Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20477 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-09-07
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 150 minutes

DVD Description
Ching-He Huang is the brightest star in modern Chinese cookery – she’s a great enthusiast and ambassador for contemporary Chinese food. In addition to being a renowned chef, she’s also compelling, engaging and entertaining – and here she reinvents favourite Chinese dishes, in simple, practical manner to make the most of healthy food and high street ingredients. Delicious and easy to prepare food is at the heart of the series, as Ching draws on the experiences of top chefs, her family and friends, growers and producers and celebrity enthusiasts to discover the best in Chinese cooking, encouraging viewers to cook dishes in their own homes.

Ching demonstrates how to prepare classic dishes, modernising them with fresh, easy to buy ingredients, as well as offering expert instruction on the key elements of preparation and cooking and simple techniques and tips. Throughout the series Ching will set real on-location cooking challenges and take cameras behind the scenes at imaginative and exciting events at which she cooks dishes including a celebration of Chinese New Year for family and friends and a farewell meal for Olympic hopefuls. Ching will also introduce legends, traditions and mythology, explaining the place of food in Chinese life, the Yin and Yang of menus and the spiritual and medicinal properties of foods.

Episode 1: Takeaway Favourites
Episode 2: Street Food
Episode 3: Seafood
Episode 4: Noodles and Dim Sum
Episode 5: Spicy Sichuan
Episode 6: Cooking for family and friends

Synopsis
Presented by Ching-He Huang—considered to be one of the leading experts of modern Chinese cuisine—this informative guide showcase's Ching-He's inimitable style and details her radical reinvention of familiar Chinese dishes.