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— by Luke Tsai: Leena Lim grew up going out for afternoon tea with her mother at the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the tradition of sitting down for scones, clotted cream, and a pot of BOH tea in the afternoon was a remnant of British colonialism that had simply become a part of everyday life for many Malaysians — not the special occasion that it tends to be in the U.S…

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