They taste like sweeter chestnuts - we eat them during the mid-autumn moon! Delicious!

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thanks chau for encouraging the "model minority" stereotype.
this does a huge disservice to the asian community - i especially hate how she lumps all asian groups as chinese.

every family is different, but my mother was very much like chua herself. my eldest sister is schizophrenic and another has bipolar disorder. i'm not drawing any conclusions between my crazy mom and the mental health of my sisters, but her rigidness and incessant calls for perfection definitely exasperated their conditions.

they're flower-holders for ikebana. the spikes hold in the stems and you fill it with water.

duh.