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This week, we're taking it back to one our favourite interviews. On this episode, we are joined by the founders of Subtle Asian Traits, Angela and Kerry Kang.

In late 2018, the Kang siblings and their friends started a Facebook group during a weekend Chinese class.

What was meant to be fun turned into a cultural phenomenon. Hundreds of thousands of Asian millennials joined the Facebook group in a matter of days.

The group is now the biggest Asian community on Facebook but with more than 1.5 million members, SAT is also one of the biggest Facebook groups in the world.

From juicy unposted memes to being invited to speak at Facebook, we talk about everything with co-founders of Subtle Asian Traits, Kerry and Angela. We discuss the humble beginnings of Subtle Asian Traits which was only founded a year ago by a group of friends that met at Chinese School. Was this the only useful that has come out of Chinese School? What started out as memes about collecting toothpicks and serviettes at restaurants became the biggest community on Facebook. This immense response was because this was the first time there really was something relatable for Asian-Australians and Asian-Americans.

Subtle Asian Traits didn’t just become a safe place for bubble tea addicts to find one another, but it became a comfortable place to share life experiences. Who else could relate to the strict career expectations that migrant parents place on their children? These posts harvest great love and support by other members of the group, where strangers often comment encouragement and advice as they feel a sense of bond and connectedness with other members in the community.

Despite the highs, Angela and Kerry share the difficulties the group has had. This includes thriving for more diverse representation of all Asian ethnicities within the groups, and, the struggles of monitoring and approving every single post to ensure quality memes.

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Another week has passed and the anti-Asian racism has heightened around Australia and the rest of the world, with exponential increases of reports of physical and verbal assault against Asian people.

This week, we are joined by our friends Thuy and Tiana from Unapologetically Asian to help dissect how to deal with racism during the Coronavirus age.

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Due to COVID-19, many Asian people around the world are experiencing heightened racism like nothing before.

Unfortunately, with COVID-19 originating from Wuhan, China, hygiene practises in Asian countries and culture are being questioned by the global community. 

Videos like these are damaging to the Asian community because it generalises all Asian people and allows people to write hurtful comments like:

“Imagine the habits they have behind closed doors especially when they work in the food industry” - one user wrote under the video

Sure, it can be easy to just say all Asians are dirty and unhygienic  (rewind)

but perhaps first... maybe we should talk about some useful hygiene practises. 

#1 -No shoes in the house

You know you’re at an Asian household when you see a massive shoe rack at the front door. 

Almost in every Asian house, guests are required to take off their shoes before entering the house. 

The reason is quite simple - there is a lot of germs and bacteria that you collect from your outdoor activities - According to the University of Arizona your shoes have 421,000 bacteria!

So, please. Take off your shoes before you enter your house! 

#2 - Hand washing dishes

There’s a lot of jokes about Asian parents not using dishwashers and preferring to hand-wash each plate. 

But if there was one thing that we all learnt from COVID-19, it is how important using soap and disinfectants are. 

When Asian people wash dishes, we make sure that each plate is scrubbed with soap and washed off with fresh clean water - no soaking it all in the same old water! 

#3 Showering before sleeping 

It is the old-age debate in the Western world about whether to shower in the morning or at night. 

But in Asian culture, we get taught by our parents to change into home clothes when arriving back home and taking a nice warm shower before bed. 

The reason? You’re covered in sweat & germs throughout the day and you don’t want to bring all of that back into your home. 

And plus, it’s relaxing to have a warm shower before bed! 

#4 Wearing a mask when you’re sick

In the early days of COVID-19, many people in the Western world were confronted and offended when Asian people began wearing face masks.. 

However, fast-forward a month or two later, there is an international shortage of masks. 

What most people don’t realise is that, Asian people wear face masks to prevent getting other people sick. 

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WeChat Aunties - we all know them.

During a pandemic, WeChats Aunties are the ones who are forwarding us those chain messages telling us to eat more garlic, drink hot water with salt and going to bed early. Heck, they've apparently found the cure to COVID-19.

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With almost 4 billion people practising isolation, how is the world staying connected?

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With almost 4 billion people practising isolation, how is the world staying connected?

LEMON delivers the latest juice of celebrity & pop culture news, candid conversations with celebrities and influencers, as well as social and cultural topics from an Asian Australian perspective. Hosted by Phillip Kuoch and Thomas Tan.

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We understand how crazy and dark the world is right now so we wanted to do something a bit different to help lighten and bring a smile to your faces!

