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Summary: Mouthwatering Home Cooking
Review: I have heard of Peimei Fu through some Chinese friends and known her to be a consummate Chinese chef and experienced instructor. So when I saw her cookbook in a Chinese store, I grabbed it on a whim. But after I looked at the pictures, though, I became reluctant to try them because they looked complicated. I actually tried my first dish because I felt obligated since I bought the cookbook. I was pleasantly surprised. Cooking Chinese the Fu's way was not nearly as complicated as I had imagined and the results were quite pleasing. I found that most of the preparation methods in this book were really quite ordinary, and shredding meat and meshing tofu might very well be the most time consuming steps. As for ingredients, items like sea cucumber and baby abalone were exotic, but most were everyday fare. This book is especially helpful since it is in Chinese and English. With the name of the ingredients in English, it lessens the confusion when I go shopping for them. This book is categorized by main ingredients - meat; seafood; vegetables, bean curd & egg; fish & shrimp; and dessert. The clear instructions and the strategically placed ingredients and seasoning lists make it easy to shop and to prepare. The recipes in this book are not fancy. Of those dishes I tried, Stir-fried diced Chicken with Celery, Stewed Beef Shank and Stir-fried beef with Dried Bean Curd are all easy and delicious home-style dishes that turned out tasting and smelling like they came out of an authentic Chinese restaurant. If you want to cook authentic Chinese, you can't go wrong with this cookbook by Peimei Fu. And don't put off trying them like I did.
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