The Complete Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Over 200 Takeout Favorites to Make at Home

"I was looking through this book yesterday, and my mouth was actually watering. Which does not always happen. I just love Chinese takeouts so much, and I think a lot of people do. We normally think of this as takeout food, right? It’s cheap, it’s fast, someone in a restaurant is making it. We don’t give it the respect it deserves. I mean, these are incredibly talented people and this book is based on a lot of recipes from the family’s restaurants. And it makes you appreciate what you might eat in a restaurant, but it also shows you how you can make these dishes at home. And it’s not that hard. “‘Good enough’ is not necessarily settling for less; it’s your best at any given moment, whether that’s putting cheese on crackers or cooking up a feast for people you love” Normally people wouldn’t make this food at home. But here recipes are concise, they’re clear. It uses ingredients that are appropriate for the cuisine. You’ll need to go to the Asian supermarket sometimes to get the ingredients. There are a lot of familiar dishes in here—like your wonton soup, sticky BBQ ribs, and sweet and sour pork, which was a recipe from the book we ran recently . And then there’s also just really fun things that you can tell that he worked on himself, fun mash-ups. like steamed hotdog buns, Nutella mochi, Chinese-style buffalo wings. So you get a lot of the things you expect. And then a few bonuses that feel new. It’s just a fun book. People often complain about long recipe introductions, but here they’re brief, they’re funny, and they get right to the point. And I think it’s great. I think it will help you appreciate the art of what people are doing in restaurants, as well as helping you to bring it home to your own kitchen."