Chef Chu's Distinctive Cuisine of China

by Lawrence Chu

Explains how to prepare Hunan, Szechuan, Mandarin, and Cantonese dishes, from appetizers to desserts, and discusses cutting and cooking techniques, utensils, ingredients, and diet information. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060915056
• ISBN13: 9780060915056
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The best Chinese recipes ever

This is by far my favorite Chinese cookbook. The directions are so easy and straightfoward, and all of the dishes I've made are truly scrumptious. My kids love it, too, although they always want me to make things spicier. I highly recommend this book, you won't need any other Chinese cookbook.

This Is the Only Chinese Cookbok You Need

I've been a hobby Chinese cook for about 10 years, since I found this book for $1 on a table along NYC's Broadway on the Upper West Side. Its perfectly adapted recipes for the American kitchen are true to the original intent, and you will be able to create great meals at home with little trouble to replace that cold take-out.Lest it sound that it's not for the serious chef, the instructions provide lots of interesting details about the true Chinese recipes and ingredients. If you live in a city or town that gives you access to the true ingredients (as I do), then you can also play authentic Chinese cook for your family or friends.All-in-all, one of the most used cookbooks in our house, where we have well over 100, and my wife is a professional chef!

Simply The Best!

I was looking for a really good Char Shue (Chinese Bar-B-Q Pork) recipe since having this delicous treat at Chef Chew's restaurant in CA. For years, nothing came close to what I had that day. Then I found this book by Chef Chew and I wouldn't part with it for anything! It's well written and it's got some of the best authentic chinese cuisine in it *YUM!*You won't be disappointed!

Chinese is this good...

There were so many Chinese cookbooks available so I had to try something different to pick one. So I looked inside the cover and picked out the best looking Chef I could find. That may sound wierd, but the quality of food I cooked was amazing. Chef Chu takes traditional Chinese cooking to the next level with his unique touches that can't be found in any other cookbook out there. Chef Chu not only covers how to cook great Chinese, but how to make the dishes look like artwork.If you are serious about cooking Chinese food, this is THE book to get.

A very good and authentic cuisine textbook!

This is a very good food textbook, simple, clear, easy, no gimmicky or outrageous and so-called innovative modern Chinese nouvelle cuisine, such as those made up in "Susanna Foo Chinese Cuisine." The other one that I found as authentic as it is "Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook" by Ellen Schrecker and her husband. Only the latter is so authentically Chinese that you may have to reduce certain fat from the ingrdients by using leaner stuff.