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The Chicken Wings
I gotta just blog-wax lyrical about the Chicken Wings -Â I just ordered a portion . Now there is a saying that “the Chinese will eat anything with its back to the Heavens except the table and chairs” –...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No.2 Garlic Butter Steamed Fish – By The...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 3 Egg Drop Soup – By The Sweet Mandarin...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 4 Ginger Tea – By The Sweet Mandarin...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 5 Fluffy White Rice – By The Sweet...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 6 Beansprouts and Chinese Chives – By...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Lisa Tse features on BBC Radio for Chinese New Year
Lisa Tse, CEO of Sweet Mandarin was invited to speak to Becky Want on her show Retail Therapy, BBC Radio Manchester. Lisa talked about Chinese New Year and brought an array of delicious dim sum and...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 7 The Classic Chicken Chow Mein – By...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 8 The Chicken Stock to Warm Your...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 9 Finger Lickin Good Spare Ribs – By...
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 10 Firecracker Chicken
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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Mr Chow’s Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Wings
‘I can still taste those barbecue chicken wings from old Mr Chow on the corner of Stanley market,’ said my grandmother. ‘They were the first thing your grandfather bought for me on our first meeting....
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Happy Birthday !
Happy Birthday To You Happy Birthday To You Happy Birthday To Lisa and Helen Happy Birthday To You! We were born and bred in Middleton, Manchester above a takeaway. Word of mouth spread quickly...
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Sesame Prawn Toast
The old Chinese fable goes that this dish was created by a Beijing chef whose specialty was mantou bread and a Guangzhou chef whose specialty was seafood. The Beijing chef travelled to Guangzhou to...
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Happy New Year! A New Year – A New You – Tip Top Tips for 2015
A New Year’s Message to You All HELLO! We hope you have recovered from all the Christmas festivities and raring to go for 2015. At Sweet Mandarin there are early preparations to make the celebration...
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We got an AA Rosette for 2015! Thank you @TheAA_UK
Hello and Happy New Year my friends. Hope you had a good Christmas. Look what we received ! We got an AA Rosette (the only Chinese in the North West to receive one!!) What a wonderful way to start...
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Won Ton mean ‘swallowing a cloud’
Literally translated, wonton means ‘swallowing a cloud’. The wonton floating in the soup is supposed to resemble the clouds. Every province in China boasts their own version of wontons with a variety...
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Mum’s favourite salted ducks’ eggs
As a child I remember seeing these bright white eggs in the tray compared to the normal eggs I’ve seen in the fridge. I asked my mum why are these eggs different and she said try one! The first time I...
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Come to the Ideal Home Show Manchester 5 June 2015
We are delighted to announce that we are cooking at the Ideal Home Show 2015 in Manchester at Event City opposite Trafford Centre. Our cooking demo will be at 3pm. We look forward to cooking for you...
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“If you bow at all, bow low” (Ancient Chinese proverb)
One Sunday during my family’s visit to Hong Kong, I arranged to meet them outside the HSBC tower in the Central district. As they approached me across the concourse I heard a loud, high pitched...
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