Kimchi Mamas

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Book Giveaway

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Hatchette Book Group is offering five lucky Kimchi Mamas readers FIVE books written by APAs. They are:

1.       Free Food for Millionaires By Min Jin Lee

2.       Trail of Crumbs By Kim Sunée 

3.       The Fortune Cookie Chronicles By Jennifer Lee

4.       Transparency By Frances Hwang

5.       Strangers from a Different Shore By Ronald Takaki

Awesome, right?

For a chance to win, leave a comment telling us about your favorite book by an APA author before May 31. One entry per person. Winners will be chosen randomly on June 1. Apologies to our international readers, but this contest is only open to US and Canadian residents.

Contest: Kimchi Parent Moment

May 8th, Parents Day in Korea, is coming up. 

According to Wikipedia, "In the Republic of Korea, Parents' Day (어버이 날) is celebrated on May 8. Usually, one gives a carnation with presents to his/her parents and/or sings the Parents' Day song."

Yellow paper carnation.  I remember painstakingly perfecting two carnations in art class at school.  My clumsy fingers would be slathered with glue, catching delicately thin tissue paper on finger tips, bits tearing here and there...the end results were never good enough.  Each layer would be somewhat lopsided, the green wire stem dirtied from my glue-paper smeared fingers, my lower lip bitten from concentration, I was so desperate to present my parents with at least half decent paper carnations to make up for the lack of obviously prodigious talents.

My parents are not perfect parents.  Hell, last time I spoke with my dad was almost 20 years ago.

Yet, in my memory, I have an image of them both proudly clipping the dirty disproportionate yellow paper carnations to their equally disproportionately wide shirt collars (hey, it was the 70's). 

In honor of that memory, I would like to offer up a $50 CafePress gift certificate (to purchase wonderful Kimchi Mamas stuff) to one winner of Kimchi Parent Moment contest.  If there's a tie, I might split it into two $25 gift certificates.