{"product_id":"eat-bitter-9781784746308","title":"Eat Bitter : A Story About Guts and Food","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003eEat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Lydia Pang\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWales, China, Memoirs, Food \u0026amp; society, National \u0026amp; regional cuisine\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 May 2026 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lydia Pang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320582971770,"sku":"9781784746308","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781784746308.jpg?v=1790658301","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/eat-bitter-9781784746308","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}