Sambal Shiok Synopsis
Beautiful, inspiring, but above all authoritative. Mandy Yin holds all the secrets to exquisite Malaysian cooking... It is a rare treat that she's chosen to share them. - Grace Dent, restaurant critic for the Guardian A soulful tribute to Malaysian cuisine, from snacks, soups and salads, to rice and noodle dishes, curries and sweet things. Sambal Shiok is a brilliant collection of over 90 accessible recipes that were handed down from Mandy Yin's mother as well as those that she has developed for her critically acclaimed, award-winning London restaurant. The recipes - such as her signature curry laksa, Penang assam laksa, Malaysian fried chicken, prawn fritters, spiral curry puffs, flaky roti canai, beef rendang, KL golden fragrant clams, sambal mapo tofu, and the perfect steamed rice - can be made for a weekday family meal, a dinner party or celebration. Malaysian food results from the unique merger over centuries of indigenous Malay ingredients with Indian spices and Chinese techniques. Every dish delicately balances sweet, sour, salty with chilli heat and a hint of bitter. With Mandy's evocative look at Malaysian food culture, her recipes, and the basics of a Malaysian pantry (shrimp paste, lemongrass, tamarind and coconut milk), you can easily enjoy the most delicious Malaysian meals at home.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781787137042 |
| Publication date: |
14th October 2021 |
| Author: |
Mandy Yin |
| Publisher: |
Quadrille Publishing Ltd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
256 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Cookery, Food and Drink
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Mandy Yin Press Reviews
The food of Malaysia - with its combination of Indian spices and Chinese techniques - deserves to be better known. Mandy Yin shows just how exciting it can be, from spicy bowls of laksa soup to the peanut-rich comforts of satay. Yin grew up in Kuala Lumpur and runs a restaurant in Highbury called Sambal Shiok. This, her first book, is a charming mixture of recipes (try the gado gado salad) and memories of Malaysian street food. - 18 Best Food Books 2021, Bee Wilson, The Times
Subtitled The Malaysian Cookbook, this authoritative collection really earns the definite article. There are the recipes, from a fabulously blended cuisine and via Yin's own family that formed the backbone of her incredibly successful London restaurant. Outstanding photography from Louise Hagger. - Tim Hayward, Financial Times
There's roti canai, a flaky flatbread served with soupy curry, brought by southern Indians and now synonymous with comfort across Malaysia, and a glorious roast chicken with lemongrass, chilli and coconut milk. Malaysian food isn't as well known here as Thai and Vietnamese; we're missing out. - 20 Best Cookbooks Autumn 2021, Diana Henry, The Telegraph
Recipes are accordingly both instructive and adaptable: learning to cook through Yin's clear, encouraging guidance on sambals, rice, and rempah... It's this effortless folding of the personal into the cultural that makes Sambal Shiok such a wonderful book from which to read, as much to cook. - 17 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2021, Eater
I'd buy her Sambal Shiok alone for the Penang Assam Laksa recipe, a fruity, sour soup perfumed with lemon grass, tamarind, galangal and fresh mackerel. Prepare to line up an alarming number of ingredients for this one, but it will make your senses sparkle. Other recipes include curries, stir-fries and street food snacks. But the book is also a good read: Yin's personal, lawyer-to-laksa story is intriguing. - Rose Prince, The Spectator
Mandy's food is real, wonderful, exciting, classic and contemporary all at the same time. To know and understand the secrets of great Malaysian food as cooked and orchestrated by Mandy would be a revelation for anyone from budding amateur to the most experienced cooks. - John Torode
Vibrant, face-slapping laksa... powerful, satisfying, the very stuff of memories. - Jay Rayner, restaurant critic for the Observer
Sambal Shiok is a place of joy and great cooking. A beautiful thing to have in London and a wonder to have at my own back door. - Giles Coren, restaurant critic for The Times
Sambal Shiok's signature laksa has queues waiting around the block. Not bad for a tiny joint in N7... It's Holloway's hottest ticket! - Susannah Butler, Life & Style Evening Standard
Her delve into Malaysian food's history, coupled with personal memories, make this a book to pore over. - Delicious
It's a tome you'll want to bring out and splatter with sauce again and again. - Evening Standard
It takes something rather special to drag me up to the Holloway Road on a chill Wednesday night. At Sambal Shiok, the laksas are magnificent: murky with profoundly fish depth and a base chilli grunt. - Tom Parker Bowles, restaurant critic for the Mail on Sunday
