{"title":"Lydia Pang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLydia Pang\u003c\/strong\u003e offers deeply personal memoirs that explore identity, resilience, and cultural heritage. Her writing is marked by vivid storytelling that sheds light on the complexities of family ties and personal growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect evocative narratives that blend emotional honesty with thoughtful reflection, inviting a heartfelt connection to the challenges and triumphs that shape her life experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"eat-bitter-by-lydia-pang-9781784746315","title":"Eat Bitter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExciting, inspiring, genre-blending food memoir from a bold new voice with a strong platform, for readers of \u003cem\u003eCrying in H Mart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMidnight Chicken\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eButter\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings — with bite — for fans of \u003cem\u003eCrying in H Mart\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMidnight Chicken\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Touching, absorbing and unflinching... shows you how to stomach life's shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEat Bitter\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePang 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536556638444,"sku":"9781784746315","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784746315-eat-bitter.jpg?v=1776383152"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lydia-pang.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}