# Eat Bitter

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- Authors: [Lydia Pang](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-pang)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Genres: Biography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken. ‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui Eat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning ‘endure hardship to taste sweetness.’ For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors, a persecuted Chinese ethnic group whose ingenuity shaped a food culture rooted in fermenting and foraging. Pang reimagines eating bitter as a philosophy to confront her own challenges: burning out, testing her marriage, navigating fertility struggles and caring for a parent. Through eight recipes, she shares food as memory and medicine: the silly egg noodles her father cooked when her sister was ill, the bone broth she boiled in New York while homesick and courgettes grown in rural Wales as a gesture of reconnection.

## Editions

### Eat Bitter

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2996-646-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2027-06-17
- Language: en_GB

### Eat Bitter

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 37 min
- Narrated by: Lydia Pang
- ISBN: 978-15-2997-050-0
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB

### Eat Bitter

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2996-645-9
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB

### Eat Bitter

- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- ISBN: 978-17-8474-630-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Eat Bitter](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-pang/pl/eat-bitter) (pl_PL)