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Asian Dumplings: Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, And More (2009)

by Andrea Nguyen(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1580089755 (ISBN13: 9781580089753)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Ten Speed Press

review 1: I've made only a couple recipes so far for gyoza and dipping sauces, but am pleased overall. The gyoza turned out looking spectacularly with a delicious tender and crispy texture. The accompanying dipping sauce tasted spot-on. The only complaint so far is for the gyoza filling. The texture was good, but I will double the amount of seasoning next time since the flavor was rather bland. Nevertheless, the instructions for making and assembling the dumplings are very clear, and the photographs are extremely motivating. A beautiful book.
review 2: Andrea Nguyen, Asian Dumplings: Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, and More (Ten Speed Press, 2009)Asian dumplings are almost a staple food for anyone who patronizes Chinese restaurants. In most places, you have... more a choice of one or two types (even at most buffets), but every once in a while you stumble across a dim sum restaurant, or a place where they've got a gifted dumpling maker in the kitchen, and you get a better survey of the available options. But I have yet to run across a restaurant of any kind that has the variety to be found in Andrea Nguyen's book, which is packed with recipes for just about every type of Asian dumpling you can think of (and some you probably didn't know had been assimilated by Asian cultures, such as empanadas). At its core, a cookbook is a thing of utility; it should tell you how to cook things. Rare is the cookbook (at least, the cookbook published by a traditional publisher) that doesn't meet this criterion. But on another level, that of reading for pleasure, a cookbook should have another function: the reading of it should make you hungry. And this one qualifies.The creation of dumplings is a long, intensive process, the kind of thing that Mario Batali likes to refer to as the zen of cooking. As a result, you may well end up preferring to go grab them at a restaurant, but this is good reads anyway. Check it out. *** ½ less

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