Event Details
An intimate fusion of tea tasting, academic discussion, and personal story sharing—set, very deliberately, inside a Chinese takeaway, an everyday yet pivotal migrant site. We open with a three-tea flight (Qinggan Pu’er, British black tea, Moroccan mint) to warm the senses, followed by quick introductions and reflections on what “migrant food” means in our lives and scholarship. We then co-create a food map of London, pinning favourite migrant dishes and restaurants to trace routes of movement, memory and adaptation. No prior expertise required; bring curiosity, a story, and an appetite for conversation. You’ll leave with a photo of our collective map, a crowd-sourced eat list, and a new way of tasting London.
Programme
Tea chat lead: Dr Yunting Qi
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​Dr Yunting Qi, a former international immigrant (she earned his master's and doctoral degrees at the National University of Singapore and Royal Holloway, University of London), is currently an early career academic at the Eastern China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai. Her research has previously focused on Chinese "newcomers" in Singapore and is currently focused on Chinese returnees, with a particular interest in their daily lives, identity, and emotions. She enjoys eating and her research explores this phenomenon among immigrants—relevant research has been published in Social & Cultural Geography and The Routledge Handbook of Home.