101 Asian Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die: Discover a New World of Flavors in Authentic Recipes
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More than 150,000 copies sold! Named one of the Top 10 Cookbooks of 2017 by the Los Angeles Times ! Acclaimed Food Network chef and restauranteur Jet Tila shares his take on classic Asian recipes, putting simplicity, fresh ingredients, and flavor at the forefront. Jet Tila knows a thing or two about authentic Asian cuisine . From a kid growing up in LA in a Thai and Chinese family to a prominent chef, restaurant owner and judge on Cutthroat Kitchen , he brings his years of experience and hard-earned knowledge together in this breakthrough book. Step inside Jet’s kitchen and learn the secrets to making your favorite Asian dishes taste better than takeout . Here are some of the recipes you’ll learn to master: - Korean BBQ Short Ribs on Coke - Jet’s Famous Drunken Noodles - Beef Pho - Miso Roasted Black Cod - Panang Beef Curry - Vietnamese Banh Mi Sandwich - Sweet Chili Sriracha Hot Wings And if you haven’t made your own Sriracha yet, Jet’s killer recipe will change your life. All in all, you get Jet’s 101 best Asian recipes to impress your friends and family, not to mention all sorts of chef-y tips on flavor, technique, history and ingredients that will make you a better cook. Whether you’re looking for new culinary inspiration or are searching for ways to bring authentic Asian flavors to your home kitchen, Jet’s timeless go-to guide has you covered! For more delicious recipes from Jet Tila, check out 101 Epic Dishes and 101 Thai Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die Review: Throw out all your other Asian cookbooks! This is the only one you need!! - *I've updated my review since I originally published it. I first wrote the review 3 days after I received the book and had only made a few recipes. Now I've cooked my way 1/3 of the way through! My glowing 5-star review remains the same.* I’m a major Asian food snob (or at least I like to think I am) – I used to live in South Korea and spent a year travelling Asia. I also own so many cookbooks that I have to hide desertcart packages from my boyfriend so he won’t see I bought another cookbook. :) I pre-ordered this book because I just love Jet Tila! I watch him on Cutthroat Kitchen, I follow him on Instagram, and I watch his AWESOME Facebook Live cooking demos. This book basically covers most of Asia (Thai food, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, India, etc) – and Jet is one of the few chefs I trust to be able to pull off a whole continent. I did not need another cookbook (especially Asian food.. I own every Korean cookbook written in the last 15 years & about 25 other Asian cookbooks..), but this book is just stellar & we’ve had Jet’s recipes for dinner 3 nights in a row now! The typical cookbook has only a couple recipes that sound good & I may make 1 or 2 things out of the entire book. Looking through this book, EVERY SINGLE recipe sounds delicious! “Oh, I should make that! Oh, I bet we have the ingredients for that. Ohhh, maybe I’ll make that! Oh, that looks good!!” I’ve read the book cover-to-cover, and I just love Jet’s comments and pointers on each recipe & the abundance of pictures. So far, I’ve made Korean spicy grilled chicken, Pad Thai, and panang chicken curry. All 3 recipes turned out spectacularly! The Korean chicken was perfectly balanced sweet & spicy, just as I remember from Korea. I’ve made pad thai twice in the past, and it’s SUCH a hassle & mine always has turned out a little mushy and oddly thick. This recipe is written in a far more approachable way vs. the unnecessarily complicated recipes I’ve attempted to follow in the past. Jet’s tips on when you the noodles are done with their soak, when they’re done being stir-fried, and when you add the sauce to finish were all key for making the perfect dish. I was so impressed! Neat to read Jet’s family was one of the first to bring Pad Thai to America 40 years ago. I received this book in the mail on a work day, so I’m looking forward grocery shopping this weekend to stock my pantry, so I can make things other than just the chicken recipes. I love that there are no wacky, impossible-to-find ingredients in this book. No special trips to Asia required to find some sauce they only make it a little village in the middle of nowhere.. I live in the boonies of Northern California & every ingredient is wildly available in our grocery store or the little Asian market. I’m obsessed with Thai sticky rice, so I’m excited about the straight-forward instructions on how to make it! I’ve looked online in the past & it always seemed too complicated. Can’t wait to make the sticky rice & then to Jet’s mango sticky rice. YUM. The coconut chicken soup sounds delicious, Jet’s famous drunken noodles, as well as miso roasted cod – I always buy cod and never know what to do with it. I could go on & on about which recipes I'm excited to make, but then I will have listed everything in the book... This is a very non-intimidating, yet wonderfully authentic cookbook everyone should own. I’m going to see how many nights in a row I can make dinner out of this book, but I don’t think I’ll have a problem trying every recipe. 3 nights down, maybe 60 more to go! Go buy this book, it’s awesome! Review: Money well spent. - Best recipe book ever. Each recipe was clear and precise. Every ingredient was listed, and the full -color photos were helpful as well.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 5,789 Reviews |
R**E
Throw out all your other Asian cookbooks! This is the only one you need!!
