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Upstairs at Wo Fat Restaurant with the Mah Jong Gang

August 5, 2010

Tags: Wo Fat, Chinese food, Chinese, Mah Jong, Pam Chun, grandmothers, Honolulu, Honolulu Chinatown

I must have been three. Short fat legs. Chubby arms. But I could pluck each juicy mushroom, the slippery big Shitake mushrooms slick with an oyster sauce gravy, with my chopstick and plop them in my mouth. The true dexterity test of a connoisseur.

As the platters of succulent roast duck, shoyu chicken, bright (more…)

The stories in air and water

July 21, 2010

Tags: Hawaii, air, water, surf, ghosts, tradewind, nature, Pam Chun

We Keiki O Ka Aina, children of Hawaii, are taught that everything in nature, the air, water, earth, trees, rocks, plants, and all living things are alive. Because of this, I feel my stories are gifts from nature.

When I am home in the San Francisco Bay area, the wind that whistles through the (more…)

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Fiction
When Strange Gods Call
When Strange Gods Call is a story of old family rivalries that threaten ill-fated lovers who defy generations of family hostility. Hawaii, a tropical paradise alive with history and myths, is the temptress that lures the lovers back and becomes part of this tale of love lost and rediscovered.
Historical Fiction
THE MONEY DRAGON
Chinese American financier and merchant Lau Ah Leong, an immigrant to Hawaii in the 1880's became one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii during a time of racial discrimination.