Mami King: How Ma Mon Luk Found Love, Riches, and the Perfect Bowl of Soup
by Jacqueline Chio-Lauri (Author) and Kristin Sorra (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Rejected by the parents of the girl he loves for being poor, Ma Mon Luk strikes out from China and boards a steamship headed for the Philippines in 1918. He vows to make a fortune and return for his beloved. Ma creates a chicken noodle soup he calls mami–“ma” for his name and “mi” for noodles–and peddles it as a street vendor. He eventually earns enough to open his own restaurant and wins the approval of the parents of his true love.
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