Lunchbox Dilemma

Lunchbox Dilemma

Documentary 2022

Available on CBC Gem

Three Asian Canadians recall hiding, discarding and forgetting their lunches — the ones their classmates called “weird,” “smelly,” and “funny-looking.”

Documentary 2022

G

EPISODE 1

Joe

Avril Lavigne + K-pop + kimchi. Joe Rascal, an independent artist and musician, recalls bringing a “high-tech” thermos filled with kimchi and other Korean dishes to school.

5 min · Mar 22, 2022 G
EPISODE 2

Vanessa

Vanessa Okafo, a dancer and film producer, loved eating steamed daikon as a kid. But her classmates' reactions to the dish made her second-guess her feelings about her family’s home-cooked food.

4 min · Mar 22, 2022 G
EPISODE 3

Yang

Indie rocker and classical percussionist Yang Chen (they/she) comes to terms with the fact that a boy at school thought her rice ball looked like “Scottish boogers.”

6 min · Mar 22, 2022 G

About

Lunchbox Dilemma

DOCUMENTARY

Three Asian Canadians recall hiding, discarding and forgetting their lunches — the ones their classmates called “weird,” “smelly,” and “funny-looking.”

Information

Studio: CBC
Released: 2022
Rated: G

Languages

Audio: * (AAC)
Subtitles: English (Canada) (CC, SDH)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.