Tales of a takeaway kid

A love letter to a Chinese takeaway.

At the end of May we visited the South London Zine Fest at Deptford Does Art, the wonderful gallery, shop and bar on Deptford High Street.

One of the zines we saw at the festival was 明Ming Hai海, a very personal history of a family-run Chinese takeaway that has stood on Sandringham Road in E8 for over thirty years.

We loved everything about it, from the illustration made using materials from the takeaway itself, through to the stick drawing of the dad smoking his cigarette as he leaves the cash and carry. So we got in touch with Faye, the Zine’s creator, to see if we could adapt her story and help it reach an even wider audience.

Thankfully Faye said yes and we’ve been able to work with her to create this issue. We love it, and we hope you do too.

We have a few copies of the original hardcopy zine to give away to LiB readers. If you’d like one then all you have to do is ‘like’ this issue by clicking the heart at the bottom of the email, or leave a comment. We’ll pick a handful of names at…