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Simple Chinese Cooking

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Simple Chinese Cooking by Kylie Kwong offers a delightful journey into Chinese cuisine, presenting an array of authentic recipes made accessible for home cooks. The book emphasises fresh ingredients and straightforward techniques, allowing readers to recreate classic dishes with ease. Kylie Kwong's personal stories and tips add a unique touch to the culinary experience.
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You might enjoy this book if you love exploring authentic Chinese cuisine with simplified methods and vibrant photography. It offers easy-to-follow recipes that bring traditional Chinese flavours to your kitchen, perfect for both beginners and seasoned cooks seeking inspiration in classic dishes.

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Kylie Kwong's philosophy is to use the freshest produce and cook it simply to make the most of the clean flavours. All the necessary ingredients are available at your supermarket and Kylie's recipes are friendly and straightforward. In no time, you'll be cooking everyday favourites like soy sauce chicken and sung choi bau.

Cooking Chinese food at home has never been easier - all you need is this book, a wok and a quick trip to the supermarket.

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Cooking Chinese food at home has never been easier—all you need is Simple Chinese Cooking, a wok, and a quick trip to the supermarket. Kylie Kwong's philosophy is to use the freshest produce and cook it simply to make the most of the clean flavours. All the necessary ingredients are available at your supermarket, and Kylie's recipes are friendly and straightforward.

In no time, you'll be cooking everyday favourites like soy sauce chicken and sung choi bau on weeknights, and fresh-tasting button mushroom salad and prawn wonton soup for weekend occasions.

Enhanced by Earl Carter's inspiring photographs of all the finished dishes, and with step-by-step pictures to guide you through their preparation, Simple Chinese Cooking will never be far from your kitchen.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921382635

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 January 2014

Country: Australia

Imprint: Lantern

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1484g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Kylie Kwong is well known as the proprietor of the celebrated Billy Kwong restaurant in inner-city Sydney, and as a passionate advocate of sustainable food and ethical eating. Her restaurant uses locally grown, organic and biodynamic produce, and was the first climate-friendly restaurant in New South Wales. A long-time supporter of the Slow Food movement and its aims, Kylie runs a stall at Eveleigh Farmers' Market in Sydney and helps to nurture the next generation of cooks through the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. She has also developed a range of fair trade tableware in conjunction with Oxfam. Kylie is the author of six books - Kylie Kwong's Simple Chinese Cooking Class, It Tastes Better, My China, Simple Chinese Cooking, Heart and Soul and Recipes and Stories - and presenter of three television series that have aired internationally.

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