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距今40年前，南美洲的一個小鎮「瓊斯鎮」傳出908人集體自殺的新聞震驚社會!

究竟在杳無人跡的叢林深處發生什麼事情？這場大規模集體自殺是怎麼發生的？

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New York City really embraces the term “melting pot.” Every corner of the world is packed into the Big Apple’s five boroughs, from vibrant enclaves such as Little Guyana in Queens and midtown’s Koreatown to lower Manhattan’s bustling Chinatown and Little Italy 🗽

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[酸枝椅的虧欠]

廿多年前，香港人移民加拿大，會去購買整套的酸枝家具，寄箱船運到彼邦。那些年酸枝家私相對較化算，木材靚，師傅手工好。隨歲月洗禮，家具越變越美麗。

到了外國，才知道這些家具的矜貴。加拿大房子大，買IKEA家品的品質已經算是不錯，當地便宜的家具很多，貴價的，一般人買不起。

而這些酸枝家俬，竟成為了緊急回流家庭，送親友的最名貴禮物。

多倫多Suburb獨立屋林立的小街，住了亞裔華裔印度裔，白人是小數。大部份人各家自掃門前雪，唯獨一對黑人夫婦Mary和James熱情又善良，我們笑說，他們像「街坊福利會主席」。

Mary來自加勒比海島國安提瓜和巴布達（Antigua and Barbuda）；丈夫來自南美洲北部的圭亞那（Guyana)。兩人祖先都是來自非洲，因十八世紀的奴隸買賣而離開祖家。移民加國後，太太從事護理，丈夫則做工程，子女都已在加國落地生根。現在已退休。

我們住這街廿多年，知道每戶情況。誰家剷雪機剪草機壞了，他們都會協助修理。近來有人在大房子裡成立非法劏房，租客不停更換，後花園一團糟，James向市政府舉報過，但不得要領，James很氣結。

搞非法劏房的人來自中國內地，James和我們認識很久，我也要花心思解釋，我們來自香港，有點不同。但在加拿大要解釋這一點，也不容易。

閒時James看球賽，花很多時間料理前花園。他的前園的草，永遠是綠油油茂盛的，你看過草坪的邊緣像地毯一樣彎下去的嗎？在加拿大，your lawn your fate.你的前園漂亮，你的臉上便有光。

「亞洲」在他們心目中很遙遠，James儲了很久的錢，花巨額參加了一次「遠東旅行團」。他們數年前參加旅行團到中國旅遊，登長城遊長江，短暫到過香港。路經香港時，他們到離島長洲拾了一塊木頭，把香港區旗黏上去。當他們把木頭展示給我看，我看到笑不攏嘴。在他心目中，香港就是中國南的一個城市，你們之間有甚麼瓜葛，他很難了解。

James和Mary的子女長大，都搬走了，去了加拿大另一個省份。他女兒是加拿大皇家騎警，很強壯。那時香港反修例運動，她那位騎警女兒反而告訴我，她支持香港示威者。但談到Black Lives Matter,她一定站在非洲裔美國人的那一邊。

「遠親不如近鄰」，他知道我家人情況，我請他們多關顧。每年探親，我會從香港帶點茶葉或中式餅食，毃門探望。他們會招呼我入厨房，吃件餅飲杯茶閒話家常。

去年夏天，家人急病，我由香港打長途電話到加拿大請這兩位鄰居幫忙。Mary是退休護士，即使面對疫情威脅，無人願意去醫院，她還是二話不說開車把家中老人送往醫院治理，如救命恩人。到我買了機票飛到那邊，已是一星期後的事。

反而是老人始終介懷。出院的時候堅持不讓Mary開車接走，我又花了很多心思安排一個香港移民朋友接老人出院。

後來我們賣屋回流，把家具送人。Mary很喜歡我們的酸枝椅子，幾十年前師傅的手藝加上靚木材，今日難找。她拿走了幾張酸枝椅，配襯她的西式家具也甚美。她還很客氣，不想接受免費禮物，偷偷把一點錢放入一張Thankyou Card塞了給我。他們有舊派人的禮儀。

