Recipes galore with many variations on the recipes. Sampling of recipes: Hot-Sour Soup; Bean Sprout Salad; Stir-Fried Pork with Oyster Sauce; Red-Simmered Beef; Steamed Tangerine Duck; Gold Coin Chicken; Braised Soy Fish; Curried Shrimp; Sweet and Pungent Preserved Eggs; Deep Fried Stuffed Lotus Root; Soy Jam Noodles; Eggrolls and Wontons; Seasonings and Sauces; Spiced Roasted Peanuts; Shark's Fin Soup; plus a section on the whys and hows on distinctive Chinese ingredients.
i jumped at the chance to have this cookbook and then realized that I had pilfered my mom's copy last summer as she wasn't using it!!!