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Last night had dinner in the doctor's accommodation with 2 other docs. Interestingly, all three of us are off Chinese origin, but came from very different background.

Jonathan, is from Bangladesh. Third generation migrant Chinese. I never thought there are Chinese in Bangladesh. He does not speak Mandarin, but speak Hakka...

Ju-Lee, the other doctor from paeds, is a second generation migrant to Australia. She speak like the Australian; She can understand Hokkien but does not speak the dialect.

My family have live in Malaysia for 3 generations, and now I am in Australia. I still speak Mandarin and 3 Chinese dialects.

Sadly these 3 Chinese docs had to converse with each other in English... bur surprisingly the food that is on the table is extremely familiar Chinese home cooking...

Our ancestors left China, a century ago, and we had grown up in very different background, still we can find lots of similarity. Does it run in the blood?

See photos in mirror site.