these poems were made during five years of eating and living in glaschu, scotland. they should not be taken as reviews – nor should the quality of the poems necessarily be seen to reflect on the quality of any food or place which may bare a similar name, in either a positive or negative light.
Food, culture, history, race, food. No-one combines these subjects like Glasgow based, England born, of Hong Kong heritage Sean Wai Keung.
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i like to think that if he had been given the chance
he would have liked it
but who can know for sure
when he first arrived in the uk i dont know
what glaschu would have been like
chinatown here opened in 1992
the year after i was born
i moved here three
years after he died
this place was built by migrants
and we have been eating here ever since
star bar
a genuinely nice place and a staple of the stereotypically good
poor local diet – i mean its £3
for a three-course meal what isnt there
to love
you get soup
you get something with potatoes
[or mac and cheese]
you get jelly
***
while somewhere out beyond the faded bricks
the 38 speeds past with a busload of folk heading of
or on to jobs they may
love or hate but at least they have them
and for that price what else did you expect
di maggios
during your visit
when you turned to me and said i promised them [pointing
to them] that glaschu has some amazing italian food
and i looked at them and noticed all their hunger
and you continued so i said to them that you would take us
somewhere nice and you gave me that smile you gave me
sometimes [that same one from my childhood
that i hated]
what i said was thats fine – we can go
to di maggios but what i thought was something else
a sudden blurring of chakras or a fare up
of memories of shouting matches between us in italian restaurants
in cities far away [when they werent with you]
the comic-sans-esque font of a spaghetti house in tsim sha tsui
a disagreement over birthrights at a carluccios in stratford
and you [still giving me that smile] said o – is that a good one then
and i looked at them and noticed again
[that they were not there back then] their
[that none of this is their fault] hunger
and so i said yes – it is and i started to lead you down
buchanan street and all i kept thinking
was that this time it would be different
that this time there would be no fighting
that this city really does have amazing italian food
and that sometimes thats enough
greggs
one day some rando in the queue
tells me that what you order is dependant entirely on your
personality type
i asked them to explain so they did
sausage roll – classy/elegant/no-nonsense
steak bake – deep-thinking/complex/warm
chicken bake – arsty/professional/lucky
bean/cheese melt – fun/kinky/light-hearted
beef pasty – morbid/energetic/hopeful
pizza slice – always wanting to be in the middle of it all
vegan sausage roll – cool/loving/life-affirming
a sandwich – gentle/anxious/trusting
salad or soup – mysterious/possibly untrustworthy
and as i placed my own order i found myself
thinking that maybe the rando was right
i mean whos to say where exactly it is
that these things really do come from
blue lagoon
“Italy and the fascist involvement in World War II brought many hardships on Italians settled in Scotland – many families were separated as adult males were interned. The family members that were left behind were forced to cope with mistrust and discrimination. Of those imprisoned many men found themselves held in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. A number of others were employed in Orkney, at Sc...
