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English wasn’t allowed once we stepped inside the house. After school, while other kids played, I was practicing how to read and write Thai under the strict watch of my parents or relatives. Every weekend, while my classmates were at birthday parties or sleepovers, I was at the temple, offering food to monks, learning Buddhist prayers, and bowing in respect. Our house was filled with the smells of nam prik, fermented crab, and freshly pounded prik gaeng. The music that played wasn’t from the radio; it was old Thai ballads, buzzing in the background as my parents worked tirelessly at home and in the restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667a76c140fcf808bd05d125/cca62b8c-4c60-4e02-a23d-b67582ee8a95/Nat+Thaipun+Family.jpg Musings - How Thai are you ‘really’? - Still, they never compromised on teaching us our roots. They worked long hours running a restaurant, but that never stopped them from making sure we stayed connected to our culture. 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Experience the hangover days in Broadway market where you become so riddled with anxiety from the sensory overload. Walk through it wanting to lock fingers with the stranger you’ve come to know so well the last few weeks it makes your heart burn and vibrate. As I write this, my heart feels a gravitational pull like no other. It’s not just the people, it’s the realisation of just how much I connected with people through food. I am going to sound like a broken record for saying this. But I have fallen in love with food, I have totally surrendered to it and am not mad about it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667a76c140fcf808bd05d125/22724bd5-edd8-48af-b2f5-55bfc7f503d6/Nat+in+Jamies+Kitchen.jpeg Musings - A Love Letter To London - I really have to appreciate that someone like Jamie, and the others I met along the way, gave me so much more of their time and love than I had ever expected. 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