Chicago — you guys are so delightful 🥹

new piece: Jonson and Alice Chen: The new generation for 99 Ranch latimes.com/la-influential…

I flew to the Bay Area and was picked up & greeted by this incredible cohort of Taiwanese American food entrepreneurs/influencers. What an incredible community!

whoa! so honored that Made in Taiwan is on this list of 31 ESSENTIAL cookbooks 🥹 by Serious Eats ! seriouseats.com/essential-cook…

My favorite is probably the Taipei 101-shaped braised pork belly

Five Books Clarissa Wei Fuchsia Dunlop If you are interested in learning more about the five 2023 books I selected, see this interview fivebooks.com/best-books/the…

Imitation is the best form of flattery i suppose. get my cookbook here: amazon.com/Made-Taiwan-Re…

it's been nearly a year since my cookbook has been out in the world, and...real talk: thank you, trolls, for inadvertently fueling the conversation about Taiwanese food. honestly, i don't think my book would've done so well if y'all didn't get so angry.

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this place is starting to feel like 4chan. i will still post here but I'm mostly online at Threads these days. it is surprisingly refreshing *knocks on wood* and feels like twitter circa 2013. threads.net/@dearclarissa

My cookbook, Made in Taiwan, is currently in its 5th printing, which is wild, surreal, and the best news of the year because sales are what matter most for authors.

An Expanded edition of my book “Taiwanese Presidential Elections”, including 2024 election, is now on sale in Taiwan. This is the only book that systematically analyzed all Taiwan Presidential Elections from 1996 to 2024 from the same angle. Written in Chinese😆

lmao @ how it took me a full year to realize i could be earning affiliate commissions from my book. if you want to buy Made in Taiwan through Amazon, here's my link! amzn.to/3ACAWdD

NEW: Chinese authorities have launched a campaign to change the term that people use to refer to Mongolian culture, in a move aimed at eroding Mongolian identity and sense of homeland. My latest, with brilliant colleagues Daria Impiombato and Nathan Attrill: aspistrategist.org.au/northern-front…

Job news: Today I start a new role editing, commissioning and writing weekend reads for the @bbcnews website. This is a job I’ve always wanted, and I’m super excited to be joining a newly-created team of features writers and editors!

Taiwan unveiled its annual list of the top 500 cheap eats. Here's my take on the list: dearclarissa.com/p/taiwans-top-…