Mother's Cupboard

Suk-Fong Wong, a Chinese-Canadian elder, intimately takes us through her treasured collections of Chinese medicines, herbs, and ingredients found in her cupboards. Recorded in 2012, Suk-Fong speaks in her first language, Toisanese, a dialect related to Cantonese, and describes what some of her homemade elixirs and compounds are used for. This includes "loik doy dew", a deer bone alcohol-based elixir used for adding to soups. Most of the ingredients shown can be readily found in Chinese herbal stores.

  • Duration: 10 Min.
  • Countries: Canada
  • Languages: kur
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2019

  • Director: Paul Wong

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