Jan 15
Dear Friends, Wishing you all a very Happy Chinese New Year for 2012 and thank you for your continued support and friendship. 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000 People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and they inspire confidence …
Dec 05
I’ve often been asked to provide a lunchbox of foods to help my clients overcome their illness. I believe in the power of food – that certain foods can make you better and certain foods can make you worse. Here is a short excerpt from my handwritten book that I look to when cooking for …
Nov 01
I’ve often been asked to provide a lunchbox of foods to help my clients overcome their illness. I believe in the power of food – that certain foods can make you better and certain foods can make you worse. Here is a short excerpt from my handwritten book that I look to when cooking for …
Sep 02
Thank God for Peter Kay. I love the Bolton born comic and man-of-a-thousand-faces who loves Chinese food. Here’s my favourite joke (thanks Peter) ….. So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says “Your eyes sparkle like diamonds”. I said, “Waiter, I asked for …
Aug 03
I’ve often been asked to provide a lunchbox of foods to help my clients overcome their illness. I believe in the power of food – that certain foods can make you better and certain foods can make you worse. Here is a short excerpt from my handwritten book that I look to when cooking for …
Jun 03
I know one day will never make up for all the universal joys and incredible memories of childhood that I’ve shared with my Dad but I wanted to thank you Dad, for being there for me, always, unconditionally and always fighting our corner. Together with the entire world – in celebrations of Dads all over …
Dec 20
This video is dedicated to Dr Colin and Team who held their thank you dinner at Sweet Mandarin. Enjoy!
Dec 14
Sweet Mandarin welcomes Manchester Academy for the Beijing Masterclass. Enjoy!
Dec 01
Breathe. Breathe again. I’ve got some news my friends. I’m going to be starring on Iron Chef UK when it airs on Channel 4 on 12th – 17th 12.30pm – 1.30pm. This is like a dream come true for me. Thank you God. You’ve already given me an amazing blessing when Sweet Mandarin received the …
Oct 18
This first video demonstrates the work I do day in day out with my corporate clients, VIP clients and Cookery School clients. Sometimes, its easier to just show you what I get up to. As they say a photo tells a thousand words. So I guess this first video will tell you a million and …
Oct 12
Have you ever wondered who is that person you’ve been tweeting to morning, noon and night? Or perhaps you are a Flickr? Well you are invited to the Tweet up/Flickr up and you’re gonna meet your tweeters and flickrs from the Manchester area at Sweet Mandarin. I have a confession to make. I aka (@sweetmandarin follow …
Sep 13
I was chatting to my friends who are also my customers (its funny how customers become friends after a while) and getting their feedback on Sweet Mandarin’s takeaway offering – always listening and trying to improve our service. My friend Julia said many nights, she had gone home hungry – craving good Sweet Mandarin food …
Aug 09
The scene that stays with me is a bar packed with people, a swarm of twitterers in overdrive, with a mix of titilation and trepidation, after Manchester’s first Twestival. I met twitterers who have kept me company in virtual reality, made me burst into laughter and order Sweet Mandarin takeaways from me. So what is …
Jul 15
Sweet Mandarin Cookery School teaches a Dim Sum Masterclass. Its been so busy that we’re full till October 2010 and I’ve had to add an extra date for the people who really really really want to learn. So here’s a date for your diary: 8th August. Its first come, first served. For more information, go …
Jul 08
We recently held a Thank You Dinner for our longest standing clients – those who through generations have frequented my Grandma’s restaurant, my Mum’s takeaway and now us at Sweet Mandarin. (Click here for the video created by an incredibly talented friend, Lisa Chan) As I was serving these wonderful folk, my heart twinged with …
Jul 02
When we received the news that we had made it to the Final of the F Word’s Best Chinese Restaurant Competition we were estatic (Watch us battle it out here). Thanks to our wonderful customers who nominated us, we were on the map a la Gordon. However, before Gordon, we were and still are are …
Jun 30
For me, the family table is the heart of the house, where all the highs and lows of the day are celebrated or commiserated. It’s a sanctuary which rejuvenates me not only physically but spiritually and emotionally. In this day and age where there are more and more people living alone, the family table is …
Jun 29
#977 Sweet Nothing – Flying Saucers In the 1980s we were the proud owner of the wide screen tv (black and white), swirly brown carpets with matching hideous wall paper and dungarees. We were also highly protective of our stash of flying saucers in industrial sized containers. That was the beauty of growing up above …
Jun 27
