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A country in East Asia known for its sakura blossoms.
What is Japan?
This is the country that Bretman Rock is from.
Where is the Philippines?
A popular Korean street food dish consisting of chewy rice cakes typically coated with gochujang.
What is Tteokbokki?
The country that invented paper money.
What is China?
The month in which we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage.
What is May?
This is a country with the highest point in Asia, where Mount Everest is located.
What is Nepal?
This is the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.
What is Bollywood?
Often purple and nutty-flavored, this yam is used in many Filipino-American desserts.
What is ube?
This Pacific Island nation became a U.S. territory after being overthrown by American interests in 1893.
What is Hawaii?
This is the official language in Iraq.
What is Arabic?
This is the tallest building in the world since 2009, located in Dubai, UAE.
What is Burj Khalifa?
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has heritage from this Pacific Island.
What is American Samoa?
This polished grain is the base for the traditional Japanese alcoholic beverage sake.
What is rice?
Anti-Asian stereotypes falsely blamed headaches and numbness on this seasoning common in Chinese food.
What is MSG?
A country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by European power.
What is Thailand?
A well-known beach located in Phuket, Thailand, that is named after a fruit?
What is Banana Beach?
This is a Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1988.
What is My Neighbor Totoro?
This is a popular Middle Eastern street food of deep-fried balls or patties made from fava beans, chickpeas, or both.
What is Falafel?
This 1882 law was the first in U.S. history to ban immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is a monotheistic religion and philosophy founded in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in the late 15th century by Guru Nanak.
What is Sikhism?
The name of the biggest temple in the world located in Cambodia.
What is Angkor Wat?
An American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
Who is Anna May Wong?
This Samoan dish, consists of taro leaves wrapped around a filling of coconut cream and sometimes fish or meat, then baked in the umu until tender and rich in flavor.
What is Palusami?
This is regarded as the earliest civilization in Asia, with an estimated period of 3300-1300 BCE, which flourished in the northwestern region of South Asia.
What is the Indus Valley/Harappan civilization?
The short sequences of DNA that are formed in the process of DNA replication, discovered by Japanese scientists couple Tsuneko and Reiji Okazaki.
What are Okazaki fragments?