My top recommendation for people who want Chinese Cookbooks
After looking through a number of English cookbooks, I found that most were full of recipes that were only adequate if you were non-Chinese and did not really care what your food tasted like. This series is the best. I own most of the series and use the Cantonese-style among the most.
The recipes are authentic and it tastes the way it should. Ideally, you should go to an Asian market to purchase the better brands of sauces (as a lot of the Americanized Chinese sauces can make your food taste entirely off). The pictures are quite nice and the recipes are fairly straight forward.
That said, a lot of the translations are not that great. This is particularly true for some of the ingredients. HOWEVER, the ingredients are also printed in Chinese and if you take it to a Chinese grocery store you should be all set. ALSO, this means that the recipes are not non-authentic "substitutions".
I highly recommend this book and this series for any individual who is serious about cooking Chinese food the authentic way.
Nice book!
This book includes a step by step instruction photos which would be good for beginners. It contains simple recipes that are quick and easy to follow.
Authentic, delicious, well-tested, no-fail recipes
I love this book and highly recommend it. The Chinese cookbooks published by Wei-chuan (a cooking school in Taipei that is essentially the Cordon Bleu of Taiwan) are my bibles, and I don't bother with any other Chinese cookbooks. The recipes in this book are utterly delectable and absolutely authentic, using traditional ingredients and methods -- no shortcuts or substitutions here. For example, you will not find, as in other, less authentic cookbook recipes, peanut butter being substituted for sesame paste. Even though I live in the United States and do not read or speak Chinese, I have not had a problem finding these authentic ingredients in Asian food stores, especially because the ingredients are often pictured in photographs and the text is in both English and Chinese, so that I can even point out the photo or Chinese words for the store clerk if need be. This book is a great addition to any Chinese cookbook library because Cantonese cuisine is so distinctive for its elegantly simple flavors and sauces, a wonderful contrast to the more complex, sophisticated cuisines of Shanghai or Beijing. If you are serious about Chinese cuisine, this book and the others by Wei-chuan are the best you can buy in the English language.
Check for more reviews on Amazon.com
Similar Products:
|
