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We have a new face to welcome in.

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  Welcome, Ji-Young, first Asian-American muppet. Link to  See us Coming Together The Asian-American community has long-awaited a Sesame Street puppet that could be a friend and role-model to our segment of the American population. Welcome,  Ji-Young , whose name means  wise  &  courageous , but also can mean " sesame ". Some of us learned how to speak English, the ABCs & 123s via Sesame Street.  We learned to assimilate and learn cultural norms and how to communicate. Having a Korean-American (or any Asian muppet) on the show, has been a long-awaited welcome. Not only do we finally have some representation, but we can start to normalize Asian culture instead of purely Asian Pop Culture-the Korean pop culture that is highly televised, made-for-media and far more foreign than what is normal every day Asian American life. Kathleen Kim, Ji-Young’s puppeteer, with the finished muppet.  "My other hope for Ji-Young is that she just normalizes se...

Big Bowls Noodle Soup, Holiday menu planning

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  Cozy up with a Big Bowl Noodle Soup CREATE YOUR OWN BIG BOWL NOODLE SOUP 🍜 🔰 $7.00 Our Big Bowl Noodle Soups have been with us since the beginning, and they are still a top seller. Some of the earliest soups are  Wonton Noodle  and  Seafood Noodle , but we've added to the list to modernize and make vegetarian options. You can choose one of ours. Big Bowl Noodle Soups come in two parts : A container of dry ingredients and a container of broth. It's up to you whether or not you want to heap the two containers into one big bowl as we have pictured above. Though if you chose  Mai Fun noodles , you may not want to do that, as these get overcooked too easily in the hot broth. What you can do is take a little bite of the dry ingredients and have a sip of broth. It keeps the noodles perfectly al-dente. One of the options for  create-your-own  is  BIG FUN , the noodle you might already know as  CHOW FUN,  with the wide ribbon noodles, is avai...