Rose Lu

I used to fear growing older. I saw it as a slow act of narrowing, where the body and mind stiffen and restrict Audio

Time to take the grandparents grocery shopping. But which shop? A consideration of relative wealth and personal progress Audio

I grew up understanding the necessity of work and a certain degree of meniality. There was no notion of following your passion Audio

In two millennia of dynastic history there is only one woman, Wu Zetian, who wore the Emperor's yellow. Like many women in history she was criticised harshly by scholars Audio

What was that rating thing they used to do on Outward Bound? Hold up your fingers - left hand for physical health, right hand for mental? Audio

The cleaver is essential in Chinese cooking - in experienced hands it is almost the only knife required in the kitchen Audio

What's my real job? Fitting a creative life around the need to survive means compromise, juggling and hustling - and about living with that reality Audio

Mum had a trick she used to get you to go to bed when you were a toddler - she told you a family of tigers shared our house Audio

Red Packet warns us that there are things lurking in the neutral zone of cross-cultural chaos that can deliver awkward surprises.

Cooking Scene is a cross-cultural conversation on culinary reality… Audio

I habitually pushed back against being Chinese, but what I was railing against was a spectre concocted from a lifetime of misinformation Audio

Any good domestic Chinese kitchen has a cleaver. In fact, it's almost all you need to prepare food - but only if you know how to use it.

Told by Nikita… Audio