Nina Mingya Powles – Tiny Moons- A Year of Eating in Shanghai (retail) (epub)
General:
Name: Nina Mingya Powles – Tiny Moons- A Year of Eating in Shanghai (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 11.69 MB
Book:
Title: Tiny Moons
Author: Nina Mingya Powles
Language: English
Year: 2020
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: The Emma Press
ISBN: 9781912915347
Total pages: 96 str.
Description:
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through childhood snacks, family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, she attempts to find a way back towards her Chinese-Malaysian heritage. "A pair of pink plastic chopsticks. A bowl full of instant noodles. The smell of chicken stock and jasmine tea. Steam starts to tickle my nose. Popo, my grandmother, watches me from her lacquered chair. This is one of my very early memories, where the shapes are blurred and colours flare out in waves. Pink and yellow plastic, deep blue Tibetan carpet. I don’t know if all the parts are real, but I do know what happened next. When no one was looking, I flipped the bowl. The rim hit the table with a clatter, flinging out noodles and sending my chopsticks onto the floor. My mother…
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