Vietnamese Fusion: Vegetarian Cuisine Paperback – Illustrated, October 1, 2007

I bought this book for my daughter as a gift and she is loving it. She is a vegan, so is always looking for new recipes and she loves to cook. She is having a ball with it!

Bought this for me. I love to cook. This book has provided me with new ideas and the recepies are wonderful.

Great recipes, and can't wait to try them; however, I have one serious gripe: design of the book. It's very hard to read the ingredients because the text is on top of some kind of greyscale, pixelated graphic. The font is already small, and then the designer puts it on top of the graphic makes it quite hard on the eyes, and may the cooking gods help you if you have difficulty with your eyesight.

The recipes in this book lack authenticity. If you were to look up a traditional recipe for Pho (for example) you would find all manner of spices used in the stock that this book leaves out resulting in a rather bland version of the original. You would do better buying an omni vietnamese cookbook & making your own substitutions.

I bought this book thinking that I could use it to create vegetarian options to many different dishes. That is to say, I expected more in a stir fry recipe than "add vegetarian stir-fry sauce". I expected too much. my bad. It's a little book, and it's got very little in it.

Excellent little book for someone wanting to create their favorite Vietnamese dishes at home.

There are very few cookbooks that I can find that capture the world of Vietnamese vegan/vegetarian cuisine I have enjoyed in restaurants. This book offers a few limited recipes of that sort, but is not the comprehensive discussion of the subject I would like to see and own. There is certainly a niche in the market for anyone capable of producing such a book.

The recipes are interesting, but they are complicated and call for a lot of unusual ingredients. I haven't even made any of the recipes yet because of these factors. I don't recommend this cookbook.