What a bowl of congee says about Australia’s role in South-East Asia


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What a bowl of congee says about Australia’s role in South-East Asia [Penny Wong] started Thursday with some fish ball juk and noodles, not so different from her childhood in [Malaysia’s] Sabah region. The congee-like dish from the Foh Sang cafe she frequented with her father was just as good as she remembered, the best thing she ate on a two-day trip. But the context of her homecoming — as a Malaysian-born Australian foreign minister trying to deepen the country’s soft power in South-East Asia — was very different. “I hope that my personal story can contribute to the relationship...