Twitterers (T) (photo 1) Meet the Flickrs (F) (photo 2) could be come Jazz Hands Extravaganza (photo 3) I Tweet (a lot), I Flickr (quite a lot), I Eat (all the time). I host Tweet Up meetings for Twitterers and Flickr Up meetings for Flickr, so I’ve decide to link up these two groups. It …
Jun 25
#981 Sweet Nothing – Pot au chocolat I have an exceptionally sweet tooth that its embarrasing. ‘How many sugars do you want in your tea?’ ‘Four please’ I respond ‘Four!!! Is that enough?’ said sarcastically ‘Oh go on make it five then’. When I’ve been especially good, I give myself a little bit of Heaven …
Jun 24
#982 Sweet Nothing – Heart to Heart Sometimes, we all have off days, weeks, months or even years. During these low times, life feels stagnant, where we’re not quite ourselves and it feels like the world is conspiring against us. Some people internalise things and don’t express their feelings, their emotions, their thoughts – and …
Jun 18
#987 Sweet Nothing – High Energy Students I must have been very wicked in a former life, because I am a glutton for punishment. Straight after an intense Friday night service, I’ve scheduled a cookery school session for Saturday morning. And straight after an even more intense Saturday night service, I’ve scheduled a cookery school …
Jun 17
#989 Sweet Nothing – Skype to Australia One of my oldest and dearest friends has uprooted herself and gone to Australia. I miss her dearly but one thing that has helped us keep in touch is Skype. Its free, its reliable and most importantly she doesn’t feel like shes miles away. Gone are the days …
Jun 16
#990 Sweet Nothing – a full body massage with crystal therapy I go to Krystals every Monday for my massage. The job I do is physical, emotional and mentally challenging, so this is my treat to myself and an investment in my body. I can hear every bone crack and release all the muscles I …
Jun 14
#992 Sweet Nothing – Eating a whole lobster all to myself. I love this diet that I’m on. Its called the See Food Diet. You eat what you see! I know that’s an ancient joke but it still tickles me. But seriously, it feels so ridiculously indulgent to sit there, roll your sleeves up and …
Jun 12
#994 Sweet Nothing – Going for dinner with friends, and secretly paying for the meal – I love the expression of my friends when they realise. They say that giving is better than receiving. I agree. Sometimes, when I go out with friends or family, I love to secretly pay for the meal – rather …
Jun 11
#995 Sweet Nothing – Singing to Jon Bon Jovi Videos all night long and occasionally getting carried away as I play air guitar – oh and hogging the sofa. Since I can remember I have always had a ‘secret’ crush on Jon Bon Jovi and he looks more and more handsome as he gets older. …
Jun 10
#996 Sweet Nothing – Winning a Tenner on the Lottery The way I get my six numbers for the lottery is to read out the numbers in a calm monotone voice to the fat baby and if he squeaks or starts to babble, that number makes it way to the hotlist. Of course, sometimes, the …
Jun 08
#998 Sweet Nothing – Making one too many salt and pepper ribs – and having to eat it. Oh my word. There’s an extra rib frying and its got my name all over it. There are times when one is busy that things like this happen – accidently of course. Once cooked up, the only …
Jun 07
#999 Sweet Nothing – Meeting a client who has just flown in from Switzerland, taxi-ed from the airport to Sweet Mandarin and their sole purpose in visiting Manchester is to eat at Sweet Mandarin. When I set up my little restaurant with my two sisters in November 2004, many people were sceptical that this business …
Jun 06
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#1000 Sweet Nothing – The Last Ticket of the Night! My job is the head chef at Sweet Mandarin. That means, I generally have to cook. And cook. And cook. Thank God I love cooking. Since we’ve opened Sweet Mandarin the tickets have flown in as soon as the doors open until the doors close. …
Jun 05
I sometimes wonder where the week goes. I wake up, I work, I go to bed. Even on Monday which is my day off. However, there are so many sweet things that happen each day and I’m going to try to document them, even if to the outside world they are just minutae. Have you …
May 20
To celebrate National Vegetarian Week, Sweet Mandarin has an exclusive offer – the Mabel’s Tofu Claypot is available at a discounted price of £7.00 – oh and you don’t have to be vegetarian to order it! Sweet Mandarin has a lot of choice for vegetarians and can even cook up the most amazing Vegetarian Banquet. …
Apr 18
I visited the Northern Restaurant and Bar Show at the GMEX last week and bumped into Clive and Adam from Sugarvine. It was great to see them because we go back five years, when Sweet Mandarin started and it was Clive who helped us make a 360 panoramic video of Sweet Mandarin and introduced us to google and …
Jan 15
Things are always busy leading up to Chinese New Year (On 14 February, 2010 we welcome The Year of the Tiger grrr) and its super busy at Sweet Mandarin this year because I’ve agreed to be the featured chef for Amoy / Waitrose for their extra special Chinese New Year promotion. Read our book Sweet …
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