Sun Li

(Hong Kong, 1980) debuted in 2016 with a book about the family story behind a Chinese restaurant. She is also the principal author of the collection for ages 6+, Bedtijdverhalen voor Rebelse meisjes: 100 bijzondere Nederlandse vrouwen (Bedtime Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Special Dutch Women, 2021). In 2023 she published the Chin. Ind. Rest. kookboek, written with Danny Lee, Ka Fai Lee and Yan Ting Yuen: besides the classics - from babi pangang, bami and fu yong hai to koo loo kai - it includes dishes the personnel eat themselves, and it reflects on the history of such restaurants in the Netherlands. Together with Tjyying Liu she wrote the play Happy in Nederland about a mother and daughter and their Chinese-Indonesian restaurant. You can see it from January through March 2024 in Dutch theatres (26 January in Theater aan het Spui in The Hague).