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lap cheong

A sausage engineered for keeping is also a record of who had to carry their food with them.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Southern China; sausage cured with sugar, salt and rose-scented rice wine, then air-dried until firm, sweet and translucent

Routes

Carried by Cantonese migration to Southeast Asia, the Americas and Australia, where it fed the labour camps and railway work Chinese migrants were recruited into

Context

Lap cheong keeps without refrigeration, which is why it travelled with people who had no guarantee of a kitchen. It turns up in clay-pot rice and in the diaspora's improvised cooking wherever Chinese labour was imported and then legislated against. A sausage engineered for keeping is also a record of who had to carry their food with them.

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

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