Owners of D.C.s Union Market eatery apologized for a recent email newsletter that included what some claimed to be racially offensive language about Asian Americans.
The July 13 email was titled with the subject line, “love you oolong time [teacup without handle emoji],” a reference that may call to mind the “Me love you long time” line from the 1987 movie “Full Metal Jacket,” when a Vietnamese sex worker advertised her services to American GIs.
“It dehumanizes women, [Asian-American and Pacific Islander] women specifically, and there’s an issue of fetishizing Asian women, viewing them as objects, as less than a person,” Moon Rabbit executive chef Kevin Tien told WTOP.