Takeaway is a memoir that I've heard lots of great things about, so was excited to finally pick it up. It follows Hui's childhood in rural Wales, where she and her family lived and ran a Chinese takeaway.

There was lots in here I found really interesting - I'd had no idea that many Chinese migrants moved to rural areas, and the ways in which they stayed in touch with other members of their community through weekly get-togethers and maintaining some cultural traditions. It also looks at the ways in which the family were and weren't welcomed by the Valleys community they lived in - and Hui's complicated feelings about her Chinese and British identities. There's also some excellent food writing in here, both about how certain dishes were introduced to align with British palettes and also recipes for the meals that the family cooked and ate. Hui is a similar age to me, so I did enjoy some of the contemporary references to the early 00s that I recognised.

I did find that this memoir was often quite repetitive, there were repeated anecdotes and historical information which meant that the reading experience wasn't always that great, maybe the memoir could have been slightly shorter to ensure that the important messages in here didn't get diluted too much.