National & International Cookery

This title helps to bring the tastes, textures and traditions of this classic Chinese style of dining to your own home. Whether steamed or fried, vegetable or meat, roll or dumpling, there is a delicious bite here to tempt everybody’s tastebuds. You can try classic Yam Cake, steamed Jicama Dumplings, crispy Sesame-coated Chicken, world-famous Roast Pork Dumplings or irresistible Deep-fried Wontons. It offers 100 photographs that include step-by-step images and inspirational pictures of each finished dish, making it simple to create professional-looking morsels. It includes nutritional notes that are provided for every recipe. It covers various cook’s tips that explain unusual ingredients and techniques, and variations provide ideas for ringing the changes. Dim sum is a traditional style of eating, where bite-sized tidbits are served for shared dining. This beautiful book makes authentic Chinese dim sum accessible to the home cook. It opens with a practical introduction to the cuisine, with essential information on ingredients and equipment. More than 25 recipes follow, with a diverse selection of dishes from all over China. There is something for every occasion, with vegetable, shellfish, poultry or meat offerings. Choose from Chive Dumplings, Quail’s Eggs Sesame Toast, Beef Cakes, or Pork and Cabbage Dumplings. Photographs show tricky stages of preparation, as well as the finished dish, so it is easy to see the results you are aiming to achieve. With easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of tips and variations throughout, this book will be a perfect addition to the kitchen shelf of every keen cook.

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Make your favourite Chinese takeaway dishes at home!

According to Statista, as a nation we spend £10 billion each year on takeaways, and in a 2019 poll, Chinese food was voted Britain’s favourite takeaway.

The Chinese Takeaway Secret offers a wide selection of popular recipes that will ensure the reader’s home-made dishes look and taste exactly like those offered by their favourite restaurants. Make starters and sides from Spring Rolls and Spare Ribs to Satay Skewers and Crispy Won Ton, and with mains for every palette including Chow Mein, Shredded Aromatic Pork Pancakes, Sweet and Sour Chicken, and Foo Yung.

There are delicious sides and traditional street food dishes too – including Dan Dan Noodles, Prawn Crackers and Wok Fried Beansprouts.

With this definitive collection of almost 100 takeaway recipes, you’ll be able to sample incredible Chinese cuisine from the comfort of your own home – and at half the price!

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Lisa and Helen have travelled across China in search of amazing street food. The recipes are truly accessible – easy for anyone to make in the comfort of their own kitchen. Ken Hom

This beautiful book offers a real insight into the street food cultures of China and vividly evokes the smells and sounds of the markets. It’s the closest you may get to experiencing Beijing street food without actually being there, smelling the mix of aromatic spices, caramelized apples, barbecuing meats and steaming dumplings, with clouds of smoke and noisy bustle all around you, and red lanterns glowing above.

Over 100 recipes and a wealth of stories and insight into cooking methods bring this cuisine to life. All recipes have been carefully chosen to be achievable for the western cook.

Helen and Lisa Tse have set out to encapsulate that sense of excitement, awe, wonder and hunger for these morsels of street food: from soft fluffy bao, to hot fried chicken, from piping hot bowls of noodles, to coal-roasted squid, delicate tea eggs and bubble tea, this is food to truly excite the appetite and awaken a sense of adventure in the kitchen.

With a foreword from the master of Chinese cooking, Ken Hom, this is the essential book for the foodie bookshelf.

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Kwoklyn’s Chinese Takeaway Kitchen – streaming now on Amazon Prime!

Kwoklyn Wan is back with 80 classic Chinese dishes that use only five ingredients. Alongside a basic store cupboard of five essentials – salt, pepper, soy sauce, sugar and oil – you can make a feast of easy dishes using the bare minimum.

All your favourites are here – from Tom Yum Soup to Prawn Toast, Sweet Chilli Salmon and Lemon Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork Balls or Beef in Oyster Sauce, Aubergine Fritters and Chilli Ginger Crispy Tofu – and all use only five key ingredients, all of which are readily available from supermarkets or local stores.

Ditch the takeaway or delivery Chinese food and make your own at home – no fuss, less money, and more healthy.

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AS SEEN ON TV

Celebrate fast, furious and fresh Asian cooking with over 80 recipes from TV’s Jeremy Pang and his award-winning cookery institution, School of Wok.

Bringing together the best Asian flavours from across the continent, this book is a combination of quick-fire, easy meals that take minutes to cook up. Most recipes in the book utilise the ‘wok clock’ technique, where the ingredients are laid out in a clock formation in the order they will be cooked for complete simplicity.

From quick weekday suppers to family feasts with a bit more flare, Jeremy Pang’s School of Wok contains the tips and tricks you need to make the world of Asian cooking easily accessible so you never have to resort to a fakeaway ever again.

Chapter one: Chinese
Including General Tso’s Chicken; Garlic & Vermicelli Steamed Prawns and Vegan Chow Mein

Chapter two: Thai
Including Steamed Fish with Lemon Grass & Lime Broth; Bangkok Crab Omelette and Green Chicken Curry

Chapter three: Vietnamese
Including Quick Chicken Pho; Sweet Potato & Prawn Fritters and Crispy Tofu in Tomato Sauce

Chapter four: Singaporean & Malaysian
Including Vegan Laksa; Malaysian Mixed Rice and Sesame Oil Chicken

Chapter five: Indonesian & Pinoy
Including Pinoy Garlic Butter Chilli Prawns; Coconut Spicy Squash Stew and Ben’s Spicy Fried Chicken

Chapter five: Korean & Japanese
Including Kimchi Fried Rice, Korean Fried Chicken and Quick Vegan Ramen

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10-Minute Takeaway is the fastest, easiest ever cookbook for all your favourite Chinese dishes.

Cooking star Kwoklyn Wan offers over 80 inventive ways of getting food on the table in 10 minutes flat, from start to finish – quicker than doing an online order or picking up the phone!

Here he shares fuss-free and delicious recipes for the likes of Sweet and Sour Pork, Roast Duck in Hoi Sin Sauce, King Prawn Noodles, Rice Noodle Soup, Crispy Chilli Tofu, Marinated Tofu and many more.

With Kwoklyn’s amazing recipes and handy shortcuts, it really is THAT easy.

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Full of recipes sharing their love of bao as well as other Chinese dishes, the Bao Family cookbook symbolises the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the modernity of Parisian life. Perfect for fans of Fuchsia Dunlop, Kwoklyn Wan and Ken Hom.

Through over 80 classic yet accessible and playful recipes, Céline Chung and her family push back against the stereotypes surrounding Chinese cooking and pay tribute to its diversity and regionality. Expect an explosion of flavour, with recipes for spring onion pancakes, chilli chicken salad, dim sum, Chinese spring rolls, hot and sour soup, sweet and sour fish, cumin beef, Cantonese fried rice and of course bao buns – that perfectly fluffy finger food which feeds a crowd and can be tailored with all sorts of delicious fillings.

Bao Family is a bold celebration of Chinese food today, spanning meals all through the day. The key recipes all feature handy step-by-step instructions, and every dish is imbued with the love that Céline and her family have for their homeland of Wenzhou, from their home in Paris.

Recipes include:

• Stir-fried vegetarian noodles
• Pumpkin fries with salted egg
• Fried egg on rice
• Charsiu bao
• Har gow
• Chinese spring rolls
• Wonton soup
• Steamed pork ribs with garlic and black beans
• Salt-and-pepper chicken

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