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We're celebrating the release of Chopsticks or Fork? recipes & stories from Australia's regional Chinese restaurants. Please join us!Jennifer Wong is a writer, comedian, and the presenter of Chopsticks or Fork? a six-part ABC series created with director Lin Jie Kong.
Between 2020 and 2022, Jennifer and Lin visited ten Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, spending time with them to explore their stories and heritage and their place in their communities. This, the book of the TV series, tells the stories of ten very different Chinese-Australian families who run Chinese restaurants, from Queensland's Hervey Bay to Western Australia's Dunsborough.
Chinese cooks, food and restaurants have been entwined with Australian culture since the early nineteenth century and almost every country town has had an Australian-Chinese restaurant for generations. For many Australians, their first experience of a restaurant and/or Asian cuisine was the ubiquitous Australian-Chinese restaurant around the corner.
Chopsticks or Fork? is a unique and wonderful celebration of an integral part of Australian cultural and culinary history that everyone in Australia has experienced told through the personal stories of the families behind the restaurants.
Not just a memoir, Chopsticks or Fork? features 32 Australian-Chinese recipes, sharing many of the the uniquely Australian-Chinese restaurant classics such as sizzling Mongolian lamb, sweet and sour pork, combination fried rice, sesame prawn toast and of course, deep fried ice cream.
According to the Guardian, Jennifer is "perhaps Sydney’s most polite comedian, she’s also one of its funniest.” As usual we will be cooking from the book and serving up tastes. We're very much looking forward to this, as the food will be a delicious trip down memory lane and the conversation hilarious!
Please join us on Thursday 12th September
Tickets are limited.
FAQs
Can I buy/order a signed copy of Sweet Seasons?
Copies will be available for signing and purchase on the night - $50. If you can't attend we can organise to post signed copies to you. Postage (tracked & insured): Victoria $9.95; Australia wide $14.95; overseas we'll quote.
Can I bring a copy I bought elsewhere.
We would prefer you didn't. We subsidise these events and selling books on the night makes them sustainable. If you must bring a book you purchased elsewhere, please consider supporting our business by buying something else in store.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
If you haven't visited the bookstore for a few years, please note we have moved to the northern side of the Queen Victoria Market. Our address is 115-121 Victoria Street (next to A Shed)
We recommend public transport.
The 19, 20, 57 (Elizabeth St)and 55 (William & Peel St) trams go past the Queen Victoria Market and run frequently. We are in the Free Tram Zone and are a short 50m walk from the Elizabeth St Queen Victoria Market stop and the Peel St Queen Victoria Market stop. Melbourne Central and Flagstaff railway stations are two blocks away.
If driving, there is plenty of metered parking on Queen St near the corner of Victoria St. There is also limited parking on Victoria Street outside the store .
Is my registration/ticket transferable?
Yes - to another person - just have them present your ticket on the evening.
What is the refund policy?
Tickets are not refundable.
Weather and Venue - please note.
Our shop is a small intimate venue. If the weather is fine, we may be seated outside . Drinks and food will be served. If inside, the seating will be close.
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115-121 Victoria Street,Melbourne,3000,AU, Australia
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