Kwoklyn Wan has spent years perfecting recipes for dishes that taste just like the ones from your local chinese restaurant. Includes: Easy step-by-step instructions; Handy guide to ingredients and pantry essentials; Easy-to-find ingredients, available at supermarkets.--adapted from back cover.

A culinary reference features southern Chinese recipes, shares a comprehensive introduction to key seasonings and techniques, and offers such options as smoky eggplant with garlic, twice-cooked pork, and emergency midnight noodles.

Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees offers a unique introduction to Chinese home cooking, demystifying it by focusing on its basic cooking methods. In outlining the differences among various techniques-such as pan-frying, oil steeping, and yin-yang frying-and instructing which one is best for particular ingredients and end results, culinary expert Kian Lam Kho provides a practical, intuitive window into this unique cuisine. Once one learns how to dry stir-fry...

"Bao Family Cookbook symbolizes the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the modernity of Parisian life. The Bao family run four Chinese restaurants in Paris that bridge the gap between two cultures, and between traditional and modern cuisine-here they share their love of bao and other Chinese dishes, with recipes that span the eight culinary regions of China. Through over 80 classic yet accessible and playful recipes, Céline...

"There is a particular region in today's renaissance of Chinese cooking that is often overlooked: the food of Chinatown. Like many of his predecessors, chef Chris Cheung was inspired by the place where he grew up, lived, worked, and ate. From take-out orders at tiny hole-in-the wall teahouses to the lush green vegetables piled high at the markets, celebration dinners at colossal banquet halls to authentic home-cooked meals, Chinatown's culinary treasures...

"100+ fresh, plant-based, umami-packed recipes that show the range of traditional and modern Chinese vegan cuisine. When Hannah Che decided to become a vegan, she was concerned that it would alienate her from the traditions and food that her Chinese family celebrated. But that was before she learned about Zhai cai, or vegetarian cooking, a fascinating subset of Chinese cookery that emphasizes umami-rich ingredients and can be traced back over hundreds,...

[A collection of 400 chinese restaurant dishes recipes]

"Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication--but...

"An evocative, transporting look into the thousands-year-old cuisine of Shanghai, China's most exciting, bustling city, with 100 recipes and stories"-- Experience the beauty and flavors of the food of Shanghai! Liu presents an intimate look into this city and its delicious cuisine through recipes and stories. She goes beyond the traditional recipes and takes readers into the heart of what defines Chinese food: the people and their traditions. --...