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Simple Life, Simple Food

Alice Poon
Nov 19, 2008
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I grew up in one of those pre-war four-storey tenement buildings on Tang Lung Street at the junction of Wanchai and Causeway Bay, a relatively poor neighborhood. My family of ten (including my parents, two siblings and myself, two celibate unemployed uncles, a grandma and two long-time dependants who volunteered as domestic helpers) lived in a two-bedro…

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