A love of food and a talent for cooking pulled each generation through the most devastating of upheavals. Helen Tseˇ¦s grandmother, Lily Kwok, was forced to work as an amah after the violent murder of her father. Crossing the ocean from Hong Kong in the 1950s, Lily honed her famous chicken curry recipe. Eventually she opened her own restaurant where her daughter, Mabel, worked from the tender age of nine. But gambling and the Triads were pervasive in the Chinese immigrant community, and tragically they lost the restaurant. In was up to Helen and her sisters, the third generation of these exceptional women, to re-establish their grandmotherˇ¦s dream.
