Oh I really want this book at my home. However as an Indian, I don't have access to all the ingredients but this would serve as a really great motivation to travel to asian places and collect ingredients just to make these tasty treats. Even the graphics and little stories here and there made the book just more better. Thank you Netgalley for giving me opportunity to read this book

If you’ve been to an Asian bakery, you already know how wonderful the baked goods are. Bakers everywhere want to recreate those luscious baked goods at home, and Modern Asian Baking at Home: Essential Sweet and Savory Recipes for Milk Bread, Mooncakes, Mochi, and More; Inspired by the Subtle Asian Baking Community is a perfect cookbook to have on every cookbook shelf. It shows step-by-step instructions for dozens of Asian baked goods, and they are mostly easy to make. Generally, Asian baked goods are a bit less sweet than those found in regular bakeries which most of us will appreciate.

There is information on unique ingredients that are needed in the baking process, as well as special techniques. The recipes include the famous Japanese Milk Bread which is likely the best bread out there, especially when made in a home kitchen.

Some of the baked goods in this excellent cookbook are colorful, and the beautiful photographs make it difficult for bakers to decide just want to make. The instructions are easy to follow and every baker, from beginning to advanced can make these recipes. The book includes both sweet and savory baked goods, and yummy things with different textures like mochi. There are crepes, pancakes, breads, tarts, cakes, cookies, frozen treats, and holiday recipes.

This will be a much-used cookbook for bakers, and makes a beautiful cookbook to add to your collection

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I like that there was a picture to go with each recipe. I also liked that ingredients like miso, ube and several other ingredients were used in many recipes; not just one or two recipes.

I am absolutely in love with this cookbook! The graphics are gorgeous and I am dying to try out all of these recipes. Every single one of the recipes look so good. Each recipe have nice little descriptions and I like Kat's personal touches sprinkled into the book. The directions seem very easy and clear to follow. I love that she referenced each baker's instagram account information for ease of access if we wanted to find and follow them.

A very fun Asian baking book. I sadly was unable to make any of the recipes because the ingredients are very hard to find in my rural area; I suspect city dwellers may enjoy this book more.
*I received an eARC on NetGalley in exchange for my honest review*

This Asian cookbook is gorgeous. I made the ube scones and the mango sticky rice. I loved the scones and had one for breakfast several mornings in a row. The contrast between the spicy jalapeno and the sweet honey drizzle was phenomenal. However, they weren't a big hit with my coffee group or family. I guess the taste was just too far from what they consider a scone. I also made the mango sticky rice. I found the directions for this a bit lacking as I've never made steamed rice before. Even though I steamed for longer than directed the rice was still very chewy and my daughter refused to eat it for texture reasons instead just eating the mango. I liked it though and found the mild sweet-nuttiness to be pleasant.

I still want to try the corn and cheese ice cream. It is simply too unusual not to give it a go.

This cookbook is great. The recipes are very easy to follow and understand, and there are some absolutely delicious recipes here. The author used her knowledge and experience to help bring classic Asian baking into the homes of everyone. I would say a basic knowledge level of baking would be required for these recipes, as some of the techniques and methods require some more experience to get the most out of them. I really enjoyed this book and some of the desserts that came from it.

I love cooking and baking, and I am looking to expand my repertoire beyond American, French, and Italian baking. This book is a great step into exploring all kinds of Asian baking recipes!

The recipes are easy to follow. I have eaten most of these items either in various Asian restaurants in the US or Asia, and I can vouch for their authenticity as favorites!!

The photos are absolutely beautiful!

This book would be a great gift for any occasion from a wedding, housewarming, or birthday to a gift for someone who loves to bake!

This is an awesome cookbook filled with great recipes for baking Asian recipes. I have never baked anything Asian so I am really looking forward to trying some of these recipes. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a lovely cookbook! It had a nice variety of baked goods with some flavors I'm familiar with but hadn't baked with before (namely ube, which I love but haven't attempted to bake with before). Techniques are thoroughly explained and accessible, though I do think there's a decent range of recipes from very easy to make to more technically advanced.

Frankly, her miso brownies were better than mine, and I thought mine were to die for! The pictures are all so colorful and crisp (obsessed with some of the up close texture shots) and make me want to bake my way through this book twice. All in all, I'm very impressed.

Next up on my list is the mango lassi and when I'm feeling particularly ambitious, the lemon matcha macarons.

Modern Asian Baking at Home is a cool recipe guide for making a ton of Asian recipes. While I may not make them all, I do enjoy looking at the ingredients and seeing what kind of process goes into each of these items. Some things that seemed to be inaccessible to make are suddenly actually within reach!

There is also a pantry list of things to stick your cupboard with that is really helpful.

The photos are mouth watering. I especially love the step by step photos in the recipe instructions. I usually go to my local asian store and purchase bakery items but now I will be attempting to create some from this book. This is a definite hard copy purchase for me!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Knows/Quarry Books for the advance electronic copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to the publisher and to Netgalley for giving me this eARC to review.

