In Sweet Mandarin Cookbook they share their knowledge, favourite recipes and cooking tips, including advice on indispensable pieces of equipment such as the wok, cleaver and steamer, to Chinese store cupboard ingredients and essentials. The delicious recipes include Cantonese Won Ton Soup, Salt and Chilli Squid, Hong Kong Beef Skewers with Satay Dip, favourites such as Aromatic Crispy Duck Chicken Chow Mein and Fortune Cookies, as well as exotic cocktails such as Sweet Chilli Strawberry Daiquiri.

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.