I Grew Up in a Chinese Takeaway: Angela Hui Tells All

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Angela Hui tells the story of her childhood growing up in her family’s Chinese restaurant—there are flaming woks, short tempers and zero privacy. Plus, we’re joined by journalist Jenn Harris to learn how influencers are making their mark on the restaurant industry; Alex Aïnouz speeds up beef bourguignon; and we make Italian Wedding Soup.

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1:09.1	This is most of your radio from Pierre-Ex, I'm your host Christopher Kimball. Author Angela Hoy
1:24.0	started working at her family's takeaway restaurant when she was eight years old.
1:28.4	Today she shares her best stories and the takeaways in her workings like how this very small
1:33.0	restaurant handled their very large menu. My dad had almost like a periodic table on the side
1:42.4	over the walk and you can see all the like bullet points of like the basic recipe so you can
1:49.0	like just whack it out under pressure in like under five minutes.
1:54.8	That's later in the show a peek behind the takeaway counter with author Angela Hoy.
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