Quote:
"Mah Jong Orphan explores the sometimes strained relations between a Chinese-raised mother and her Chinese-Canadian daughter. [...] [Honey] Fisher obviously managed to ensure a level of trust and intimacy between herself, her camera and her subjects, so the audience participates as an appreciative voyeur, only too pleased to be part of this familiar mother and daughter's generational tensions, as familiar as our mother's perfume. What's going to click with our festival audience [at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival] is the way Fisher maintains a sense of humour about the serious business of maternal disapproval [...]."
-- Noreen Golfman

Source:
Golfman, Noreen. "Touring women's cinema: The films by the latest crop of Canadian women directors are worth their weight in unbuttered popcorn." Canadian Forum, September 1994. (p. 25)