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Foodie 唐餐 

Northern Cafe, Yelp’s top rated restaurant is in Vancouver

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Catch Star Girl

A couple of factors dovetailed in my opinion such that checking out Northern Cafe seemed was the perfect thing to

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Shopping 行街 The Scattered History of.... 

Maltose lollipop anyone?

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Catch Star Girl

According to the name of the image file, I took this photo back in 2019 but I saw it again

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Asians in Music 唐人唱歌 Parenting 3G-CBC 

Unpacking my feelings about K-Pop for kids

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Catch Star Girl

Kiddo (7.5 yo) knows about BTS, barely. They have pop singles playing on the radio and are mainstream enough that

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

I’ve got this book On Hold: Hollow Bamboo

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Catch Star Girl

New-to-me debuting author William Seto Ping (Instagram @thepingtothepong) has a novel (memoir? autofic?) came out on February 21, 2023 and

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Learning Chinese 學中文 

Learning about bopomofo (zhuyin)

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Catch Star Girl

I have always said,”bo po mo fo” when we see “bpmf” in Mandarin class and never really wondered why. We

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Learning Chinese 學中文 Tech-Geeky 

Pinyin dice

February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 Catch Star Girl

I went down the rabbit hole one day when I saw pinyin dice and the “similar content” that included some

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Asian Studies Shopping 行街 Tech-Geeky 

Sheep Village 2.0

February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 Catch Star Girl

One of the Cantonese-speaking Instagrammers I follow – cantonese4parents – posted to her stories about Sheep Village 2.0. First off,

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Parenting 3G-CBC Shopping 行街 

LeapFrog Learning Friends English-Chinese 100 Words Book

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 Catch Star Girl

Last year, my sister bought this book for her LO. It’s cute, she’s gone handlong for Leapfrog with the “cell

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Site updates 

CSG is back …..

February 18, 2023February 18, 2023 Catch Star Girl

What a long hiatus. I have not posted since July 2021 and it was probably in July 2022 when I

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Bilingualism Parenting 3G-CBC 

On raising bilingual kids: 7yo and 3yo

July 24, 2022February 20, 2023 Catch Star Girl

Totally back-dating this post. I lost access to this website for six months from July 2022 until February 2023. Posted

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