Book Launch: Chopsticks or Fork?

Join us for an evening with Jennifer Wong and Lin Jie Kong to celebrate the book launch of Chopsticks or Fork?: Recipes and Stories from Australia’s Regional Chinese Restaurant, based on their six-part ABC series of the same name. They will be chatting to fellow chef and author, Adam Liaw, with Q&A and book signing to follow.

The book lovingly captures the stories of ten very different families who run Chinese restaurants, from Queensland's Hervey Bay to Western Australia's Dunsborough, and features 32 classic Australian Chinese recipes. As well as revealing the secrets behind everything from sizzling Mongolian lamb to deep fried ice cream, Chopsticks or Fork? includes trivia on the lazy Susan, encounters with the country's biggest Chinese restaurant fans, a game of Chinese restaurant bingo just waiting to be played on your next night out, and more Chinese restaurant 'takeaways' than you can poke a (chop)stick at.

This is a unique celebration of an integral part of Australian cultural and culinary history.

6:30pm arrivals for 7pm start.

🥢 Tickets: $10 per person (plus booking fee and GST), which is redeemable on the night towards any book purchase. Pick up your $10 coupon when you check in at the front door. Please note: The Humanitix booking fee and GST does not count towards your coupon value.

About the authors:

Wordplay-loving food enthusiast Jennifer Wong is a writer, comedian, and presenter of Chopsticks or Fork? (ABC). She’s a columnist for The Guardian (Jennifer Wong’s Class Act), and curator and host of FEAST, a storytelling event about how we eat and how we live. Her humorous essays and reporting about food, culture, and mental health have been published by ABC Everyday, ABC News, The Guardian, Monocle, SBS Food, SBS News, and The Big Issue. Jennifer’s comedy in English and Cantonese has been seen by millions online, and her stand-up shows have sold out around Australia. Her latest, The Sweet and Sour Hour of Power, is touring Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide in October and November. Details at jenniferwong.com.au.

With on-the-spot puns for every occasion, Jennifer has shared these and a karaoke horror story or two on The Cook Up (SBS), Celebrity Letters and Numbers (SBS), Thank God It’s Friday! (ABC Radio Sydney), and Chat 10 Looks 3.

Lin Jie Kong is the producer and director of Chopsticks or Fork?. She has worked across many facets of television and digital content. She fell in love with films and television as a six-year old growing up in Sydney, Australia. To help her learn English, Lin Jie’s parents let her rent as many movies as she wanted from Blockbuster during the school holidays, which kick-started a lifelong obsession with telling stories. Since 2011, Lin Jie has produced and directed a vast range of shows for the ABC, including Good Game, rage 30, What is Music, Hilltop Hoods Live, and In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Adam Liaw is a cook, writer and broadcaster. He is the author of nine cookbooks and has hosted a range of documentary, food and entertainment television and audio programs including Tomorrow Tonight (ABC), Who The Bloody Hell Are We? (SBS) The Cook Up with Adam Liaw (SBS), Destination Flavour (SBS), and How Taste Changed the World (Audible). Adam has established a career as one of Australia’s most in-demand writers and broadcasters. He has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s Scene Asia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and Sunday Life magazine.