我們承諾她，上飛機前把最後一張酸枝椅送她。然而，往飛機場的車到了，我回到屋子裡，赫然發現那張酸枝椅不翼而飛，原來家人把它送了別人。我很怕失信於人，怒火中燒，反而是Mary安慰我：「不要緊，椅子主人應該忘記了。」

對於「非我族裔」，部份香港移民還是十分抗拒。我家老人，曾經不讓我到訪芝加哥，說「黑人區很危險」；又不准我叫Uber，原因是開車的都是有色人種，的確我坐Uber時，跟印度新移民談得興緻勃勃的。而士嘉堡住很多斯里蘭卡人，我條街也有一個印度家族，男戶主是開計程車的。

每次聽到移民廿多年的老人跟我投訴「黑人怎樣」，我就拿Mary James跟他們討論。「全條街對我們最好的，不是香港人鄰居，而是Mary and James, 他們不是黑人嗎?」老人曾經說過，Mary和 James的皮膚黑得發光，我卻覺得極漂亮。

他們的心，最漂亮。

直到今天，Mary和 James都有電郵跟我聯絡，上飛機前，我悲從中來，Mary抱着我的肩，我忍不住在她懷裡哭了出來。Mary仁慈地安慰道: 「Vivian, you have done all you could do.」 我哭得更厲害。

（專欄原刊於明報，此為增訂版，朋友指正此套家具為黃花梨，　不是酸枝）

Cặp cá này là cá Hải Tưởng Long ở điểm dừng nghỉ Minh Phát 2, trên quốc lộ 1 qua Tiền Ginag. Đây là cặp cá đẹp nhất mà mình từng gặp.
Hai con cá Hải Tượng Long này nặng 200 ký, và đã cơ 15 năm tuổi.
Cá hải tượng long (Danh pháp hai phần: Arapaima gigas) là một loài cá nước ngọt sống ở vùng nhiệt đới Nam Mỹ. Đây là một trong những loài cá nước ngọt lớn nhất trên thế giới. Năm 1829, nhà sinh vật học người Thụy Sĩ là Louis Agassiz tiến hành một chuyến khảo sát và ông đã tìm thấy loài ở vùng rừng nhiệt đới Amazon của Brazil và đặt tên A. agassizii vào năm 1847.[2] Loài cá này được đề xuất tên khác bao gồm A. Arapaima được tìm thấy ở Guyana và A. mapae từ vùng đông bắc Brazil.[2]. Và hiện nay chỉ có một loài duy nhất được công nhận là A. gigas
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加拿大 / Canada
美國 / USA / United States of America / 美利堅合眾國
墨西哥 / Mexico
古巴 / Cuba
巴哈馬群島 / The Bahamas
英屬開曼群島 / Cayman Islands
牙買加 / Jamaica
海地 / Haiti
多明尼加共和國 / Dominican Republic
美屬波多黎各 / Puerto Rico
英屬百慕達群島 / Bermuda
百慕達三角洲 / Bermuda Triangle
貝里斯 / Belize
瓜地馬拉 / Guatemala
薩爾瓦多 / El Salvador
宏都拉斯 / Honduras
尼加拉瓜 / Nicaragua
哥斯大黎加 / Costa Rico
巴拿馬 / Panama
聖克里斯多福及尼維斯聯邦 / St Kitts and Nevis
安地瓜與巴布達 / Antigua and Barbuda
聖露西亞 / St Lucia
聖文森和格瑞納丁 / Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
巴貝多 / Barbados
格瑞那達 / Grenada
千里達和多巴戈 / Trinidad and Tobago
哥倫比亞 / Colombia
厄瓜多 / Ecuador
祕魯 / Peru
委內瑞拉 / Venezuela
圭亞那 / Guyana
蘇里南 / Suriname
法屬蓋亞那 / French Guiana
巴西 / Brazil
波利維亞 / Bolivia
巴拉圭 / Paraguay
烏拉圭 / Uruguay
阿根廷/ Argentina
智利 / Chile
復活島 / Easter Island
摩埃石像/ Moai

Shaved snow served by Wooly's.

