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Why We Eat Together At Home. And The Importance Of It
Eating together at home as a family. It’s important to a lot of us. A tradition. Saying no to having meals together at home, especially dinner, is usually hard. Family dinners are still quite the norm in Australia. According to a survey in 2012, 77% of Australian families eat dinner together at home five or…
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Why We Love Certain Foods And Flavours, And Hate Others
There are foods that we like, and others we dislike. Flavours we love, flavours we hate. Sweet. Sour. Salty. Bitter. And all other sophisticated flavours – like earthly, tropical tastes – in between. I’m not a fan of sour foods. But my mum is. Whenever she’s back in Malaysia, she buys loads of sour lollies…
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What Does It Mean To Be Australian?
As an Asian person living in Australia, being Australian has always confused me. It’s something I’ve struggled to put into words. What is “Australian” exactly? When I was a kid and up until university, I remember my Chinese-Malaysian dad saying to me countless times, “You were born in Australia. So you are Australian.” The older…
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Why Some Of Us Sleep Late At Night. And Sleep Few Hours
Staying up and going to sleep late at night is something many of us are familiar with. That is if we are night owls and like sleeping late, and late nights are when we feel the most productive.
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Finding The Asian Australian Identity In A Multicultural Australia
As a Chinese person living in Australia, defining who I am as an Asian Australian has always been tough. If you come from a mixed family or have moved around quite a bit, you might feel this way too. Growing up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, my fair-haired Caucasian classmates teased my brown eyes…
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Reasons To Visit And Love Food Festivals
There are lots of reasons to love a food festival. Whenever there’s one happening in Melbourne, I think about going. A few weeks ago I went down to the Night Noodle Markets after work with my colleagues. An outdoor food festival at Birrarung Marr, a grassy patch at the edge of the city, serving up…
Mabel Kwong 