Foreign dinners — the lost conversations at dining tables

Cherry B.
3 min readJun 7, 2021
Photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash

I grew up in a multicultural environment where my parents’ mother tongues are different — my dad’s Hindi and my mom’s Thai. They both learnt to speak Cantonese when they moved to Hong Kong in the 70s. My dad spoke English, my mom doesn’t. Cantonese is my mother tongue. I learnt English and Mandarin at school. I learnt Thai from simply listening to my mom’s conversations with relatives and…

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