Homesick Chinese-American’s cooking disasters led her to mum’s kitchen to learn the basics - now she’s showing us how to make Shanghai dishes

Like so many young students who leave their parents’ house for the first time and head off to university (myself included), Betty Liu missed her mother’s homestyle Chinese cooking so much that she tried making it herself in her college dorm.In the introduction to My Shanghai – Recipes and Stories from a City on the Water (2021), Liu, a Chinese-American surgery resident based in Boston, in the US state of Massachusetts, writes: “My parents grew up [in Shanghai] during the Cultural Revolution …