{"id":844,"date":"2025-08-10T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/?p=844"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:57:11","slug":"mandieleung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/2025\/mandieleung\/","title":{"rendered":"Food is Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Food physically represents beliefs and values that would otherwise be intangible and difficult to maintain morale with.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creator:<br \/>\nMandie Leung (She\/her)<\/p>\n<p>When one thinks of a diasporic community, it takes very little for us to get to the question of &#8220;What foods do they eat?&#8221; Afterall, food is one of humanity&#8217;s basic needs, and food varies dramatically across different cultural groups. This variation indexes the different geographical, geological, and climatic conditions from which these cultures emerged; the interplay with other political entities; and individual ingenuity. In this piece, Mandie traces how foodways for Hong Kong diaspora persist, and help Hong Kong diaspora preserve and maintain their connections to a distant home &#8211; real and imagined &#8211; whether it&#8217;s through Hong Kong style caf\u00e9s, or dim sum restaurants. When you think of Hong Kong food, what other offerings can you think of?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"590px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen onload=\"var tF=this;setInterval(function(){var fh=tF.scrollWidth*0.636;if(fh&gt;400)fh=400;tF.style.height=fh+'px';},500);\" style=\"border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.clas.ubc.ca\/guest\/clas\/index.php?anon=true&#038;nevid=MAonEL7c9geQ7DW2sB0J6V0dNni6dgEjee4zWf9LBNQOXgxHZuQ0v2acXZ8rxvR0jVvkxxONLhSnPLrj%2FS0ms4%2Bi1Yulem5SDReeqRoZWYJfKKo%2BqVgYeqEAAMajgOavAiscExczPS6A1Zc50dkb%2BDt7P%2FbzgRyhWNUkTRCopfofOS4X1iC7UprJdGE6DHMXn3GrDluv4LDrNQjYnTvV8iyKOPCLcFZVjxElYkYf0%2F0%3D&#038;co=false&#038;minimal=true&#038;discbtn=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food physically represents beliefs and values that would otherwise be intangible and difficult to maintain morale with. Creator: Mandie Leung (She\/her) When one thinks of a diasporic community, it takes very little for us to get to the question of &#8220;What foods do they eat?&#8221; Afterall, food is one of humanity&#8217;s basic needs, and food &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/2025\/mandieleung\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food is Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,2,5],"tags":[22,38,54],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025papers","category-asix315","category-papers","tag-acculturation","tag-cultural-identity","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}