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Learn to COOK - Chinese Cuisine (Wei-Chuan's cookbook)
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Manufacturer: Wei-Chuan Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5951
EAN: 9780941676083
ISBN: 0941676080
Label: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Manufacturer: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 206
Publication Date: 1983-06
Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Studio: Wei-Chuan Publishing
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The very first of Culinary Master Su-Huei Huang's cookbook successes, this collection boasts a wide range of popular Chinese dishes. Individual sections provide clear guidance for utensils, cooking method, seasonings, vegetables, and special ingredients used in Chinese Cooking. Many people are still discovering the wonders of Chinese cooking through this book and use it as a reference source.
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Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I bought this book so that i can get more ideas and choices in my daily dishes. i've read many great feed back from here and therefore i went ahead and bought the book. I was really excited when the book arrived, but as soon as i open the cover, all my excitement quickly disappeared. There are several problemswith this book.
first one is the pictures. Perhaps, this book might be one of the earlier edituion publish by wei Chaun publishing company, therefore the photo doesn't show the detail process in how to hand the ingredients. I noticed that other books that were published in the late80s and early 90's have pictures that are much more useful becuase it shows how things should look at each step. This book only have pictures of the finished product.
Second problem is their rescipes. half of the book involved simple stir fry stuff. beef with onion and Sa te souce, beef with mix snow peas, beef with veggie in oyster souce. i guess this is what home cooking is all about. you make one dish. the next one you can add a different veggetable and call it a new recipes. the souces are all the same.. (corn starch, soy, sugar and water). with a tiny bit of cooking experience and interest, anyone can come up with those stuff. the same goes with the stir-fry chicken and pork dishes. it volved the same style just different meat. I know that in chinese home cooking, most of the time you used the same source, brown soy thickened with cornstarched, either that or black bean or oyster ource which you can buy in a jar from a chinese store. I am not crazy about the veggetarian their soups dishes in this book. The dishes are too traditional. it involved ingredients that are loved by older people like my grandmother. younger generation don't usually endore these dishes.
Other reipes i found useless are the appetizers (ham, chinse BBQ pork, beef shanks, and chinse sausage, sliced hard boil eggs and roasted peanuts, cashews). first of all , the cold cut meats and nuts. can be purchased. 99% of chinese people don't eat these except when dine in restaurant. most meats are something buy from stores.
Finally, i should mention that i am chinese. i have chinese home cooking all my life. I also travel to HK and Taiwan quite frequently, so i am very familiar with many different dishes and various cooking styles. I consider myself as a rather experienced cook. I can make just about everything i've can tast. I am dissappointed that this book only have one type of cooking style, that is basic stir-frying. I know most of the stuff in the book already. the recipes are the very basic home cooking recipes. there's no new ideas. I've tried several recipes from the book, and the result was a very dissappointing. and I am not impress with this book.
It is rather difficult to make recommendation for this book. on one hand, this book contains many simply stir fry recipes useful for those who are not familiar with chinese cooking. However, you do need have cooking experience to be successful. you need to understand chinese ingredients in order to follow these recipes. If you're chinese you probably already know how to stir fry most of the stuffs from the book, and hating all the soups and appertizer becuase of the weird ingredients in them.
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Summary: Chinese Cuisine (Wei-Chuan's Cookbook)
Comment: Speedy delivery. The book is excellent. It makes a great Christmas gift!
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Summary: Good Chinese recipe's
Comment: I love this cookbook. The ingredients are simple and the instruction are easy to follow.
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Summary: Authentic for chinese !!!
Comment: This is the most authentic cook book for the Chinese, but for American and other non Asian who grow up eating Chinese take out might think this book is full of "made up" recipes.
The book is very well illustrated, unlike alot of other cook books trying to over complicate things this one is simple short to the point.
But i do have to point out if you are not Chinese (Asian) or doesn't know any Chinese then good luck you'll have a very hard time finding the stuffs in the supermarket things like -- Szechwan pepper power AKA hua jiao fen (makes sens in Chinese since my mother uses it all the time but when i read the English version i was like what the heck is that).
Anyways i think this is a great book, most of my fav. and very well known recipes can be find in the book. but button line if you are not Asian be prepare to get really confused.
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Summary: The Best Chinese Recipe Book
Comment: My mom has been using this book since I was little. I really hate to cook, but being a Chinese daughter, I couldn't avoid the "duty" of cooking. This cookbook had made it so easy that I was able to cook a 4-course meal for my family even at the age of 14. Recently I bought a copy for myself because my mom wouldn't give up hers. I love the easy-to-follow recipes and the large pictures, you could almost smell the food with these colorful photos. If you have to own just one Chinese cookbook, this one is it!
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