Reddit reviews Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

Fuschia Dunlop is a good source for Chinese food. Her published recipe for Kung Pao Chicken is pretty killer. Eileen Yin-Fi Lo is also a well respected Chinese recipe author, check out My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen.

For Thai Food, Andy Ricker's Pok Pok is pretty interesting (and the restaurants are pretty awesome). There's also a tome, simply called Thai Food from David Thompson, as an outsider, looks complete and exhaustive (it's also daunting to me, but nice to have).

Hot Sour Salty Sweet also features Thai (as well as other SE Asian flavors). And I really like Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges as a more upscale cookbook.

Also, I find this little, unsung book to be a great resource. It has fairly simple recipes that can yield some nice flavors, great for weeknight dishes.

And, Momofuku is a fun contemporary twist with some good basics, but it's not a beginner book by any stretch!

Finally, The Slanted Door is on my wishlist. Looks divine.

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Hot Sour Salty Sweet

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It's amazing, and gave me some recipes to finally make my parents love asian food! Seriously though, it has some beautiful stuff in it.

Yep, you all nailed it--I have a cookbook called Hot Sour Salty Sweet and that really does describe the essence of the cuisine of this region...

Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Jeffrey Alford. An amazing tour of the cuisine of Southeast Asia. A mix of super-approachable and more challenging recipes covering everything from appetizers to desserts.

This is a recent Burmese cookbook by the co-author of Hot Sour Salty Sweet which is probably the cookbook I've cooked more things from than any other.