Eating Pork'n'Puha with Chopsticks

I felt Māori at high school, my friends were Māori and I was just on a daily basis involved with Māori things ... I think I knew I was Māori more than I knew I was Chinese.

– Peter Lee reflects on his identity as a teenager

Being Māori-Chinese is eating pork bones and puha with chopsticks...

– Jenny Lee-Morgan on her mixed whakapapa

Don't marry your daughter to a gold mountain boy, he will not be in bed one full year out of 10, spiders spin webs on top of her bed, whilst dust covers fully one side...

– Old Chinese proverb warning of the often lonely life of marrying prospective gold miners