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“Finding the Simple Joys of Life.”

Grandfather remembered when he was younger, a good friend of their mother. Her homemade yong
and he would collect metal caps. When satisfied tao fu was delicious and cheap, so her business was
with his collected bottle caps, he would bring them to very good.
school and trade them with his friends. There were After buying the food, he and his brother would
different types of colours, and he would change the use containers to catch spiders. When they had
yellow caps for the red and blue ones. After school, to go back to school, they would place the spider
if he had leftover bottle caps, he would sell them for on the leaves to let them fight with each other. The
extra money to buy chocolate ice cream.
spider that had fallen off the leaf would be the
During the weekends, his entire family would loser. That spider would then be released back into
go to the local wet market to buy ingredients for the wild. After his victories, he would sell his spider
dinner. Going to the wet market was a memorable for a high cost and use the money for a new pair of
experience as he and his siblings would get free food shoes or a set of clothes.
samples from the yong tao fu stall lady as she was Chan Yik Hon
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