Reviews
As featured in The Daily Telegraph, Departures, Newsweek, OUT, Saga, the San Antonio Express-News, Saveur, the South China Morning Post, The Sunday Times, The Vancouver Sun, Wallpaper, and on The A.V. Club, Tastebook, and Tasting Tab≤ heard on 300 NPR stations nationwide on PRI's The World, BBC Radio 4, Portland's KLCK Gorge News Center, and Heritage Radio; seen on Seattle's New Day Northwest/KING-TV "China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable reference for many years to come." -Ken Hom OBE, Chef, author and tv presenter "Don't miss Phaidon's classic China: The Cookbook by Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan. Beautifully designed and sumptuously photographed, it includes hundreds of regional recipes, as well as sections on techniques, history and equipment." -Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday "[A] hefty and vital resource... This is a book dedicated to practicality... The majority of the book's recipes are succinct and easy to shop for... Indispensable." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * "A serious approach to this complex cuisine in a gorgeously collectible book." -Harper's Bazaar "Sweet and sour pork from the local Chinese restaurant still Mum's secret shame? Up her home-cooking game, and let your stomach reap the rewards." -Elle "It's hard to imagine the amount of work that must go into distilling the food of a country as wide and diverse as China into a single cookbook. It seems an impossible task, really, and yet Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan have pulled it off with aplomb... a comprehensive resource for any lover of Chinese cuisine." -Departures "If Guinness World Records 2017 were to have a section on the largest number of recipes collected, written and tested in a year, married writing partners Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan might step up for the prize... As well as being a definitive reference book, China: The Cookbook is intended as a manual for the home cook." -Newsweek online "A husband and wife team have written the definitive Chinese cookbook, with recipes from all of the country's major cuisines, as well as lesser known dishes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia." -South China Morning Post (China) "Discover the breadth of China's cuisine... Suitable for novices as well experts." -The Sunday Times, The Dish "Curiosity about Chinese food continues to grow... If you haven't a clue where to begin, here is your starting point. The design - clean-, spare - makes the content approachable... There are classic recipes - sweet and sour ribs, for example - and lesser known ones too, such as the irresistible Jiangsu's drunken chicken." -The Daily Telegraph, Weekend "The secrets of Chinese cooking have been demystified by Diora Fong Chan and Kei Lum Chan." -Prestige "One of the most comprehensive tomes yet on Chinese food... An extraordinary endeavor." -Legend "The definitive Chinese recipe book." -South China Morning Post, 'A serious approach to this complex cuisine in a gorgeously collectible book.' - Harper's Bazaar 'Sweet and sour pork from the local Chinese restaurant still Mum's secret shame? Up her home-cooking game, and let your stomach reap the rewards.' - Elle 'Discover the breadth of China's cuisine... Suitable for novices as well experts.' - Sunday Times, The Dish 'Hailed by many as the Chinese cookbook, this book [is] not only... beautifully illustrated, but the dishes authentic.' - Evening Standard, "It's hard to imagine the amount of work that must go into distilling the food of a country as wide and diverse as China into a single cookbook. It seems an impossible task, really, and yet Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan have pulled it off with aplomb... a comprehensive resource for any lover of Chinese cuisine." -Departures
