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Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through childhood snacks, family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, she attempts to find a way back towards her Chinese-Malaysian heritage.

Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

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    A Paperback / softback by Nina Mingya Powles, Emma Wright

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      Publisher: The Emma Press
      Publication Date: 27/02/2020
      ISBN13: 9781912915347, 978-1912915347
      ISBN10: 1912915340
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      Non Fiction Biography Essays Politics, Philosophy & Society Cultural studies: food and society

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      Book Synopsis
      Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through childhood snacks, family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, she attempts to find a way back towards her Chinese-Malaysian heritage.

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