Asian Tapas

"Christophe Megel's food is perfect for today. It is savory, tempting, and deliciously simple. His wide experience in Asia is reflected in each tasty morsel. Who can ask for more?"--Ken Hom, award-winning chef and author of Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure Using an abundance of the fresh, seasonal ingredients and a harmony of flavors, Anton Kilayko and executive chef Christophe Megel offer a collection of recipes in this Asian cookbook that will excite anyone yearning after new and delicious ways to approach the tastes of the East. Cultural lines blur as they explore the breadth of Asian cuisine to bring you dishes inspired by the cooks of Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, and many more. The food is imaginative, approachable and can just as successfully be brought to life at a sophisticated dinner, a lazy lunch, or a cool party--or very simply as a tasty little snack. These Asian recipes of appetizers and finger foods, illustrated with the cutting-edge photography of Edmond Ho, are exquisitely presented to provide huge impact. Sure to ignite the creative spirit in those who love to cook, Asian Tapas will have you eager to get into the kitchen to chop, slice, mix and blend your way through its imaginative and enthralling recipes to recreate the flavors of the East. Tapas Recipes include: Tangy Crab Salad Sandwiches Aromatic Lamb Seekh Kebabs Wagyu Beef Salad Rolls Har Kow Shrimp Focaccia Buns Abalone Windmill Dumplings Grilled Chicken and Fish Tandoori Strips Crisp Starfruit and Asparagus Salad with Sweet Chinese Sausages Roast Duck Vegetable Rolls with Lemon Soy Dip Tropical Mango Sushi Sashimi Salad Rolls with Wasabi Dip Flaky Cashew Nut Puff Pastry Squares Spiced Sumatran Coffee (Cafe Brulot)

Fusing the friendly concept of Spanish sharing plates with the more exotic flavours of Asian cuisine, Asian Tapas offers a multitude of delicious recipes for small bites. Fusing the friendly concept of Spanish sharing plates with the more exotic flavors of Asian cuisine, Asian Tapas offers a multitude of delicious recipes for small bites. Food from Eastern corners of the world is often thought of as some of the most exciting and enticing on the planet. Whether umami-rich with Japanese miso or soy sauce, spiked with gently building layers of aromatic Indian spices, or replete with fragrant Thai herbs, Chile and garlic, each mouthful packs a big flavor punch. The savory little bites that usually serve as a precursor to an Asian meal are no exception flavor-wise, and quite often everyone will scramble to take the last one on the plate! Now, with Asian Tapas, you can make these tempting morsels the centre of attention. Here you’ll find a great collection of over 60 recipes that will satisfy any Asian-food aficionado and which includes everything from samosas to sushi and dumplings to dosas. Choose from Spicy Fritters, Thai Green Curry Chicken Wings, Popcorn Tofu, Summer Rolls with Mackerel, Quinoa Temaki and Pork, Salt and Pepper Squid, BBQ Pork Belly Skewers, and Charred Shrimp with Spicy Dipping Sauce.

With its clear defined photos and easy to read recipes, Quick & Easy Asian Tapas and Noodles contains everything you need to know to create over 80 delicious and authentic Asian dishes. This cookbook contains recipes for a variety of dishes that are both healthy and appetizing. Quick & Easy Asian Tapas and Noodles features recipes for condiments, sauces, dips, fritters, patties, noodle soups, noodles with sauce, skewered & grilled meats, stir-fried noodles, wraps, and rolls. Recipes include: Sweet lime chutney Shrimp paste dip Thai crab cakes Thai glass noodle soup Grilled lemongrass beef noodle salad Chicken tikka kebabs Classic pad thai noodles Steamed shrimp wontons And many more favorites! Also included are unit conversion tables, dual measurements, and an overview of the basic necessities for cooking authentic and appetizing Asian food. Each recipe includes cook time, prep time, and serving sizes. Enjoy!

Written by leading chef and owner of Raku, in Vancouver, this unique cookbook blends East and West to create over 100 delicious appetizers for every season.

Featuring delicious recipes from India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and the Maldives, this Asian cookbook is a great introduction to the flavors of tropical Asia. This cookbook truly represents the contemporary flavors of tropical South and Southeast Asia today. It is unashamedly Asian without being traditional—reflecting the fascinating blend of peoples and cultures found in the region. What is particularly fascinating is the interaction between the cuisines that expand upon, and yet preserve, the distinctive character and strength of the indigenous dishes and ingredients. This modern, fresh approach to Asian cooking is in demand around the world today—honest food that is easy to put together and guaranteed to please. This stunning book has been produced in collaboration with well-known chefs of selected Four Seasons resorts in Asia. These chefs have share here a selection of their best recipes that are absolutely perfect for every occasion—from a simple breakfast for two, to an alfresco picnic or barbeque, to an elegant dinner party with friends at home. Featured recipes include: Grilled beef with rendang marinade Fragrant crab cakes Ginger-poached chicken breast on mshroom medley Spiced tuna steaks with citrus salsa Green Mango salad Rose-flavoured lassi with pistachios Spicy chicken and mango sushi And many more!

