Show notes
This is one of my favorites. Fellow Vietnamese Canadian Jennifer and I discuss what life was like growing up in East Vancouver. Topics include high school stabbings (2:18), what we ate at home (4:20), McDonalds (6:30), refugee parents (8:05), not understanding Thai (10:26), Viet dads (12:30), nammer girls, LGs, ABGs (14:55), popular websites in the 90s (18:10), visiting the motherland (20:10), surprising a 95 year old grandma (21:55), Viet Kieu disguise? (24:30), Vietnamese pricing tiers (25:20), living in Vietnam (27:20), mien bac va mien nam (29:05), northern and southern accents (33:40), subtle viet traits (36:29), racism in Vancouver (44:30), girl fights in high school (46:42), entrepreneurship in Vietnam (56:10), weird smells (58:35), food poisoning (59:20), not speaking Vietnamese at home (1:01:29), I wanna be Chinese! (1:02:50), selling drugs (1:06:20), accepting Vietnamese heritage (1:09:35), Viet Kieu guys in Vietnam (01:11:40), Korean international marriages (1:12:10), Essex lorry death (1:14:41), rich people (1:15:44), lifting in Vietnam (1:17:20), Viet moms (1:24:37), Vietnamese survival mentality (1:26:59). Song: You Got Beef? 2004; lyrics Chuckie Akenz feat. V-Unit Directed by Paul Nguyen.
