"It was a real journey for me writing this book. I grew up as a Chinese Australian, but my influences kind of made me neither of those things. I think children of immigrants have a lot of influences that you're trying to bring together—and it's sometimes hard to bring those two things together because they're always, you know, they're in opposition, they're kind of like never lining up. But in food, I could somehow bring together those influences in a way that made sense to me."