Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries

First, I found this cookbook at the local library and kept borrowing it, so I finally decided to get my own copy, and I’m happy I did.This book includes not only bread recipes but also savory Chinese buns and dumplings (It's like "Buy one get one free"). With many beautiful photos, this book is enjoyable to read and inspires me to bake and cook. I love that some recipes have step-by-step photos, making them easy to follow. I recently bought a mold for mooncakes, so I am excited to try out her recipe soon!

If you bake bread, you need it. It will improve your skills even if you have been baking for decades.If you want to improve your Asian cooking skills, it is a great step by step teacher.The recipes for Mo and Xi’an-Style Braised Lamb Ro Jia Mao (Chinese Hamburgers) are worth the cost of the cookbook alone.Mo is basically a Chinese hamburger bun. The Rou jia mo is basically a sloppy joe filling made with lamb stew meat. (Anything that makes lamb super tasty is great in my opinion. I am not a big lamb fan.)I plan to try the Ro jia mo recipe with pork and with beef also.I have tried about half a dozen of the recipes so far. They all have been absolutely delicious and easy to execute if you follow the directions.They are plenty of illustrations to show you what the finished dish should look like and how it should be folded, tucked, rolled, etc. during the process.Normally, if I find one or two recipes that interest me in a cookbook, I am happy.I have so many recipes bookmarked to try I am going to have to just work my way through the cookbook one recipe at a time.I highly recommend you try the Crispy Chinese Sausage and Cilantro Pancakes. Yum! I did not have any Chinese Sausage, but I suspect just about any sausage will work. The four or five kinds I have tried so far using this recipe have made for outstanding pancakes. Just drizzle or dip them in a tiny bit of chili oil. Delicious.I love the recipe for Moo Shu Wrappers. Easy and delicious thin little wrappers (tortilla like wrappers) are the end result.Fabulous cookbook. Try it!

This book is currently my favorite!. I have never made bread but all the descriptions are very easy to follow and all of the recipes have photos along with it.

I have been wanting this book for a while. Got it for an early xmas present and I love all the variety of recipes in it and I'm so excited to start making some of them for my in laws. Highly recommend the book.

Had all the recipes I was hoping it would have. And just how I remembered them. I've been searching online for these recipes and Google search is flooded with people own renditions with less sugar or different tastes in spices or seasoning. I was looking for authenticity and got it.

As a gluten free vegan, the recipes in this book are a wonderful inspiration. It's a lovely insight into another culture and cuisine.

This book is thorough. I have not used these recipes yet, but after 4 decades of cooking, I have plenty of confidence in these recipes.The intro, recipe descriptions, and information on cultural baking customs make Mooncakes & Milkbread a comprehensive treatment of Chinese American baking as a subset of Chinese bakingSome cookbooks just list recipes. This one explores the culinary culture of Chinese bakeries in the US-a modern, western influenced tradition that is anthropologically discrete from other bakery traditions in the US.The book supplies practical information on how to make all parts of mixed foods. For example, the mooncake section explains how to salt the eggs, make the paste, make golden syrup and make lye water instead of buying any of it premade, though thats an option.Explanations are clear, frequent photos are in color and well laid out as a compliment to the text.

I love to bake and I'm always looking for new things to challenge me. I've never made milk bread before and I'm not sure if I could ever look at another bread the same.I made the milk bread, it's light and fluffy and heavenly.Then I made the milk bread dough but into rolls filled with a coconut cream. These were a huge hit. I had to share with friends because they were dangerously good.I'm going to continue trying more of the recipes but the first two have been added to the arsenal of favorite recipes for my family.

Absolutely lovely book, amazing images and relatively clear instructions.Everything I've made from it so far has been delicious.My only small gripe is when one recipe refers to another, but says to do the previous recipe until Step [#] , before proceeding with the current one, I can get a bit thrown off.Reason being is that none of the steps are numbered, so you are left assuming that each step relates to a paragraph, but feeling a bit uncertain, as some paragraphs seem to contain what would often be different steps in a different recipe. So you kind of wonder if your assumption is correct to what the author meant, and why they hadn't actually numbered them in the first place if they were going to refer to things that way (it's odd since everything else in the book is very clear).This would be less confusing for someone that had done similar recipes before and are more confident, but when you're new to it, it can cause you to pause for a moment trying to sort it out.

I liked the book as I wanted to recreate the Hong Kong classics which reminded me of childhood & there’s nothing to doslike

Me ha encantado el libro. Su tapa es dura y tiene muchas recetas.

Prodotti da forno salati e dolci, con complemento di numerose ricette di ispirazione popolare rivisitate con fantasia e cura e un tocco USA soprattutto nelle torte (ma che non scontenterà nessuno); ottimi i mooncakes e i bao buns, con un occhio particolarmente felice per la resa estetica.Libro acclamato dalla critica, vincitore del James Beard Award per il 2022.

This book is wort to purchase for the milk bread recipe alone, it's so versatile and good. But there are other good things too