Durian story
Author: N. Chandrasena
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1445773589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: N. Chandrasena
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1445773589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leela Chakrabarty
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 1482853655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The durian fruit should not be judged by its spiky outer appearance. When you pry open the fruit, it reveals a soft, succulent, fleshy yellowish pulp that you wont find anywhere else. Locals in Southeast Asia revere the durian as the king of fruits. This collection of short stories rooted in Malaysian culture also reveals hidden treasures that arent immediately apparent. In The Mysterious Farm, Amir spends his days scooping molten palm sugar, pouring it into small bamboo moulds, and packaging the finished product into treats. But when he notices a truck dripping a red liquid that looks like blood, he sets out to solve the mystery. In A Dream Comes True, an adolescent boy named Chee Keongs works tireless collecting all sorts of metal objectsmainly empty drink cans. Life is hard, but it gets even harder when hes accused of a theft he did not commit. Youll also read about three boys that witness an attempted murder, a young girl who saves a cocoa plantation, and two friends who work in a dragon fruit farm in this thrilling collection that showcases the importance of fair dealing and hard work.
Author: Freda Liu
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2020-01-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 981492895X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One can truly have it all – myth or fact? Yes, by understanding that life comes in stages. Award-winning broadcast and communications veteran Freda Liu shares the stories and insights on her life journey with characteristic vivacity. From growing up in an oil town in Brunei to a career in communications and radio, she shares her passage to self-awareness and the big and small moments that have shaped her along the way. Her story shows how one can shine with the courage to move past failure and unrealistic goals. Hopeful, resonant and inspiring, Life’s A Stage shows how each phase in life is an opportunity to live full and beautiful, while staying true to oneself. Rock it while we’re on that stage!
Author: Oanh Ngo Usadi
Publisher: O&O Press
Published: 2024-03-09
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0999882864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shining a brilliant light on expat life in Singapore, “Hawker Dreams” sweeps readers into the heart of the rule-abiding city-state where nearly a third of its six million inhabitants are foreigners, each with a story to tell. The memoir is equal parts travelogue, family history, and cultural exploration. Oanh Usadi takes you on her journey of home and belonging through the prism of language, cuisine, and class. In the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic island where language plays a central role in shaping identities and forging connections “Hawker Dreams” is a celebration of the ties that bind us to a place, no matter where we call home.
Author: Richard Sterling
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781885211378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Get a taste of the world. Food -- its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals -- is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with food -- how it nourishes and sustains us, teaches us about other cultures, and creates community and connection with others. As we sample new foods, we sample new cultures, new histories, new ways of thinking. And no matter how hard we try, the same ingredients never taste the same back home."--
Author: Wong Yoon Wah
Publisher: Epigram Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9810766718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this mix of memoir, essay and nature writing, Wong Yoon Wah evokes the beauty and seduction of the tropical rainforest and rubber plantations of his childhood in Malaya. He examines what surrounds us: the fruits we grow, the food we eat, the trees and animals that thrive in our midst. Along the way, we gain fascinating insights: how thunder tea rice acquired its name; how early settlers used the rain tree to tell time; how the behaviour of ants can tell us when a monsoon is about to arrive. Both personal and informative, this selection of Wong’s essays is a stunning re-addition to the creative non-fiction landscape.
Author: Helen R. Haines
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1457109395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requirement: food. Although there are many books on the anthropology of food, Adventures in Eating is the first intended to prepare students for the uncomfortable dining situations they may encounter over the course of their careers. Whether sago grubs, jungle rats, termites, or the pungent durian fruit are on the table, participating in the act of sharing food can establish relationships vital to anthropologists' research practices and knowledge of their host cultures. Using their own experiences with unfamiliar-and sometimes unappealing-food practices and customs, the contributors explore such eating moments and how these moments can produce new understandings of culture and the meaning of food beyond the immediate experience of eating it. They also address how personal eating experiences and culinary dilemmas can shape the data and methodologies of the discipline. The main readership of Adventures in Eating will be students in anthropology and other scholars, but the explosion of food media gives the book additional appeal for fans of No Reservations and Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel.
Author: Anna Belogurova
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 110847165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A ground-breaking analysis of how the Malayan Communist Party helped forge a Malayan national identity, while promoting Chinese nationalism.
Author: Gwyn McClelland
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0271096187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies"--