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Mr Chow’s Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Wings
‘I can still taste those barbecue chicken wings from old Mr Chow on the corner of Stanley market,’ said my grandmother. ‘They were the first thing your grandfather bought for me on our first meeting....
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Sesame Prawn Toast
The old Chinese fable goes that this dish was created by a Beijing chef whose specialty was mantou bread and a Guangzhou chef whose specialty was seafood. The Beijing chef travelled to Guangzhou to...
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Happy New Year! A New Year – A New You – Tip Top Tips for 2015
A New Year’s Message to You All HELLO! We hope you have recovered from all the Christmas festivities and raring to go for 2015. At Sweet Mandarin there are early preparations to make the celebration...
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Won Ton mean ‘swallowing a cloud’
Literally translated, wonton means ‘swallowing a cloud’. The wonton floating in the soup is supposed to resemble the clouds. Every province in China boasts their own version of wontons with a variety...
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Mum’s favourite salted ducks’ eggs
As a child I remember seeing these bright white eggs in the tray compared to the normal eggs I’ve seen in the fridge. I asked my mum why are these eggs different and she said try one! The first time I...
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“If you bow at all, bow low” (Ancient Chinese proverb)
One Sunday during my family’s visit to Hong Kong, I arranged to meet them outside the HSBC tower in the Central district. As they approached me across the concourse I heard a loud, high pitched...
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My great grandfather was murdered. He died, aged 37, leaving a wife and six...
My great grandfather was murdered. The man who had tried so hard to escape his past died on that warm August night right back in the village where he was born. Leung was not discovered the following...
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Hawker style Satay Chicken Sticks
Hong Kong was and still is famous for its amazing expanse of culinary offerings. As the Chinese immigrants poured into Hong Kong to escape the Japanese invasion of China in the 1920s, the streets...
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Chicken Stock
My grandmother, Lily Kwok, met my grandfather, Chan under the most remarkable circumstances. Lily was a maid and cook for an English family in Hong Kong and was walking the baby with a friend when saw...
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Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup
My parents married in the 1975 in Bury in a small traditional ceremony followed by a wedding banquet of huge proportions. My mum said practically all the Chinese who were in Britain were invited and...
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It has been said that the Chinese will eat anything that walks on four legs...
It has been said that the Chinese will eat anything that walks on four legs with its back to the sky. In actual fact, Leung joked with Lilly that only the tables and chairs were safe from the voracious...
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Miso Soup with Tofu
My grandmother lived through World War Two, which saw Hong Kong endure years of Japanese occupation. By the end of the war in 1945 Hong Kong was a shadow of its former self – the population had...
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Salt and Chilli Squid
I’ll never forget the day in 2009 when we cooked this dish for the title of Best Local Chinese Restaurant Finals. I had just finished service at Sweet Mandarin at midnight. After two 2 hours of...
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Coconut King Prawns
I was working as a corporate lawyer for Clifford Chance in Hong Kong in 2002 and it gave Lisa an excuse to join me for a few weeks. One of the perks was to have access to the company junk (a Chinese...
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A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark
Hong Kong 1925 – 1930 “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark” (ancient Chinese proverb) When I lived in Hong Kong in 2002, I found the place as exciting as it was...
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Salt and Pepper Juicy Mushrooms
My grandmother’s first restaurant Lung Fung, which auspiciously means ‘The Dragon and the Phoenix’ opened in 1959 in Middleton, Manchester known locally as ‘Holey City’, a nickname it picked up in the...
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Crispy Mini Rolls with Sweet Mandarin Dips
Growing up in 1980s Britain, my father was keen to impress the value of Chinese culture and language on us, and how traditions and folklore were the stuff of our lives too. He even enrolled us in...
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Steamed Savoury Egg with Chicken, King Prawn and Spring Onion
You’ve had fried eggs, boiled eggs, poached eggs and scrambled eggs. However, there is one more way that the Chinese love to eat eggs and that is steamed. This is perfect for an alternative...
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King Prawn Tomato
When I was a child, I was very insecure. I hated the fact that I was Chinese and had a flat nose. We’d just studied Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women at school and inspired by this book, I put a peg...
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