This is one of many articles that was submitted to our "Call for Contributions" that couldn't be printed due to the limited capacity of our latest publication "Ist Zuhause da, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind? Viet-deutsche Lebensrealitäten im Wandel“. We are happy to share it here. We will be posting 3 more articles in the following weeks of December.
This text was first published on: th.boell.org
To one who comes from a diasporic family with ties to China, Vietnam and Thailand, this was a familiar scene. My childhood memories consist of seeing the kitchen bench being overtaken by ingredients, everyone sprawling across the dining table and into the lounge with our allocated stations, each of us in charge of a task to bring the meal together.
22.05.2026This is one of many articles that was submitted to our "Call for Contributions" that couldn't be printed due to the limited capacity of our latest publication "Ist Zuhause da, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind? Viet-deutsche Lebensrealitäten im Wandel“. We are happy to share it here. We will be posting 3 more articles in the following weeks of December. This text was first published on: th.boell.org
22.05.2026To one who comes from a diasporic family with ties to China, Vietnam and Thailand, this was a familiar scene. My childhood memories consist of seeing the kitchen bench being overtaken by ingredients, everyone sprawling across the dining table and into the lounge with our allocated stations, each of us in charge of a task to bring the meal together.
22.05.2026