The Dim Sum of All Things

by Kim Wong Keltner | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0060560754 Global Overview for this book
Registered by rootmartin of Wellesley, Massachusetts USA on 1/19/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by rootmartin from Wellesley, Massachusetts USA on Saturday, January 19, 2008
Book Description

Have you ever wondered:


Why Asians love "Hello Kitty"?


What the tattooed Chinese characters really say?


How to achieve feng shui for optimum make-out sessions?


Where Asian cuties meet the white guys who love them?

Then you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll realize this book is better than a Broadway production of Cats when you read scenes that include:


twenty-something Lindsey Owyang mastering the intricacies of office voicemail and fax dialing


an authentic Chinese banquet where Number One Son shows off his language skills by speaking "Chinglish"


dating disasters with grandsons of Grandma's mahjong partners


the discovery that the real China looks nothing like the pavilion at Disney World


karaoke

And all the while Lindsey is falling in lust with the "white devil" in her politically correct office. But will Grandma's stinky Chinese ointments send him running? Or will Lindsey realize that the path to true love lies somewhere between the dim sum and the pepperoni pizza?


Journal Entry 2 by rootmartin from Wellesley, Massachusetts USA on Saturday, June 13, 2009
A fun light read. I'm sending it on to azuki who chose it out of the Passport to the World VBB at bookobsessed.com

Journal Entry 3 by wingAzukiwing from Miami, Florida USA on Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thanks the book has arrived! ^_^

Journal Entry 4 by wingAzukiwing at Miami, Florida USA on Friday, November 29, 2013
The author wants to introduce her cultural background in the book, she wants to write a romance, and she aspires it to be more than a romance, and the book ends up being not very satisfying in any one category, the romance bogged down by the cultural details and the literature makes irrelevant by the light-hearted romance. Some parts feel totally unrelated and unnecessary and makes me wonder why she includes them in the story, except for the reason that it may have been a personal episode that she wants to be remembered.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed it okay, especially from a cultural standpoint, as it gives the perspective of someone as a third generation American-born Chinese, and life in San Francisco Chinatown.

Now sending off to shnedwards who selected it from the Passport to the World vbb on BookObsessed.

Journal Entry 5 by wingshnedwardswing at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 29, 2014
It's here! Thank you.

Journal Entry 6 by wingshnedwardswing at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 8, 2016
I'm sorry, this book is not engaging me. I'm finding it a bit too aimless and lightweight. So I'm giving up about a third of the way in.

Thanks anyway for sending it to me, azuki. I will make sure I pass it on asap.

Released 8 yrs ago (3/12/2016 UTC) at Purple Pumpkin Patch OBCZ in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 8 by wingappletreenwing at Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Saturday, March 12, 2016
Picked up at the Loughborough BC Meet as it looks an interesting commute read.

Journal Entry 9 by wingappletreenwing at Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Saturday, March 11, 2017
Really enjoyed it and here's to seeing it continue its journey

Released 7 yrs ago (3/11/2017 UTC) at Purple Pumpkin Patch OBCZ in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom

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Left at the meet

Journal Entry 11 by JemmaJ at Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Sunday, September 24, 2017
Eek! Grabbed this book at Pookledo's OBCZ in her shop....

Journal Entry 12 by JemmaJ at Towcester, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Saturday, October 12, 2019
NSS Parcel

Journal Entry 13 by wingApoloniaXwing at Northampton, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Saturday, October 12, 2019
What a well-travelled book!
Thank you!

Journal Entry 14 by wingApoloniaXwing at Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Saturday, February 20, 2021
Not my cup of tea, as others mentioned before me: too lightweight. I gave up soon.

Journal Entry 15 by wingApoloniaXwing at Mitte, Berlin Germany on Saturday, February 20, 2021

Released 3 yrs ago (2/20/2021 UTC) at Mitte, Berlin Germany

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Given to a friend during a walk.

Journal Entry 16 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Mitte, Berlin Germany on Saturday, February 20, 2021
Thank you. Will start reading right away.

Journal Entry 17 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Mitte, Berlin Germany on Sunday, February 21, 2021
I agree, it's simply lightweight, and I gave up after one quarter.But I had been warned. I will leave the book in a public bookexchange place.

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