What happens when you get all the w**d titas together for a salu-salo?
A beautiful Sunday afternoon filled with food, laughter, healing, and radical acts of joy.
Seeing people’s reactions and watching the ripple-effect of collective healing in the weeks following Mogu Magu events are my greatest pride and joy. My co-host, Wendy Zeng, and I curate these potluck-style gatherings with a clear theme, purpose, and intention. Yes, there’s w**d and not everyone consumes. The food is always hella good. You’re guaranteed to meet rad, interesting people from all intersections of life.
It’s like a family reunion with just the cool cousins. But we’re not kids at a family party, we’re middle aged adults working through our emotions and intergenerational trauma, in search of community and people who get us.
Unlike the horridly pretentious New York Times article “How to Party (Without Regrets)” that offers party hosting advice from NY socialites who offer zero practical advice on how to entertain with w**d, and think it rude to ask guests to remove their shoes before entering; Mogu Magu is not just a party. It’s an intentional gathering and place for community healing centered around the AAPI immigrant diaspora.
Here’s a glimpse inside our June 9 Pinay Par-TAY, co-hosted with w**d tita extraordinaire, Geraldine Mae Cueva, founder and chillanthropist of The Art & Times of Chill, and host of Pinay Fresh.
Pinay Par-TAY
The delightful thing about everyone being high, is that they move in slow motion. A pabitin filled with high value adult candies and prizes had all the potential for rowdiness.
As dappled sunshine shone down through the bamboo rack, a pack smiling stoners gently pawed through the rainbow of soft paper, like kittens searching for prizes, as the pabatin dipped up and down and swayed in the breeze.
Adults doing kid things. These silly, beautiful moments create new associations with the plant while reclaiming and creating new traditions that better suit us and our needs.
💛 Generous thanks to Lisa Reid and Dear Flor for sharing your gummies and Filipino culture, Chef Adel Aschenbrener for the epic Halo Halo bar, Chef Ria Barbosa for making lumpia and polvorones, Babinka Treats for bringing the sweet goodness, Sysamone and Savanh Wellness for the mocktails and free education books, and Tina Gordon of Moon Made Farms for the sun-grown flower and high vibrations.
🎶 Special musical performance and tiny garden concert by Tída Norasingh.
📸🎥 Thanks to Cherry Jane Studio and Wes Chiang for capturing these moments.
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Lumpia Recipe
Chef Ria Dolly Barbosa made these for the Pinay Par-TAY and only crumbs were left before I could grab a second piece. She shares her recipe for Lumpiang Shanghai, a Filipino spring roll.
Next month, we’re hosting a Magu Magic! Goddess Garden Party in collaboration with LANG x DAWANG. This epic four-way collab with modern Chinese fashion designers is gonna be a big one. The topic of conversation will be about censorship, safety, and protection.
XOXO, Christina W.
Inside Mogu Magu’s Pinay Party