“I just had that intense feeling of being taken right back to when I was seven years old, just hearing the woks going.
“In a Chinese takeaway kids aren’t trusted with anything else other than putting the lids on the boxes and the food’s burning hot, and just all those memories came flooding back in that moment,” she says.
The following night the 49-year-old returned to Leyton but this time with her camera, and she started taking pictures of the outside of the takeaway, along with other Chinese eateries in the area.
These evening journeys have since spread further around London from her base in Walthamstow, each night plotted in advance to take in as many establishments as possible in a certain area.
The images are then documented on Instagram, external under the pseudonym Jing Soeng, meaning “to take a photograph” in Cantonese.
“It’s got really addictive actually,” she laughs. “My step-count’s got pretty high.”
