Description
Join authors Angela Hui (Takeaway) and Candice Chung (Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You) for a conversation exploring the deep ties between food, memory, and identity.
Hui reflects on growing up in a Chinese takeaway in rural Wales, while Chung explores reconnecting with her estranged parents through shared meals. Both memoirs reveal how food becomes a powerful language of love, heritage, and belonging—especially in families shaped by migration and silence.
This event offers a moving exploration of how what we eat, cook, and share can tell the stories we struggle to say aloud.
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About the Authors
Angela Hui
Angela Hui is an award-winning author, writer and editor. She was the former food and drink editor at Time Out London and the lifestyle reporter at HuffPost. Her work has been widely published in 50 Best, The BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Independent, i News, Lonely Planet, Metro, National Geographic Traveller, Refinery29, Service95, South China Morning Post, Sunday Times, Stylist, Vice and Vittles. Her debut book TAKEAWAY: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week and The Guardian, i News and Waterstones book of the year.
Candice Chung
Candice Chung is a Glasgow-based writer, editor, and food journalist. Her debut memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You: A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food explores the silent ways Cantonese immigrant parents show affection—through meals rather than words—and follows Candice’s journey to reconnect with them during the pandemic .
About the Chair
Tasneem Chopra
Tasneem Chopra OAM is an Australian cross-cultural consultant, celebrated keynote speaker, writer, and champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
With academic credentials including a Bachelor’s in Psychology & Sociology (Swinburne University) and a Master’s in International Development (La Trobe University), Tasneem serves as an Adjunct Fellow at Victoria University, was appointed inaugural Ambassador for Women of Colour Australia and awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2020 for services to community diversity leadership.
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