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Good buy Greek deli

09 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Uncategorized

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business, change, childhood, food, growing up, life, memory, migrant, migration, nostalgia, prose, writer, writing

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There’s something incredibly comforting about Greek delis—the grubbier a deli is, the more homely I find it. This has everything to do with The Greek Deli being a permanent fixture of my Inner West upbringing and also says everything about mine being a creature of habit, in other words a lamenter of change. Continue reading →

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My Anglo-American Christmas

27 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Opinion

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america, books, charles dickens, christmas, cinema, culture, england, family, film, food, harry potter, history, holidays, j. k. rowling, life, memory, movie, music, nostalgia, pop culture, reading, television

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I am Chinese, my family is small and we are not religious. We don’t do gifts and parties, nor do we transform our home into a tricolour tinsel and cedar wonderland. I never even believed in Santa, thanks to my mother’s casual ‘Santa and magic and stuff are not real, it’s all made up’ when I was very young.

For Christians, Christmas is the birth of Jesus. For the non-religious, it is about Santa, reindeers, and snow. For us, it is a time to eat together: we mark the day celebrated by many with food and family, the pillars of Chinese culture, and I would not have it any other way.

But Christmas itself—be your take on it Christian or capitalist—is not Chinese, no matter how I celebrate it. Christmas in my mind is a kaleidoscope of Anglo-American sights and sounds. Continue reading →

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Diluted sham

11 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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advertising, art, cat, food, health, humor, lifestyle, poster, vintage, writer, writing

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Skim milk.

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Prettier in purple

19 Tuesday Jul 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty

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aesthetics, animals, animation, art, Beauty, cartoon, colours, creative, food, pokemon, writer, writing

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Boh, Rattata, taro milk tea: what has a Ghibli character, Pokémon, and Taiwanese drink got in common?  Continue reading →

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