Amsterdam

Monica Wang was born in Taichung, Taiwan, grew up in Metro Vancouver and Taipei, and now lives in Amsterdam. Having spent most of her life on an island/by the sea, having always loved seafood, and having had to peel ebi at sushi restaurants, she'd recognise shrimp tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch anywhere.



Jokes

Me: It was the butler, in the dining room, with the plunger.
Genealogy website: OK. Now enter details about your mother.

— Monica Wang,

You say I wasn’t an overachieving Asian kid but when my dad said to go get a stick for my beating I brought back the biggest hunk of bamboo I could find. And this was in Western Canada.

— Monica Wang,
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