China: The Cookbook

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Ultimately, this book will be of great use to people who are already familiar with Chinese cuisine, and have an interest in obscure or regional recipes that fall outside of their personal cooking experience. Silver Travel Advisor sells travel services on behalf of Hays Travel Limited and benefits from Hays Travel’s membership of ABTA with membership number P8411. It is the first to cover all Chinese cuisines and is the result of a career spent mastering Chinese cooking. Strangely, most pictures are of the simplest or most familiar dishes, while the ones that were the most complex or unfamiliar to me generally didn't have an accompanying photo or a description of the food at all. If you have already submitted another request to index a book or magazine yourself, please do not make any additional requests until you have indexed and submitted that book or magazine.

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Real duck liver sausage is hard to source, need to check the ingredient list to ensure that they are not substituting turkey liver for the duck liver. With an extensive knowledge of all eight major regional Chinese cuisines, Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan are bestselling authors, regarded as top culinary authorities within China. It is a collection of the memories, philosophies, and superstitions of the Cantonese home where the author grew up.And, of course, as the tour name suggests, this remarkable adventure concludes with meeting some of the country’s most famous furry residents at the Chengdu Panda Conservation Centre. Other than that I followed the recipe exactly, the delicious sauce thickened nicely from the corn starch in the chicken marinade. I was lucky enough to take part in a cookery demonstration with Kei and Diora recently, at the School of Wok. Hunan, a restaurant located on London’s Pimlico Road, is revered among its patrons who rave about the nearly four-decade-old eatery where owner Mr YS Peng and his son Michael serve up course after course of Chinese dishes – all without a menu.

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A husband and wife team have written the definitive Chinese cookbook, with recipes from all of the country's major cuisines, as well as lesser known dishes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia. When she moved to Southern California, Bee did not lose her longing for the cuisine of her youth, but she found it difficult to find the essential ingredients and the time to prepare the meals she loved.

Most recipes can also be adapted for vegans and veggies and include gluten free options, making these recipes perfect for everyone in the family.

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The recipes come from their time in Canton, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, and give the American cook instruction on how to master the basics of Chinese cooking. Not all of her recipes are Chinese – she has taken cues for her dishes from across Asia – but this cookbook is filled with plenty of nourishing meals that are focused on one’s health and wellbeing. Capturing the unique flavors of Chinese cuisine, your kitchen will soon be filled with the fragrances of exotic ingredients.

It features in-depth guides to ingredients, cooking equipment and techniques that can be easily adapted to a western kitchen, as well as 250 recipes covering both classic Chinese dishes as well as lesser-known, more adventurous meals. What they have created is a book that offers a window into a cuisine and culture older than most, yet still relatively unexplored by outsiders. If you like the sound of blanched choy sum with a sizzling oil or Hangzhou broad beans with ham, then you are going to love this one of the best-selling Chinese cookbooks by Fuchsia Dunlop.

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Fuchsia Dunlop is familiar with the cuisine of this region and explains that the food there is renowned for its sophistication and diversity. China: The Cookbook celebrates popular staples such as Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs and Dim Sum, as well as lesser-known regional classics like Fujian Fried Rice and Jiangsu’s Drunken Chicken, and features additional selected recipes from star chefs from around the world. The Food of Sichuan includes 70 new recipes, along with interesting descriptions of the delicious flavors and textures that will be discovered when you cook food from this region. But for the most part, I think I’d happily tackled the dishes and wouldn’t need to destroy the entire kitchen in the process! As well as featuring hearty soups, stews and noodles it also explores the history and culture of such an amazing country.We especially liked Ken’s “useful hints” throughout the book, telling readers how to get the most out of the ingredients – for instance, he advises you to soak dried fish or seafood to make it easier to chop, or to be gentle with fragile beancurd so it keeps it shape when cooking. Not In The Guidebooks gets travellers off the beaten track into local culture with day experiences and longer, immersive adventures. I’m not convinced that I want to try stir-fried pig’s tongue from the Hakka region or that I’d know where to find Dace (a type of fish) to stuff.