The behind-the-scenes story of America’s most famous underground restaurant, featuring more than eighty-eight deceptively simple and unbelievably delicious pan-Asian recipes and dozens of luscious full color photos. In 2008, as the American economy cratered, newly unemployed Nguyen Tran and his newly unemployed wife-to-be, Thi, opened an off-the-grid eatery in their small Los Angeles studio apartment. Word of their fabulous food quickly spread, turning their culinary "speakeasy," Starry Kitchen, into an underground sensation—and the #1 Asian fusion restaurant in L.A. on Yelp. Threatened by the city’s health inspector, Nguyen and Thi transformed Starry Kitchen into an acclaimed and wildly popular pop-up restaurant in a downtown sushi joint. But their success was only beginning. As their clientele exploded, thanks to raves in the Los Angeles Times, Nguyen and Thi moved to a bigger space of their own in Chinatown, where they helped make the neighborhood the epicenter of L.A.’s burgeoning food scene. Adventures in Starry Kitchen chronicles Starry Kitchen’s DIY evolution—"this beautiful accident gone right"—the mayhem, mishaps, misdemeanors, milestones, and amazing meals that have contributed to (and nearly derailed) its success. As they tell their story, the Trans share more than eighty-eight easy-to-follow pan-Asian recipes—mouthwatering and flavorful comfort cuisine, including Claypot Striped Bass, Buttermilk Beer Beignets, Singaporean Chili Crab, Double-Fried Chicken Wings and, of course, Starry Kitchen's trademark Crispy Tofu Balls. Whether you’re cooking for two, four, or sixty, Adventures in Starry Kitchen demonstrates you don’t have to be a desperately hip (or even trained) chef to master sensational modern food that will amaze and delight.

Explore the Far East from the comfort of home through the cuisines of ten Asian countries, paired with movies by some of Asia’s most visionary filmmakers. With Asian food and film blogger Celeste Heiter as your guide, and Chopstick Cinema as your culinary and cinematic passport, savor the delicacy of Vietnamese Crab-Filled Summer Rolls as you inhale the intoxicating Scent of Green Papaya; relive the bone-chilling saga of a haunted village over a steaming dish of Pad Thai; spend a contemplative evening on a serene lake in a floating Buddhist temple as you nibble on Korean Kim Bap and Mandu Dumplings; feast on Samosas and Chicken Vindaloo while cheering a rag-tag team of Indian locals in a cricket match against the British raj; or spend a summer in rural Cambodia to learn the true meaning of a simple bowl of rice. Based on her belief that anyone with basic cooking skills can prepare an authentic Asian meal using ingredients that are readily available at almost any well-stocked food market, Celeste has selected her favorite Asian dishes from among the hundreds of recipes featured on her Chopstick Cinema blog. The menu for each country is a collection of ten dishes: nibbles, cold and hot appetizers, soup, salad, noodles, main course, two side dishes, and dessert, along with a shopping guide and online sources for hard-to-find ingredients; followed by a review of Celeste’s favorite film from each country, and recommendations for several alternate films. With a pair of chopsticks in one hand, and your remote control in the other, satisfy your appetite for Asian food and adventure that’s sure to be as memorable as the real thing.

Chef Ming Tsai believes that everyday cooking needs to be tasty, healthy, easy to prepare and affordable and this supremely useful cookbook gives you 85 recipes with an Asian influence that perfectly fit the bill. Ingredients are varied and used imaginatively but can still be easily sourced (keeping it tasty), every recipe tracks its salt and fat contents, calories and allergens (with an eye on the healthy), every dish feeds four people as economically as possible (to help save you money), and you'll only ever have to use one pot to prepare it in (beautifully simple). The recipes also come with a drink suggestion and a full-colour photograph to make the preparation even easier.

The chef who pioneered Asian-fusion cuisine presents dozens of recipes for his signature dishes inspired by the street food and home cooking of Asia and blending Western-style dishes and cooking techniques with Asian flavors.

Sushi, kimchi, baklava, and tofu once seemed exotic. These Asian foods have made their way around the world. But how representative are they of their home cuisines? Asian Cuisines: Food Culture from East Asia to Turkey and Afghanistan covers the food history, food culture, and food science of the world’s largest and most diverse continent, not only East, Southeast, and South Asia, but also Central and West Asia, including the countries that straddle Asia and the Middle East. Contributors to Asian Cuisines include renowned scholars E. N. Anderson, Paul D. Buell, and Darra Goldstein. A glossary provides a quick overview of culinary terms specific to the cuisines. Chapters discuss local ingredients and dishes, and look at the connection between food and social, political, economic, and cultural developments. Each article comes with an easy-to-make recipe to give readers a taste of more than a dozen tantalizing and varied cuisines. This compact volume will be valuable in food studies programs and fills a unique spot on the shelf of anyone who loves to explore the meanings and flavors of world cuisines.