Thus we enter the perfectly remembered Diamond Grill, in 1951 the newest and most modern Chinese cafe in Nelson, where Fred Wah serves up the story of his hypenated identity, the sweet and sour in tasty, mouth-watering slices. Fred Wah's father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman rasied in China; his mother is a Swedish-born Canadian from Swift Current. Wah senior ran the Diamond Grill, wher Fred, the future writer and poet, grew up, white enough to "pass", yet marked for life bya foreign name and a taste for foong ...
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Thus we enter the perfectly remembered Diamond Grill, in 1951 the newest and most modern Chinese cafe in Nelson, where Fred Wah serves up the story of his hypenated identity, the sweet and sour in tasty, mouth-watering slices. Fred Wah's father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman rasied in China; his mother is a Swedish-born Canadian from Swift Current. Wah senior ran the Diamond Grill, wher Fred, the future writer and poet, grew up, white enough to "pass", yet marked for life bya foreign name and a taste for foong cheng and lo bok. Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisburty Steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice, bird's nest soup sets the stage for Christmans plum pudding; where racism from whites for being Chinese and from Chinese for being white simmers behind the stainless surface of the action in the cafe.
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