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Healthy Fish Soup
My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were betrothed at the age of four and had an arranged marriage ten years later. Great grandmother was dressed in red – for luck and good fortune – before...
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Chicken Stock
Chicken stock is one of the key ingredients in Chinese cooking and is used as a base for many of the recipes in this book. This really simple Chinese recipe is for a light, delicious and naturally...
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The Story behind Sweet Mandarin
“To the ruler, the people are Heaven; to the people, food is Heaven”. (An ancient Chinese proverb) My grandmother, Lilly Kwok, was born in 1918 small village in Southern China. As an unborn child, she...
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Valentine’s Day – Buy our DIM SUM book for a sweet valentine’s gift
On 14th February its Valentine’s Day - a day that evokes such an amazing energy at Sweet Mandarin because the room is filled with love. The banquet this year comprises of amazing dishes including...
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Sesame Prawn Toast
The old Chinese fable goes that this dish was created by a Beijing chef whose specialty was mantou bread and a Guangzhou chef whose specialty was seafood. The Beijing chef travelled to Guangzhou to...
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Adam and Eve Oyster Omlette
A dear customer who asked to remain anonymous came to Sweet Mandarin one night with her husband to eat. I will call them Adam and Eve. During their meal, an argument ensued and Adam walked out to cool...
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Beijing Dumplings – For Chinese New Year and all celebrations from our brand...
To celebrate and bestow prosperity for the Chinese New Year these dumplings are cooked because they symbolise golden ingots used during the Ming Dynasty. Similar to the Christmas pudding where a lucky...
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Women in China
When I travelled to Guangzhou in 2002, I found China to be a country that was careering head first towards the 21st Century. My base was a hotel housed in a skyscraper which was circled by endless...
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Won Ton mean ‘swallowing a cloud’
Literally translated, wonton means ‘swallowing a cloud’. The wonton floating in the soup is supposed to resemble the clouds. Every province in China boasts their own version of wontons with a variety...
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My Mum’s Chicken’s Feet Soup (For Beautiful Skin)
When my mum was pregnant with us, her knees were pained by the weight of the bump and Lily made this soup for my mum to boost her cartilage. There was a surprise in the pregnancy – only I had shown up...
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Merry Christmas – We’re having Peking Duckenail for our Christmas Roast...
Peking duck is Beijing’s most famous dish and was served to numerous Emperors. However, the true Peking duck recipe takes over 24 hours to make and requires a pump to blow air between the skin and the...
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Hot and Sour Soup
Helen, Janet and I gave up our day jobs as a lawyer, engineer and financier to open Sweet Mandarin in 2004 to the horror of our parents who protested that restaurants were hard graft and...
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Look Inside our DIM SUM Cookbook – and Buy Buy Buy! Thanks Antonio Carluccio...
This DIM SUM Cookbook is a culmination of generations of dim sum recipes and even has a chapter on Superfood dim sum. This book is now available to purchase in Waterstones and online with Amazon....
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Happy Birthday !
Happy Birthday To You Happy Birthday To You Happy Birthday To Lisa and Helen Happy Birthday To You! We were born and bred in Middleton, Manchester above a takeaway. Word of mouth spread quickly...
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The Story behind Sweet Mandarin
“To the ruler, the people are Heaven; to the people, food is Heaven”. (An ancient Chinese proverb) My grandmother, Lilly Kwok, was born in 1918 small village in Southern China. As an unborn child, she...
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Mr Chow’s Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Wings
‘I can still taste those barbecue chicken wings from old Mr Chow on the corner of Stanley market,’ said my grandmother. ‘They were the first thing your grandfather bought for me on our first meeting....
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Chicken Stock
Chicken Stock Chicken stock is one of the key ingredients in Chinese cooking and is used as a base for many of the recipes in this book. This really simple Chinese recipe is for a light, delicious and...
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Prawn Dumpling Mr Matt Preston? Masterchef Australia’s Next Challenge: Dim Sum…
Our brand new DIM SUM cookbook is out and we are delighted that it has caught the eye of Matt Preston, the formidable judge on Masterchef Australia. The DIM SUM Cookbook is now available to buy in...
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BUY Our DIM SUM Book – Ken Hom Loves Our Book!
This book is now available to purchase in Waterstones and online with Amazon. Also pick up a copy at Sweet Mandarin. We are having a book signing party at Sweet Mandarin on 22nd February 2015 5pm –...
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Crispy Won Tons
These are one of my favourite dim sum. They are a great party food and are so easy to make. You can fill the wontons with any filling of your choice. I prefer using prawn as it makes the wontons light...
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