I’m not Asian

He rejects being called Asian, white, Japanese, or technically Malaysian, describing himself as mixed, British, and half Asian-half European. A £120 23andMe test showed 51.3% East Asian/Native American and 48.7% European, including 40.8% Chinese. He ends with cooking: the pork chop smokes and burns, but he calls slight charring a desirable bitter flavor.

Identity defensiveness combines with public self-explanation and comic domestic improvisation.