This delicious collection of recipes is the answer to that harassed everyday question: 'What's for dinner?'
Simple Asian Kitchen is filled with QR codes which link each recipe to a video of Ming teaching you how to prepare the dish. Packed full of no-fuss, delicious recipes with an ingenious East-West twist that can be made in 30 minutes or less with easy-to source ingredients, this book delivers every time - Grilled Miso-Glazed Salmon with Lime-Cucumber Orzo; Garlic Chicken Satays with Basil Purée; Honey Crab Wontons. Ming Tsai's approach is simple. His appetite for food and life is infectious and he shares all his know-how in every recipe, both within the pages of this book and in the accompanying videos. Simply scan the QR code and it will lead you straight to a how-to vodcast of Ming cooking the recipe from start to finish, as well as a shopping list that can be downloaded straight to a mobile device.
I love watching his show on PBS but I was only mildly successful in recreating his recipes. Now, the chicken onion meatloaf was fabulous but took too much of my time for me to serve again. We did like the spicy sauces. The cookies I tried were too runny to roll into balls. Still have not figured out the error? I don't want to steer you away from this book, but be ready for ingredients that you will not normally have in the pantry or may be difficult to secure. I'll leave each of you to your own evaluation.
The recipes are great on the whole, and are neither too complex nor require special equipment. There are many stir-fry dishes to be found in this book, along with a recipe for the best meatloaf I have had in a long time.
There are a few awkward missteps. In several unfortunate cases the written instructions are too vague to follow or are seemingly contradictory. The errors aren't so bad that one cannot figure out what to do after cooking a dish once.
Life Lesson: You can stir-fry anything in minced ginger, minced garlic, and sauce.