The Best of Chinese Cooking

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Summary: You Can Bring Your Favorite Chinese Restaurant Home
Review: For readers who live in the United States and want to make authentic Chinese dishes, this Chinese/English cookbook, adorned with beautiful pictures, will certainly lure them out to the market and rush them back into the kitchen.

The book is categorized by main ingredients - pork, beef, poultry; fish, prawn, seafood, rice and noodles, snacks, vegetarian, vegetables, and bean curd.

The best feature of this book is the tips the author placed on the sidebar. I have found them to be the culinary secrets of how to make a dish as good as the ones turned out by the chef.

Dishes such as Bean Curd with Dried Shrimp, Curry Chicken Rice, Braised Fish Tail with Brown Sauce, Meat Dumpling in Chili Oil and Spring Onion Pancake are dishes you find in authentic Chinese restaurants. With the hint of the tips I have turned out better tasting and better looking dishes.

Some of the ingredients used in this book are fancy and exotic. You may want to go to a well-stocked Asian supermarket for them. It is really worth the trouble, though, because the dishes are the kind Chinese families put on their dinner tables. Your culinary effort will surely be the talk among your friends and families just like the ones I tried were.