Far East Cafe: The Best of Casual Asian Cooking (Casual Cuisines of the World) [Hardcover]

Sunset Books (Author), Joyce Jue (Author)

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Assembled as beautifully as a Chinese puzzle, this slim book exudes the pleasures of a particularly popular aspect of Asian cooking. From page 1, Joyce Jue makes you smell the smoke and sizzling spices as she brings alive the bustling, colorful world of Asian street food. Many favorite dishes from Indian samosas and sticks of grilled sate to pad Thai noodles and fiery green mango salad are included. Jue's directions are easy to follow, even for making dumplings from scratch or for handling the rice paper disks used to make spring rolls. If you'd rather eat Asian street food than prepare it at home, this book will hone your knowledge of what to look for in your culinary travels.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sunset Publishing Corporation (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0376020415
• ISBN-13: 978-0376020413
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,317,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic, March 5, 2001

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This review is from: Far East Cafe: The Best of Casual Asian Cooking (Casual Cuisines of the World) (Hardcover)

The recipes in this book taste very authentic. The chicken and sticky rice in lotus leaf parcels is the real thing...tasted just like the dim sum resturant. The book is an excellent collection of the most popular or signature dishes of the Asian cuisine ranging from Chinese to Indonesian. It is organized by in the traditional cookbook fashion of appetizers to desserts. Some of the recipes are very simple and some are compound recipes (recipes that rely on the recipe of another dish). It's worth the space on your cookbook shelf and is a good way to sample a variety of different far east ethnic cuisines.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars tasty looking recipes, September 20, 2000

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Eugene Mah "physics geek" (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Far East Cafe: The Best of Casual Asian Cooking (Casual Cuisines of the World) (Hardcover)

It's not a very large book, but it's got a pretty wide range of recipes from several different countries. All the recipes look very tasty, and there are some fabulous pictures to go along with each. Recipes range from the very simple to moderately complex, so this book should offer an entertaining range of challenges to most kitchen savvy people. This would be a good book for people interested in learning about asian cuisine, or those looking for more recipes to try out. All the ingredients should be relatively easy to find, although some will require a trip to a specialty store. If you live anywhere with a chinatown, finding ingredients shouldn't be a problem.