In a bustling park cafe in Colchester, on a sunny November day, a group of chatty women are busy serving up Hong Kong delicacies – milk tea, pineapple buns, noodles – to a steady stream of local customers.
They’re not paid staff, but volunteers, honing their English skills and clocking up experience for their CVs – and they are here in this quiet Essex town, because each of them has made the drastic decision to quit their homeland of Hong Kong, and start a new life in the UK.
