Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You

A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food

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<p><strong><em>'If only my Cantonese parents weren't so allergic to the word love...'</em></strong></p><p><strong>'A wonderfully heart-warming memoir from the bottom of the stomach. ' - Xiaolu Guo</strong></p><p><strong>'A real and delightful surprise, full of smart thought and deft words - and also very funny.' - Ella Risbridger</strong></p><p><strong>'Poetic, delicious and full of moments of grace and beauty.' - Nikesh Shukla</strong></p><p>What is the most unsayable thing you have ever wanted to say to your parents? For newly single food journalist Candice Chung, there's been one thing on her mind lately: 'If anything happens, I love you.' Simple. Reasonable. If only her estranged Cantonese parents weren't so allergic to the word 'love'.</p><p>Still, she's determined to tackle what's left unsaid. To find a way to unscramble what her family has been trying to tell each other all along - not in Cantonese or English, but with food.</p><p>As Candice dives into the rituals of family dining, and her parents offer to join her at restaurants she's due to review, she begins to unravel how a decade of silence and distance have shaped their relationship. Through shared meals and culinary adventures - from steaming hotpots to pasta at uncomfortably romantic trattorias - they begin to confront the unspoken. And to unpick what it means to show care when you come from a culture where saying 'I love you' isn't the norm.</p><p>Set against the backdrop of a burgeoning new relationship, grasped-at date nights mid-pandemic and an uncertain future across seas, Candice reflects on migration, solitude and intimacy.</p><p>How can we rebuild closeness when we've drifted apart?</p><p>Can food fill the gaps where words fail?</p><p>For anyone who has ever found their loved ones' emotional worlds unreachable, <em>Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You</em> is packed with heart, humour and those bright-hearted moments around a dinner table that bring us together.</p><p><strong>The next word-of-

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781783968855

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

227 x 145 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Elliott & Thompson Ltd