This is a Chinese cookbook with favourite restaurant dishes made accessible by clear instructions for the home cook and made exceptionally entertaining through boxed narratives that tell anecdotes from the author's Chinese family history.
For example, during college, before he has gone to work in his mother's upscale Chinese restaurant, he travels to Switzerland to cook a Chinese banquet in a school chum's family's castle, even going fishing in an Alpine stream to catch trout for the meal.
