The Food of China: Amazon.co.uk: Deh-Ta Hsiung, Nina Simonds: 9781740450324: Books

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Showcases the best of food in China today, with recipes for classic and new dishes, photographed as they are made in the kitchen. The photographs and text explore real Chinese food, from picking seasonal produce in the markets to the art of dim-sum, selecting the best teas from Hangzhou, making Peking duck and creating fresh noodles.

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AN ENORMOUS COUNTRY, WITH A LARGE POPULATION TO FEED AND A DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE, CHINA HAS ONE OF THE GREAT CUISINES OF THE WORLD AND EATING PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN DAILY LIFE AND IN RITUALS AND FESTIVITIES. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good overview of Chinese cookery, beautifully illustrated., 23 Jan 2002

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This review is from: The Food of China (Hardcover)

This is an absolutely beautiful book, which is a pleasure just to pour over. It gives a very good overview of the essentials of Chinese cookery, as well as containing mini-essays on such things as tea, banquets, dimsum, etc. It's recipes cover a wide range of Chinese regions and, for the most part, are clearly set out. My own quibbles with it (as a person who's been cooking Chinese from childhood) are that most of the recipes presuppose a knowledge of how to slice the ingredients and some have rather odd proportions. Also, there is a heavy bias towards a Cantonese cooking style, even in the dishes from other Chinese regions (speaking as a northerner myself). However, apart from these parts, the book provides a sumptious look at eating in China and is worth buying for the illustrations alone!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic and practical Chinese home cooking, 14 Jun 2003

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This review is from: The Food of China (Hardcover)

If any more practical, information-filled and enjoyable anthology of authentic Chinese home cooking exists than "The Food Of China", I have yet to discover it. Our little family group has bought three copies of this wonderful book so that it will be within easy reach at all times. My own copy soon will become the most soy sauce and sesame oil-spotted volume in my cookbook collection. If you want to know how to tuck the tastiest and neatest jiaozi, how to make home-cooking favourites like Grandma's Bean Curd, congee, tea eggs, turnip cake, or even sheng cai bao (stuffed lettuce leaves or san choy bao) and hot-sour soup, this is THE book.

Thank you authors Deh-Ta Hsiung and Nina Simonds for sharing your investigations, knowledge and obvious joy in Chinese cuisine.

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2.0 out of 5 stars More Cantonese then Regional Chinese Dishes, 16 April 2011

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K. C. Man (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Food of China: A Journey for Food Lovers (Food of the World) (Paperback)

This book is how a cookery book should be designed: big bold pictures of the dishes and text. However what is disappointing is the amount of Cantonese dishes - while looking through this, I kept thinking I must be reading a 'take away' menu from my local.

It would have been nice if they chosen more authentic dishes using better truer ingredients (i.e. using peanut butter instead of sesame paste for Bang Bang chicken...I mean really?) As for the recipe for Egg Fried Rice...come on that just plain lazy! And this in the same book as Peking Duck - which is way too complicated for the home cook. I found some of the cooking method, to have too little information often with the instructions for poultry dishes to be overcooked.

In an ideal world it would have been lovely to have recipes of Fuchsia Dunlop with the photos direction of this book.

To sum up if your beginner with Chinese cooking and want to do typical Southern dishes then this is an ideal book. If your more seasoned cook it might be a bit trite.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Nice colorful book but difficult to find ingredients
This book is really nice for understanding the background of the food of China. Lots of descriptions. There are colorful pictures of each dish. Read more

Published 27 days ago by P. Henriksen