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Chinese-American Barbecue

Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen
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Take your barbecue cooking into flavourful new territory with more than 100 Chinese dishes that are cooked, authentic barbecue-style, low and slow over smoking wood embers. Open the pages of Chinese-American Barbecue and you will discover a broader world of flavours than you have encountered in... Read More
Format: Hardback
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From the most celebrated female pitmaster in the world,Β Chinese-American BarbecueΒ is the first cookbook devoted to smoke-cooked foods from one of the world's greatest cuisines.

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Take your barbecue cooking into flavourful new territory with more than 100 Chinese dishes that are cooked, authentic barbecue-style, low and slow over smoking wood embers.

Open the pages of Chinese-American Barbecue and you will discover a broader world of flavours than you have encountered in your town's traditional barbecue joints. Los Angeles's Winnie Yee, of Smoke Queen BBQ, is the most celebrated female pitmaster in the world, praised by the New York Times and dozens of other media outlets, and a leader of a new generation of barbecue chefs dedicated to incorporating global flavours into the barbecue repertoire.

In this first-ever cookbook on Chinese barbecue, The Smoke Queen reveals her secrets, including:

  • Wet rubs, dry rubs, marinades, glazes, and barbecue sauces, such as Chinese Char Siu BBQ Sauce and Spicy Hoisin BBQ Sauce
  • 5 Chinese Mother Sauces, including Chile Crisp Oil and Kung Pao Sauce, that you can use for barbecue and grilling, or in your kitchen
  • BBQ appetisers and sides like Sichuan Smoked Beans and Hong Kong Wonton Mein with Char Siu
  • Substantial and delectable meat-centred main courses, from Chinese 7-Spice Spatchcock Chicken with Garlic Honey Glaze to Pork Tenderloin with Shao Xing Sweet Onion Sauce
  • Fish and seafood mains, such as Kung Pao Smoked Shrimp and Salt-Smoked Whole Crab
  • Sweet finishes for a Chinese BBQ meal, from a rustic Smoked Plum Cobbler Pie to a light and airy Banana Cream Pie with Smoked Meringue

This is an authoritative, colourful, photo-packed volume that will give you years of enjoyment and will deliciously expand your vision of what barbecue can be.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781577155959

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 April 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Common Press,U.S.

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Jet Tila

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1080g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Winnie Yee was born in a small town 60 miles north of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Her family, members of Malaysia's large Chinese community, emigrated to the Los Angeles area when she was 6. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from UCLA in 2003. Having grown up with Chinese-Malay live-fire cooking, she was inspired to devote herself to barbecue, teaching herself about a wider range of Chinese traditions beyond Chinese-Malay-including mainland Chinese and Chinese-American-and learning the art of Texas-style smoking. She opened her widely praised restaurant Smoke Queen BBQ as a delivery-only ghost kitchen in 2020 and shortly thereafter as a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Garden Grove, in Orange County. Remarkably, by 2021 she was already being lauded by the New York Times and other outlets as a major voice on the US BBQ scene. Aside from the restaurant, Smoke Queen serves up barbecue weekly at Smorgasburg LA in downtown Los Angeles.

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