"Shaved snow is a hybrid between shaved ice and ice cream. By taking a block of ice made with low-fat milk, flavors are infused into the blocks before it is frozen, and then shave it very fine to create a texture similar to fresh fallen snow."

Flavors available are Original Leche, Coffee, and Melon. Optional toppings include Strawberry, Blueberry, Coconut Flakes, Mochi, Pocky Sticks, Cookies 'n Cream, Graham Cracker Crumble, Captain Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, Corn Flakes, Sea Salt Leche, Chocolate Drizzle, Whipped Cream, and Strawberry Cream.

"Snow ice"—cream, milk, water, sugar and fruit, frozen and then shaved and served in cones—is popular in Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia and making inroads into the United States.

Brazil - Raspadinha
Bangladesh - Gola
Colombia - Raspado
Costa Rica - Copos and also called Granizado
Cuba - Granizados
Dominican Republic - Frío Frío and also in some parts of the country they are called Yun Yun
El Salvador - Minuta
France - Granite Hawaïen
Guatemala - Granizada but in other parts of the country they are also called Raspado
Guyana - Crush Ice or Snow Cone and are topped with condensed milk.
Haïti - Fresco
Italy - Granita, Grattachecca
India - Chuski
Taiwan - Baobing There is also a version known as snow flake ice which uses shaved frozen milk and other flavors.
Japan - Kakigori
Korea - Patbingsu
Mexico - Raspado, Yuki (only in northern Mexico)
Nicaragua - Raspado
Peru - Raspadilla
Philippines - Halo halo
Puerto Rico - Piragua
Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia - Ais/Es kacang
Pakistan, Baraf ka Gola
Panama - Raspao, often topped with sweetened condensed milk
Suriname - Schaafijs
Thailand - Nam khaeng sai
English and French Caribbean islands - Snowball
Colombia - Raspado or Cholado
USA - Shaved Ice
Honduras - Minuta, often topped with sweetened condensed milk
Mauritius - Glaçon Rapé
Venezuela - Cepillados or Raspados, sweetened with fruit juice, artificial flavors and condensed milk

In Hawaii, "shave ice" is similar to snowballs, and is sold in cone-shaped paper cups. "Rainbow," a popular flavor, consists of three colors of syrup chosen usually for their color rather than their taste compatibility. Commonly, a scoop of vanilla ice cream or sweetened azuki beans is first added to the bottom of the cup and is capped with condensed milk.

Vendors in Texas and northern Mexico serve finely shaved ice desserts. Called a raspa, they are usually sold from a roadside stand or trailer. They come in many flavors, including leche (milk and cinnamon) and picosito (the Spanish word for 'spicy' made with lemon and chili powder.)

The dessert ais kacang served in Malaysia and Singapore is another form of shaved ice. Ais kacang was originally served with red beans but now includes various fruits and other sweet toppings.
In Japan they are known as kakigori, and in India it is called a "gola" and usually served on popsicle sticks.

In Britain the term snow cone has been used for a standard ice cream cone topped with (usually vanilla) ice cream, hence the term snow cone.

In Perú this dessert is called Raspadilla, which is served in cups along with a spoon and/or a straw. It consists in ground ice which is thick and topped with juices of different flavors that can be combined, regularly the most common flavors are pineapple and strawberry juices but it can also be served with berries juice, passion fruit juice (maracuya), chicha morada (purple corn juice), and in some cases but uncommon it can be topped with condensed milk or yogurt. Its very popular in the beaches during summertime, but it also is consumed in the towns and the cities as well. It is sold in carts spread around some streets and avenues of the city, being prepared at the moment (some of them grind the ice in a block with a device or some spoon with a blade like razor in one end, others yet hace the ice already ground stored in a coolerbox) but all of them serve the portion of ice in the cup in front of the customer and then ask which flavor of juice would be poured on top of the ice, then they put a spoon and the straw.

Kala Khatta is a syrup made from the jambul fruit in India and some other parts of South Asia. It is primarily used as a flavoring for Indian ice lollipops or popsicles, sold as street food. Crushed ice is formed into a lump by hand and mounted on a stick to make the lollipop. Kala khatta syrup and seasonings such as salt and pepper are then poured on the lollipop.