John Sturgis

The sweet and sour sides of growing up in a Chinese takeaway

Angela Hui and her family fled China and arrived in a former mining town in South Wales in 1985

From mining to mein: a Chinese takeaway in the former mining village of Llanhilleth in South Wales [Robin Weaver/Alamy]
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