chinese cooking

Discusses the food traditions of China, looks at various Chinese cuisines, common and unusual ingredients, and cooking techniques, and includes a selection of recipes.

Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.

Presents information on how to prepare traditional Chinese meals, including cooking techniques and recipes for cooking appetizers, soups, salads, vegetables, eggs, tofu, meats, rice, and desserts.

At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother's restaurant. The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant's fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother's cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed.

A child describes the various little dishes of dim sum that she and her family enjoy on a visit to a restaurant in Chinatown.

Viewing Chinese culture and food through family customs.

Left alone to prepare their family's prize-winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, "mian tiao," or noodles. Includes a cultural note and a recipe for long life noodles.

Discusses Chinese cooking by region and features a recipe from every region, including Northern China, Shanghai, and Hunan.

Contains dozen of recipes with step-by-step instructions, and a special section containing costumes, food, and fun of the Festival of the Chinese New Year.

Presents over 130 recipes, a guide to cooking utensils, a glossary of ingredients from bamboo shoots to wonton skins, and menus for lunch, dinner, and special occasions.