Homemade with love: Siblings publish Hakka and Nonya cookbook with late mum’s recipes

Cheung Siew Li (right) published a recipe book in memory of her late mother,Esther Lee Peh Ing (left), who was born with hearing loss. - COURTESY OF CHEUNG SIEW LI, NG SOR LUAN

SINGAPORE: When Esther Lee Peh Ing was alive, she lived in a silent world, unable to speak or hear. But her love for her children, though unspoken, was loud and clear.

Born with hearing loss, Madam Lee would spend hours chopping and dicing away in the kitchen to fill her children’s tummies with her delicious Hakka and Nonya dishes.