food — Stories — TCK TOWN

When planning a party, my go-to is to mix things up. I’ve found that including a flavorful assortment of people has always guaranteed my most memorable events...

Let's Party, Community, FunBy Nakate Kakembo (From Malaysia, China & Uganda. Living in Melbourne)20 January 2021TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, Let's Party, party, black, friends, friend, event, New Year's Eve, food, culturalComment

Christmas in the Cold… Again

Most of my Christmases have been summer ones—a concept people outside of Australia take a while to get their heads around…

Food, Traditions & CustomsBy Ashleigh Leyshon (From Melbourne, Tokyo & Nagoya. Living in Kharkiv)26 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Tck, ATCK, stealthing, third culture kid, food, eat, travel, Christmas, holiday, soul food, traditionsComment

I Am From

I am from the south and I am from the north, my “R” is rolling on the tip of my tongue and stuck in the back of my throat, my taste buds feast on Fårikål as well as Llajwa…

Where Are You From?By Eli G. Goa (From Bolivia & Norway. Living in China)12 September 2020bolivia, norway, food, valley, mountain, market, coast, wind, nature, sea, third culture adult, third culture kid, storm, language, roots, rhythm Comments

A Teaspoon of Epidemia

Why are the number of cases in Korea relatively low? We eat a lot of spicy food and sweat out all the toxic stuff from our bodies…

COVID-19SPECIAL: COLLABORATION23 May 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, food, recipe, COVID-19Comment

Vegemite Homesickness

When I think of Vegemite, I think of Japan—Tokyo specifically. When I first started working in Japan, about half of my co-workers were from Australia…

FoodBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)1 April 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, food, vegemite, Australia, Australian, Japa, Tokyo, Alaska, Amazon, family, visit, vacationComment

Binge Watching Brittany Murphy

Girl follows boy to foreign country, boy leaves girl there, girl falls in love with country (or food of said country) and decides to stay….

Not Another KFC Christmas

I was mortified to learn that a Tokyo Christmas meant cozying up over a bucket of KFC…

Dear Chook-Chook (A Letter To My Daughter)

You once said to your father: “Papa, you are brown.” He gently took you to mirror, “Yes Chook-Chook, so are you”…

To a Land of Simpler Life and Spanish

My earliest memories are of traveling back and forth on ‘Mr. Continental’ and ‘Mr. American’ from Honduras to Illinois, to see Grandma and Grandpa at Christmas time and feed the cows…

Pachamanca - The Inca Mountain Meal

To call it just a meal trivializes it. It’s an event, a ceremony even…

FoodBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)14 December 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, Tck, third culture kid, food, eat, meals, meal, Peruvian, Peru, Inca, mountains, lunch, culture, cultures, travelComment

Bundu Khan and BBQ Tonight in Australia

Known for its barbeque, it also has karahis, handis, and other such gravy-based dishes, which the Muslim cuisine of the Indian subcontinent is known for…

A 5-day Intensive to Remember

Getting to my final year, I had an existential crisis—I hadn’t done an exchange semester yet...

Nonna’s Lunch

Living half your life in the West and the other half in the East would render one ripe for an identity crisis...

Tales from the Land of Pocky

I am in love with a country I have yet to visit all because of the stories from my uncle and all the ways he filled our lives with this culture…

AsiaBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)27 February 2019TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, Japan, family, snacks, souvenirs, sushi, chopsticks, Murakami, food, wanderlust, anime, travel, live abroad, storiesComment

Home Tastes Like Chicken Adobo

The meal is comforting but a little bittersweet, since the usual suspects aren’t around the dining room table tonight for this adventure with my Lola’s written recipes. The food just didn’t seem as complete without my Lola hovering over us to see if we’ve gotten enough sauce over our rice mounds…

FoodBy Sara Kline (From California, Philippines, India, & Thailand. Living in Washington, D.C.)19 December 2018TCK, TCK TOWN, tck, third culture kid, food, grandmother, grandparents, familiy, travel, homes, Philippines, chicken, adobo, cooking, recipeComment

Food for the TCK Body & Soul

Before speaking to my mom, I believed I had no habits to uphold as an adult living on my own, but perhaps I was wrong…

Sweet, Sweet Shaaibiat

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A luscious, mouth-watering Lebanese dessert and one of Lebanon’s most traditional sweets.

In Good TasteBy Wafaa Beaini (From Lebanon, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Living in Melbourne)11 April 2018tck, TCK training, TCK, TCK TOWN, recipe, recipe book, Lebanon, Labanese, food, yum, dessert, sweet, shaaibiatComment

Pho the First Time

I sit there. Sweaty. Hungry. Flushed. Embarrassed, but humoured. This was the first time I had ever used chopsticks, been to a Vietnamese restaurant, or laid eyes on tea ornaments (flasks)...