Customer Reviews

A Taste of China: The Definitive Guide to Regional Cooking (Pavilion Classic Cookery)

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This book is a treasure. It delights the eyes with its beautiful photographs of rural China; it delights the spirit with its thoughtful exploration of Chinese culinary tradition; it delights the mind with careful teachings on the important ingredients and methods of Chinese cookery, and finally it delights the tongue with foods that are healthy, nourishing and fantastically pleasing to the palate. In short, I love this book.

Steamed chicken with ginger scallion sauce, red cooked tofu, stir fried corn, gaozi dumpling soup, farmhouse chive and egg omelets, and many more I have now made so many times, over the course of a decade (or more) that I know them by heart, yet still I pull this book down off my shelf to revisit it like an old friend.

Track down a copy of this beautiful book and explore it slowly. You will never regret your decision, a cookbook cannot be any better. Aloha!

Wonderful. This book is just great! Ken Hom has not only shown how you could cook good traditional Chinese Food but also taught us a great deal in Chinese history, culture and traditions.

Very easy to follow. I have learned a lot from the book.

Thanks Ken.

A very fascinating and practical guide to the real authentic chinese cooking. Very well researched and easy to follow. Being an overseas chinese, I only use to hear about these authentic dishes from my grandfather, today I am keeping the tradition alive by cooking them! Two Thumbs up!

This is a very good little book. The recipes are far from the same old dishes one usually comes across and there is a great selection of dishes from the lesser known corners of China. If the recipes had included pictures of the finished dishes I would have had no difficulty in awarding 5 stars. Beginners, should be aware though... the recipes are mostly for dishes which one will not come across in most western Chinese restaurants and many of the ingredients will be unfamiliar or difficult to find. For advanced cooks, however, this is a book that most will be happy to add to their collections.

Taste of China Without a doubt my favorite Chinese cook book! The photos alone are worth the price but the recipes are authentic and the meals top notch. My third copy as I gave the others to appreciative fans of the cooking made possible by this book.I suspect this will not be my last copy.