April 6, 2009

My dearest,

Janis Joplin is screaming over the stereo. It’s summer and I’m at Woodstock again. Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Sweet, tender pieces of my heart. Morsels you can savour with a cup of pu erh, a tea with wit strong enough to sustain you. Taste my har gao and taste my siu mai. You’ll taste none better in this town.

In return, let me nibble at your soft and pillowy siu long bao, let me rub my lips with your sticky lou mai gai. You have dug your phoenix talons deep into me, and I cannot let you go… not without one last bite of your heavenly lo bak gou, my little dimsum…

Yours, ever and always.