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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 377669, member: 360"]My great-grandfather was a Peranakan goldsmith. And my father's family has been Peranakan for centuries. I've traced it back about four or five generations myself, but I'm sure it goes back MUCH further. They were peranakan to their bootstraps and to hear my grandmother talk, if someone Sinkeh from China ever dared to suggest that they were in any way similar, they would've been kicked out of town using the very finest of Peranakan handmade slippers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cultural nitpicking aside, I see nothing in that silverware that would suggest a Peranakan background. It just doesn't have the finesse of detail or the Chinese-inspired motifs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 377669, member: 360"]My great-grandfather was a Peranakan goldsmith. And my father's family has been Peranakan for centuries. I've traced it back about four or five generations myself, but I'm sure it goes back MUCH further. They were peranakan to their bootstraps and to hear my grandmother talk, if someone Sinkeh from China ever dared to suggest that they were in any way similar, they would've been kicked out of town using the very finest of Peranakan handmade slippers. Cultural nitpicking aside, I see nothing in that silverware that would suggest a Peranakan background. It just doesn't have the finesse of detail or the Chinese-inspired motifs.[/QUOTE]
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