Gem Yelin Lee
Happy Seollal!
February 7, 2023It’s January 21, and I come home to my mother on her eighth consecutive hour in the kitchen, preparing ingredients and cooking time-consuming dishes. The apartment is cold from windows being left open to air out the cooking smells, and the burners are hot from a tireless onslaught of 전 (jeon) being made in heaping batches. My father is somewhere simultaneously helping tidy the apartment and obsessively rummaging through old bins, looking for Korean folk games. This is a scene that only happens once a year: during 설날 or Seollal, the Korean celebration of Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year…
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Food for Thought: Hallacas tell a story of Venezuela
November 30, 2022Christmas smells like banana leaves. That’s because it’s a key ingredient in my family’s holiday meals, frequently consisting of pan de jamón, panettone, and hallacas. Every hallaca is different depending on the family who makes it. They primarily consist of…
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Eight things brewing in your barista’s brain
October 25, 2022There are things customers who have never worked in a café will probably not know. Among these include the ability to act like a decent human being with bare minimum manners, and the daily mantra, “cops get decaf.” Especially the…
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Deep dive into daydreams and diversions with David Ly
October 18, 2022“There is nothing / more soothing / than returning / to the water / with only / our unyielding / imagination / of whatever / we want to be, / once we sense / it’s safe / to re-emerge.” These…
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Top cafés in Burnaby to work or study at this summer
July 5, 2022Most Vancouverites can appreciate the summer because of our city’s rainy disposition. So, it can feel unfair to have to work or study in front of a screen all day while your friends are stockpiling Vitamin D exposure. At least…
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