Owners
Helen, Lisa & Janet Tse
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Helen and her identical twin Lisa were born in 1977 and grew up in Manchester UK. Helen's passion for writing began whilst studying law at Cambridge University. She worked as a finance and tax lawyer for Clifford Chance in London and Hong Kong. Since then, she has worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and won the Young Accountant of the Year Award 2006 for her work on helping companies invest in China. Career : Helen and her two sisters, Lisa and Janet Tse opened an award winning restaurant Sweet Mandarin in Manchester and to follow in their mother’s (Mabel) and grandmother's (Lily Kwok se Profiles Past) footsteps. Together, they have appeared on ITV Granada, BBC, radio and featured in numerous press and magazine articles on topics ranging from women in business, food, restauranteurs, entrepreneurs, immigration, nationality, Chinese culture and investing in China. Sweet Mandarin is an exciting Pan Asian restaurant which opened 2nd November 2004. Sweet Mandarin has been voted best newcomer in the Northern Lifestyle publication and voted into the Top 100 restaurants by Olive Magazine and counts media stars and footballers amongst its clientele. It has been described as a mirror image of its co-directors - original, young, modern and very stylish. When they are not running the restaurant Lisa, Helen and Janet, from Chadderton, Oldham, are respectively a lawyer, a financier and an engineer and have become role models for the Chinese community. Helen is a Cambridge law graduate, tax solicitor in the City and an international author. She is second chef, able to create and cook an entire menu, and has used her analytical and project management skills to take the concept on paper through to reality. Helen is also an author who has written a book, also called Sweet Mandarin, about the struggles of her immigrant family and life in the restaurant world. Random House launched Helen's novel as their lead title for February 2007 to coincide with Chinese New Year, and the book will be used in Chinese and English schools. Janet studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UMIST before going to work at My Travel Airways and Manchester City Council. But it’s her excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills that has ensured her primary role as customer care manager. She is the voice of Sweet Mandarin; the Tse sister who will be on the other end of the phone. Although she will be front of house, she too is a dab hand at dim sum and shaking a cocktail. Of three sisters Lisa is particularly passionate about cooking, especially Chinese cuisine, and she trains the chefs to give Sweet Mandarin its distinctive flavour. Lisa has already demonstrated business acumen through her financial career in the City. She is also the anchor for the first bilingual Chinese and English radio show on Asian Sound Radio. |
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