Customer Reviews

Martin Yan's Asia: Favorite Recipes from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Japan

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Even if you find his television show to be over the top, you have to admit that Martin Yan always presents very tasty recipes. This book is an introduction to a variety of Asian cuisines with recipes and helpful hints not just on preparation, but on eating as well.

I've prepared roughly 40% of the dishes included in this book and have yet to find one that wasn't delicious. I was sufficiently impressed to buy his other books as well.

Excellent introduction to a variety of asian cooking. Helpfully explains some of the more esoteric foodstuffs, et al. Based on the straightforward presentation I intend to buy more of his books. Also, I found the written forum a much more direct way to learn from Yan than his cooking show.

This book had several tasty recipes, and Martin Yan's writing style is often humorous and easy to read. There are also several points where he lays out alternatives to sometimes difficult-to-find ingredients.
The book is laid out as some background to his travels followed by a series of recipes organized by region. It doesn't teach you how to cook so much as it gives you recipes to follow. Of course, if you make your way through the entire book you'll start to figure out what can be altered and how that will affect a dish, but if instead you're looking to understand how the ingredients interact and how to create dishes of your own, other books might be more helpful, although I haven't found any yet specifically aimed at Asian cooking.

I love Asian food & I'm a Martin Yan fan. My dad used to love to watch Yan Can Cook. I got this cookbook because of the variety of countries represented.

What I have prepared is good, but now that I live in Dallas, where I no longer have access to San Francisco's fantastic Chinatown & Asian groceries, it is more difficult to come by some of the ingredients. Probably more recipes than not call for something that is not at my local Kroger store. Also, this cookbook has a lot of recipes that call for "a little of this & a little of that," necessitating you buy several different types of sauces etc, which can get somewhat cumbersome or expensive. I don't like to buy things I'll only use once or twice. A lot of this cookbook has background and pictures, which takes away from recipe content. It is a pretty book.

That aside, this is still a great cookbook with good recipes. My husband liked the Japanese potstickers, although we ended up frying them because they had more flavor that way.

i like yan but his books tend to be too many pictures this one is better than most but its still so so,you be the judge