When it comes to Chinese cooking, no one has as much culinary talent and encyclopedic knowledge as Martin Yan. That talent and knowledge are presented here in Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking, a companion volume to his new public television series.
Martin takes you on an unforgettable culinary journey through the gates of eleven Chinatowns around the world. Visit the streets, shops, homes, and restaurants you would never experience without Martin as your guide. From London to San Francisco to Yokohama, Martin introduces shopkeepers, chefs, and home cooks who, for the first time, share their cooking secrets. And as you travel the globe with Martin, you'll discover how Chinese food is different in Macau, Singapore, and Sydney.
Each of the eleven cities is featured along with a list of Martin's favorite restaurants and his favorite dishes and house specialties. Learn Martin's tips for ordering in Chinese restaurants and dim sum parlors. Discover how Chinese food and culture are inextricably linked, as Martin explains the significance of traditional festivals and their accompanying symbolic foods.
Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking has stunning full-color photography throughout and recipes that make it easy for cooks to create more than two hundred dishes at home, from takeout favorites such as Kung Pao Chicken to restaurant classics such as Steamed Whole Fish with Ginger and Green Onions. Exotic-sounding recipes like Good Fortune Fish Chowder, Flower Drum Crab Baked in the Shell, and Double Harmony Meatballs in Sweet and Sour Sauce are made easy. Don't live near a Chinatown? Try your hand at making your own Roast Duck, Char Siu (barbecued pork), and Gin Doi (sweet sesame balls with duck). Martin makes the exotic familiar by offering tips on unfamiliar ingredients and specific techniques in combination with Chinatown history and culture.
Whether you end up cooking a dish at home or enjoying it in your nearest Chinatown neighborhood, Martin teaches you all you need to know about Chinese cuisine and culture. Travel with Martin Yan through a world of Chinatowns and satisfy your taste for adventure with Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking.

Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking: 200 Traditional Recipes from 11 Chinatowns Around the World

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Yan, Martin

Cooking Education & Reference

William Morrow Cookbooks

The Yan Can Cook Book

A comprehensive compendium of over 200 carefully tested recipes, lavishly illustrated with diagrams, drawings, cartoons, and photographs.

Regional & International

Broadway Books

An introduction to the basic Chinese cooking techniques includes recipes for a variety of vegetable, pork, chicken, and rice dishes

DOUBLEDAY

Explains how to cook with a wok and offers numerous recipes from the different regions of China for a variety of appetizers, main courses, soups, and other foods

Joy of Wokking: A Chinese Cookbook

Over 175 recipes from different regions of China and other southeast Asian countries.

The Joy of Wokking

Main Street Books

This new collection of recipes, keyed to the new season of the PBS series "Yan Can Cook," features unusual yet classic dishes, reflecting innovative cooking techniques, and includes a listing of basic--and exotic--ingredients

The Chinese Chef

Doubleday, Canada

This companion to the author's twenty-six part PBS series features more than one hundred recipes, including recipes for one-dish meals, banquets and special occasions, vegetarian meals, and Chinese adaptations of Western favorites

A Wok For All Seasons

This comprehensive compendium of over 200 carefully tested recipes, charmingly illustrated with diagrams, drawings, cartoons, and photographs, is sure to whet anyone's appetite. There are sections on how to use the wok and its accessories, how to make tofu, how to create beautiful Chinese garnishes, a lesson on using chopsticks, and much more! Recipes include: &#8226; Porcupine Meatballs &#8226; Homemade Plum Sauce &#8226; Drunk Duck Fruity-Flavored Casserole &#8226; Spicy Szechwan Sauteed Pork &#8226; Buddhist Vegetarian Delight

