Backyard food harvest to make soup.
Sui Choi & Chinese mustard greens 👩🌾
#FoodSecurity #AsianGreens #AsianVeggies #harvest #GrowFoodNotLawns #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #GrowItEatIt #Homegrown #food #AsianMastodon
#AsianBreakfast
#RiceVermicelli #NoodleSoup with #pork.
#AsianMastodon #AsianFood #ChineseFood #Noodles #Soup #CulturalFood #POCfoods
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
Ms. Que Banh