Memories

Stories about food and love across the seas

Chinese New Year – crispy peanut pastry with sesame and coconut (花生芝麻角仔)
Winter melon soup with dried shrimp, evoking memories of a distant factory and a tranquil life by the river in Southern China (冬瓜虾米汤)
Garlic chive and egg pockets, pan-fried to perfection (韭菜盒子) and reminiscences of a heart-rate monitor turned TV set.
Flaky shallot pancake (蔥油餅)
Chicken chop suey with Chinese vegetables, my father’s recollection of radish meals during the 1961 Great Famine
Sautéing Fresh Clams in Spicy XO Sauce: A Tale of My Uncle from TaiShan (台山)
Steamed pork belly with preserved mustard greens 梅菜扣肉
Hometown-style steamed rice cake with radish, Chinese sausage and dried shrimp: a recipe of my Granduncle ‘Chi’ from Zhongshan (中山)
Sichuan Mapo Tofu: my father’s oil-fueled adventure (麻婆豆腐)
Cantonese steamed fish with shallot and ginger, memories of the ‘Yayan Lane’ 雅言里 where we once lived (FODMAP friendly)
Hometown sweet and savoury glutinous rice dumplings (家乡咸水角) – memories of my grandfather’s village at ZhongShan (中山)
Cucumber salad and recollection of a ‘wine house’ restaurant from Southern China in the early ’70s (FODMAP friendly)