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    The Ow Dynasty

    September 24th, 2007 by mary

    Our first stop in China was to visit the family in Guangzhou. This meant gut expanding dinners with some outrageously good food. The Ow clan is quite large as my dad was the oldest of 7 siblings. When you put their families and kids’ families in one room to eat it’s quite a party. There are a few really fun characters in the bunch to keep things lively. And they all know how to eat the best stuff. My cousin Amy took us to have snake porridge. It’s a weird thing to say ‘You’ve got snake skin in your teeth.’ Third aunt made sure Steve got plenty of hot peppers. They found it entertaining that he could use chopsticks, and was left handed. One of the uncles said Steve was a white guy that looked asian because he was so dark.

    Third Uncle took a day off to take us out to see my 86 year old grandmother, recovering from hip surgery. She was quick to show us her scar. She has no teeth and bad hearing but was feisty, talkative and smiley. This is only my 2nd time seeing her since we emigrated to the States 27 years ago. Our few days with them didn’t seem long enough. But they were going so far out of their way to accommodate us that staying any longer would’ve been too much guilt to bear. Seeing them made me wish we weren’t an ocean apart.

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