Yeet Hay (literally translates to “hot air“) is a condition that the Chinese believe you get when you consume too many “hot” foods. The Chinese culture revolves around yin and yang, so when you eat too many “hot” foods (eg. greasy/spicy food, lychee, durian, mango, etc.), your body will become imbalanced causing annoyances like cankersores, acne, dried lips, sore throats, nose bleeds, etc.
My parents and grandparents use to warn us all the time that eating too much of something will give us yeet hay but I always thought it was just something they said to make us stop eating junk food and never believed it until I got older.
Lychee is my favorite fruit and has deadly yang properties, hence the quote, “one lychee equals three torches of fire“. I can probably eat 985641564lbs in a sitting despite my dad’s warnings, but one day a light bulb went off in my head and I realized why I was getting so many cankersores in the summer (after basking in a pile of lychee)… YEET HAY! So my dad wasn’t lying after all.
IT’S TRUE. YEET HAY EXISTS. OH-EM-GEE.
One discussion that I have with my Chinese friends and family is: is there an English term for “yeet hay”? It’s always difficult to explain to our non-Chinese friends because there doesn’t seem to be an official term for it since the concept doesn’t really exist in any other cultures. The funniest definition I’ve heard is, “Are you sure it doesn’t mean yeast infection? …Chinese yeast infection?”
The Chinese believes that to cure yeet hay, you have to balance it out with yin (or “cool”) foods, for example, logans are the opposite of lychee (too bad they’re not as good).
Every ten li a station swirling with dust,
Every five li a post to urge couriers on;
Men die like flies, their corpses line the road,
So that lychees and longans may be delivered to court.
Carriages race over hills, boats sweep through the seas,
With new plucked fruit on fresh boughs, the leaves still dewy,
All to win a smile from the beauty in the palace,
Though it cost bloodshed and strife,
and its effect remains for ever.â€Â- Su Shi, 11th Century Chinese Poet, from A Lament for Lychees
I still eat boatloads of lychee. It’s totally worth the yeet hay considering I only get to eat it about 2 months out of a year. Slurp.
The world of K-Pop is practically run by fans/netizens and in the small country, celebrities frequently look themselves up online to see what’s being said about them which has led to celebrity suicides in South Korea. Their fans are so crazy and supportive of their favorites stars (or unsupportive) that they 
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