Review: Kill two birds with one stone!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
Chinese food has always been my favorite kind of food, yet I've always been apprehensive to attempt cooking it. The interest in it has been growing since I've started to eat healthier (authentic Chinese food is actually good for you [not fast food American Chinese food]). I'm familiar with another of the author's books, so I thought why not try to learn to cook Chinese food while getting Mandarin practice and buy this book? Now that I'm 75% of the way through it and have cooked several dishes, I can say the "learn a language and cook the food" model for a book works really well. There is a family-run authentic Chinese restaurant a couple blocks from me, and I've impressed the server with my knowledge of Chinese food and the language. Granted, my knowledge is still a work in progress, but I'm making great strides thanks to the book's organization and simple way of presenting the knowledge.