This week, we’re giving away three copies of Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You by Candice Chung. Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You is a memoir exploring love, family, and connection through food. After the end of a long-term relationship, Chung navigates her strained bond with her Cantonese parents through shared meals. Using food as a bridge, she reflects on unspoken emotions and cultural distances, offering a poignant look at how we communicate beyond words. Here’s the blurb:
A memoir about saying the unsayable with food, and how our eating lives can bring us together, and sometimes—keep us apart.
I have felt the pull of this extravagant wanting elsewhere . . . A meal is a shape. It is a container into which we pour our cravings.
At 35, when a 13-year relationship ends, food journalist Candice Chung finds herself losing not only her first love, but also her most reliable restaurant review partner. Then her retired Cantonese parents offer to be her new plus-ones, and she faces a dilemma: is it better to eat together in polite silence, or to try saying the unsayable-to broach how, for the past decade, they managed to drift so profoundly apart?
Soon, a geographer enters her life, and the course of their relationship forces Chung to address what's still left unsaid. To do so, she must find a new vocabulary-a way to unscramble what her family has been trying to express all along. Not through words, but with food.
If you’d like to win a copy, simply enter your details in the form below. Three lucky people will win a copy!
Entries close midday (Syd/Melb time) Monday 28 July 2025. Winners will be notified within a week of the competition closing.
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