Hellobee Boards Topic: If you come from a minority background

Hellobee Boards Topic: If you come from a minority background https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:48:02 +0000 Mrs. Jacks on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1584793 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:21:52 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 1584793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We're not Chinese, but we probably cook Chinese at least once a week. Plus I always have a wanton stash in the freezer. We definitely eat Italian at least once a week. We love ethnic food! Our take out go-to's are usually Thai, Vietnamese, Indian and Ethiopian :) pinkcupcake on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1584779 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:07:13 +0000 pinkcupcake 1584779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We are both korean. We eat korean/asian style food at least 3x a week and LO loves it. regberadaisy on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544240 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:56:14 +0000 regberadaisy 1544240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Once a week max because Chinese/Asian food doesn't fill DH up. yin on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544214 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:48:28 +0000 yin 1544214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I cook Asian food frequently, and that usually includes Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese. sandy on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544152 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:25:31 +0000 sandy 1544152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @MrsMangoMochi: :) FX we escape m/s and food aversions this time around MrsMangoMochi on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544103 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:09:55 +0000 MrsMangoMochi 1544103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @sandy: Hi! I think you're on the Dec 2014 Mom board with me. :happy: Let's hope we can keep the food down in the next couple of weeks! LOL. sandy on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544092 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:05:25 +0000 sandy 1544092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm Korean and DH is white....and he doesn't love Korean food. We would have it maybe once a month or once every few months before LO. When I was pregnant I couldn't really stomach it and have never gotten the strong/frequent cravings back so we haven't eaten in awhile. I usually get my fix by going over to my parents to eat. MrsMangoMochi on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544079 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:59:12 +0000 MrsMangoMochi 1544079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @mrsjyw & @gingerbebe: Hi! My best friend is Korean & gave me the best Korean BBQ recipe! I love Korean food, too and going to places that serve a variety of banchan. Yum! As I mentioned in the last post, DH is picky, so I'm lucky he actually likes a few Filipino dishes (e.g. chicken afritada, chicken adobo, tinula-- which is a chicken soup of sorts). MrsMangoMochi on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1544058 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:51:36 +0000 MrsMangoMochi 1544058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Once or twice a week. It's been a couple of years now, but I've finally learned how to get better at cooking traditional Filipino food. My hubby (he's Caucasian American), loves my cooking, and will try certain Filipino dishes, even though he's a really picky eater overall (for instance, he only eats his hamburgers plain with ketchup). He says my cooking is better than his mom's (but don't tell her that). LOL! sunny on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1543854 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:54:29 +0000 sunny 1543854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I manage to make it to the Asian market only 2-3x a month so we will have it when I go. We also sometimes get takeout or go to dimsum. I loooooove Chinese food! Kimberlybee on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1543839 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:50:42 +0000 Kimberlybee 1543839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I am better at cooking American food and pastas but I try to cook Asian food a few times a week Chinese, Vietnamese, or Thai foods. I do like Korean food and Japanese Ramen and sushi but only eat out for this. kakimochi on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1543806 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:42:12 +0000 kakimochi 1543806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Chinese...at least once a week. snowjewelz on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1543374 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:41:11 +0000 snowjewelz 1543374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Honeydew: I see that you are pregnant... So will you get to be in heaven a second time? Honeydew on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1543324 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:28:27 +0000 Honeydew 1543324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My DH is white and my parents are Chinese but born and raised in Korea. While I crave my traditional food all the time, I think I enjoy it about 25% of the time. The rest I've had to adapt and make american food (and gosh some of it seems boring compared to what I grew up with), but the hubs is from Iowa and loves his meat and potatoes. When I had our DS, my mom stayed with us for 2 weeks and I was in hog heaven with all the traditional foods she cooked for us. Yiou Bing, Myuk Guk, Giow zi, Bao tz. Dduk bok gi, tons of ban chan. Yum. After that, my hubs mandated that we refrain from asian food for a month. Alivoo01 on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1543030 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:26:00 +0000 Alivoo01 1543030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ A few times a week? Boogs on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542978 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:15:13 +0000 Boogs 1542978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We don't cook it a ton, but overall maybe eat once a month or so. BKCaribBaby on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542910 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:04:27 +0000 BKCaribBaby 1542910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I don't eat as much traditional Caribbean food as I'd like to. While I cook, I never learned from my mother. I regret it big time. I can make passable versions of my favorite dishes, but I need to step up my game big time. LO loves what my mother has cooked for her. Mrs. Chocolate on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542871 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:55:38 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 1542871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ It varies, I dont cook Chinese food but Im starting and we see my mother every few weeks so usually at least a handful of times per month HabesBabe on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542868 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:54:42 +0000 HabesBabe 1542868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I rarely cook Vietnamese food (my only exception is for Tet), but my mom watches LO during the week, so she'll make 2-3 dishes a week for us to eat. The hubs isn't a fan of Vietnamese food. gingerbebe on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542768 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:27:18 +0000 gingerbebe 1542768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ DH is white, I'm Korean. I love to cook in general, so we have a large variety of food on the menu at home. He loves Korean food, but also needs some kind of meat to go with his meal, which sort of defeats the point to me, since I can make a meal out of soup, kimchi, sprouts, seaweed, and some anchovies or something. So how often we eat Korean together depends on whether I have meat around. When my mom visits, she makes us a HUGE freezer stash of marinated meats for me to just thaw and stir-fry, so if we have that around, we eat Korean once or twice a week, with lunches. (I will eat Korean more often on my own with non-meat side dishes). If not, we probably go out to eat Korean once or twice a month. workingmom on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542764 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:26:39 +0000 workingmom 1542764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Most of the time BoogieBea on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542706 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:11:17 +0000 BoogieBea 1542706@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 3-4 times a month probably? I cook more chinese food when my husband is away on business for some reason. lavender on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542696 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:07:35 +0000 lavender 1542696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We do Chinese once week, or when my mom brings me food. matador84 on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542678 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:03:43 +0000 matador84 1542678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We eat Italian 2-3 times per week. Sammyfab on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542670 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:02:07 +0000 Sammyfab 1542670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We eat Chinese food (dim sum!) maybe once every few months now that we live far away from my family. I grew up eating Chinese food everyday and I hated rice for a really long time! CupQuakeWalk on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542657 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:00:02 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1542657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ UM....EVERYDAY. When I cooked American food, my husband gets really upset and he's like, "we can get American food from anywhere. We can only get Arab food home cooked." So, I try to stick with middle eastern dishes and honestly, I prefer the taste so much more. snowjewelz on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542636 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:56:08 +0000 snowjewelz 1542636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Freckles: I love both traditional & Americanized Chinese food! I grew up with traditional in Hong Kong, and when we moved to the US, my parents would never eat Chinese take-out but I was so obsessed when I finally had it in college! spaniellove on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542625 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:52:50 +0000 spaniellove 1542625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Probably most nights? DH is not Korean but is learning to cook it out of necessity! Freckles on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542619 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:51:36 +0000 Freckles 1542619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Rubies: I was disappointed when i realized that Chinese families don't eat chow mein and fried rice for dinner. LOL. It took me a few months to get used to traditional Chinese food. I cook Korean food twice a week, and cook Chinese/Vietnamese food twice a month. We get Chinese takeout or dim sum 2-3 times a month. shinymama on "If you come from a minority background" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-come-from-a-minority-background#post-1542615 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:50:17 +0000 shinymama 1542615@https://boards.hellobee.com/ All the time. Except I can't cook it well myself, so DH and I rely on our moms and restaurants!