Bai Yanting and Li Jihua moved from Xinjiang, China to the U.K. to support their son’s studies. Who knew they would end up serving food from their hometown in the heart of London’s Chinatown?
Shop address: 49 Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR England
This is the sixth episode of our latest “Mean Street Gourmet” series about mom-and-pop stores across the Chinese diaspora. In the next episode, we visit a bakery in London that sells special pineapple buns stuffed with sweet shredded coconut.
0:00 What is “big plate chicken”? 01:51 Making spicy chicken stew 03:17 Starting over in London 04:26 Pinning hopes on their son
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