Last Tang Standing Quotes

“Tears sprang, unbidden, to my beady, plebeian eyes. That so much beauty was possible in the heart of this stone-and-concrete city, that it should be owned by one person, while I paid almost half my salary and almost all my waking hours for not even a hundredth of this space—it hurt. How could this be what my life had become about?”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“25 a.m. I now know all the types of intestinal worms you can get and how to get them. 12:27 a.m. How to get Genevieve to drink from muddy swamp water? How to ensure the swamp water sample contains eggs of flukes? 12:33 a.m. How to get water from a lake containing Guinea worm, surely the Lamborghini of parasitic worms?”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“9:15 a.m. Just got an earful from a client because I, or rather one of my minions, forgot to capitalize one letter of a company’s name on a board resolution, which was still in draft form, by the way. Well, just wait till the lawyers of the Gen Z cohort are unleased upon the world. Forgetting to capitalize will be the least of anyone’s concerns.”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic.”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“... we couldn't decide if we wanted to string each other's intestines like fairy lights over the walls or smush our genitals together.”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“And then one day you wake up and you’ll find that your womb has become a prune!”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“Do you know you can’t wait forever to have babies, otherwise you are pretty much playing Russian roulette with whatever makes it out of your collapsing birth canal?”;”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“It’s strange, isn’t it, how this form of racism is still accepted under the guise of ensuring that the new addition to your family has a ‘similar cultural background and value system’?”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“Why did mothers always think that if they recited random details about a person you’d never met in your life, you’d somehow magically know what they were talking about?”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“until the son has come on board and has had a chance to decide on the pending investments,”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

“Most Chinese parents, no matter where they are in the world, want their kids to bring home a mate of:

* Chinese ethnicity (trade-offs are tolerated in some families, but rare--however, likelihood of acceptance increases inversely the longer the errant offspring in question remains single).

* High earning capacity and/or wealth: MD or similar (Lawyer, Investment Banker, Consultant"). Otherwise, being rich and successful entrepreneur is also acceptable; legit royalty is, of course welcome.”
― Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing