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My Shanghai: Through Tastes and Memories by Sandy Lam (Paperback, 2005)

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The gamine beauty and distinctive vocal style of Sandy Lam are famously familiar to her legions of fans. She is one of the most successful Hong Kong-born female artistes in the world. In this book, however, we meet a different Sandy-the lover of culinary delights, and the nostalgic searcher after vanished tastes. The city Sandy has brought us to is Shanghai, birthplace of the cuisine of her childhood and a fast-developing culinary capital of the world. Through Sandy's eyes and taste buds, the city's flavours come alive. We wander the streets with her, and sit in on her chats with top chefs and restaurateurs. This book is Sandy's labour of love; throughout, she shares her memories and sentiments-and the favourite recipes of her past and present-with us.

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Shanghai and Sandy Lam - one, the iconic city of modern China, the other one of Asia's best-loved singers. When they meet, an exhilarating affair begins. This is the gastronomic heart and soul of Shanghai like you've never seen it before. And Sandy is the perfect guide, for the city is redolent with the smells and flavours of her childhood memories. Memories she has sought to recapture through her passion for food and cooking. Sandy's childhood in Hong Kong was spent savouring the great traditions of Shanghainese and Cantonese cooking. Memories of her grandma's pork chops with potatoes, her father's sweet fermented rice wine with egg, and her mother's drunken chicken, accompany her through the streets of Shanghai and inform her eyes and taste buds. Nostalgia and reality become inseparable. We visit with Sandy the city's best kitchens and food personalities - for it is a search for the new and adventurous as well. Huddled by a roadside stall or swathed in chinois chic luxury, tying her fingers in knots in wonton wrapping or swapping stories with a master chef in his ultra-modern kitchen, Sandy takes them as they come - ever amiable and gastronomically curious. In the book she features recipes which have meant something to her - and as she recalls them. We meet her family - the sources of much of her culinary reminiscences and passions, and the street cooks, chefs and restaurateurs who together constitute the famed culinary experience of Shanghai today. This is a book of a city's culinary culture and its meaning to a particular person. Most of all it is book about love, longing and remembering, and the undeniable joys and comforts of a fabulous meal!