(reinterpretation of a Chinese poem by P.K. Leung) May I have the best recipe
to cook chicken in hot water, remake the distant freshness of home, console my parents across the sea? May I have the best recipe to brew the thick sauce and minced ginger, cope with taboos of language and food, adapt to the new rule of chopsticks? May I have the best recipe to boil the right rice with chicken soup, test the intimacy of foreign oil that binds a city’s diverse appetites? Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Vol. 11 No. 2 (2012)
Author – Arthur Leung |