ai is a cyborg, not a diphthong
“You cannot dispel the song from your mind, it plays and plays on repeat.”
Rest yourself where? புதுச்சேரி.
“Pondicherry possessed a preserved Eurocentric sense of relaxation that one can only imagine; harkens back to its colonial roots when the town served as a haven for French settlers seeking respite.”
On the Chinese campus canteen
The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.
From Guangdong to Goulburn
There is perhaps one thing that unites every Australian town — an institution that has been embedded in our national story since the 18th century: the Australian-Chinese restaurant.
The bun rises in the East
There is something unpretentious and humble about the Asian bakery.
Being from the funny zone
In displaying that aspect of my identity as a funny spectacle, the chuckles I’d hear echoed discordantly within it, as I felt like I genuinely didn’t know enough about what I was talking about.
The wonderful everyday
Holding a large pinwheel lollipop in his left hand, he ran his, undoubtedly sticky, other one along the shelves, displacing and muddling the displays.
An investigation of poultry significance: the hospitality of 70-72 King Street
What did the ghouls of King Street want from me?
A Gee-Long shot
Geelong City is convinced that Geelong-Korea will attract baseball fans to the region.
"I'll have fifty old man's balls please"
What I found far more interesting was the interesting nexus of community that this place attracted.
Where is the Madrasa?
Growing up with other Muslim girls in the community, and learning about our religion, bred a strong sense of sisterhood and cultural awareness that has stayed with me.
China post-pandemic
Recording a city can go beyond your standard photos of landmark buildings.
La Marais: Breakfast at the Yiddish boulangerie, thrifting, a gay nightclub, and a shower strip-tease
The Marais has much more to it and reveals itself as accommodating to a reformulated idea of Paris’ inhabitants.
Nadi’s laundromat
The days in the shop go by faster as they watch students and passer-by's walk along the thoroughfare.
The sweetest, strangest place on earth
There’s something in the air at Disney World Florida.
We need more places like Northmead Dam
A liveable city breathes and doesn’t just survive — this is achieved through the fusion of art and its people.
Life in a Danish anarchist commune
A former military base, it suffered urban decay before it was embraced by a group of anarchists who made it their own.
The Coke cans article
An illusory aspect of the Fisher Road Store, and mixed business stores in general, had always been its decoration.