EAT BITTER

A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings with bite for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken Touching absorbing and unflinching shows you how to stomach life s shit celebrate the ugly and keep going Angela HuiEat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning endure hardship to taste sweetness For Lydia Pang it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors a persecuted Chinese ethnic group whose ingenuity shaped a food culture rooted in fermenting and foraging Pang reimagines eating bitter as a philosophy to confront her own challenges burning out testing her marriage navigating fertility struggles and caring for a parent Through eight recipes she shares food as memory and medicine the silly egg noodles her father cooked when her sister was ill the bone broth she boiled in New York while homesick and courgettes grown in rural Wales as a gesture of reconnection