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Vietnamese Cuisine
by Su-Huei Huang, Muoi.T. Loangkote, Wei-Chuan Publishing
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing
ISBN: 0941676773
EAN: 9780941676779
Dewy Decimal #: 641
Paperback: 96 pages
Edition: Bilingual
SKU: BX049-080115004
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Clean and shiny softcover. Like new. No remainder mark. Recipes in both English and Vietnamese.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
At last, a bilingual (English/Chinese) cookbook that offers authentic Vietnamese recipes designed for the modern homemaker's kitchen. A special section has been provided to identify the basic ingredients, sauces and staples so important for deriving the exotic flavors associated with Vietnamese dishes. This cookbook offers 85 mouthwatering recipes, with associated photos of finished dishes. In addition, small pictures of the special ingredients so necessary in Vietnamese cooking are furnished as an aid to the reader.
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Customer Reviews
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Accurate recipes
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-04-22
I would have liked it better if most of the pages weren't taken up with the chinese translation. Beautiful pictures and easy to understand. It even has pics of the typical ingredients used in Vietnamese cooking to give you an idea of what you need to buy.
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Newly enjoyed cookbook
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-01-25
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought the Vietnamese Cuisine cookbook after reading the very favorable review in the LA Times. The review statement ¡K ¡§recipes so simple that anyone could make a Vietnamese meal without prior experience¡¨ is absolutely correct. The meal and procedure pictures were very helpful in preserving the authenticity of the dishes and I greatly appreciated the information on ingredient substitution to retain the Vietnamese flavors and tastes. As a person with not much patience, I appreciated the concise and cogent instructions. Interestingly, I found the plastic cover made it easy to clean the book when I¡¦m done with my typical ¡§messy¡¨ cooking. Highly recommended.
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Not The Vietnamese You Were Looking For
Rating  (2)
Date: 2001-09-10
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
I grew up in a multi-ethnic house, eating authentic Vietnamese food at least 5 days a week. I was very excited to find an illustrated cookbook that listed the dishes I wanted to cook, particularly since my mom and my favorite Vietnamese restaurant are both several hours away.I have to say, I was heartily disappointed with this cookbook. The recipes are close to what I know they SHOULD be, but something in them seems slightly off. I have a feeling that something was lost in the translation. This might be a good cookbook for those who already know what they're doing in the kitchen and just need inspiration, but it's definitely not for a new cook or someone new to Vietnamese cuisine. Your best bet with this book would be to look at the pictures and be creative. If you follow the recipes, you're likely to find disappointment.
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Very flawed but full of pictures
Rating (2)
Date: 2000-06-07
20 out of 26 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book is bilingual with instructions in both Chinese and English. Each section is graced with photos of the dishes.The book is flawed for its lack of details such as, time for preparation; and of procedures (either written or pictorial. Phrases such as, "Cook chicken until 80% done" - are not overly instructive. I would not recommend this book unless one is already familiar with cooking processes, Asian in particular. It does not give thorough background in either the history of the country nor dishes. This book also fails to teach a person on how to cook. There is an introducion of ingredients that does have photos but other than that you are on your own. IT is a simple repository of *very* modified recipes. The recipes are not quite right. An example is the "vietnamese pancake" or Ban Xeo which only uses wheat flour (try rice flour and potato starch) or the fact that the frequent sauces used section is missing caramel (an essential ingredient used in various stewed and stir fry dishes. Oh yes, the dipping sauce recipe is WAY off. You are much better off getting another Vietnamese cookbook to start you off such as, "Best of Vietnames and Thai Cooking" - Mai Pham which is an easy introduction to dishes and ingredients though somewhat westernized (not excessively). The Lonely Planet food guide to Viet Nam is better than this book - and that is not a cookbook but a guide to Vietnamese food. For the more hardcore go get Corinne Trang's "vietnamese cooking". If you are a collector and obsessed about having a complete collection then get this book but ONLY on a big discount. Not recommended for beginners and for advanced users it will be disappointing except as a possible cross reference for dishes.
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