Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312379366 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tse begins with her grandmother's birth in 1918 in a small farming village in southeastern China. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In 2004, Tse and her two sisters all abandoned promising professional careers to follow a family tradition and opened a family restaurant. My sisters and I were immersed from birth in the Chinese catering business—the fourth generation of our family to make a living from food. Tse poses a question that serves as the core of this delightful, well-written and at times painful memoir: Why would three young, successful 21st-century women, Tse an attorney, one sister an engineer, the other a financier, return to a family business they struggled to escape? In answering this question, Tse engagingly tells the larger story not only of her grandmother's and mother's struggles but the shared story of the many Chinese immigrants who made the journey from mainland Chin
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. 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. Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. 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.. Their lives were as dramatic as the times they lived through. Eventually she opened one of Manchester's earliest Chinese restaurants where her daughter, Mabel, worked from the tende
zibilee said Sweet Mandarin. In Sweet Mandarin, Helen Tse gives us the intelligent multi-generational saga of three enterprising and resourceful Chinese women who faced incredible odds to make their dreams and fortunes come to fruition. The story begins with Lily, Helen's grandmother, in a rural village in China. Facing incredible poverty and with a family to provide for, Lilly's father, Leung, has the initiative to break away from his traditional role as a farmer and strikes out to create his own business, which soon begins to prosper. Moving his family from the destitute village to the more bustling city of Hong Kong, Lily a. Brent Gates said follow your dreams. To be honest, I wasn't overly enthusistic about reading this book at first, as it's not the sort of story I thought I would find interesting. How wrong was I to judge a book by its cover? This was a great read, could not put it down it was that good. Running a restaurant business myself, I have great respect for the will power, hard work and dedication of Lily Kwok in pursuing her dreams. Never again should I complain after a hard days workShes my inspiration. Thanks for sharing your families story Helen Tse.. "Interesting." according to A Customer. I really do like this book. Of course, it's not one of those books where you admire the author for their writing alone. Here, it's the story that counts.Helen Tse provides us with a very interesting Chinese immigrant story. I found her family history incredibly fascinating. It held my interest for hours, and I managed to finish the entire book in one sitting. I really like how she included all the little stories and photos.Read it for the story, not the writing.