Dim Sum

I bought this book for throwing a Dim Sum party with my friends, making fillings, folding them, steaming/frying them and eating them.In that way, we tried 6 of the recipes in the book, those for which the ingredients were easiest to find, and I have to say, they all worked out very well.The amounts are in OZ, but not too difficult to translate into metrics.I can especially recommend the mushroom dim sum, they were just marvellous! The rest of them were good, but not great. I got the tip from a Chinese person to make the fillings the night before, and let them marinate for a while, which may very well optimise the taste.There was one thing, however, which I found disappointing: That was the amount of dim sum recipes in the book, compared to overall recipes. Only about 2/5th are devoted to actual dim sum, the rest is about spring rolls, sticky rice, stuffed vegetables... Not that I have anything against stuffed vegetables, but hey, it is a dim sum book, right?Given the lack of dim sum books in the market, it is a satisfying buy, but will not inspire great art.

This book has no photos of the finished product only illustrations

The layout is delightful and very clear, the recipes delicious and cover a good range of different dim sum. Highly recommended!

This was a gift for someone for Christmas. They really like it so I decided to give it the five stars.

Malgrado il piccolo formato e la scelta di illustrare minuziosamente passaggi e ricette solo con i propri disegni (l'autrice è una grafica professionista), questo rimane ad oggi il più completo e brillante libro sui Dim Sum; anzi, l'aspetto grafico qui porta dei vantaggi notevoli quando si tratta di spiegare con immediatezza le varianti, le operazioni manuali (le pieghettature dei raviolini, il tipo di chiusura specifico, l'aspetto finale), ma risulta proficuo anche per illustrare gli ingredienti, le attrezzature e le tecniche di cottura.Immancabile per gli amanti della cucina cinese.