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A 15-part Documentary Series by Cheuk Kwan

Essays

Egg Rolls and Chicken Balls

Egg Rolls and Chicken Balls

BY JUNE CHUA I picked up a copy of Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses at a book exchange in…

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10 Sep 2015
From a Chinese Child of the Apartheid

From a Chinese Child of the Apartheid

BY CARL QUETON September 1992 I was about eleven years old. I had lived in South Africa my entire short…

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10 Sep 2015
Eat the World

Eat the World

From Madagascar to the Arctic Circle, globetrotting filmmaker Cheuk Kwan gets a mouth of Diaspora. BY KATHLEEN HALEY Hong Kong,…

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10 Sep 2015
The World According to Chinese Restaurants

The World According to Chinese Restaurants

BY CHI HUI YANG The family-run Chinese restaurant is a global icon of immigration, community and good (or bad) food.…

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10 Sep 2015
Chinese Restaurants

Chinese Restaurants

BY KEN HOM The simple title of this extraordinary documentary series is almost deceiving. It is not a cookery or…

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10 Sep 2015
Song of the Exile

Song of the Exile

BY JUNE CALLWOOD Chinese Restaurants is not a travelogue and is not a cooking show. It is an original, fascinating,…

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10 Sep 2015
Spicy Noodles

Spicy Noodles

BY TONY CHAN Asian Canadian feminist writer Momoye Sugiman once used the phrase “Asianadian fever” to describe the cultural, social,…

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10 Sep 2015

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