2007年7月7日 星期六

Asians in Kenya

For these three months, I will stay at one indian lady's house, which is in indian community. So I always feel that I am in India and Kenya at the same moment. I call this lady "mama" because she really takes care of me very much. We talked a lot. Her son in law is Chinese, who teaches at Harvard. She has a fantastic housekeeper, who can cook indian food very well. I can always have indian food. It's pretty cool, isn't it.
Today we had one very special experience. We went out to hunt chinese food. Actually, there are many shopping malls in Kenya, most of which sell Thai noodles, rice noodles, soy sauce, etc. But they are all imported from China and Thailand. (hope someday i can find something imported from TW)

One funny thing is that today we stopped by one chinese restaurant but the name of it is "Bangkok" haha.... we met two chinese people there. and they can tell that i am not from mainland china, from my accent and face, even though I tried to pretend that I was. :P
There are some koreans and chinese and japanese in that community. I've heard that Koreans are notorious for addicting to gambling. Anyway, today is my first time to speak chinese in Kenya!! A lot of asians make much money in Kenya by running restaurants and business. But among the asians, Indians take the biggest account of it, which could be traced back to the spice trade. Asians are superior than Africans here.
There's one thing important is that we have to know how to identify ourseleves no matter where we are and help ourselves benefit the most from it.

2 則留言:

Ruwan 提到...

Mucha Mucha :D ... did Mommy find any Sri Lankans by any chance ???

MayiLoveKenya 提到...

yes...actually.
One indian man showed me a temple which is started by one sri lankan monk~~ :)