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Summary: awful pad thai
Review: In my view, Simonds oversimplifies her recipes. I made the pad thai, and it bore little resemblance to the actual dish. The inclusion of ketchup on the ingredients list should've tipped me off, I suppose. I am looking for a more authentic noodle cookbook.
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Summary: Yum Yum
Review: Indeed, these recipes are delicious and best of all they are simple. If you're looking of a way to broaden you pallete or just looking for some simple Asian recipes, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Yum Yum
Review: It's not the exact thing you'd get in an Asian restaurant, but who cares? These are great, very simple recipes. You'll need some of the Asian cooking basics (fish sauce, chili sauce, rice vinegar) and occasionally a few more exotic things, but, if you're cooking Asian, you've probably got most of these things in your cupboard already. My wife and I absolutely love Asian cooking but we both work full-time, so it's sometime hard to find the time to cook good stuff. This cookbook is full of wonderful, flavorful recipes that don't take too long to make. The sauces section in the back of the book is more than worth having this. We make the sauces, keep them in the fridge, and just put them over rice for lunch or dinner. Great, great stuff.
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Summary: A great, quick-cook cookbook
Review: It's not the exact thing you'd get in an Asian restaurant, but who cares? These are great, very simple recipes. You'll need some of the Asian cooking basics (fish sauce, chili sauce, rice vinegar) and occasionally a few more exotic things, but, if you're cooking Asian, you've probably got most of these things in your cupboard already. My wife and I absolutely love Asian cooking but we both work full-time, so it's sometime hard to find the time to cook good stuff. This cookbook is full of wonderful, flavorful recipes that don't take too long to make. The sauces section in the back of the book is more than worth having this. We make the sauces, keep them in the fridge, and just put them over rice for lunch or dinner. Great, great stuff.
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Summary: One of the best cookbooks I own.
Review: Nina Simonds cookbooks is filled with wonderfully delicious and authentic receipes. Her Vietnamese Pho is right on! And the Phad Thai is fabulous! And her sauces and dips are the best I've tasted from any cookbook. If you like eating Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai dishes you will truly enjoy this book.
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Summary: Great recipes & memories from an eloquent & superb cook
Review: Nina Simonds was hookeed on Chinese cooking long before it became popular in the U.S. Having completed classical French training, she left to live in Taiwan, learn Mandarin, and Chinese cooking at the source. She subsequently traveled throughout Mainland China, collecting recipes and converting them for Western cooks. Here she continues her tradition (from three previous books) of providing classical recipes with clear hints on how to make them perfectly and how to enjoy them as the Chinese would, whether as a snack or as part of a formal meal. She also provides sources for ingredients, substitutions and variations. Through it all, the writing style is clear and informal, as if Nina were standing by your side and guiding you along, while telling you how she first tasted this recipe. If you love noodles, alone or as a key part of a quick oriental dish, this is a great book to add to your library.
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Summary: Reminds Me of Some of My Old Girlfriends...
Review: Ol' Dipper used to serve in the Navy. I was stationed at Atsugi in Japan and developed quite a taste for Asian delicacies. And food too! That's part of how I got as big in the belly as I am now (of course all that Asahi didn't help either!). I bought this tome to tasty pasta because the title reminded me no end of my favorite squeeze over there. Humorously enough, her initials were MSG. That always made me laugh. Yes, yes! "Deliciously Simple Dishes to Twirl, Slurp, and Savor"! Ol' Dipper was in fact one savoring sailor with Sweet Mikasa! This is really quite a fine book. Many of the recipes remind me in more ways than one of the tastiest delights known to Old Honshu! Buy it and try it! You will love it!
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Summary: Healthy, healthy, fast, fast, fast!
Review: The recipes in this book are 'tres facile' (VERY EASY) and very fast! My experience with these recipes is that it takes more time to read the recipe than prepare it! Excellent for working parents on the go. The recipes are healthy and delicious. I gave a book to each of my friends who enjoy cooking (and eating).
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Summary: Handy and demistifying
Review: This is a handy book which nicely covers many noodles, across cuisines. The recipes are pretty good, and the photos are delicious. You should use the recipes as mere guide, however, as the proportions are not always perfect.
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Summary: Beautiful book!
Review: This is an amazing cookbook! It is filled with beautiful pictures. The background information at the beginning of the book is very helpful for finding obscure ingredients or reasonable substitutions for them. The actual recipes are written concisely and thoroughly. I have made a number of the dishes and they have turned out beautifully.
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