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Enjoy fresh, simple, delicious, and satisfying Chinese food—including many takeout classics—without ever leaving home!

With her trademark passion and deep appreciation for Chinese cooking, Cooking Channel star Ching-He Huang brings her charm and expertise to an eager audience with this outstanding cookbook. Ching fuses Chinese and Western cultures to create one hundred quick dishes full of natural ingredients and bursting with flavor.

Ching’s Everyday Easy Chinese makes it simple for home cooks to prepare their favorite Chinese dishes faster, cheaper, and more healthfully than their local restaurant. Enjoy a diverse selection of favorite recipes for every occasion and taste, including:

• Traditional Hot and Sour Soup
• Five-Spice Salted Shrimp with Hot Cilantro Sauce
• Crispy Sweet Chili Beef Pancakes
• Kung Po Chicken
• Black Pepper Beef and Rainbow Vegetable Stir-Fry
• Singapore Noodles
• Egg and Asparagus Fried Rice

Interspersed with entertaining personal stories and suggestions for exciting variations on classic recipes, Ching’s Everyday Easy Chinese takes readers on a culinary journey that delightfully blends ancient and modern, yin and yang, experimentation and intuition—and ends with perfectly balanced and tantalizing fare that will inspire even the most stalwart takeout devotees.

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“Huang’s approachable and delicious recipes will suit a range of cooking abilities and cravings.”

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“Uniformly crowd-pleasing.... If your resolution this Chinese New Year is to rely just a bit less on take-out, this colorful and accessible book will go a good distance toward expanding your repertoire.”

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Cooking Channel sensation Ching-He Huang demystifies classic Chinese dishes in Ching’s Everyday Easy Chinese. In her first US cookbook, Ching shows readers how to make fresh, simple, delicious, and satisfying takeout food without ever leaving their homes. From the traditional Chicken Chow Mein to the adventurous Cantonese style steamed Lobster with Ginger Soy Sauce, here is delicious do-it-yourself Chinese food without the delivery guy…just as tasty and healthier than anything you can get at your favorite Chinese restaurant.