To celebrate the launch of Lydia Pang’s bittersweet new memoir Eat Bitter: A Story about Guts and Food we hosted a dark and delicious launch party at Ø HQ.
Think… LATEX GLOVES, HAKKA CULTURE, CHARCOALED TEETH, CANDIED LOTUS ROOT, HEAL GOBLIN, CHICKEN FEET, GOTH BABIES, LAPSANG CHERRY MARGS, A VERY CHIC BONE BROTH CANDLE, IRREVERENT WORDS AND MORE.
Here’s what the BURN AFTER READING team overheard….
Eat Bitter 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. In the book, Lydia 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.
ORDER THE BOOK HERE OR HEAD TO @EAT_BITTER_ FOR FURTHER INDULGENCE IN THE EAT BITTER UNIVERSE
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