{"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\/products\/eat-bitter-by-lydia-pang-9781784746315","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}