{"id":89942,"date":"2026-10-03T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89942"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:42:01","slug":"mala-coriander-congee-this-uk-doctor-sells-cantonese-inspired-bread-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89942","title":{"rendered":"Mala, coriander, congee? This UK doctor sells Cantonese-inspired bread from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/02\/ed2cfc9f-0089-4a2a-9d4e-4453f2f5152f_ac79c210.jpg?itok=gkwEX8Te&amp;v=1790938197\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Every fortnight in Walthamstow, East London, a sign with a hand-painted goldfish pointing towards a kitchen window appears on the side of a residential building: \u201cLucky Yu Bakery pick up\u201d.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">On the other side of that window is Hai Lin Leung, a general practitioner selling Cantonese-influenced baked goods from her home \u2013 think congee sourdough, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">bolo bao<\/span> (pineapple buns), gai mei bao (cocktail buns) and more.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There is no shopfront, set opening hours or seating; yet queues regularly spill down the street from her house. Customers pre-order online or turn up on the day, collecting their bakes through the window of Leung\u2019s kitchen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cStarting Lucky Yu was like a \u2018Swiss cheese effect\u2019 where all the holes magically align,\u201d Leung laughs. \u201cNormally [the phrase is] used to describe something when bad things happen, but in this case it\u2019s something really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3369518\/mala-coriander-congee-uk-doctor-sells-cantonese-inspired-bread-home?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every fortnight in Walthamstow, East London, a sign with a hand-painted goldfish pointing towards a kitchen window appears on the side of a residential building:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5894,31024,23188,29497,1352,469,6616,6433],"class_list":["post-89942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bread","tag-cantoneseinspired","tag-congee","tag-coriander","tag-doctor","tag-home","tag-mala","tag-sells","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}