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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

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

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)...

PAUL

My passports have always been issued from abroad. In the 1980s my passports were changed to blue "Z" instead of the standard blue. I was treated like a second class citizen each time I “returned” to the US and travelling in my 20's through Europe with it in the Cold War was sheer hell on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain...

The Holy Grail

I had been taught in school that heaven contained streams of milk and honey, however, that afternoon as I blasphemed, I knew God would forgive this enlightened experience when his golden trumpets sounded on my day of reckoning...

In Good TasteBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)8 October 2016potatoes, roti, aloo, live, eat, Nana, Pakistani, lunchtime, nani, memories, food, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, Karachi, tck, TOP TEN Comment