Folded within the doughy wrapper is a family's story of humble roots, columnist Frank Shyong writes. The holidays offer a chance to reexamine our narratives of our families.
, at the time, was a mark of poverty. When my dad opened his lunchbox at school, all the other kids would know that his family was too poor to afford rice.made him different, and different wasn’t what my father wanted to be at the time.She makes a dish I’ve never seen in a Chinese restaurant. It’s simple — cabbage sauteed with salt and pepper, with beaten eggs poured over it to form an omelet. Sometimes she adds pickled Chinese radishes or meat or whatever is in the fridge.
I don’t know how my parents met, or how my father charmed my mother, or what their families thought of each other, or what dreams they had as young adults. Growing up, I asked my parents about their past many times, but each question was like inserting a quarter in a broken payphone. Always, they answered in a way that acknowledged the question but provided no information.
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