If you get a new cookbook and routinely skip the introductory parts where the author talks about their life and philosophy, and instead head straight to the pretty pics and recipes, we have a book to challenge that approach. To really understand Chae: Korean Slow Food For A Better Life, you need to read the wordy bits. And what makes this a worthwhile exercise is that they’re actually really interesting, and even somewhat moving…

Shu Han Lee might not be a household name down here, but she’s known in the UK for her spice company Remapapa, stocked in leading supermarkets like Selfridges. A Singapore native, she’s also authored another book called Chicken and Rice, a collection of more broadly SouthEast Asian recipes. Her latest concentrates on what she describes as “everyday recipes from Singapore”…

If you’ve never thought much about travelling to Seoul, reading Pocha just might change your mind. We got as far as the contents pages and thought “dammit; take us to this place!” The book takes its inspo, and title, from pojangmacha, or ‘pocha’ for short. A pocha is a small, tarpaulin-covered cart, selling modest snacks and street food….

We don’t know about you, but we see SO many cookbooks we can get a bit jaded. For a new one to really grab us it needs to be pretty darn amazing. Enter Bao Family. The author is Céline Chung, born in Paris to Chinese parents who, while on a student exchange in Shanghai, travelled throughout China and totally fell for its varied regional cuisines. Heck, who wouldn’t?…

If you follow the Sydney dining scene, and we know lots of you do, you may have heard of Ho Jiak. It opened on the site of a pretty forgettable Cantonese BBQ joint in Haymarket a few years back, then proceeded to take the city by storm with its elevated Malaysian fare. The team went on to open at Townhall and…

If you’re like us, Bangladeshi is not a cuisine you know particularly well. And any book that expands our culinary horizons is always welcomed so we were chuffed to be sent a copy of London-based Bangladeshi writer Dina Begum’s latest book, Made in Bangladesh. It’s a lovely introduction…