Lost in translation in Fujian


Getting immersed and confused by the various dialects in the province, the birth place of Chinese tea

WHEN I received an invitation for a visit to the Fujian province, I got pretty excited as I would be going to the southern region of China where most ancestors of Malaysian Hokkien came from.

A week before leaving, I started brushing up on my Hokkien dialect, which I picked up from friends, songs and Taiwanese films.

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