Ming from the wok · Camden, 1998

地点与时间

• Camden Town Chinese takeaway · London · United Kingdom 1998–2000 behind the hatch on Friday nights

当年的 TA

Ming · 当时大约 23 岁

The cook at the back of our takeaway, a stocky man in his early twenties with burn scars on both forearms and a laugh like a car horn. He sang along to Cantopop with a wooden spoon for a microphone and never once burned the rice.

当年的我

The new girl on the counter who could not tell a Chinese five-spice from a ketchup bottle.

我为什么写这封信

重新联系 · 只想知道 TA 过得好不好

For two winters we worked the Friday rush together, me on the counter shouting orders, you behind the hatch shouting back. When the boss cut my hours, you sneaked extra boxes of rice into my bag every night and pretended it was a mistake. Then I moved to Manchester for university and we swapped addresses on a till receipt that I lost on the coach. I still smell soy sauce and think of Camden.

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