Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir
recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese
women.
Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of
village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong
and finally to the UK. Their lives were as dramatic as the times
they lived through.
A love of food and a talent for cooking pulled each generation
through the most devastating of upheavals. Helen Tse's grandmother,
Lily Kwok, was forced to work as an "amah "after the violent murder
of her father. Crossing the ocean from Hong Kong in the 1950s, Lily
honed her famous chicken curry recipe. Eventually she opened one of
Manchester's earliest Chinese restaurants where her daughter,
Mabel, worked from the tender age of nine. But gambling and the
Triads were pervasive in the Chinese immigrant community, and
tragically they lost the restaurant. It was up to author Helen and
her sisters, the third generation of these exceptional women, to
re-establish their grandmother's dream. The legacy lived on when
the sisters opened their award-winning restaurant Sweet Mandarin in
2004.
"Sweet Mandarin "shows how the most important inheritance is
wisdom, and how recipes--passed down the female line--can be the
most valuable heirloom.
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