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| Peter and his mother-in-law Li Jinshan |
Well here's a funny and cute little Australia-China story, basically a happy one, though you might not think so if you look only at the video embedded in the post: Peter wandering around what used to be his pretty little flower garden, converted to a vegetable garden by Li Jinshan.
And it's good to see that some China-based commenters thought the mother-in-law, Li Jinshan, had gone a bit too far in digging up Peter's garden and planting vegetables without, it seems, even asking him. If so, she had! In the end though, Peter seems pretty philosophical about it all. He makes rather a big drama out of the "stinky bean curd" (chou doufu, 臭豆腐). It's not that bad, an acquired taste, like smelly cheese would be to many Chinese.
As in this story: I'm also a "Peter", also a dozen years older than my also Beijing-born wife, and she's also a "Li", like the folks in this story.
But we'd never have my mother-in-law living with us as they don't get on…
We wish Peter, Yang Yang and Li Jinshan well!
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The cultural differences experienced by a New Zealand-Chinese family living in Sydney, Australia, have attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers in China, amused by the interactions between the Kiwi son-in-law and his Chinese mother-in-law.
~~~~~~~~Family's 'east-west cultural differences' draw thousands of viewers in China