*I've updated my review since I originally published it. I first wrote the review 3 days after I received the book and had only made a few recipes. Now I've cooked my way 1/3 of the way through! My glowing 5-star review remains the same.* I’m a major Asian food snob (or at least I like to think I am) – I used to live in South Korea and spent a year travelling Asia. I also own so many cookbooks that I have to hide Amazon packages from my boyfriend so he won’t see I bought another cookbook. :) I pre-ordered this book because I just love Jet Tila! I watch him on Cutthroat Kitchen, I follow him on Instagram, and I watch his AWESOME Facebook Live cooking demos. This book basically covers most of Asia (Thai food, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, India, etc) – and Jet is one of the few chefs I trust to be able to pull off a whole continent. I did not need another cookbook (especially Asian food.. I own every Korean cookbook written in the last 15 years & about 25 other Asian cookbooks..), but this book is just stellar & we’ve had Jet’s recipes for dinner 3 nights in a row now! The typical cookbook has only a couple recipes that sound good & I may make 1 or 2 things out of the entire book. Looking through this book, EVERY SINGLE recipe sounds delicious! “Oh, I should make that! Oh, I bet we have the ingredients for that. Ohhh, maybe I’ll make that! Oh, that looks good!!” I’ve read the book cover-to-cover, and I just love Jet’s comments and pointers on each recipe & the abundance of pictures. So far, I’ve made Korean spicy grilled chicken, Pad Thai, and panang chicken curry. All 3 recipes turned out spectacularly! The Korean chicken was perfectly balanced sweet & spicy, just as I remember from Korea. I’ve made pad thai twice in the past, and it’s SUCH a hassle & mine always has turned out a little mushy and oddly thick. This recipe is written in a far more approachable way vs. the unnecessarily complicated recipes I’ve attempted to follow in the past. Jet’s tips on when you the noodles are done with their soak, when they’re done being stir-fried, and when you add the sauce to finish were all key for making the perfect dish. I was so impressed! Neat to read Jet’s family was one of the first to bring Pad Thai to America 40 years ago. I received this book in the mail on a work day, so I’m looking forward grocery shopping this weekend to stock my pantry, so I can make things other than just the chicken recipes. I love that there are no wacky, impossible-to-find ingredients in this book. No special trips to Asia required to find some sauce they only make it a little village in the middle of nowhere.. I live in the boonies of Northern California & every ingredient is wildly available in our grocery store or the little Asian market. I’m obsessed with Thai sticky rice, so I’m excited about the straight-forward instructions on how to make it! I’ve looked online in the past & it always seemed too complicated. Can’t wait to make the sticky rice & then to Jet’s mango sticky rice. YUM. The coconut chicken soup sounds delicious, Jet’s famous drunken noodles, as well as miso roasted cod – I always buy cod and never know what to do with it. I could go on & on about which recipes I'm excited to make, but then I will have listed everything in the book... This is a very non-intimidating, yet wonderfully authentic cookbook everyone should own. I’m going to see how many nights in a row I can make dinner out of this book, but I don’t think I’ll have a problem trying every recipe. 3 nights down, maybe 60 more to go! Go buy this book, it’s awesome!
