Love Vegan: The Ultimate Asian Cookbook: Easy Plant Based Recipes That Anyone Can Cook
B**M
Poor quality writing and recipes
I've cooked vegan recipes of a variety of Asian cuisines from several cookbooks and online sources, and this book is noticeably beneath all of them in quality. Overall, the six recipes I've made from it have all been lacking in flavor and have tried to make up for it by smothering the ingredients in oil or soy sauce.On top of that, the recipes themselves are _very_ badly written. I mean:- missing indications of cook times -- not even relative statements like "until warm" or "until transulent"- physically impossible instructions -- "remove from heat" with no corresponding instruction to actually turn the heat on, let alone what level or for how long- ingredients listed in the recipe but never used in the instructions. This happened in half the recipes I tried. I managed to fill in the holes as best I could there.Finally, maybe it's just me, but opening up an Asian cookbook that claims to be "authentic" and reading something like "you can use either garlic chili sauce or Sriracha sauce" is pure bullcrap as far as I'm concerned.
M**Y
Restaurant menu vegan recipes
I like the recipes in this book. Pretty much the most popular Asian dishes from Chinese, Japanese, Thailand and Korea. I question the sweet and sour vegetable stir fry recipe because there was no vinegar or acid to make it sour. So I wonder if these recipes were tested.There were 48 recipes and no photos other than the cover so if photos of how the dish should look is important, don’t buy this. These recipes are in most Asian cookbooks.
M**N
The recipes I've made from this have been pretty good, if basic
The recipes I've made from this have been pretty good, if basic. Many of the recipes are quite simple and quick but I find myself always adding to them. It is quite small, a little over a hundred pages with no pictures. 22 mains, 10 sides, 8 desserts, 6 "extra" (sauces and such). I've also already noticed several mistakes, nothing egregious. I was expecting something a little more substantial but it seems like a pretty easy entry into Asian cooking while I find something more in depth.
D**R
Vegan
as described and delivered in a timely manner
D**E
Simple cookbook
Simple cookbook. The inside has no pictures and is simple ingredients but I could get the same thing from Pinterest.
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