Chinese parents don't say I love you : a memoir of saying the unsayable with food / Candice Chung.

London : Elliott & Thompson, 2025.

256 pages ; 22 cm

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'. 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. 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.

9781783968855 (hbk)

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