Real Vietnamese Cooking: Everyday Favorites from the Street to the Kitchen

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Real Vietnamese Cooking brings you to Vietnam's vibrant culinary centres, where you can pull up a kitchen chair for a family feast, order noodles from a street side stall or even sit down in a mess hall with the hungry soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army.

Real Vietnamese Cooking combines the collective culinary wisdom of three intrepid food explorers who spent many years training with Vietnam's best chefs while scouring the countryside in search of dishes few foreigners get to experience. It introduces readers to local takes on classic recipes, as well as many lesser known favourites all made with easy-to-find ingredients.

Street eats and home-cooked delicacies that only savvy travellers know about from the streets of Saigon and the cafs of Hanoi are gathered here for the first time. This one-of-a-kind cookbook opens a new culinary window on contemporary Vietnam, exposing the full range of sweet, salty and savoury tastes to the home cook.

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"Challenge your favorite cook to try something new. The book Real Vietnamese Cooking: Everyday Favorites From the Street to the Kitchen by Yumiko Adachi, Shinobu Ito, and Masumi Suzuki is exactly what the title proclaims. You will need some more exotic ingredients for a lot of these recipes but they can be sourced online. The photography is very nicely done. Some recipes are beginner-friendly, such as the coconut & peanut dumplings with sweet ginger syrup. The photos actually made my mouth water!"Advice Sisters blog

Author Bio

Since her first trip to Vietnam in 1997, Yumiko Adachi has specialized in the food stall fare and street food for which the nation is increasingly known. She is the owner of Maimai, a Vietnamese restaurant in Ekoda, Tokyo. In 2013, she opened second restaurant Ecoda Hem, a Vietnamese street food-inspired eatery.

Shinobu Ito learned Vietnamese cooking in restaurants and homes. She has shared her love of Vietnamese food in her popular cooking classes, as well as on television and in magazines.

Masumi Suzuki trained as a chef for several years in Vietnam. She is the owner of Kitchen, a Vietnamese restaurant in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo.