Balance: Cook Well, Eat Well, Live Well

Name: Balance: Cook Well, Eat Well, Live Well
Start: 2027-01-14T19:30:00.000+01:00
End: 2027-01-14T20:30:00.000+01:00
Location: The Holst Hall

Date

Thursday 14 January 2027 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Location

The Holst Hall

James Allen's Girls' School, 144 East Dulwich Grove, London, SE22 8TE

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Village Books Dulwich

About

Burmese and Southeast Asian food is all about balance – bringing together fresh vegetables, pulses, nuts, fruits, fermented foods and just the right amount of preserved ingredients. The results is vibrant dishes packed with salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami flavours, with plenty of crunch, chew and comfort along the way.

It’s food that excites the senses while naturally supporting gut health and wellbeing. As practising doctors, the authors have seen how diet shapes lives – and lived it themselves. Between long NHS shifts and family demands, they have found the antidote: fast, flexible recipes that restore energy, bring joy, and fit into real-world routines.

From zingy salads and nourishing noodle bowls to soul-warming curries and indulgent sweet treats, discover simple, adaptable recipes made with supermarket-friendly ingredients. Recipes include ube butter mochi, turmeric sauerkraut, steamed chicken curry buns, shan noodles and pandan custard tarts.

‘Amy and Emily have real medical know-how – no forbidden foods or finger-wagging, just smart advice and brilliant Burmese-inspired flavour.’ Yotam Ottolenghi

Amy and Emily Chung have Burmese and Chinese heritage, born and bred in London. They are NHS doctors, passionate cooks with a strong supper club and social media following. Emily qualified in 2007, has completed internal medicine training and is now specialising as a Consultant Physician in sexual health and HIV at Barts Health; Amy qualified in 2013 and is a Specialty Registrar in Psychiatry in Hackney. They are also known as The Rangoon sisters.