The Yan Can Cook Book: More Than 200 Authentic Chinese Recipes

Gramercy Books

Have you ever had a craving for fried dumplings or hot and sour soup at midnight? Ever wonder how your local Chinese takeout makes their food taste so good―and look so easy to make? Still don’t know the difference between Sichuan, Cantonese, and Mandarin cooking? Discovering how to cook the Chinese way will leave you steaming, stir-frying, and food-styling like crazy! 
The indescribably delicious cuisine of a fascinating country can finally be yours. And in Chinese Cooking For Dummies, your guide to the wonders and magic of the Chinese kitchen is none other than Martin Yan, host of the award-winning TV show Yan Can Cook. In no time at all, you’ll be up to speed on what cooking tools to use, how to stock your pantry and fridge, and the methods, centuries old, that have made dim sum, Egg Fu Young, Kung Pao Chicken, and fried rice universal favorites. You’ll also be able to: <ul>
<li>Think like a Chinese chef―usin g the Three Tenets of Chinese Cooking</li> <li>Choose and season a wok, select a chef’s knife, plus other basic tools of the trade</li> <li>Find the essential ingredients―and ask for them in Chinese with a Chinese language (phonetic) version of black bean sauce, hoisin sauce, plum sauce, bamboo shoots, and more</li> <li>Cook using a variety of methods―including stir frying, steaming, blanching, braising, and deep frying</li> </ul>
And with over 100 recipes, arranged conveniently like a Chinese menu, Chinese Cooking For Dummies lets you select from any column in the comfort of your own kitchen...which is when the fun really begins. Imagine putting together your ideal meal from the book’s rich offering of recipes: <ul>
<li>Delectable morsels―including Baked Pork Buns, Spring Rolls, Potstickers, Steamed Dumplings, and Shrimp Toast</li> <li>Seafood dishes―including Sweet and Sour Shrimp, and Oysters in Black Bean Sauce</li> <li>Poultry dishes―including Moo Goo Gai Pan, Kung Pao Chicken, and Honey Garlic Chicken</li> <li>Pork, beef, and lamb dishes―including Sichuan Spareribs, Tangerine Beef, and Mongolian Lamb</li> </ul>
Chinese Cooking For Dummies gives you all of the basics you’ll need, letting you experience the rich culinary landscape of China, one delicious dish at a time―and all, without leaving a tip!

Chinese Cooking For Dummies

For Dummies

Ever have food fantasies in a truly international vein―an appetizer of feta cheese and roasted pepper spread, an entrée of spinach ravioli and steaming coq au vin, with a side of bulghur wheat and parsley salad, topped, finally, with a dish of cool gelato di crema (vanilla ice cream) and chocolate souffle for dessert. Well, fulfilling food fantasies that read like the menu in the UN cafeteria is now entirely possible. With Cooking All Around the World All-in-One For Dummies, you’ll be introduced to the cooking styles and recipes from eight of the world’s most respected cuisines, experiencing, in the comfort of your own kitchen, the fabulous variety of foods, flavors, and cultures that have made the world go round for centuries. 
With a roster of cooking pros and all-star chefs, including Mary Sue Milliken, Susan Feniger and Martin Yan, Cooking All Around the World All-in-One For Dummies includes some of the most popular recipes from Mexican, Italian, French, Greek and Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai cuisines, revealing the cooking secrets that have made these recipes so winning and, in some cases, such a snap. Inside, you’ll find: <ul>
<li>The essential ingredients and tools of the trade common to each cuisine</li> <li>The basic cooking techniques specific to each cuisine</li> <li>How to think like an Italian or Chinese chef</li> <li>What the inside of a French, Greek and Middle Eastern, and Japanese kitchen really looks like</li> </ul>
And once you become familiar with the new world of spices and ingredients, you’ll be whipping up tasty, new exotic dishes in no time! Page after page will bring you quickly up to speed on how to make each part of the menu―from appetizers, entrées, to desserts―a sparkling success: <ul>
<li>Starters, snacks, and sides―including Gazpacho, Tuscan Bread Salad, Leeks in Vinaigrette, Falafel, Spring Rolls, Miso Soup, Chicken Satays with Peanut Sauce</li> <li>The main event―including Chipotle Glazed Chicken, Lasagna, Cauliflower au Gratin, Lamb Kebabs, Grilled Tandoori Chicken, Braised Fish Hunan Style, Shrimp and Veggie Tempura</li> <li>Sweet endings―including Mexican Bread Pudding, Biscotti, Chocolate Souffle, Yogurt Cake, Mango Ice Cream, Green Tea Ice Cream, Coconut Custard with Glazed Bananas</li> </ul>
With over 300 delicious recipes, a summary cheat sheet of need-to-know info, black-and-white how-to illustrations, and humorous cartoons, this down-to-earth guide will having you whipping up dishes from every part of the globe. Whether it’s using a wok or tandoori oven, with Cooking All Around the World All-in-One For Dummies every meal promises to be an adventure, spoken in the international language of good food.

Cooking Around the World All-in-One For Dummies

Lacalamita, Tom

Casella, Cesare

Bishop, Jack

Siegel, Helene

Milliken, Mary Sue

Feniger, Susan

Wilson, Dede

Heath, Heather

Moravek, Joan H.

Eddy, Kristin

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Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking: 200 Traditional Recipes from 11 Chinatowns Around the World

The Yan Can Cook Book

The Yan Can Cook Book

Joy of Wokking: A Chinese Cookbook

The Joy of Wokking

The Chinese Chef

A Wok For All Seasons

The Yan Can Cook Book: More Than 200 Authentic Chinese Recipes

Chinese Cooking For Dummies

Cooking Around the World All-in-One For Dummies