The BIG Bibik & The Little Nyonyas is the latest project from my online friend Quachee. It’s an online cookshow showcasing the Peranakan (or Nyonya) cuisine.
Peranakan refers to descendants of foreign immigrants (primarily Chinese) who assimilated with the Nusantara community during the 15th & 16th century and created a unique culture of their own. Chinese-Peranakan is often referred to as Baba (male) and Nyonya (female).
The BIG Bibik & The Little Nyonyas revolves around a Peranakan grandmother teaching her grandchildren and friends on the art of cooking Nyonya dishes. Below are the first four (of eight) webisodes…
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English subbed Korean commercials of Samsung Anycall mobile phone series, the Magic Hole, featuring heartthrobs Lee Min-ho, Kim Hyun-joong and newbie singer Uee. Pretty funny, love the first two vids…
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A project to share some of the most popular videos from Youtube on this site; you’ll be seeing a couple dozen of these posts in the next few weeks/months.
Simple methodology… just search for the specific keyword on Youtube and embed some of the most viewed videos here; limited to one video per channel.
Obviously there will be related videos that are missed out using this method, but it’s just a compilation for infotainment, let’s no go into details too much.
Keywords “Asia” and “Asian”… 13 vids with over a million views each…
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Baseball mascots for the Samsung Lions in Korea Baseball Organization (league), famous for their imitation of popular K-pop dances and various comedic skits. Sharing some fancams of their ‘performances’…
Lee Hyori – U Go Girl [original]
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Remember the Japanese comedy skit of “getting to work in 5-minutes?” Here’s another similar piece from the same show, of “getting your kid ready to school in five minutes,” featuring comedian Tomoko Murakami.
Not as brilliant imo, but quite funny nonetheless… [again, via Japanprobe]
Punjabi music video of “Tunak Tunak Tun” by Indian pop singer Daler Mehndi; one of the funniest MV I’ve seen…
The song was released in 1998 and enjoys its international fame thanks to the Youtube phenomenon [credits to tarv for the upload]
Fun music, interesting beat and wacky dance moves… the music video oozed awesomeness lol. It’s almost unbelievable that Tunak is actually a love song :p
Nakizumo (lit. crying sumo) is a traditional Japanese festival with 400-years of history. The event, believed to bring good health to the babies, is held annually in temples across Japan where the kids would face-off each other to see who’s crying the soonest (and loudest)…
The above video [credits to garyjpn@youtube for the upload] is probably from Hiroshima in 2009; there are other slightly different format in other places, including in Tokyo where some real sumo wrestlers were involved.
Better than Garfield… [video credits to tomomama3@youtube]
