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Everyone in her family works in the food industry. Her brothers are all chefs, she is the youngest, she has nine siblings and only two of them don’t work in the food industry. When she was young and she was dating she tried to avoid chefs. She met her husband in Taiwan. He’s a chef.
Asia Style is a restaurant based in Glasgow specializing in traditional Malay street food. This essay joins together extracts from an interview with the restaurant’s owner and her sister about her migration from China to Malaysia to Glasgow, the history of the restaurant and the culture of Malay cuisine with the personal history of one of Asia Style’s customers who avoided the restaurant for a year after it became the site of a disappointing romantic event. Food, love and home are connected through this thematically structured narrative.
Why I can’t eat at Asia Style was published in English and traditional Chinese in 2HB vol.4 by the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) in October.