Alice and Rose came to Wales from Hong Kong with their parents more than 40 years ago. Both women work in the food trade in Bangor and both are fiercely proud of their Chinese roots.

New Nation: Chips and Chopsticks meets Alice and Rose in their day-to-day lives and discovers the sisters' quest to preserve their Chinese heritage.

Rose and her Chinese husband run a takeaway on a Bangor council estate. Despite the popularity of Chinese food in the area - there are more than 400 takeaways in Gwynedd alone - it is the sausage dinners with homemade gravy that prove the best sellers in Rose's establishment.

Alice has a Chinese restaurant in the middle of town which she runs with husband Freddy. Her children Stephanie and Dominic are third generation Welsh and Stephanie has recently married Welshman Michael Jones - a romantic match not immediately welcomed by the family.

"I was devastated when she told me she had chosen a Welshman because I felt I wouldn't have a black-haired Chinese grandchild," admits Alice. "When it comes to marriage, I'm a very traditional Chinese woman at heart."

Stephanie - who lives in Penmaenmawr with Michael, but still spends a lot of time at her family home - thinks her mum worries unnecessarily about losing the Chinese cultural connection.

"I think her fear is that we're losing touch with the culture," she says. "But she doesn't realise that because she's brought us up with the culture we'll probably carry it on, whoever we marry."

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