This book is more than a superb cookbook. It is a treasure full not only of insights
into Chinese cuisines and many great recipes but also of great photographs of
China generally as well as of the food.
It's a monster of a book – the pages are larger than A4
and there are over 400 of them!
If you are interested in finding out a bit more about
Chinese food, this is a great place to start.
It focuses mostly on dishes that can be made at home with relatively
common ingredients.
Dishes I am hoping to give a try from this lovely book
include: cold spicy Sichuan chicken, Sichuan radish salad, crisp fried tofu
squares, pumpkin & scallop soup, soy sauce prawns, sticky pork in bean
sauce with pancakes and honeydew melon sago pudding.
I couldn't find out much about the authors of the
book. I think Leanne Kitchen is
Australian (or maybe a New Zealander)
and a former professional chef. I
wondered if her name was real but saw from an article that she married a guy
with Kitchen as a surname – which is quite funny really.
Honeydew pudding sounds tasty! Do you ever do dim sum?
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