《CHINESE FEASTS & FESTIVALS》: In Chinese Feasts & Festivals, author S.C. Moey assembles facts and fancies along with a collection of festival specialties that every Chinese food lover will read and enjoy. Full of delicate, subtly-rendered illustrations, this exquisite and yet functional cookbook will inspire you to cook up a feast no matter what the occasion.

《CHINESE FEASTS & FESTIVALS》: The rich culinary tradition of China is largely inspired by a calendar year filled with a generous round of joyous occasions -- festivals, reunions, weddings and anniversaries -- for eating, drinking and making merry, and for paying homage to the gods and ancestors. Food, fittingly, is a combination of flavors and symbols (wealth, happiness, luck, prosperity), a spiritual celebration and an earthly pleasure. In 《CHINESE FEASTS & FESTIVALS》, the author has assembled a number of facts and fancies as well as a collection of festival specialities for the Chinese food lovers to read and enjoy or, if the spirit takes flight, cook up a feast that will impress both mortals and ancestors and win the approval of the gods.

PART ONE

The Chinese Feast

 Poultru Recipes

 Homestyle White Chicken

 Drunken Chicken

 Crispy Pried Chicken

 Baked Stuffed chicken Wings

 Tea Smoked Duck

 Fragrant Tender Duck

 Steamed Duck with bamboo shoots

 braised Duck with Yellow Bean Paste

 Meat Pecipes

 Roast Pork

 Pork and Taro bowl

 Five Spice Rolls

 braised Pork Leg

 Stir-fried Beef: with Snow Peas

 Pot Roast Beef

 Spicy Sichuanese Lamb

 Lamb in Aspic

 Seafood Recipes

 Fresh River Carp with Sweet Pickles

 Cantonese Steamed Whole Fish

 Sweet and Sour Fish

 Abalone in Minute Sauce

 braised Oysters with black Sea Moss

 "Good Luck" Spring Rolls

 Vegetable Recipes

 Mixed vegetables with Lobster

 Kailan with Crabmeat Sauce

 Chinese Lettuce Leaf Cups

 Tossed Greens in Garlic Flavored Sauce

 Braised Assorted vegetables

 Steamed vegetable Platter Rice, Soups and Noodles

 Shark's Fin Soup

 Winter Melon Soup

 Fried Rice in a Lotus Leaf

 Yangzhou Pried Rice

 Rice Threads with Pork and Bean Sprouts

 Braised Longevity Noodles

 Dessert Recipes

 "Four Treasures" in a Clear Sweet Soup

 Sago Pearls with Hone gdew Melon

 Sweet Red bean Pancakes

 Rice Flour Layered Cakes

 Golden Lotus Seed Pastries

 Steamed Rice Flour Cupcakes

PART TWO

Chinese Festivals

 The Dragon boat Festival

 Stuffed Rice Dumplings

 Seasoned Rice Dumplings

 Rice Dumplings with Dark Coconut Syrup

 Salted Preserved Eggs

 The Hungry Ghost Festival

 Steamed Fortune buns

 Festive Rice P[our Cakes

 The Mooncake Festival

 Lotus Seed Mooncakes

 Golden Syrup

 Picture Pastries

 The Winter Solstice Festival

 Rice Flour Balls in Sweet Syrup

 Rice Flour Bails in Soup Broth

 chinese New Year

 Dried Sweet Barbecued Pork

 New Year's Cakes

 Festive Arrowhead stir-fry

 Yusheng Sashimi salad

 Traditional Chinese Jiaozi

Vital Ingredients

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