Best pacific rim cooking, food & wine books according to redditors

We found 11 Reddit comments discussing the best pacific rim cooking, food & wine books. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Pacific Rim Cooking, Food & Wine:

u/starbright630 · 7 pointsr/Cooking

I highly recommend this Coconut Chicken Curry recipe (it's from Burma Superstar, a Burmese restaurant in San Francisco. They've published an excellent cookbook too). The ingredients aren't that expensive or hard to find. It's pretty easy to make, but somewhat time-consuming because of all the prep work. Then you have to cook the curry for an hour, and let the curry sit for awhile to let the flavors meld. Definitely worth it in the end though. It's literally a restaurant-quality dish that is very approachable for home cooks!

u/overduebook · 5 pointsr/food

I LOVE Burmese food. One of my favorite restaurants finally published their cookbook - Burma Superstar: Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia. It's kinda windy and cold in SF this weekend, so I figured it was a good time to try some comfort-food soup.

This took me about 3 hours, but only because there's a lot of chopping and I take my time when trying a new recipe. A full hour was just letting the soup simmer while I watched episodes of The Office at my kitchen table. :D Now that I've run through the recipe once, I'll bring my boyfriend in to help with the chopping while I focus on the soup.

The recipe is fairly straightforward and it was INCREDIBLY flavorful. I used some flat rice noodles for this batch, but next time I'll try it with egg noodles. Almost all of the ingredients are easy to find (limes, chicken, ginger, etc). My chickpea flour is made by Bob's Red Mill, which is a brand carried in a lot of health food stores and supermarkets. In addition to the usual toppings (cilantro, red onions, lime juice) I tried to recreate the topping used by my other favorite Burmese restaurant (what up, Burmese Kitchen!), which is fried chickpeas crumbled on top as a sort of crouton. I tried this Serious Eats recipe and it's way too thick - if I reduced the amount of chickpea flour and added more liquid to thin it out, I think it would be perfect and crispy.

I apologize for not typing out the full recipe - it's two pages long (though it's not hard; simply very descriptive). Please let me know if you have any questions, though!

u/retailguypdx · 4 pointsr/Chefit

I'm a bit of a cookbook junkie, so I have a bunch to recommend. I'm interpreting this as "good cookbooks from cuisines in Asia" so there are some that are native and others that are from specific restaurants in the US, but I would consider these legit both in terms of the food and the recipes/techniques. Here are a few of my favorites:


Pan-Asian

u/TychoCelchuuu · 3 pointsr/AskCulinary

Honestly there are so many amazing cookbooks out there that I think you'd have better luck with something else. I don't eat dairy either, and although you can substitute stuff, and some of her recipes don't rely on a lot of dairy, you're honestly going to be missing out. Butter or cream play a huge role in so many of her dishes that you'll basically always have to make worse versions of the stuff in the cookbook. At that point it's a little ridiculous to be working from that cookbook rather than just picking a more suitable cookbook in the first place. Like, I know she's famous, but she fucking loves butter, and you're not going to be eating any butter.

So, unless you're the world's biggest fan of margarine, just go for something else. I would suggest something like Thai food, Burmese food, Ethiopian food, Japanese food, more Indian or Chinese (Fuchsia Dunlop's cookbooks are great) since those two categories encompass like eight million different cuisines, or something else that is not likely to be very dairy-centric (Indonesian, Malaysian, Sri Lankan, Korean, etc.).

u/keakealani · 1 pointr/Hawaii

My basic teriyaki sauce is definitely just shoyu and sugar. If you're looking to do more gravy-ish, make a tiny amount of roux, and then mix it in, maybe with some water if it gets too thick.

My personal katsu sauce is ketchup, shoyu, worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, and a dash of sriracha sauce (or whatever your preferred hot sauce). I don't know measurements since I just do it to taste - just add a bit at a time of everything until it tastes right. It's not quite as good as some of the commercial ones I've had, but it works for me.

In all reality, though, see if you can find anyone who will mail you some of the local "fundraiser" type cookbooks. You know, the ones schools and sports groups compile every few years to fundraise for a tournament or whatever. Almost all of those have at least a few winners in the "local food" category like shoyu chicken and sushi rice. I personally remember the Central Union Preschool cookbook (but that was when I was in preschool which was... a long time ago), the Honolulu Waldorf School cookbook... Oh, not a fundraiser, but "Taste of Aloha" - I think there are at least two volumes. You'll appreciate that one, I'm pretty sure. Looks like there are some good choices on the Amazon vendors thing although Amazon proper doesn't sell it. Dude. Now that I think about it, you MUST buy it. There are so many good recipes in there.

u/dongledongledongle · 1 pointr/Hawaii
u/Pulelehua · 1 pointr/HawaiiGardening

Will you be able to attend the Ulu fest on Maui? If not, maybe try check the farmers market for some. That's where I purchase or barter for ulu as our grocery stores locally hardly if ever carry it.

Also check out this cook book. Looks pretty good.

Ho'oulu ka 'Ulu Cookbook: Breadfruit tips, techniques, and Hawai'i's favorite home recipes

https://www.amazon.com/Hooulu-Ulu-Cookbook-Breadfruit-techniques/dp/1479307491

u/Hubajube · 1 pointr/Cleveland

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.

u/tigasone · 1 pointr/asianeats

For those interested in reading more about Filipino cuisine, some great books on the subject include Memories of Philippine Kitchens, The Adobo Road Cookbook, and Kulinarya.