Okay so I will preface this with that I struggle with texture, especially with food, but over the past year or so I have been branching out and because of this I have been wanting to make and try new foods and when I saw this book, I was immediately intrigued by the food on the cover.

The photography throughout the book kept intriguing me and I soon looked through the entire book and bookmarked a lot of recipes that looked good. The steps and the ingredients are clear throughout and would be easy to refer to while doing the baking. I cannot wait to try out some of these recipes because they look so good!

‘Modern Asian Baking at Home’ wasn’t only a delight to read, but an exciting journey that allows you to learn. Whilst trying the recipes on your own, respecting their culture, and learning to love every step, you understand the care and dedication it takes to cook. And also the lovely imprint of passion left, by the author and all the cooks before her, when sharing something that is close to one’s heart. Wonderful book! I loved every single recipe!

I love food, so it’s no surprise that I love cookbooks. I picked up this book because I also love baked goods. I have food allergies, so I enjoy finding recipes for all the tasty things due to small number of restaurants and bakeries I can eat at. Surprisingly, many of the recipes featured here do not require the use of an oven!

While the recipes are simple and easy to follow for many, the beautiful pictures and wonderful stories the author shares before each recipe is another draw. Kat Lieu shares a combination of anecdotes ranging from memories about her favorite dish that inspired her to her version of the recipe to stories about her adventures perfecting the recipe. Depending on the recipe, there’s also information about the traditions and holidays connected to them.

I can’t wait to try some of these recipes, especially the mango lassi with sago and spicy flourless chocolate. I saw several recipes that I know my family will love, so I can’t wait to try my hand at them. The book is full of recipes that range from beginner friendly to those for the more experienced folks. One cannot go wrong by picking this up.

My husband and I love to cook Japanese inspired food and we are always looking for new ideas. We are new to baking asian food and this cookbook has given us everything we need to cook actual recipes that taste amazing instead of just sort of winging it like we used to. There are so many fun to make recipes that we may never go back to winging it!

Thank you Quarto Knows, Quarry Books and NetGalley for sending me this book in exchange for my honest review.

This is such a gorgeous cookbook! Really well written and the photos are just stunning! I know nothing of Asian Baking but some of these recipes are so enticing that I'm going to give a few a try! Thank you so much for letting me read this!

I can’t recommend this book enough! First, the photography and design is incredible. I know it’s a cookbook, but it would make a gorgeous coffee table book because I can’t stop flipping through it! The recipes are just as good as they look, too. They’re straight-forward and efficient so you know exactly what to do when. Sometimes specialty cookbooks like this can be confusing or have an unspoken requirement for a base level of knowledge/skill. As an adopted Asian, I was interested in this cookbook during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month to help me connect with my Southeast Asian culture in a new way. These recipes felt like coming home in a way I’ve never known before. The collection pulls from all across the Asian continent, but each recipe I tried was a full experience for me. Mango sticky rice and almond cookies will be a new staple in my house!

Thank you to NetGalley and Subtle Asian Baking for an advanced copy. This is my honest opinion. Now I’m off to pre-order my own physical copy, because this is a MUST HAVE!

Modern Asian Baking at Home is a detailed guide with recipes for Asian baked goods curated from the @subtleasian.baking community and curated and presented by Kat Lieu. Due out 28th June 2022 from Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 176 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

Despite being red haired, freckly, and mostly Irish, I remember very fondly being "adopted" by the family who owned of our local Chinese bakeries. My family were customers for many (many) years and I was happy to find out recently that they're still in business and under the management of the original owners' grandchildren at this point. This book is *full* of recipes for those Chinese bakery goodies which I remember so fondly and never thought I could ever recreate at home, such as mooncakes, mochi, and milk bread. There are also a slew of recipes which are Asian inspired but with western fusion influence such as cookies, cakes, curds, and waffles.

The introduction includes a good overview over ingredients, tools, and sourcing specialty items; the actual recipes are arranged thematically: confections, cookies & pastries, not-too-sweet cakes, breads & yeast bakes, holiday bakes, custards & frozen, and drinks.

Recipes contain a title and description, yields, ingredients in a bullet list in a sidebar, and step by step directions. Ingredients are listed with imperial (American) standard measures with metric equivalents in parentheses (yay!). Nutritional information is not included. There are so many gorgeous and clear color photos included. Most (but not all) of the dishes are accompanied by one or more photos. This helped me to know how to arrange and prepare the dishes with which I wasn't already familiar.

Five stars. Wonderfully comprehensive and versatile.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

The food in this book looks amazing! It made me so hungry. It seems like a very practical, but also creative book. I'm not much of a baker myself, but I immediately put in a pre-order for this cookbook after seeing everything that was in it.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC