Aug 3, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
Photographer David Fu joins Banana Lab to share a life that rarely went according to plan. Growing up in Kaitaia as the only Asian kid, David watched his parents build a takeaway business from almost…
What was that experience like for you, you know, at school and with your peers and your social life?
Learned a lot more Maori, I guess, at the time, which I've- ... forgotten, which is really bad, [laughs] but-
No, just kind of like w- bec- it wasn't s- because during the '90s it wasn't as heavily, like, pushed upon.
the folk songs and Tūtejama and iwi and, you know, like, ma is white, fiddle is red, you know, kakadiki is green, that song.
What was that experience like for you, you know, at school and with your peers and your social life?
Learned a lot more Maori, I guess, at the time, which I've- ... forgotten, which is really bad, [laughs] but-
No, just kind of like w- bec- it wasn't s- because during the '90s it wasn't as heavily, like, pushed upon.
the folk songs and Tūtejama and iwi and, you know, like, ma is white, fiddle is red, you know, kakadiki is green, that song.
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