Moving Oolong

We’ve all heard the US described as a “melting pot” of cultures and ethnicities, but what does it mean to date in a melting pot, specifically dating outside of your culture?

We’re starting off a new dating series with our personal stories of interracial/cultural dating and all the nuances that come with it. From yellow fever worries to communicating with immigrant parents, we discuss all our thoughts on dating non-Chinese Americans.

We’re talking about beauty standards this week, including how our own self-worth has changed over time. We also discuss how societal expectations of Asian American women and their bodies still play a role in our body image development.

Content warning: This episode includes a long conversation about weight, weighing ourselves, & exercising for weight loss.

It’s time for the test-takers to become the test-makers... ⁣

This week we made mini quizzes about ourselves and put each other to the test. Spoiler: none of us got 100%, proving once again that we still have much to learn about one another 😤⁣

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This episode is in partnership with Monumental Magazine. Learn more at monumentalmagazine.com and @monumentalmag 💫

As of this week, it’s officially been at least a month since we’ve had our full-time jobs! We’re incredible grateful for our jobs and the stability it brings during this unstable time, but we’ve definitely learned a lot as employees at the bottom of the food chain.

This week we touch base on all the nuanced workplace dynamics we’ve learned: From walking on eggshells around certain people to the proper etiquette of following coworkers on social media.

We’re taking a break from the lighter, personality topics this week to talk mental health with M Pease!

In this episode, we discuss how our intersecting identities shape our mental health. M also shares what it’s like to work as a Peer Counselor at the university’s help center and why there’s often barriers to accessing mental health resources like seeing a therapist 💬

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This episode is in partnership with The Katra Box. Learn more at thekatrabox.com and @thekatrabox ✨⁣

Is soy sauce a condiment??? Tune in to hear us answer that question plus many more in our rapid-ish fire speed dating episode.

It’s a casual episode this week so you’ll hear our candid thoughts & reactions to the fact that Sally thinks chili oil is a condiment 😅

But seriously, somehow it’s our 31st episode and we’re still learning new things about each other!

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This episode is in partnership with The Katra Box. Learn more at thekatrabox.com and @thekatrabox ✨⁣

For our 30th episode (!!) we finally get to a highly requested topic: our past dating and college relationship experiences. ⁣

They say all relationships can be a lesson we learn from and we definitely agree 🤔 Join us (and our best friend, William) for a LONG story time episode with a bit of reflection at the end!⁣

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This episode is in partnership with The Katra Box. Learn more at thekatrabox.com and @thekatrabox ✨⁣

So you know our sun signs and MBTI types, but do you know our enneagram types??

This week we try to understand the basics of the enneagram system & symbol (shoutout to our mans, Pythagoras) and then use that knowledge to guess each other’s types! Spoiler alert: we don’t know each other as well as we thought…

Tune in for a fun episode about this complicated system & how it compares to other personality tests!

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This episode is in partnership with The Katra Box. Learn more at thekatrabox.com and @thekatrabox ✨

You’ve already met Vincent, but we’d now like to introduce the remainder of the TASA Bigs trifecta: Albert Wang & Peter Tran!

If you’ve listened to any of our past episodes, you know being members of TASA definitely shaped our undergrad experience & a BIG part of that was due to the Big/Little family system.

In this episode we talk all things TASA, from what we hoped to gain from a Taiwanese club to all the past election drama. We also discuss our different perspectives of the broader Asian American community at UMD & debate the potential opportunities each organization can bring to students.

This episode is in partnership with The Katra Box. Learn more at thekatrabox.com.

You love them, you hate them, & sometimes you can’t live without them... join us this week for a lengthy chat about our past roommates!

We’ve all had a variety of living situations since freshman year of college and we rate them all from a 4/10 to 10/10. Keep listening and we also contemplate our future roommate situation 🐶? 🐱??