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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
Sep 21, 20134 min read
Does your writing transcend culture?
I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 17, 20135 min read
Yunnan Ham from a Grandmother Room
To find out more about what we ate in Yunnan, including my encounter with a 40 year old mother of all hams, read the article here: A myth...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 3, 20131 min read
Writers I Read: Trade the high-flying life for this …
We’re just back from remote Lugu Lake, Yunnan China where my friend Choo Wai Hong traded in her high-flying high-stress corporate...
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Audrey Chin
Jun 24, 20133 min read
Breathable air – A basic need I didn’t appreciate till last week
At 12 noon on Friday 21st June, the Pollutant Standard’s Index hit 401 in Singapore, the highest in Singapore’s history. The PSI, which...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 12, 20133 min read
A popiah recipe for a truly Singapore New Year Re-Union Dinner
February 10th – it’s New Year again! Popiah wrapping fronted by lettuce, filling, and everything else This is the New Year my family...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 28, 20131 min read
8D7N All Taiwan -What I really got out of it
What’s our’s The areca clad hills scrolling past the windows The marbled gorge The fertile land We can’t own it Nor even the hours ...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 24, 20134 min read
Want to experience a Taiwanese street market? The best 4 on the 8D7N All Taiwan Tour
As promised, here’s more on Taiwan. Yilan “theme park” shop Street markets, especially night markets. have been part of Chinese culture...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 21, 20134 min read
Are you essentially Chinese? The 8D7N All Taiwan Test
Banana at close quarters Apparently not, according to Mrs. L. Not even after an 8D7N All Taiwan All Mandarin immersion into Chinese...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 30, 20124 min read
Mid-Autumn: Why on this night?
Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 24, 20121 min read
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: The Best Season of Your Life
10th day of the 8th month of the dragon year – a busy buzzy sort of day running around delivering Mid-Autumn gifts to friends and...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 20, 20122 min read
Lunar New Year
This is when I step out, new clothes on (even to the underwear inside). When I breath in, New Year morning midnight air all around. And...
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Audrey Chin
Oct 15, 20111 min read
Xinjiang before the guns
In Xinjiang, the water tables are buried deep. The winters are cold, the summers burning – a geography perfect for forcing fragrant...
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