Embarking on a cape crusade

The Australian | Saturday, July 20th, 2019

Guide to Cape Breton

There are many magnificent twists and turns
on the scenic road to Nova Scotia.

By Cindy Fan

I set out from Baddeck at daybreak and it isn’t long before I am greeted with a vista over the sea. Hewn into the hillside, the road winds north along the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island. A crush of dark fir and rock flanks my left; the Atlantic Ocean stretches out to my right, lustrous copper at sunrise. Read on…

Into the melting pot

The Australian | Saturday, April 13th, 2019

Into the melting pot

Take a feast down memory lane at Taipei’s famous Raohe Night Market.

By Cindy Fan

Thirty years ago, if you told my mother that one day I would be skipping towards Taipei’s Raohe Night Market, she wouldn’t have believed you. Yet here I am, giddy about the feast to come. My parents left Taiwan before I was born, so as a first-generation member of the diaspora, battle lines were drawn on the kitchen table. I moaned when dinner was rice not spaghetti. I refused anything “weird”, which was often what my mother had just spent hours cooking. Dried shrimp and gelatinous century eggs sent me fleeing. Read on…

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