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Mama's Special Wonton Soup Nada Faris Arno realised he was notOne day, in a village in Southern China, a young girl leaves her mama's house to buy ingredients for wonton soup. On the way to market, she meets a wonderful array of characters going about their daily lives. Theres Ms Chen pulling radishes from the fields, Mr Li and his daughters hauling shrimp from the lake, and grandma hanging out strings of persimmons to dry in the sun. As the girl greets each of them with Z? o ? n, and thanks them with Xi xi,