Lynn Chen is an actress who is attached to her computer. She has two blogs – The Actor’s Diet and Thick Dumpling Skin, both about – you guessed it – food. When she’s not writing for those sites she’s starring in films like “Surrogate Valentine,” “Saving Face,” “White on Rice,” “The People I’ve Slept With,” and the upcoming “Yes We’re Open.” Actors from “Better Luck Tomorrow” that she hasn’t worked with yet – Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, and Roger Fan.
I don’t think it should come as a surprise to anyone who grew up with me that I wound up becoming an actress who blogs about food. I’ve always been fascinated with seeing people eat on screen, so much so that I would save certain scenes to watch AS I consumed a meal. Rewind, salivate, play. Rewind, chew, play. Rewind, digest, play. I hate the term food porn, but that’s exactly what it was. My mother used to edit out the sex in movies I’d tape off of cable – there was no need – I wasn’t obsessed with those parts. Here’s some of my favorite drool-worthy scenes.
Joy Luck Club – Best Quality Crab
Never mind that this is the pivotal moment of the movie, where June finally connects with her mother. Give me that crab! I’ll take the worst quality one, gladly.
Yes, I know white people use coupons and search for bargains especially in our shitty economic climate, but they do so reluctantly. If it were up to them, they’d spend their money at the highest end stores and pay full retail prices. Why? Because to do otherwise would be to admit they no longer occupy the top slot on the social pecking order and they may as well be white trash and start breeding with their first cousins. Asians are completely shameless in their love for discounts. They have no qualms about bartering at the Louis Vuitton counter to cut the price of a purse in exchange for five live chickens. And hell, if they can’t get that purse at a good price, they’re happy to buy the cheaper knock-off brand courtesy of Luis Vuitton. The only exceptions to this rule are Koreans who easily out-white the whites in this area. They may be flat broke, but Koreans will purchase the most expensive brands to show they can. Even when they can’t. 
