This song celebrates #Teochew #gaginang 😃
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M5swRlKdtK4
Gaginang means: our Teochew peoples/my Teochew peoples ❤️
I was having some issues with the man who was doing Mom's taxes today because he wasn't really listening to my questions for clarity. He kept interrupting me, giving answers that I wasn't asking about. I was talking to Mom in Teochew & relaying some of her questions to him too. One Asian woman overheard everything. She came out to help us out & she put the man in his place 🙏
It was a senior tax preparer & she's the office manager too. I found out, serendipitously, that she's a #Gaginang - fellow #Teochew person! Meeting another Teochew person who speaks the language, in Victoria, is like finding a unicorn - it's very rare! The last time I found another Teochew in the public wilds was over 30 years ago!
Mom & I loved talking to her in our mutually shared language. It turns out that she's also a refugee from South Vietnam & her family has some roots near my Mom's village too. Amazing serendipity!
I'm so happy to meet & befriend Teochew person, today! I'm beaming with happy feelings 🥰
*She's a strong Teochew with tiger-like energy, when dealing with misogynists too. Most Teochew women take no shit from misogynists.
Mom was just as happy & talked to our new friend in Teochew too.
Toishan Kitchen on Burnside Rd, across from Tillicum mall, has authentic Canton & Teochew dishes. It is the only restaurant in the city that offers Teochew foods on their menu.
We only get take-out/delivery because we don't dine inside any restaurants.
#AsianMastodon #YYJFood #Teochew #AsianFood #RecommendedRestaurant #Saanich #TillicumBurnside #VictoriaBC #ChineseFood
You can be #antiracist & still not be OK with #whitewashed #POC who choose to work for #government & are #Zionazis.
If I based everything on race alone - I'd never have confronted Asian sellout politicians nor chose to go no contact with several whitewashed, capitalist jerks in my own family.
Only fools will keep volunteering to defend any politician.
#AsianMastodon #POCVoices #politics #FuckTheWhitewashed #DecolonizeYourMind
Visiting big Auntie with Mom before heading off to set up for UVIC Campus Community Garden Spring Market. Auntie's husband harvested oysters & sea snails with his friend, late last night. I haven't had sea snails in almost a decade. We eat them with 2 different dipping sauces - nuoc cham sauce with lemon & garlic butter sauce.
#Seafood #shellfish #oysters #SeaSnails #Food #SeafoodHarvest #WildFoods #VancouverIsland #PNW #SalishSeaFoods #AsianMastodon
Took some free veggies (from community food rescue) & made #Chinese style #chicken #noodles #soup.
#AsianMastodon #SoupLovers #FoodFriday #NoodleLovers #homecooked #Food #AsianBreakfast
Hilltop #Buddha.
#zen #spiritual #stone #statue #AsianMastodon #MonochromeMarch #monochrome #BWphoto #VancouverIsland #meditation
White folks who try to say POC are mentally unwell when we stand up for ourselves are one of the first to be fucking nuked. They pull this shit a lot. It's super predictable, after we call their asses out in public.
You're the mentally unwell ones who lack fucking empathy for POC who have dealt with far too much unnecessary racial violence from your shithead white friends. You're the ones truly fucked in the head.
#AsianMastodon #POCVoices #WhitePrivilegeScript #Predictable #WhiteCowardice #WhiteWeakness #FuckYourCowardice
Take your #whitewashing BS - to a fucking laundromat. Those laundromat machines will care more about your BS white hurt feelings than I ever would.
Ms. Que Banh