Chinese Cookery Secrets: How to Cook Chinese Restaurant Food at Home
Author(s): Deh-Ta Hsiung (Author)
Publisher: Robinson
Publication Date: 25 Jun. 2009
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0716022249
ISBN-13: 9780716022244
Book Description
Deh-Ta Hsiung shares his life-long knowledge of Chinese restaurant cooking to help you successfully reproduce your favourite meals at home – from a simple, single dish to an elaborate, grand feast. In a clear, straightforward style, he vividly reveals the elusive secrets that produce perfection.
He shows you each crucial stage of preparation to enable you to recreate the harmonious blending of subtle flavours, delicate textures, aromas, colours and shapes that are the hallmarks of authentic Chinese restaurant cooking.
This updated version of Chinese Cookery Secrets contains recipes for dishes as diverse as ‘Smoked’ Chicken, Deep-Fried Squid and delicious Iron-Place Sizzled meat and fish dishes, sure to be a wonderful centerpiece for any dinner party, to takeaway staples like Egg Fried Rice and Sweet and Sour Chicken.
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About the Author
Deh-ta Hsiung was born in Beijing and travelled widely throughout China as a teenager. Coming from a family of gourmets and scholars, his interest in food and wine developed as part of his traditional Chinese upbringing. Deh-ta came to England in 1950 to complete his education at Oxford and London, where he now lives.
He is an acknowledged expert on Chinese food and cookery – besides being the author of several best-selling books and a food and wine consultant for Chinese restaurants and food manufacturers, he is also a tutor of international renown. He was a regular teacher at the late Ken Lo’s Chinese Cookery School in London between 1981 and 1996, as well as in France, Italy, Finland and as far away as India, where he was sent by the UN to conduct courses in the leading Catering Institutes. Several of Deh-ta’s books have been translated into all the major European languages, and the German edition of The Chinese Kitchen (DIE CHlNE()lSCHE KUCHE) was awarded a silver medal by the Gastronomische Akademie Deutschlands in 200I.
Currently, Deh-ta is working on two projects – an erotic thriller set in London and Hong Kong with plenty of eating, as one of the main characters is a cookery writer! The other project is Deh-ta’s personal diary of 1949, the year in which the People’s Republic was established in China, and Deh-ta set off for his long and arduous journey to England.
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