In the same interview, Tunku Azizah spoke of her late father Sultan Iskandar’s joke during her childhood of having purportedly picked her up from China.

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“There was once, because the birth certificate was lost, my father told me ‘We picked you up from a rubbish bin in China, now you lost your birth certificate, we have to chop you up piece by piece, to cook as curry and eat, for you to be reborn,” she said, adding that she kept on crying then as was afraid she would really be cooked in a curry.

Her family also gave her a Chinese nickname as she looked like singer Jenny Tseng when she wore spectacles.

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“Afraid of being caned by father, I would secretly sign the report card, when father asked, I would say ‘You already signed it, you just forgot,” she said.