Southeast Asian food is fresh, easy and full of unforgettable flavours: Chicken and Rice will show you just how simple it is to make at home. Shu Han Lee moved to London from Singapore as a student. Homesick and hungry, she started teaching herself to cook the food she'd grown up with - Singaporean and Malaysian dishes, with a strong Chinese influence from her mother. Chicken and Rice features the perfect midweek suppers rustled up in less time than it takes to order a takeaway (that are health...
Real Vietnamese Cooking
by Yumiko Adachi, Shinobu Ito, Suzuki Masumi, and Masumi Suzuki
Take a culinary tour from home as you explore Southeast Asia's most exciting cuisine! Real Vietnamese Cooking combines the collective culinary wisdom of three intrepid food explorers who spent many years training with Vietnam's best chefs while scouring city streets and country kitchens in search of tastes few foreigners experience. It introduces readers to local takes on classic dishes, as well as lesser-known favorites—all delicious and accessible, made with easy-to-find ingredients. Filled w...
Street Food en un viaje único por el sudeste asiático. Un libro de recetas, ingredientes, técnicas y trucos, pero también unas memorias gastronómicas «callejeras»: la compilación de las vivencias que el cocinero Alex Zurdo tuvo viajando por Vietnam, Camboya, Tailandia y Malasia durante diez meses. Aquí encontrarás: - Un relato personal, ameno y desenfadado. Y, al mismo tiempo, riguroso y profesional. - Más de 60 recetas recogidas sobre el terreno -de amas de casa, profesore...
The long-awaited cookbook featuring 100 recipes from James Beard award-winning chef Charles Phan’s beloved San Francisco Vietnamese restaurant, The Slanted Door. Award-winning chef and restaurateur Charles Phan opened The Slanted Door in San Francisco in 1995, inspired by the food of his native Vietnam. Since then, The Slanted Door has grown into a world-class dining destination, and its accessible, modern take on classic Vietnamese dishes is beloved by diners, chefs, and critics alike. The Sl...
Mango and Peppercorns
by Katherine Manning, Tung Nguyen, and Lyn Nguyen
IACP AWARD WINNER: Literary or Historical Food Writing A powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami. Through powerful narrative, archival imagery, and 20 Vietnamese recipes that mirror their story, Mango & Peppercorns is a unique contribution to culinary literature. In 1975, after narrowly escaping the fall of Saigon, pregnant refugee and gifted cook Tung Nguyen ended up in the Miami hom...
Join chef and author Jerry Mai as she shares the iconic dishes and street-food eats that are enjoyed throughout Vietnam, from morning to midnight. As the sun rises, mornings start early in Vietnam: locals perch on plastic stools, slurping large bowls of beef pho, while others grab a crispy pork banh mi for breakfast on the go. Lunch might include delicious grilled meats piled high onto rice, or a cold noodle salad to help stay cool in the midday heat. Weaving through the bustling streets, snack...
Rice Talks explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting of the extended family meal into the public realm of the festive, extraordinary, and unique. He shows how foodways relate to class relations, gender roles, religious practices, cosmology, ethnicity...
From Yahoo Answers: QUESTION: "What do you think about Vietnamese food?" ANSWERS: "Vietnamese cuisine is one of the best. They incorporate lots of herbs in the food." "Do you notice that Vietnamese seldom had bad breath because of the vast consumption of herbs." "I'm not Vietnamese and I love it. I have learned how to make a lot of the foods myself. " and so on... This book contains a collection of 100 recipes of traditional and popular Vietnamese dishes. And you have step-by-step cooking instr...
Americans are just beginning to discover the exotic culinary offerings of this Southeast Asian country. Vietnam's diverse terrain ranges from the inland mountains, which produce numerous exotic fruits and vegetables to the rice paddies of the Mekong and Red River Deltas. The country's fascinating history has resulted in strong Chinese, Indian and French culinary influences yielding delicate complex flavours. This book is a collection of traditional recipes, modified for the American home cook. I...