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About this interview
Restaurant workersChefs from Hong Kong chat about family, customers, and the way people dress.

Interviewees:
Kin San Kwok, Kwan Po Tung,

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Relationship of interviewees: Work colleagues

Where: Worcester, Worcestershire

Language of interview: English
About this interview
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Voice clip 1
A discussion of the words used for "toilet". Our interviewees go into detail about each word and its actual meaning.


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Voice clip 2
Kinsan explains how, when in Hong Kong, he learned English with an American accent, but now speaks with a British accent.


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More clips from this interview

Kin San Kwok, Chef/waiter
The kind of friends you spend time around can have a big impact on your grasp of different languages.

Kwan Po Tung, Acting restaurant manager
Kwan Po Tung believes in treating everyone the same, regardless of the way they dress.
Interview's notes

Long description of interview: Two members of staff (should have been more but they were diverted away). All had extensive catering experience and both had come from Hong Kong where their families had a catering background. One interviewee actually lived over the restaurant.

Recorded by: John Hellings, Radio Hereford And Worcester

Date of interview: 2005/03/29


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