Growing Up Around Lazy Susans in Chinese Tāmaki Makaurau (2025)

Those hundreds—yes, hundreds—of weekends I spent at yum cha while generations of families and dozens of provinces crowded at the door, poured out tongues into each others’ teacups where they steeped richer under the familiar uproar of the motherland... Bouncing my knee under the table until 老妈 got mad, kids who weren’t friends (just family friends) leaning shoulder to shoulder over game consoles, flipping to the start of the Percy Jackson I brought again because the grown-ups’ 聊天 would never, ever end... Where did those forever days go?