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Learn to COOK - Martin Yan's Feast: The Best of Yan Can Cook
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Manufacturer: Bay Books (CA)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5951
EAN: 9781579595265
ISBN: 157959526X
Label: Bay Books (CA)
Manufacturer: Bay Books (CA)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 393
Publication Date: 2003-03
Publisher: Bay Books (CA)
Studio: Bay Books (CA)
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Now in paperback comes the complete guide to Chinese cooking based on Martin Yan's popular PBS show. This encyclopedic book features Martin Yan's trademark clear and detailed guidance on Chinese cooking techniques, implements, ingredients - and of course, recipes. Using a warm, witty approach, Yan makes the mysterious accessible for novice or experienced cooks not familiar with the complexities of this cuisine. Color photographs enhance the 350 recipes which include both typical restaurant choices and homemade favorites, from Drunken Crab with Ginger-Wine Sauce and Mu Shu Vegetables, to Sunshine Soup with Dumplings, Sweet Bean Paste Puff, and Steamed Coconut-Papaya Sponge Cake.
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Summary: Great recipe selection
Comment: This is a great accessible but authentic cookbook, particularly for people who are relative beginners with cooking but not eating Chinese food. The recipe selection is particularly good -- I found that it contained recipes for most of the dishes that I remembered from my childhood and wanted to make. I have yet to make a recipe from this book that did not turn out well.
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Summary: I know Martin Yan and Martin says...
Comment: this is his best book.
I am a pro cook, and have met and talked to Martin on several occasions at professional conferences. He says this is his best cookbook. I have used it, as well as a couple of other of his cookbooks. I agree, it's his best.
Besides, who am I to argue with Martin!
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Summary: Excellent recipes for Asian-American food
Comment: In response to previous reviewers, this is not authentic Chinese food that Yan is making. That said, in reading this book I never got the impression from Yan that it was.
Yan includes recipes for many favorites that you would find in Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and other asian restaurants in the US. These are very good. I'm not buying General Tso's chicken or Sweet and Sour chicken again in a restaurant because these recipes were so much better and easy to make (it's amazing what lychees and chili-garlic sauce add to sweet and sour chicken). There are also cute anecdotes and nice pictures for almost every dish.
If you are interested in more authentic Chinese cooking, I've found that "Chinese Cooking Made Easy: With Simple Sauces and Dressings (Wei-chuan°s cookbook)" is indispensible and I use it all the time. If you want a good cookbook for restaurant style asian food, try Martin Yan's Feast.
I haven't tried his recipes for Thai food, as I'm half-Thai and probably I wouldn't like them (too americanized), but Wei-chuan's Thai Cooking Made Easy is also really good and I've used it quite a bit.
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Summary: I am so sad that people think this is Chinese food!
Comment: I just watched yet another Martin Yan show on TV. Being a Chinese who has lived in the U.S. for 10 years, I am ever so saddened by the fact that people really think this guy is cooking the "real" stuff. My friends and I just think that he puts on a good show. If you enjoy his food, please do not get the wrong impression that it is Chinese. He has substantially modified many of the dishes to fit American taste, just as many western restaurants in the Orient would make western food which have been changed to fit the Asian taste buds. I have seen westerners making faces in western restaurants in the Orient exclaiming, is this what you called a hamburger? (you can substitute "hamburger with the name of any other dishes) The reaction of Chinese towards Yan's cooking is the same!
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Summary: excellent presentation, recipes packed,
Comment: This book is very well presented with a nice matte finish. The book is good if you are looking for easy home made dishes that are not too fancy. The ingredients asked for are not too demanding, easy to obtain, a plus if you don't live close to Chinatown.I would recommend this book because it's packed with recipes with pictures accompanying some of them. Variety also give this book a boost on the shopping list. I gave this book 4 stars because I was looking for recipes that are regionally famous throughout China, Most of the dishes are more of a homestyle dinner rather than restaurant gourment.
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