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Chinese Food Made Easy Hardcover – January 1, 2010

by Ching-He Huang (Author)

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Ching-He Huang is one of the brightest stars in modern Chinese cooking in the UK. Each week in her new BBC2 series she re-invents the nation's favourite Chinese dishes, modernising them with fresh, easy to buy ingredients, and offering simple practical tips and techniques. These are brought together in this beautiful book to accompany the series. Drawing on the experiences of top chefs, her family and friends, growers and producers and celebrity enthusiasts Ching sets out to discover the best Chinese cooking in the UK today, introducing easy-to-make Chinese food to sometimes resistant Brits, and painting a picture of modern Anglo-Chinese life in the UK as she goes. Chinese Food Made Easy begins with some of the most familiar dishes from a Chinese takeaway menu - Sweet & Sour Prawns, Chicken with Cashew Nuts, Chop Suey and Cantonese Vegetable Stir Fry, each with Ching's special and imaginative twist. Later we explore spicy Szechuan Noodles, Dumplings and Dim sum; Seafood; Fast Food; Desserts and finally Celebratory Food, where Ching presents a complete banquet of dishes to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Ching's knowledge, charm and enthusiasm shine through as she shares the 'basic principles' of Chinese cooking including some of the simple techniques and tips taught by her Grandparents for tasty results. Using ingredients from high-street supermarkets and some imaginative suggestions for alternative ingredients, these classic Chinese dishes are updated, fresh and healthily prepared so that anyone can make and enjoy them.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Unknown (January 1, 2010)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1435122631
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1435122635
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds

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Ching-He Huang

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Ching is an International Emmy nominated TV chef & cookery author. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ching draws on her Chinese culture to create food that is delicious and accessible for home cooks.

Her culinary ethos is to use fresh, organic and ethically sourced ingredients to create modern dishes with Chinese heritage, fusing tradition and innovation. Ching makes Chinese cooking accessible and healthy, appealing to East and West alike.

Ching's dynamic approach to modern Chinese food is evident in her immensely popular TV work. Her own fronted series in the UK include; Chinese Food Made Easy (BBC2), Chinese Food in Minutes (C5), Exploring China (BBC2) and Ching's Amazing Asia (Food Network). In the U.K. Ching is a regular guest chef on Saturday Kitchen (BBC1) and Lorraine (ITV1).

In the U.S. Ching's popular TV shows include Easy Chinese: San Francisco, Easy Chinese: New York & L.A, Restaurant Redemption, Eat the Nation. Her U.S. appearances include The Today Show (NBC), Rachael Ray Show (CBS) and Iron Chef America (Food Network US).

Ching has published seven popular and best-selling cookbooks to date including Eat Clean: Wok Yourself to Health, Exploring China, Ching's Fast Food, Everyday Easy Chinese, Ching's Chinese Food in Minutes, Chinese Food Made Easy and China Modern. Ching is the creator & founder of The Lotus Wok – a wok with a dynamic nano-silica coating for high performance cooking. Ching spends her time between U.K., U.S and Asia.

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Simply Elegant

Easy to follow recipes

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2015

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Fantastic cookbook! She was airing on the Food Channel for a while with this show. Easy to follow directions. Ingredients aren't riduculous for the Chinese food novice. Consistently good results.

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Bob Turcot

Easy recipes...but...

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2011

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I have enjoyed this show on the Cooking Channel so I thought I'd give the book a try. As advertised the recipes in the book are easy to reproduce for us at home, we have a pretty good pantry so the ingredients are most often at hand. We've now tried four recipes out of the book with mixed results. The Chicken Chow Mein was fun and easy to whip up and is a do-again for us. The Orange Beef however was disappointing- preparing and seasoning it as directed resulted in a bland dish. We made some notations to spice this up the next time we make it and moved on to two other dishes: Five Spice Roasted Chicken pieces and Smacked Cucumber and Sesame Salad. Having learned from our previous experience we doubled the strength of the marinade for the chicken and doubled the amount of dressing for the salad while keeping the amount of salad vegies the same. Both dishes turned out to be very flavorful using our method. Each of the four dishes have been easy to prepare so the book fulfills it's promise on that level. For our tastes however the spicing level- and I'm not referring to heat- as written is just too bland for our tastes. We don't mind being a little creative in our own kitchen however so the book is a keeper and we're going to be making several more of the recipes.

