Customer Reviews

Authentic Recipes from Vietnam (Authentic Recipes Series)

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What a terrific book! The recipes are succintly worded and truly authentic. The photography is so excellent, you want to devour the pages. An excellent follow-up to my recent visit to Vietnam.

Chef James

If you like periplus cookbooks and already own "the food of" version of this book, then reconsider buying this one. The new "authentic recipes from" series is just a rehash of the "food of series" with a few subtle changes such as relacing obscure recipes with more recognisable ones, bigger font and format, less on the history and some updated pictures.

Overall I kind of like the recipes in the new books more as there is less filler and odd recipes, but I do like the layout and format of the older hardcover "food of" books. So if you own "the food of" and want to get this book, be prepared to sell it off as you will only end up doubling up 90% of recipes between the 2.

This book is excellent. Provides many images for each food/recipe and easy to follow. In this book, Vietnamese popular food/recipe today. Also, these recipe can be use for special occasion and everyday food.

A bit too exacting for what I need at this point in my learning to prepare more food in the Asian Style.

Good food, along with its recipe and how to, is also about presentation. This book lacks the beautiful color pictures that means a thousand words.

Good recipes. I have had some of these before. Now I can make my own.

This book is bad in so many ways. It has very few recipes and is not worth it's price. The recipes it does have are for strange dishes most of which I (who's vietnamese and has grown up on authentic Vietnamese food) have never heard of and would never try (frog's legs??!!?). I'm sure there's someone out there who would eat these exotic harder-than-worth-to-make dishes but good luck to that person since the instructions are unclear,undetailed, and overall very poorly written.