Neighbourhood - Glen Innes (with Toa Fraser)

If you're going to eat it you'd love it, but if you will know what's in it you might be a little bit put off. But you shouldn't be, because it's really clean and we have a special way of cleaning it...

– Filipino cafe owner Charie Shearer on Filipino pork stew dinuguan, which contains pork intestines and blood

Glen Innes is a suburb undergoing significant social change. It's always been sort of an enclave of low-income workers in state housing, and yet it's always also boasted some significant views of the Tāmaki Estuary.

– Presenter Toa Fraser introduces the East Auckland suburb of Glen Innes

Storytelling is definitely in my blood. It's what I do as a writer and director, and one of the things that I really explore in my work is connections — connections between people, cultures, nations, hemispheres.

– Presenter Toa Fraser

Illegal Musik is a no-frills independent New Zealand-born music label, where we discover, nurture, develop and build artists.

– Mark Arona, co-founder of Illegal Musik

...for me, G.I. [Glen Innes] is a representation of the struggle that I've gone through in order to try and achieve greatness. So without that struggle, I don't think I'd be doing what I'm doing now and helping bring talent and nurture talent, and basically inspiring other people to chase their dreams and to reach their goals.

– Mark Arona, co-founder of Illegal Musik, on how growing up in Glen Innes has shaped him

In the Asian community, there is a strong stigma associated with problem gambling. So a lot of people they don't like to be seen, or to be realised that their family have problem gambling. So it's a hidden thing.

– John Wong from the Problem Gambling Foundation

In 2002 one of my senior chief monks visited New Zealand and he met the Burmese community, and they requested him to organise, to establish a Burmese Buddhist temple in New Zealand. I was chosen by my teachers and the community to come to New Zealand to look after the temple.

– Burmese Buddhist monk Sumanasiri, recalls immigrating to New Zealand