My Aunt Pearl, who married into a large family had plenty of stories to tell when she was relax and happy with every one. She had a lot of burden on her shoulders being the eldest daughter in law, as it was normal in a traditional Foochow family.
Furthermore, she was one of the first ladies in Sibu to be a career woman, holding a position as an accounting in a business. She was quite a masterful person in town.
She told us that in most Foochow families, the girls would be given wings to eat because they would soon fly away. The boys and the head of the family would always get the drumsticks.
My aunt laughingly told us that if we wanted to be masterful, we had to eat drumsticks to stay strong and powerful. However my mother beat all odds and she would give us girls drumsticks, by turn. We did not have to wait for our birthdays to eat drumsticks.
One piece of chicken Aunt Pearl disliked most was the breast meat, which I particularly liked in those days. She told me once that when she was first married and she was given a piece of breast meat she almost burst into tears because it indicated how the family placed her at a low position. But later she laughed about those incidents in her life.
Some how, we nieces just loved to eat wings. We were not thinking of flying away as soon as possible.
Years later the Sibu chicken market started to sell chicken parts and my mother would enjoy just buying chicken wings for all of us.
Today, it does not really matter for every one could just buy chicken wings, from KFC, or from the bbq chicken wing stalls and eat to our heart's content especially if we have our own money.
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