# Eat Bitter

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- Book: [Eat Bitter](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-pang/eat-bitter) ([Eat Bitter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-pang/eat-bitter.md))
- Authors: [Lydia Pang](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-pang)
- 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
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 37 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken. 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. ‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui © Lydia Pang 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026