I'm really interested in reading this, it's been on my 'books to find' list for a while now.
I've been thinking about the idea of Chinese diasporic food of late. I refer to the food my family eats as Chinese, but as my partner pointed out recently (I hadn't even thought about it until this point), what we eat isn't Chinese food, it's Malaysian-Chinese food. But that doesn't make it any less Chinese, doesn't make us any less Chinese, etc. And I like being Overseas Chinese, rather than from the Mainland/HK/Taiwan. But I wonder what my opinion would be of Overseas Chinese if I weren't one.
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I've been thinking about the idea of Chinese diasporic food of late. I refer to the food my family eats as Chinese, but as my partner pointed out recently (I hadn't even thought about it until this point), what we eat isn't Chinese food, it's Malaysian-Chinese food. But that doesn't make it any less Chinese, doesn't make us any less Chinese, etc. And I like being Overseas Chinese, rather than from the Mainland/HK/Taiwan. But I wonder what my opinion would be of Overseas Chinese if I weren't one.