Lemongrass and Ginger Cookbook: Vibrant Asian Recipes

I love this cookbook because the recipes are authentic, and I can make meals I would have usually gone out to a restaurant for.Finally, I have learned what ingredients go into a fantastic Curry. No jar stuff for me anymore now that I have this great book.The book has many regions of Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, ect. recipes which are all wonderful tasting and I find I go to this book often to make a meal. I love the pictures in the book, and the story of how the whole cookbook came about was a very interesting story and I loved reading about it.The author wrote about her own personal experiences with learning to cook from her mom, then cooking during her college years, and beyond. I love this book!What is really nice about the book are the recipes in the back of the book that show you the base ingredients to every recipe. Just take that list to the store and you will have all you need to get started.

Beautifully compiled. This book stretches it's culinary experience from far West Asian all the way East offering a broad array of recipes. Take your time and endulge.

Good deal of pictures and wide variety or recipes.

Great book with an interesting layout - recipes are grouped by country. The book is easy to follow and has great photos of most dishes. Would definitely recommend to Asian foodies.

There are a lot of books out there about asian recipes but I was looking for something that is authentic to the region and not adapted to the audience. This book looks like it's authentic recipes from the reading of it. Now to try it out

This is a fantastically useful cookbook. Its recipes are practical, yet inventive and full of novel components. My family has now marked at least half the pages as favorites and we have it out about every week.

Great book. Very informative!

not a lot of recipes in there I would use, but the ones I like are really good

Leemei Tan's first cookbook 'Lemongrass and Ginger' is a pleasure to read and most importantly a joy to cook (and eat of course!) her wide range of Asian recipes. Aesthetically the book ticks all the boxes. It looks good with its bright lime green cover and pretty Japanese flowers on a navy background; it's the type of book that I rather like having laying around the kitchen to dip into whenever I have a few quite moments. Importantly it also has substance and recipes that you actually want to cook. Within its pages are a good selection of beautifully composed photographs, taken by Leemei herself - clearly her talent is not only in cooking but also in the artistic composition of styling and photographing food; no easy feet I can tell you from experience.I like the fact that she has given a good overview of temptingly delicious recipes from across Asia and has split her chapters according to regions - for example 'Japan and Korea', 'China' 'Philippines and Indonesia' etc. I find it rare to come across a cookbook where I actually want to cook more than 10 recipes within the book, but in the case of Leemei's I seriously want to try them all. If you like Asian food and want to explore dishes across many of the Asian regions then this is the book for you. It's easy to follow and one that will be part of my cookbook library indefinitely. I'm already looking forward to her next book to come out.....whenever that will be!

I follow @mycookinghut (Leemei Tan) on Instagram and have seen many wonder dishes that she has posted, read her blog and because of a fellow Instagrammer cooking up her dishes from the book really made me by the book.The book arrived promptly. Its such a beautiful book.The recipes are simple without using too many ingredients - a lot of the recipes refer to pastes, sauces or marinades which can be found at the back pages of the book, which I thought was great - as a lot of recipes lists all the ingredients for pastes etc for that specific recipe, which can be daunting when you look at it. This way you can use her recipes for different meats as you wish.Each Asian region are categorised and each feature a few classic dishes as well as newer less known ones which are delicious and not usually found on restaurant menus.Amazing debut cookbook - anymore in the pipeline?

The warmth of Leemei's writing, personality and demeanour that is so typical of her style of food writing come through right from the start. The honesty of her recipes, the simplicity of the photos and the elegance of the cover makes its a joy to own.Being a food writer myself, I am very critical of cookbooks - but her recipes work and especially her section of Indian recipes, includes a few Pakistani ones (which is what I write about) - these are simple and beautifully explained, leaving them as authentic as possible. I can't wait to try more recipes from this and hope she writes another book soon! Best of luck Leemei, and a great first book!

This book was a gift but I had no have a nose before I gave it. Beautiful illustration and easy to follow recipes. A must have item in any kitchen.

lots of delicious recipes though some need a long time to prepare and use ingredients which are hard to source