Mother and Daughters (M&D Food, 魚初心)

by Kit, Vanessa, and Kay

Hong Kong is synonymous with street style food — from the fishballs to stinky tofu and fried chestnuts to egg waffles. As a little girl growing up in Hong Kong, this was Kit’s playground. Kit used to hang out at the local open-air market where her parents sold garments from a stall. She remembers the smell of freshly made fried foods, steaming hot buns, and curry soups that would fill the market air. Eating at these carts was special for Kit because during brief breaks, she would eat together with her parents as a family.

In 2011, Kit came to California from Hong Kong with her daughters in hopes to provide them a chance for a better future. When she moved to the US, Kit started off washing dishes at local restaurants and recycling cans to make ends meet. Her passion has always been cooking. As she built her life in the East Bay, she deepened her work in food – at restaurants and grocery stores, preparing specialized meals for families with newborns based on Chinese herbal medicine, and launching her own food project – M&D Food, alongside her daughters Vanessa and Kay. They have built a strong following from Chinese immigrants, many sharing that their cooking brings memories of home, and that is what M&D Food wants to keep doing.

M & D – short for Mother and Daughters – offers a range of items, from healing foods informed by qigong, to unique Hong Kong comfort foods and sweets. They would love to continue to offer authentic Hong Kong street food to a wider audience.

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• Instagram: @mandd_food