I really liked Kylie Kwong’s Simple Chinese Cooking, so I picked up My China: A Feast for All the Senses as well. First impression. My China is a huge book! 484 pages. However, I wouldn’t exactly call it a cookbook. Only 15-20% of the book is devoted to recipes, and the rest is about her travels through China. So, if you are looking for an anthology of Chinese recipes, this is not the book. Secondly, she shows us a lot of photos of regional dishes, like that mouth-watering pot of steamed buns on the book cover. However, feast with your eyes only because you won’t find recipes for all those tempting dishes in this book. And, if you loved the glossy photos from Simple Chinese Cooking, all the pages in this book have a flat finish.

The real test will come when I have a chance to try some of the recipes. The malt vinegar present in all recipes from Simple Chinese Cooking have been replaced with brown rice vinegar in My China.