Rachel Phan
Freelance contributor
Rachel Phan (潘美美) is a Toronto-based Chinese Canadian writer. When she's not scribbling sentences and thoughts in endless Google Docs, she's daydreaming about her next meal and hoping it's dim sum.
Latest from Rachel Phan
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First Person
No matter how old I get, I'll always be a restaurant kid
Rachel Phan is a four-hour drive away from her parents’ family restaurant. But the business still defines her relationship with her parents.
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First Person
I feel like the biggest loser when someone says, 'Wow, your English is so good!'
Learning English was meant to be an advantage, but it just created a gulf between me and my parents whose first language is Cantonese, writes Rachel Phan.
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