"The fish in the sink is slowly dying." (Paragraph 19 line 1). After immigrating to Canada, the Malaysian culture in the author's family is fading away like fish slowly dying in the sink “'I don't like the eyeball there. He looks sick.'" (Paragraph 34) Why must we eat fish?" (Paragraph 31 line 1). Which represents the son's resistance to Malay culture “My father gets there with his bare hands. He lifts the fish by the tail and places it gently on the counter. Holding him in place with one hand, he strikes his head with the flat part of the cleaver. (Paragraph 22 line 1-3). After his son's refusal at dinner and reluctance to remember Malay, the father chose the traditional way of teaching his son, how to treat fish. The television program serves as the soil for their cultural tree to draw nutrients from, ensuring that the tree has taken root. “He loved cooking shows. We watched Wok with Yan, my father passing judgment on Yan's methods. You don't have to be a genius to do it.” The narrator's father loves watching Asian television shows; the television is a bridge for the father to talk about Asian culture with the narrator and is also a vehicle to convey a relevant message of Asian culture. The name tag symbolizes the new identity in the new country, "her name tag is still clipped to her blouse" (paragraph 35 line 1) mother immigrates to Canada, all life is new to her, she is a new immigrant which needs time to eliminate cultural differences