So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

I normally don't eat junk food.