CBC Docs | Kids made fun of my Chinese lunches, so I threw them away | The Lunchbox Dilemma @CBCdocs | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Vanessa Okafo, a dancer, choreographer and film producer, loved making Spice Girls routines and eating steamed daikon as a kid. Her classmates' reactions to the dish, however, led her to second-guess her feelings about her family’s home-cooked food.

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Three Asian Canadians share childhood memories of their hidden, forgotten or discarded lunches — the ones their classmates called “weird,” “smelly” and “funny-looking.”

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