Category: Tai Tales
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Sweeping tombs, eating food and waving at the dead
It’s Cheng Beng and I, forever the family travel operator, is shepherding the family to Penang island. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.
I watched a Chinese legal drama called Draw the Line and I’d like to reassure you that I’m still not a member of the Communist Party of China. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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I speak four languages. That’s just being Malaysian.
And also the result of an accident in geography and school choices. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Sad Stories of Asian People
On the literary West’s curious fascination with suffering Asians. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Hello from a banana
On being Chinese but not quite Chinese enough. 📧Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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My yearly negotiations with Mum about Chinese New Year cooking
Every year I tell her it’s not necessary to cook for Chinese New Year. Every year I fail. Yet I keep trying. Points for effort? 📧Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Chinese New Year auntie uncle time
Verily I tell you, 90% of my relatives will not survive cancel culture in the West. 📧Subscribe to read the post.
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The vigil at the manor (Part 3/7)
Mister Meadows finds out the truth. Miss Brahms skirts it. A Distant Stars mosaic novel story. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

