Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West Philo of Alexandria Commentary England to New York in

England to New York in 1776

sometimes the past is not so easily shaken

400 lobsters in a waiter contest

World War II was still raging

Then the antennae lifted away

Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West Philo of Alexandria Commentary England to New York inSpanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the UK. Their lives were as dramatic as the times they lived through. A love of food and a talent for cooking pulled each generation through the most devastating of upheavals.