething update — and she now has 13 teeth, 5 of which are molars, aka the most painful to sprout. She follows instructions — such as “Take your feet off the table” or “Go throw this away in the trash” — and is also doing splendidly with all three languages we are teaching her. (I stopped keeping track of her words after about the seventh one…I think she knows about twenty now? Should I be keeping better record of this?)
I wish that I could get some videos of her favorite activities, such as identifying different parts of her body, singing and dancing along to songs, and interacting with Aerin, but she is OBSESSED with our Flip videocam and will stop whatever she is doing to try to get her hands on it. She is also fascinated by our camera; hence the lack of photos of her as of late.
Claire’s love for her little sister is so stinkin’ cute. She now calls for Aerin instead of her dad every morning when she wakes up. (“Beh-bee? Beh-bee?!???”) She insists on coming over to help us burp Aerin whenever she sees us prop her up after a bottle. She visibly gets upset when Aerin is crying, and will gently pat her, shove a pacifier in her face (sometimes even the one that she’s using!), or point to the kitchen and yell “Mum mum!” (her current word for all food) as if to remind us that we need to feed her little sister.
How can you NOT love this face?
They say that motherhood never really gets any easier, that each new level of development brings with it a unique set of challenges. I wholeheartedly agree, because while I love each new stage of Claire’s life more than the last, it’s also so much harder. I had believed that Aerin would be more difficult of the two because a newborn requires so much work, but I was wrong.
Because chasing after a toddler, trying to find the best ways to entertain her and educate her and discipline her, is soooo much more exhausting than getting up every 3 hours for a feeding.
Let that be a lesson to all mothers of one young child who are contemplating a second, and who, for some reason or another, believe that the new baby will be the harder one. No — it is your first who will be the more demanding one as he/she continues to mature and discovers new ways to challenge you.
This is not meant to scare those who are thinking about having another kid. Rather, it is my way of encouraging you, to let you know that nothing really comes as a surprise with second (and subsequent) children. 🙂
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Word as Image
I am loving the Word as Image project and the accompanying book. Started 20 years ago as an assignment in typography class in art school, Ji Lee creates images out of words by contorting the letters that form the word itself.
Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn’t require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved.
Now that I think about it, I can recall that I learned the word “parallel” — which happens to be one of the words pictured below — by remembering the three parallel lines embedded within the word, just as Lee illustrates.
Can you think of any other “word as image” examples? Join in on the conversation at the Word as Image Facebook Page!
Via My Modern Met.
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Cool Tool Tuesdays: Panasonic Electric Thermo Pot
I have decided to implement some regularity to this blog. I believe that not only will it give readers something to look forward to on a weekly basis, it will also force me to be more creative as well as provide a focus when I am struggling with writer’s block.
The new schedule will not be too rigid, because anyone with kids — heck, without kids too — knows that life is anything but predictable. So for now, I plan on doing the following:
- Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, hardware, material, or website that I have personally tried and love.
- Bloggy Thursdays, where I share with my fellow bloggers tips and tutorials to maximize your own blog. While I do not consider myself an expert, I do like to think that after 10+ years of blogging — in addition to my technical knowledge — I know more than the average blogger when it comes to making your blog better and more attractive to readers. (Except for content. I have no real tips on content. 😉 ). Since I currently use WordPress and it happens to be the most popular blogging platform in the world, these tips will mostly cater to the WordPress crowd.
- Reverent Sundays, where I write about an aspect of my faith. This can deal with recent books I have read on Christianity, my thoughts on religion and current issues, as well as particular messages I find touching and/or powerful. I am aware that most of my readers are not religious, and that is fine — you are more than welcome to not read these posts if they make you uncomfortable, enrage you, or bore you to tears. I am open to debates and discussions in the comments section as long as everyone remains respectful.
Now, on to my first installment of Cool Tool Tuesdays…
The two most-used appliances in my kitchen are our rice cooker and the Panasonic NC-EH30PC 3-Quart Electric Thermo Pot.
The rice cooker is a no-brainer for an Asian household that eats rice practically every day. But the electric water boiler and dispenser? I personally had no idea such things even existed before I got married. 😳 However, a water boiler/dispenser was the first appliance that my MIL bought for us and it quickly became one of my favorite items in the kitchen.
We use the Panasonic Electric Thermo Pot to easily prepare tea and other hot drinks, as well as instant dishes that require boiling-hot water. It became indispensable when we had babies — instead of purchasing a bottle warmer or running the bottle under hot water from the sink, we just fill a mug with hot water from the Thermo Pot and let the frozen/refrigerated bottle sit in there for a couple of minutes.
As you can see in the picture above, there are 4 temperatures to choose from (we usually keep it at 190°), and the built-in sensor ensures that your water will stay at that temperature unless specified. The “Lock/Unlock” button guards against unintended dispensing (it automatically locks after just a few seconds after dispensing), and the power cord is the magnetic kind that breaks away easily under pressure. Additionally, the Thermo Pot automatically shuts off if the water level gets too low.
J can’t believe that I never heard of these types of electric water boiler/dispenser units until I got married. He says that they are a staple in all Chinese households — mostly for the tea — and wonders why not all western households have them.
My MIL had actually purchased for us a Tiger brand when we first got married, but it broke after about three years of continued use. 🙁 The specific model we had has since been discontinued, so we got a Zojirushi brand to replace it. However, Zojirushi had one major flaw: there is a big hole at the bottom of the boiler where particulates get caught, so it constantly needed to get cleaned.
My MIL ended up comparing various brands in person before choosing this Panasonic version. We still like the discontinued Tiger one the best, but this is a close second. (It also doesn’t hurt that the Panasonic is the cheapest of the three brands! 😀 )
I love my Panasonic Electric Thermo Pot so much that I gifted it to my parents for Christmas two years ago, and they in turn liked it so much that they purchased an extra one so that they could keep one at home and another at the store.
The Panasonic Electric Thermo Pot comes in three sizes: 2.3 quart, 3 quart, and 4.1 quart.
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