After her tribute post to the late Barbie Hsu drew mixed reactions, Cristine Reyes is ready to ignore public criticism as she also channeled her inner Shan Cai in a new post. Reyes took to her ...

Her role in the teen drama catapulted her to fame as a pop idol. She was also a TV host and appeared in films.

Almost every kid in my generation knew the songs that played throughout the love story of Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai. They felt like our best friends during that era. The recent passing of Barbie ...

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I have fine hair, and it’s hard not to burn with envy when a friend tells me they only have to wash their hair “once a week or so.” As I have smaller, less porous strands of hair (which ...

Whenever my mom would put my hair into two braided pigtails—a signature Shan Cai look—the pre-school version of me would have a peculiar sense of fearlessness and confidence, ready to brave the ...

“Meteor Garden” Filipino OST singer Josh Santana and Shan Cai’s dubber Cynthia Villanueva paid tribute to Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, who died of influenza-induced pneumonia at 48 last ...

In her original post, Cristine shared a throwback photo of herself with Barbie Hsu, known in the Philippines as Shan Cai from the hit series ‘Meteor Garden’. Cristine mourned Barbie’s sudden death due ...

She rose to fame in 2001 as the strong-willed yet impoverished Shan Cai in the Taiwanese TV drama Meteor Garden. After an 11-year marriage to Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, Hsu spent nearly ...

Barbie Hsu stars as Shan Cai, the female lead. The author as interpreter, sisters Dee and Barbie Hsu, with host Kris Aquino A few months later, as a Chinese-Filipino who often visited Chinatown and ...

It was the elder Hsu's role as Dong Shan Cai in Taiwan's popular 2001 television series "Meteor Garden" that made her a star across Asia. "I'm grateful to have been her sister in this lifetime ...