Have Some Dim Sum

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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: A wonderful book written in a beautiful, personal style. I've avoided visiting Dim Sum Restaurants because of my fear of eating something I don't want to by mistake. This book describes over 50 of the most common dishes so you know what you're popping into your mouth and - if you're a fussy eater like me - what to avoid. On the weekend I took my wife and some friends to a Dim Sum Restaurant and we had a lot of fun and ate some really good food! A bonus is the 20 recipes from top chefs... my wife intends to try a few.

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Summary: Informative and Pleasant to use
Review: I find this book very useful as a guide book. We go out for Dim Sum a lot as a family and it's great to know what to order now. Also, I've made two of the easier recipes for entertaining and am pleased that they're not as hard as people would have you believe. Some Dim Sum are very tricky and labor intensive, I'm told, but this book only included the simpler ones. I made shrimp rolls and the stuffed eggplants and both are addictive!

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Summary: It should have been labeled 'The Theory of Dum Sum'
Review: This book is terribly misleading. One expects to find mostly recipes, with some background information on each recipe. Instead, one finds 95% information, and very few recipes. I am returning this book. When I want a limited encyclopedia, I'll buy one. I thought I was buying a cookbook. Only some of the dishes even have pictures; many don't. If all you want is limited information with little intention of cooking, then this is your book. Otherwise, don't bother.