Healthy Salads From Southeast Asia [Paperback]

Vatcharin Bhumichitr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

"Rice, spice, and an endless variety of crisp leaves and pungent herbs" is how Vatcharin Bhumichitr describes meals enjoyed in Southeast Asia, where salads are not mere side dishes but are often the meal itself. This culinary voyage of user-friendly recipes offers an astonishing variety of leaves, roots, vegetables, fruit, noodles, meats, fish, and shellfish—all enhanced by original, piquant dressings. Dishes such as Indonesia's Gado Gado with its peanut sauce, the fruit-enlivened Rojak of Malaysia and Singapore, Vietnam's Crab Salad with Crispy Noodles or its Minced Pork, Prawn, and Pineapple Salad, and the Smoked Fish and Green Mango Salad of Cambodia promise a new world of flavor and texture.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Instructive prose, gloriously do-able recipes, and pages from which waft the scents of lemon grass, coriander, galangal, and ginger."—Top Ten Books for '97, Vogue "The recipes, clear and simple to follow, are only part of the pleasure to be had from this delightful book."— Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Vatcharin Bhumichitr ran the world-famous Chiang Mai restaurant in London, the first restaurant outside Asia to specialize in northern Thai cooking. He extended his range to all the regions of Thailand when he opened the Thai Bistro in Chiswick, West London, followed by the Chiang Rai in Manchester and his latest, Southeast W9, in London's Maida Vale, offering food from across the whole of Southeast Asia—another first. Vatcharin is the author of The Taste of Thailand, Thai Vegetarian Cooking, Vatch's Thai Cookbook, and Vatch's Southeast Asian Cookbook .

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Weatherhill (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834804980
• ISBN-13: 978-0834804982
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 9.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,503,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)