燕食记

Word spreads that Tongqin Lou, a century-old restaurant in the Lingnan region, will close at the end of the year, and its old hands band together to take over the premises. Rong Yisheng, its retired head chef, reveals the reasons behind it. Following the history of Cantonese cooking, the novel traces the lives of a master and his apprentice from the 1911 revolution onward, through Guangdong and Hong Kong, among merchants, politicians, revolutionaries, old families, guild bosses and ordinary people.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

China, Hong Kong SAR China

First published

2022 by People's Literature Publishing House

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9787020172382 (original)