Articles and reviews from Zach

Thai  coking made easy   Sukhum Kittivech This is a 100 pg color book made Wei chuan Publishing , a subsidiary   from the well known   food manufacturer in   Taiwan . Sukum Kittivech the author is a cooker in S California , as noticed in the pages of this book. The book is written   in both Chinese and English This is one of my oldest books   I have from Chinese cooking . This book is structured this way : -conversion table -Seasoning   sauces , spices , cutting vegetables -How to make several seasoning   sauces -recipes a a semi random way . 2-3 recipes per page with ingredients structured in ‘modules’   and photos of required ingredients Several of the   recipes   notice in the book :  Chicken   salad , ground mea in lime sauce , pork salad with shrimps , tai sausage , papaya salad , tai BBQ , beef swerved BBQ (same with the Indonesian recipe) , , baked rainbow tr...

Echols Dictionary Indonesian English Echols Indonesian   English dictionary   is possibly one of the best Indonesian   dictionaries > I had the second edition (a small   book of ca A6 size )   but on ca 2000 found the   third   edition which is much bigger than the previous . qnd here I make some comparisons The   second edition as above noticed uses   the old writing with dj and tj for j and c respectively Since I have gifted   the book 4 years ago to the library , I do not remember   its edition with less than 200   pages in total > I have found that there is a  fourth edition IN contrast the 3 rd   edition is much fuller also hardbound as the 2 nd with more than 600 pages of entries . You can find also all the   English relative words , many jawa and sunda  Except this , it is a typical dictionary . No info on the language or grammar .suitable for someone who knows a ...

Discipline  without shouting or spanking Jenny Wyckoff and Barbara Unell And something now very different now . This is a  book on how  to learn to your children discipline  the relatively easy way . As you may see  this is a  English lang book translated into English . This publisher is specialized in piratical books for handling children but has also cultural activities! This book is mainly a tips and hints book but has a special  structure for much easier  use (ie as reference ) written this way : Subject Small description How to obstruct such situations How to solve these  situations with do’s and don’t;s A case study Her is an example How to handle a child which is  a ‘couch slave’ and  plays  either Playstation or watches TV Obstruction : switch off the TV , do more action , let you child find new ideas to be more energetic - solving this problem : let the child using them (as eg watching TV f...

Complete Malaysian cookbook More than 240 recipes are refereed to this  18x 18  cm book of ca 270 pages and a pric of  ?9 . This is the last book I ordered  this year on Jun 12 as part of cooking series and concludes   my line of cooking recipes Written by a native Malaysian  chef of  possibly Chinese origin is a color edition. This book has a different  aspect of recipes divided  by region (county ) Here is a  small pickup of recipes  by the region some of them are referred by tre author (notice that I only refer to the titles of recipes without further explanation ) Johor : Laksa johor , laksa bersundas , mee rebus, sayur lodeh , teochow fish Melaka : ikan masak kuah lada , nyonya ayam (nyonya inhabitant  Chinese ) Negeri Sembilan: rending rimbau, renadang pinang , dodol Selagor : (my picks )fish and curry , prawn sambal , beef steak Pahang:: rendang daging , dadar  masak acar Kelantan: kuzi...

Lonely planet Kuala Lumpur Melaca and Penang This was a  book I was  expecting  for some time  for helping a  feind of me and student , who was to visit Kuala Lumpur  for a summit together wit h some travel reasons in order to learn something from the city .  However the book  was tht time under  print . I did a pre order in one of the main bookstores in my city , and was arrived  ca 2 months after ! Anyway the book has  not been used so much until  writing this review (though still partially ….) This book has the  typical PL design format though  this new version has several  design modifications As for example  the cover paper is matte instead of plasticized For example on the  second and third sheet show a map of the region (W Malaysia ) and there are  small typo clouds  showing the picks  of the point There are (as with other books)  pictures of the top p...

Cook Malaysian ! Lee sook Ching One of my oldest  again books on Malaysian  cooking  bought in mid 90s  which is one of the most vcomplete  reference books . This was one of my first  ever  books in Malaysian cooking and this has a format  close to A4 paper and is hardbound This is a classical  recipe cookbook with standard hierarchy . It first starts with  terms of cooking together with a shot of most ingredients and some drawings and hints for cooking Then the series  gies this way together with some random recipes : Rice : nasi lemak , nasi beriani , kunyit Meat: satay ,spring rolls ,rendang Poultry : almond chicken ayam , golek Seafood : otakotak , pie apple curry Egs and soy : sambal telur , eggs with crabmeat Veggies: gado gado , fried eggplant Soups : streamed melon soup , chicken and corn , beef soup Noodles: laksa lemak Desserts (20):  pineapple tarts , vadai Misc : soybean milk Glossary of...

Women weekly    Malaysian  favorites This year ;looking for  something  easy for Malaysian  cooking  I was  quite much looking not only on the net but also on Amazon  for a small  but quite  easy book on Malay cooking . This book as advertized there was with the promise for easy and fast Malay cooking And really  this  book after received together  with a bunch of other cooking books in the June 12 order , can be deemed this way . as with most recipe books is a small less than A5 sized  books and fully colored with about 35 recipes , each of them shown in the one page and on the other with  the recipe Here are part of these  recipes : Hot and sour soup (hhm  yummy and my top Chinese dish made with nearly everything ) prawn laksa , curried lamb pastries , laksa  lemak , spicy fish  in banana leaves , rending , curry capitan (!!??), squid curry , ...