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Pam Goodno

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014

I like this cookbook

Delivers on its promise!

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2010

I've been watching and enjoying random episodes of Ching-He Huang's cooking show on the new TV Food Channel. When I saw a copy of her cookbook on the Sale table at my local bookstore, I grabbed it. I'm very glad I did.

I have several Chinese cookbooks, but many of them are geared towards authenticity or east-meets-west. If I had to categorize Chinese Food Made Easy I'd say it's "30 minute Chinese meals." The recipes emphasize simplicity -- and also healthfulness. Foods that are traditionally deep fried, for instance, use only a few tablespoons of oil, and she turns to more natural sugars (like honey). There's rarely a long list of ingredients; I have most of these items in my pantry. (But then I have a good Chinese market relatively nearby, making it easy to stock up.)

So far, we've made three of her recipes: Scallops with black rice vinegar and ham; Sichuan orange beef with shitake mushrooms; and soy and sesame green beans. All were under a half hour, start-to-finish, and each were delicious. On my upcoming list: Seafood congee (which uses one of those frozen "mixed seafood" packets I see at Trader Joe's but am never sure how best to use), fast hot and sour noodle pot (on the TV show she demonstrated how to make this in less time than a ramen noodle mix), and mango chicken.

My only quibble is her portion sizes. We don't eat a lot, but the scallop recipe made a pretty light dinner. You probably do need at least one accompaniment.

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LovetoRead

Is definitely not Chinese food made easily.

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2016

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Lots of ingredients I've never heard of. Not simple ingredients readily available and im Asian . Is definitely not Chinese food made easily.

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babear

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2015

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I expected recipes for dishes that were familiar.

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BB

Pretty, but has just gone unused

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2011

I bought the book a few months ago and since then ive looked through the pretty photography and not used it.

The food at first glance looks nice and interesting enough, but when looking at ingriedients, there doesnt seem to be something appealing.

I'm a huge fan of chinese food and anything oriental, and i do have other books. But i'm not sure what it is with this book. It just seemed to be a never ending list of ingredients to make just one meal, and then those ingredient s are seldom used in any other recipe!

If you are looking for an easy way of cooking chinese food without having to trawl through supermarkets buying lots of ingredients for EACH dish - don't buy this book it will end up on your shelf to be looked through occasionally but never used.

I would score it a 1 or 2, but because i didn't end up actually making anything in it, i didn't want to push the rating down!

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Mrs Jennifer Elford

easy to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2023

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I've read this twice, easy recipes nicely laid out, I would prefer more pictures. The condition of the book and the packaging was very good and I would buy from this seller again

Bill Siegfried

Title is Accurate!

Reviewed in Germany on December 4, 2018

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A section of the cookbook is devoted to more complex meals for special occasions, but most of the recipes are relatively simple and all of the ones I have so far tried, are very tasty.

a.j.payne

Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2024

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Very good

Sunshine summer

very good impressive book

Reviewed in Germany on January 15, 2017

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very nice chef, I know her from BBC good food, the book is as expected, good quality for a used book

Larya Cyrion

Chinesische Gerichte einfach und lecker

Reviewed in Germany on February 3, 2010

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Ich bin durch das Fernsehen auf dieses Buch gekommen. Ching-He Huang zeigt hier wie einfach, leicht und lecker die chinesische Küche Zuhause nachgekocht werden kann. Die Rezepte sind immer schnell zubereitet und man muss nicht immer umständlich nach einem Asialaden in der Nähe suchen, denn die Autorin bietet auch europäische Alternativen zu Gewürzen und Zutaten an. So z. Bsp. statt des chines. Reisweins kann man einen trockenen Sherry verwenden.
Die Gerichte sind allesamt lecker und kommen in meiner Famile und bei meinen Freunden sehr gut an.
Einziges Manko an dem Buch ist, dass es leider nur in englisch zu bekommen ist und es recht wenig Bildmaterial hat.

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