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Seaweed Salad

This recipe yields a generous amount of salad, but any leftovers can be saved for the next day. In fact, the longer it sits in the dressing, the more time the flavors can come together.

Tofu Rolls

Alternately called bean curd skin, spring roll soybean skin, and yuba, these skins are derived from the film that forms on the surface of simmering soy milk.

Lucky 8 Stir-Fry

This mixed vegetable dish takes its inspiration from Buddhist vegetarian cooking and can include any combination of ingredients that represent good luck, prosperity, happiness, family wholeness, and longevity.

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Sweet Corn Soup

If you keep a couple bags of frozen corn in the freezer, you’ll always have one great soup in your back pocket. This soup is delicately hearty—yes, that’s possible!

Soup Dumplings

Soup dumplings (aka xiao long bao or XLB) have been enjoying a fervent following in the United States in the last few years. Here, we have a tofu-based filling and a simple vegetable broth that gels with the addition of agar agar, a seaweed-based product.

Homestyle Egg Foo Yung with Curry Gravy

Egg foo yung is basically a fluffy omelet with gravy. To get the eggs to puff up, they’re gently deep fried in a giant wok. If you don’t do much deep frying, this can be a barrier. So I offer two methods to make the omelet.

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rice

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Flaky Ribbon Pancakes

The Chinese name for these pancakes is shou (hand or fingers) zhua (grab or catch) bing (pancake). Conceptually, it’s a pancake that has layers of ribbons coiled within it and you use your fingers to pull a stretch of pancake and break it off to eat.

Mung Bean Congee

Congee is my oatmeal. As a child, I preferred eating it with just a dash of sugar. As my palate evolved, I graduated to having congee with savory condiments.

Sweet Potatoes with Chili-Shallot Jam

Sweet potatoes have so much flavor, you don’t have to do much to them. In my family, my mother is the superfan and will eat roasted sweet potatoes unadorned or as an accompaniment to plain congee. When I served her this dish, she perked up and exclaimed, “This is good!” There’s no higher compliment.

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Named One of Delish's 10 Best Cookbooks of 2021

"[Hsiao-Ching Chou's] sole regret about her first cookbook, [
Chinese Soul Food], is that she didn’t include more vegetarian recipes. Her second one—Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food—comes right when we could use more vegetables after overdoing the COVID-19 stay-home holidays. [Chou] concentrates on accessible assistance: mostly straightforward recipes, wok-buying advice, a guide to pantry ingredients, a vegetable tutorial and more."
—Seattle Times

"Hsiao-Ching Chou’s new cookbook is an exercise in exceptional approachability."
—Seattle Met magazine

"In this compact book Hsiao-Ching Chou, a Seattle-area cooking instructor who’s particularly popular for her dumpling classes, demonstrates the astonishing diversity and appeal of Chinese vegetarian cooking."
—Kitchen Arts & Letters

"Above all, 
Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food is another example of the author’s passion for sharing China’s storied cuisine. She’s committed to encouraging people to try their hands at creating exciting home-cooked meals that will leave them satisfied and perhaps a little surprised at their own abilities. Once again Chou proves that any kitchen can be a Chinese kitchen—even a vegetarian one."
—International Examiner

"The beauty of [this] cookbook, and Chinese cooking in general, is that it’s forgiving."
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

About the Author

Hsiao-Ching Chou is an award-winning food journalist, a cooking instructor, and communications consultant. She is a member of the James Beard Foundation cookbook committee and Les Dames d'Escoffier. Chou has been a guest on local and national shows, including Public Radio's The Splendid Table, the PBS documentary The Meaning of Food, and the Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. In her spare time, she teaches popular everyday Chinese home cooking classes at the Hot Stove Society. She lives with her family in Seattle.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sasquatch Books (January 19, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1632173336
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1632173331
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.035 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.32 x 0.9 x 9.28 inches
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Hsiao-Ching Chou is the author of "Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food: Deliciously Doable Ways to Cook Greens, Tofu, and Other Plant-Based Ingredients" and "Chinese Soul Food: A Friendly Guide for Homemade Dumplings, Stir-Fries, Soups, and More." She is the former food editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has appeared on national television and radio, including “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” and “The Splendid Table.” She won the coveted Bert Greene Award from the International Association for Culinary Professionals for excellence in feature writing. She teaches everyday Chinese home cooking in Seattle. By day, she's a communications director in the biomedical research field.

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I have been the prep cook for my husband's Chinese cooking for almost 30 years. Even with all of the instructions, other cookbooks, & even YouTube videos I still haven't felt confident about doing a Chinese dish completely alone. (Other than mabo tofu from a box which is about the equivalent difficulty of making hamburger helper.)
I always get lost when recipes say "season to taste." I can bake just great because everything has measured amounts. I like that this cookbook does as well! It is written in English originally, not translated (poorly) from Chinese like my other Chinese cookbooks.

I found the photos at the front of the book extremely helpful when shopping for ingredients at the Asian market! Several of the ingredients we purchased were new to us in their precooked form.
I made the Ginger-Red Date Broth p. 110 and realized that I've never been able to replicate the restaurant flavor before because I didn't know about red dates. I also made the Mian Pian Soup p. 113 although I substituted tofu skins for the wonton wrappers.

It also worked great in my Instant Pot & I didn't even need to get out my husband's wok! ;-)
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