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soryang

(3,299 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:44 PM Oct 2019

Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart
By Michelle Zauner August 20, 2018 New Yorker

It’s a beautiful, holy place. A cafeteria full of people from all over the world who have been displaced in a foreign country, each with a different history. Where did they come from and how far did they travel? Why are they all here? To find the galangal no American supermarket stocks to make the Indonesian curry that their father loves? To buy the rice cakes to celebrate Jesa and honor the anniversary of their loved one’s passing? To satisfy a craving for tteokbokki on a rainy day? Were they moved by a memory of some drunken, late-night snack under a pojangmacha tent in Incheon?


More: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/crying-in-h-mart


T.K. of AAK posted this link on twitter yesterday. Great article on the author's Asian American experience. The author's mom was Korean.

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Crying in H Mart (Original Post) soryang Oct 2019 OP
Great article oregonjen Oct 2019 #1
Thank you for this beautiful gift of an article. I am now crying on DU.... FM123 Oct 2019 #2
Your welcome FM soryang Oct 2019 #3

oregonjen

(3,338 posts)
1. Great article
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:55 PM
Oct 2019

Loved this line, “We’re all searching for a piece of home, or a piece of ourselves.” Food is home.
We have H Mart here in the Portland area, but for my Japanese American family, we also have Uwajimaya. We find home there. ❤️

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