Family Interview Paper

My mother Annie is from Taishan, a city in China and she speaks Cantonese and Mandarin. Annie is currently 49 years old and now living in Manhattan New York, I chose to interview her because we have a strong mother daughter bond so I thought I would take advantage of this paper to get to know her more. Interestingly enough, there were a couple of things I realized about myself and things I did not know about my mother until I interviewed her.
Many things affected me during this interview, but the one thing that affected me the most that I learned from this interview is realizing how things are so much more different in New York then it was when she was in China. It gave me a new appreciation of how much courage it must have taken her to leave her family behind just to start

A typical family dinner would be her whole family sitting together and one of their rules are no talking whatsoever until they are done eating (no tv, no music.. Basically no sound at all). I am so glad my mom did not make this a rule in our household because I can’t sit in silence and eat. During birthdays, her parents would always make eggs and they have to eat it because it is considered good luck if you eat eggs in the morning of your birthday. They were not allowed to eat porridge in the morning because that was considered bad luck and the superstition was that if you ate porridge in the morning of your birthday you will always be hungry. In addition, during a holiday dinner they would all help out and cooked together. Their traditional foods were sweet potatoes, a lot of vegetables, some kind of meat, and there is always soup on the side. One of Annie’s favorite family recipe was chicken soup that her mother taught her. My mom still makes it till this day, she uses a special small pot that is filled with all the ingredients that is put into a giant pot which is filled with water and she boils it for hours and sometimes even