Oliver Phommavanh is a young Thai-Australian writer who has got a spot at Sydney Writers’ Festival with his first short story entitled ‘Hot and Spicy’ which was featured in an anthology, Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung in 2008. He has worked as a primary school teacher and now spends his time writing and sharing his writing passion with kids and engaging them with humor. Therefore, in ‘Hot and Spicy’, he stirs a hilarious tale using the first person narrative about Albert, a crazy Thai boy who is trying to stop his teachers from ordering Thai food from his family’s Thai restaurant by putting a prank using his father’s special chilli paste during the multicultural feast celebration which ends with self-guilty. The themes that can
