Editing coalesced made easy2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Then, when I was ten years old, my mother succumbed to stomach cancer. ![]() We lived in New Jersey, shopped for groceries in New York’s Chinatown, ate Chinese food daily, and spoke a blend of Mandarin and English. She seemed to move to a music we couldn’t hear, adding things to the wok, taking them away, scooping and tossing with her metal spatula, as the various ingredients coalesced into a dish we loved. My sisters and I loved to watch as her worn cleaver produced heaps of perfect meat and vegetable slices. Every night, my mother, a native of Zhongshan, in southern China, made dinner using her trusty two-handled wok. ![]() The stir-fry is the scent and sound of my childhood. ![]()
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