Kaitlin Chan presents us with zine “Cha Chaan Teng = I Love You”, a way to talk about the fraught relationship to food in the Asian diaspora and, more playfully, an inquiry into whether Chan could pass off a Chinese tattoo that read “cha chaan teng” as “I love you” to non-Chinese speakers. Ultimately, this work is a tribute to Chan’s maternal grandparents, whose Kah Wah restaurant in Melbourne was closed before she was born. The restaurant remains a mythic place, existing only in recollections imparted by her mother. The images for the zine were collected over the course of 2016–2019, though the actual production process took just a few days. Intimate vignettes of food and relationships were written in one burst and images paired with them in the editing process. Resistant to the role of food in their lives, Chan uses this form of art publishing to delve into the rituals and encounters enabled by the act of eating together. A reckoning of relations with family, friends, and Chan’s partner are printed with risograph along with the iconography of Chinese takeaway menus and restaurant signage. Like the fantasy Chinese tattoo, these signs become a visual landscape to be projected on, and it is this capacity to open-source translation that Chan seeks out in this work. -Hera Chan, Tai Kwun Contemporary