S12 Ep6: The Rangoon Sisters: Aka Emily and Amy Chung: NHS Doctors and Burmese Supperclub Hosts

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guests today are Emily and Amy Chung – aka The Rangoon Sisters

These two sisters are junior doctors by day, cooks by night as they host sell-out supper clubs as part of their mission to put Burmese food on the culinary map. The sisters started their supperclub in 2013 after visiting Burma for the first time in 2012 and have since gone on to raise £10,000 for charities since then

Their number 1 fan is Grace Dent – who said that their Mohinga (fish chowder) was ‘the nicest thing she put in her mouth in 2017’

Grace Dent has said: As a restaurant critic, I constantly giggle at their humble manner of serving some of the best food I ever eat. It is always brought to the table with the words, “This probably isn’t very good but see if you like it.”

They brought out their debut cookbook last year to critical acclaim – it was in the Observer Food Monthly top 10 books of 2020. Steeped in family recipes and stories which are well written and easy to follow, it’s not hard to see why it has been such a hit.

Emily has said; “We are always nervous that we can pull this off again,” “But then the empty plates come back to the kitchen and we think, at some level, we’re doing OK.”

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0:00.0	This season of Desert Island dishes is sponsored by Cooks Matches. Cooks Matches have been the mainstay of British
0:06.1	kitchens for over 40 years and remain the match for both cooks and chefs to use in the kitchen.
0:12.9	You will have seen those iconic yellow boxes in just about anybody who's anybody's kitchen.
0:19.3	This autumn, they're running an amazing giveaway to help
0:22.0	you fall in love with cooking. In order to be in with a chance to win an incredible cookware bundle
0:26.8	consisting of a set of kitchen knives, apron, oven gloves and a signed Tom Carriage Hand and Flowers
0:33.5	cookbook, they want to hear about your favourite cozy autumn dish. It's very simple to enter. All you have to do is follow Cook's Matches on Instagram, like the post on their page, which tells you about the giveaway, and then simply leave a comment with your favourite autumn meal. I mean, to be honest, that's going to be the hardest bit, narrowing down your favourite dish
0:55.0	to just one, but you can do it. The competition runs until the 28th of October, so get
1:01.1	entering. To find out more, head to the website, www.comptyches.com. Good luck to everyone, and thank you very
1:09.6	much to cook's Matches.
1:10.9	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:17.6	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:23.9	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
1:32.7	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island.
1:35.5	I hope you're all well and that you've had a lovely week.
1:39.2	Now, I know that I told you a few weeks ago about pressing the wrong button
1:44.0	and how it would never happen again.
1:46.4	Well, you know where this is going, don't you?
1:49.2	I only went and did it again.
1:51.4	Honestly, after 100 episodes or so, you would think that I would have got the hang of this recording Malarkey.
1:58.6	But here we are.
2:00.2	I think it was also a combination of me pressing
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