M**N
Money well spent.
Best recipe book ever. Each recipe was clear and precise. Every ingredient was listed, and the full -color photos were helpful as well.
G**.
Delicious!!!
Wonderful & Delicious!!
P**F
Good recipes in general, but cook times seem a little off.
I love this book and find most of the recipes really easy to follow. I do feel that some of the cook times are a little shorter than reality on a non-industrial strength stove, but overall I really enjoy this.
K**M
Easy to read
Love this cookbook Lots of delicious recipes that came out perfect Easy to follow Great chef
U**2
I highly recommended book.
My wife's favorite book.
L**.
Restaurant Quality Recipes!
His sauces are delicious, the ingredients readily available, and his instructions simple to follow with tips along the way. This large book includes photos and descriptions of spices used in several Asian countries. The first three dishes I made were as good as the local restaurant, including General Tso's chicken, Mongolian Beef, and Kung Pao chicken. Highly recommend!
D**E
The BEST Asian cookbook!
I enjoy Asian food, and have cooked various dishes over the years, but I always felt most of what I made was missing something. It never tasted quite "right"... the seasoning, the sauce. Good enough for myself on a weeknight, but I'd never serve it to company. This cookbook has changed that. My family has made several recipes from this book, but my favorites are the "Mongolian Beef" and "My Famous Drunken Noodles". Both turned out amazing the first time, and we have made them several times since. In both of these recipes, for my tastes, the sauces are what distinguish these dishes. The Mongolian Beef recipe involves very simple ingredients (all of which I can purchase from my local Kroger). The drunken noodles call for fresh rice noodles and Thai basil, which are bit tougher to find but still available locally. So many cookbooks I own call for impossible-to-find/expensive ingredients, or prep time I don't always have. We haven't made everything in this book, but at least we know there is a great range for all skills and budgets (mine is moderate/inexpensive). This book has so much great information, and everything is easy for me to understand. More importantly, the food we've cooked has been incredible. If all I ever make from this book is the Mongolian Beef recipe, it was well-worth every penny. I would highly recommend this book to anyone!
A**E
very practical, successful recipes
Very good sauces throughout the dishes!!! Very well written, especially the order of ingredients and the procedure. A great chef who can simplify amazing recipes in his manner of writing them, so that they can be easily performed. Great for practical use. I have already cooked some recipes, they came out perfect. The only drawback for me, which is not a drawback anyway, is that the cover being very thin paperback, gets destroyed very easily, personally if I had the choice, I wouldn't mind as a customer to pay a little extra on the overall price of the book in order to have a hardcover edition because as I would use this a lot, I would like to maintain this book in good condition as much as possible. Thank you for this amazing book.
S**A
Libro bellissimo!
Tutte le ricette sono molto semplici e ben spiegate. Tantissime foto aiutano a creare piatti veramente fantastici! Non c'è una ricetta che non mi piaccia, e gli ingredienti sono tutti reperibili o in supermercato o nei negozietti di prodotti asiatici. Consigliato!
J**V
The authentic book for Asian dishes.
Love Jet Tila and all of the dishes he creates. It’s a no fuss cookbook which will surely become a household favourite. He covers it all.
D**E
Excellent recipes
This is my go to book for Asian food. Easy and very tasty recipes. Everything I have tried was excellent. Definitely recommend.
L**N
Buenas recetas
Buen contenido de variadas recetas asiáticas. Con este libro es suficiente para disfrutar en casa del gusto por restaurantes de Asia. Doy 4 estrellas porque la letra de las instrucciones de cada receta debería ser más grande y hay sitio para ello. El problema del tamaño de la letra es común en casi todos los libros de cocina y esto no facilita el seguimiento de la receta. Hay veces que no compro libros por esta razón. También en todos los libros deberían poner reproducciones del índice y de algunas páginas, esto animaría a comprar más libros online.
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