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ABC letter Z for zoom
http://abcwednesday.com I traveled China on this bullet train. Zoom it went.
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yellow plum
My friend had a yellow plum tree.He said the plums were delicious. When I saw these plums in the shop, I bought a couple. It was sour and disappointing. I had a sauce of chilli, salt, sugar and fish...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
people who leave their comfort zone are a special breed. My daughter went to the Solomon Islands.http://www.msf.org/Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)Nine Million Lives is a...
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Plant preservation by pressing.
Plant preservation by pressing.During my trip to China, I was at a display by the Yunnan group. I was drawn to the many pressed plants. I spoke to Dudleya who told me he did the preserving for...
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Yunnan olive
Dudleya aka Ba Tze said this is called oil olive in Yunnan and suggested that I tried one. I bit into one. It tasted siap siap. The surprising thing is each time I needed to cough the urge went away...
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Someone been commenting more than 10 times on my blog and the annoying thing is, it is in a language I don't know.Any idea how to stop this.
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Elah baliYou have posted more than ten comments on my blog in a language I do not understand. Each time, I delete one, you post another.Please will you stop doing it.Thank you,Ann
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Dr Sun Yat Sen, Father of modern China
I came back to China to fulfil one personal mission.My grand pa aka Ah Kung aka Chan Kee Seng reverved Dr Sun Yat Sen. In his house, when the Chinese people have an family altar. Ah Kung had a big...
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Tie dying
I saw this piece when I was in Shenzhen exhibited by the Yunnan people. I recall then I was studying in Canada, I decorated the flat with this art. It was the same colour. I used bed sheets. Shibori...
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Chan kee seng
This is Chan Kee Seng, my grandpa. Before the World War Two, he went collect money to save the Motherland. In my From China to Borneo to Beyond, I wrote about this as his social work. I fictionalised...
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Old grill oven and kuih lapis cake
Every new year, I tell this story. I learn to make kuih lapis in 1977. This woman had baking classes. Her oven had a separate grill and oven. The grill was doorless and just right for making kuih...
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fish maw
Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like croaker and sturgeon. It has has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients. It is graded according to...
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ice plant (Delosperma)
Ann ChinAugust 26, 2017 · Hardy ice plant (Delosperma) is a succulent, perennial ground cover with daisy-like flowers. The ice plant is not called an ice plant because it is cold hardy, but rather...
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Living in the country in China.
In November 2017, I went to my ancestral home. I found the time had stood still. My cousins lived like the way my great grand father had lived. The only thing they had changed was they built an indoor...
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Yunnan Olive
Ba Tze said this is called oil olive in Yunnan and suggested that I tried one. I bit into one. It tasted siap siap. The surprising thing is each time I needed to cough the urge went away when I bite on...
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my pigs
Visiting my mum's Ah Pia aka Kai Dad in the Rejang Basin. 4 times a year, my aunty would buy from the Ibans a little piglet like thee in the photo. We kept the piglet in a big box, and I was the pig...
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my fourth Aunty Ngui nee Kong wah Mee.
4th Aunty Ngui Nee Kong Wah Mee, mum's youngest sister told me and my cousins that I was her favourite niece. Thanks aunty.Before Dad went to England, he begged Aunty to leave Sibu town with Ah Tai to...
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