As her native Hong Kong seethes, torn between two world powers, Amber Fan tries to build a career as a chef in London's Chinatown. Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London's Chinatown following the failure of her father's traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London. That is, until a woman called Celeste hires out the restaurant ...
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As her native Hong Kong seethes, torn between two world powers, Amber Fan tries to build a career as a chef in London's Chinatown. Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London's Chinatown following the failure of her father's traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London. That is, until a woman called Celeste hires out the restaurant, coughing up three grand for a dinner for one. Who is this extravagant stranger, and how did she get so wealthy? Set in the aftermath of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, Goodbye Chinatown shows a family torn between two countries. Amber throws herself into her career to escape the painful cycle of family separations and reunions. The tastes and smells spark off every page in Kit Fan's latest novel, making for a truly multisensorial reading experience. Offering a behind-the-scenes of this iconic hub of London's hospitality economy, and using food to reflect on identity, Goodbye Chinatown paints a portrait of an enterprising ???migr??? who, faced with divided loyalties, invents her own language for home through the culinary arts.
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