Singapore, 2003

LUNCHTIME: Samsui woman Loh Ah Kwai, 91, eats the simple meal she's prepared for herself—a fistful of rice (washed thrice) with a few salted dates. She eats only boiled or steamed food and, like other old people in her building, gets a bag of rice, biscuits and noodles from a welfare organization every Saturday. She sleeps on a porcelain pillow, the replica of the one she brought with her from Samsui, China. Her original piece is displayed at the Chinatown Heritage Centre.
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