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The Chinese Takeout Cookbook
The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home | Diana Kuan
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Americas love affair with Chinese food dates back more than a century. Today, such dishes as General Tsos Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Egg Rolls are as common as hamburgers and spaghetti. Probably at this moment, a drawer in your kitchen is stuffed with Chinese takeout menus, soy sauce packets, and wooden chopsticks, right? But what if you didnt have to eat your favorites out of a container? In The Chinese Takeout Cookbook, Chinese food blogger and cooking instructor Diana Kuan brings Chinatown to your home with this amazing collection of more than eighty popular Chinese takeout recipesappetizers, main courses, noodle and rice dishes, and dessertsall easy-to-prepare and MSG-free. Plus youll discover how to stock your pantry with ingredients you can find at your local supermarket season and master a wok for all your Chinese cooking needs prepare the flavor trifecta of Chinese cuisineginger, garlic, and scallions wrap egg rolls, dumplings, and wontons like a pro steam fish to perfection every time create vegetarian variations that will please everyones palate whip up delectable sweet treats in time for the Chinese New Year The Chinese Takeout Cookbook also features mouthwatering color photos throughout as well as sidebars that highlight helpful notes, including how to freeze and recook dumplings; cooking tidbits, such as how to kick up your dish with a bit of heat; and the history behind some of your favorite comfort foods, including the curious New York invention of the pastrami egg roll and the influence of Tiki culture on Chinese cuisine. So, put down that takeout menu, grab the wok, and lets get cooking! Here for the first timein one fun, easy, and tasty collectionare more than 80 favorite Chinese restaurant dishes to make right in your own kitchen: Cold Sesame Noodles Kung Pao Chicken Classic Barbecue Spareribs Beef Chow Fun Homemade Chili Oil Hot and Sour Soup Chinatown Roast Duck Moo Shu Pork Dry-Fried String Beans Black Sesame Ice Cream And of course, perfectly fried Pork and Shrimp Egg Rolls! Diana Kuan chronicles Americas love affair with Chinese food. The Chinese Takeout Cookbook is the perfect reason to throw out those menus cluttering your kitchen drawers!Patricia Tanumihardja, author of The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook From the Hardcover edition.
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Bookwormjillk
Bookwormjillk
The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home | Diana Kuan
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I was looking for cookbooks for #FoodAndLit and was inspired to check out a few extras.

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Larkken Have you tried the eggless baking one yet? Sounds like it might be a nice gift for a vegan family member, so I'm intrigued. 2y
Bookwormjillk @Larkken not yet. I‘ll let you know. 2y
Catsandbooks Ooo lots of fun ones! 2y
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Yossarian
Yossarian
The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home | Diana Kuan
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So, help me out.

When I was a kid, if the Family Feud category was “Items on a Chinese Takeout Menu,” the top 3 answers would clearly have been Chop Suey, Chow Mein, and Egg Fu Yung.

I just ordered Chinese Takeout, and noticed that none of those three items are on the menu.

Why is cheap takeout Chinese so different than it was 30 years ago? Especially since it‘s the same white boxes that the food comes in.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Some of our Chinese takeout places still have chow mein (or lo mein) and egg fu yung. But, you‘re right, chop suey is a goner. Maybe it‘s all about changing American tastes. 7y
Kaylamburson I‘ve actually never had any of those dishes! I would think the top are general tsos chicken, pork fried rice, and fried wontons! But maybe because those are my favorites 😂 7y
tammysue None of those on our menus here either.😕 7y
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Yossarian @Kaylamburson When Warren Zevon saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand, he wasn‘t having a big dish of General Tso‘s. 7y
Kaylamburson I‘m not sure I get the reference lol. I did look up Warren Zevon though and I did recognize the Werewolves of London song. 7y
Yossarian @BarbaraTheBibliophage My Chinese menu has four zillion options. I can‘t imagine that chop suey went from Top Tier to Fifth Zillion. @Kaylamburson In the first verse, the werewolf is eating “beef chow mein” — then a generic Chinese entry. And Wonder Woman never fought Pork Fried. Something has changed, but I‘m not sure what. (edited) 7y
TheBookDream Chow Mein is delicious 😋Dunno about the other two 7y
Suet624 You‘re right! How strange. 7y
Suet624 Not strange that you‘re right. You know what I mean. 😂😂😂 7y
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sarahmazing
sarahmazing
The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home | Diana Kuan
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This is easily one of my best cookbook purchases of all time. We've stopped buying takeout and make it at home. It tastes the same but you don't have to leave the house. Plus we are more aware of ingredients, calories, and fat! If I had to recommend a cookbook that everyone should have, this would be on my short list. I have yet to go wrong with a recipe.

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