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Hot and Spicy by Oliver Phommavanh

In this story the author gives an incite into the life of an Asian family who work and live in a Thai restaurant. Albert is a young boy going to an Australian school who is sick of his parents food every night. This is a contrast to Australian's diet as his school asks Albert if his parents can makes some of their Thai food for a special lunch. The Australian school children are interested in the foreign Thai food whereas Albert is sick of it and finds the canteen the best place because he can have pies and sausage rolls. 'The canteen is the best thing about school. It's got meat pies and sausage rolls and chicken burgers.' It is important to know about the different lifestyles we have because many of us are left in the dark about foreign people's private life. They live in the back of the restaurant which for many Asian families living in Australia back then would have been normal. Living in a restaurant, Albert and his siblings have to try all the new recipes and spices. Albert doesn't want the school canteen to have Thai food in it so he puts lots of some of his dad's hot curry paste in the food so when the teachers try it, it would be too hot to eat and they would not want the food in the canteen. Albert's parents are used to the hot food and Albert's dad encourages Albert to put in more. Coming from an Asian background he is used to eating hot, spicy food. Although some teachers found it too hot, they agreed that they liked it and that they wanted some more. 

This passage shows the contrasting lifestyles and diets that Australians and Asia have and is important to know because we are a multicultural country and we take foreign food like Thai food for granted, and we should have more knowledge about the immigrants who provide this exotic food.People like Albert find Australian food a treat because they eat their Thai food more often than us. The contrast of these two nationalities is not obvious in real life but this story is a good representation of the different lifestyles we share in the one country.