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Mister Jiu's in Chinatown

Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food [A Cookbook]

by Brandon Jew
Tienlon Ho
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JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed chef behind the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s restaurant shares the past, present, and future of Chinese cooking in America through 90 mouthwatering recipes.

ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle • ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Glamour • “Brandon Jew’s affection for San Francisco’s Chinatown and his own Chinese heritage is palpable in this cookbook, which is both a recipe collection and a portrait of a district rich in history.”—Fuchsia Dunlop, James Beard Award-winning author of The Food of Sichuan
 
Brandon Jew trained in the kitchens of California cuisine pioneers and Michelin-starred Italian institutions before finding his way back to Chinatown and the food of his childhood. Through deeply personal recipes and stories about the neighborhood that often inspires them, this groundbreaking cookbook is an intimate account of how Chinese food became American food and the making of a Chinese American chef.
 
Jew takes inspiration from classic Chinatown recipes to create innovative spins like Sizzling Rice Soup, Squid Ink Wontons, Orange Chicken Wings, Liberty Roast Duck, Mushroom Mu Shu, and Banana Black Sesame Pie. From the fundamentals of Chinese cooking to master class recipes, he interweaves recipes and techniques with stories about their origins in Chinatown and in his own family history. And he connects his classical training and American roots to Chinese traditions in chapters celebrating dim sum, dumplings, and banquet-style parties.
 
With more than a hundred photographs of finished dishes as well as moving and evocative atmospheric shots of Chinatown, this book is also an intimate portrait—a look down the alleyways, above the tourist shops, and into the kitchens—of the neighborhood that changed the flavor of America.

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    March 9, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781984856517

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      • ISBN: 9781984856517
      • File size: 185505 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 18, 2021
      Chef Jew brings food from his Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant to the home kitchen in this formidable collection of 90 recipes that elevate homestyle Chinese American cooking with rigorous professional cooking techniques. His section on soups includes oxtail soup and a classic hot and sour soup, while vegetable entrees offer a tasty Taiwanese style eggplant. Among the small bites is a delicate prawn toast, while the lengthy meat and barbecue chapter has a poached chicken galantine and a roast duck. Jew’s desserts are particularly inventive, with a banana black sesame pie and frozen whipped honey. The food is unapologetically complex restaurant fare, and many recipes require equipment not found in many home kitchens (one for potstickers, for example, calls for a juicer and a meat grinder) while others are multiday affairs (barbecued pork buns take four to five days). The techniques can also be daunting (Jew suggests oil-blanching is best accomplished with two separate woks). But, for home cooks who are up to the task, this is an exciting challenge well worth taking.

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2021

      Mister Jiu's, the Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, celebrates chef Jew's vision of cuisine rooted in Chinese culinary tradition, shaped by classic Chinese American banquet fare, and driven by using local ingredients at their peak. This stylish cookbook, cowritten by food writer Ho, shares 90 of the restaurant's recipes, ranging from fundamental building blocks such as stocks and spice blends to what are accurately called "master class" recipes. Chapters follow the typical order of courses in a traditional Chinatown banquet, from bites and soups to vegetables, seafood, meats, and dessert. Alongside the recipes, Jew shares snippets of San Francisco Chinatown's vibrant history and pays homage to some of the most iconic dishes, restaurants, and chefs. Although most recipes rely on accessible ingredients, many of the advanced dishes feature multiple sub-recipes and require several days' worth of time in the kitchen. VERDICT Rewarding for home cooks seeking a unique technical challenge, and readers looking for a deeper understanding and appreciation of Chinese American cuisine. The dessert chapter, with recipes and narrative by Mister Jiu's pastry chef Melissa Chou, is a particular highlight.--Kelsy Peterson, Forest Hill Coll., Melbourne, Australia

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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