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Forget Ever Going to Any Old Take-Out Again!, 19 Aug 1999
By A Customer
Susanna Foo has proved to us that Chinese Food is not Soy Sauce, Baby Corn and Cornstarch. It is a simple combination of flavors just like Italian or French cooking, without complicated techiniques. I have always loved chinese food and I read this cookbook over and over again getting ideas of what kind of things to make and getting ideas about who can clean up after me! The best things in the book are the breads, and I cannot tell you how many times I have made Scallion Pancakes. I have only one complaint about her book. When making the scallion pancakes, disreagard the whole rolling and filling process. Just mix the scallions in with the flour and then add the boiling water.
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A must for the adventurous cook, 18 Feb 1999
By A Customer
This is an excellent cookbook with beautiful pictures and delicious recipies. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a new and adventurous take on chinese cooking. I salute Mrs. Foo for her creativity and originality.
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A Wannabe of French Nouvelle cuisine, 22 Jan 1999
By A Customer
As a Chinese/American, lot of the dishes and recipes in this book are so outrageously gimmicky. It only makes me wonder whether the patrons would have to go to Burger King or all-you-can-eat buffet joint to fill up the empty stomach after dined in her restaurant. By using so many and so much "star anise" and "peppercorn" in almost every dish is something that I'd never try and never want to eat! If you could call most of these dishes as innovative Chinese Cuisine you must be crazy, because it should just be called "int'l or whatever-you-name-it cuisine", or more French than Chinese? Yeah, just eat the decoration and presentation and pay rip-off prices. If you could mix up all the ingredients--the Kosher, Mexican, French, Greek, Italian, Russian....besides the Chinese-- you could find in America's supermarket and make them into crazy recipes as many and as bold as you could imagine, you just cannot call them Chinese cuisine anymore, it's a mixture and bastard kind of food but definitely not Chinese! Furthermore, if any ingrdient could be randomly mixed together, why you still need a recipes book like this one?! Just use your imagination and get all the ingredients in your local supermarket, then you might invent more crazy stuff. All I could suggest is that you never eat anything that needed to be (re)arranged on the plate by hands(fingers) in the kitchen, i.e., beware the cross contamination! Don't eat anything in any Cafe or restaurant that has to be made by the waiter or waitress who, after they takes order from you. Their hands are so dirty since they have to do lot of side works, collecting other tables' soiled dishes, handling dirty paper money and making changes.
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