This week we set two friends up on a live date. How will the date end? Will they go a second date? Listen until the end to find out!

We are joined by friend of the pod, Melissa Hua and Vinh Tran, who owns flower hire and events company Full de Bloom.

Have a friend who needs a boo? Pitch them to us at [email protected] and we might find them a match on the show.

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On this week’s episode we chat to the talented Heather (They/Them) & Jono (He/Him) from Cry Club about gender identity, sexuality and the Australian indie music scene. Their new song 'Obvious' is out now on all music platforms.

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On this week’s episode:

- Phillip talks about how the coronavirus / COVID-19 is affecting small businesses 

- Thomas opens up about his hearing deteriorating and how a COSTCO staff assumed he knows all the Tans

- We talk about our family’s love languages. You’ve heard about love languages but does it also translate to your family? Is it something we inherit from our parents? We discuss our relationships with our siblings and parents. 

- We talk about this Manprella.com article how what happens when you’re no longer impressive for your age? As a society, we’re obsessed with the rate of how fast and young we achieve things - but is it really about how fast we can achieve things? 

- RECOMMENDATIONS: Phillip recommends you watch The Invisible Man starring Elizabeth Moss and we introduce a weekly playlist on Spotify of all the song recommendations by Thomas. You can follow it here: https://spoti.fi/2IMmpxJ

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Hello and welcome to this week's episode!

- Thomas recommends you stream Lady Gaga's new album 'Chromatica' although it's not out yet. She's rumoured to be collaborating with BLACKPINK and Ariana Grande, so we're hyped!

- Joanna recommends you play Harvest Moon - it's the original Farmville game

- Phil recommends you check out the Chinese drama Yanxi Palace about concubines fighting each other to rise to the top

- AND we discuss about the #toiletpapergate that's happening in Australia, where there's a national shortage of toilet paper because of the panic buying over the coronavirus / COVID-19. We discuss what would be in our doomsday bunker.

- FINALLY, what are some of the pressures you face in your 20's?

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[00:00:14] Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the LEMON Show. The show catching up on what you should be reading, watching and listening to, as always, Euro-Med Thomas. And that's me and Phillip Kuoch. That is me. And today we welcome a very special guest. And this week, we have Joanna.

[00:00:29] Our very first think of a way of how to cultivate like a very nice I like my friends since long time for a long time. Friend of met childhood friends, four knots. But Joanna is here. Welcome to.

[00:00:46] Thank you for helping us with the photoshoot day. Yes. That was very nice.

[00:00:51] Hopefully by the time it goes, we would have already posted a new podcast cover. But Joanna. Joanna, tell us what is the theme of this week's cover cover up?

[00:01:03] I don't it would be good how to explain it. Our director.

[00:01:08] Look, I was going for like an 80s or 90s theme, so I Googled 80s, 90s fetish shit with fruits because, you know, we have the LEMON show and people just posing with fur in a very weird way. So with I decided, hey, Phil, why don't we just take off our shirts and pears with fruit so mildly erotic?

[00:01:25] Join us first time I'm watching gay porn. What was that like? No, it's not your first time. Not your first time. Oh, I don't know. It was it was an experience.

[00:01:39] We had some really weird shots involving tops.

[00:01:43] And I was a bit but also bit conscious. Were you? Yes. You know, the thing is, you're conscious about it because we live in a neighbourhood where old, like everybody knows each other. And the windows were put on a show for the night. And we it just happened that we'll furnish having a photo shoot just as school was finishing as well. So I had the school boundaries. Right. Because you look quite close with school as well. Did you?

[00:02:06] I was distracted, too. Distracted by our beautiful bodies, say.

[00:02:11] So how is everyone's week this week? I was pretty good. I did a lot of songwriting this week. No mental breakdown. So that's pretty good. Positive. Any new hits this week that we can expect to hear soon? We did.

[00:02:23] Oh, we did write or Bradner. We wrote a song called Sweats.

[00:02:28] Was it actionable? It was very action of our lyrics. It's the one you showed me. You know, it is different in different ones. That was a Chinese song on an English song. Yes. We've been writing. Working like crazy. Trying to make sure that we get those demos out. But yeah. What about you feel? How was your week?

[00:02:44] My week has been pretty hectic. Had a very hectic morning. We did my doughnut finish shoot for our new menu this this morning. And then I invited you guys over to test our new brunch menu that we're going to be introducing soon. And then we...