{"product_id":"eat-bitter","title":"Eat Bitter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe recipe for Silly Egg Noodles takes seconds to read but is staying with us like a tasty vision. Hungry and haunted. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardback. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lydia Pang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56872238711162,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/19FCCA7F-D40B-4AC9-B463-85332167E123.jpg?v=1778343451","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/eat-bitter","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}