Hands down one of the most aesthetically pleasing, drool worthy and easy to follow cook books in a long time that celebrates the uniqueness of Asian baking.

Fantastic cook book, brilliant recipes and provides great alternatives for recipes which I love! The tips are useful and it’s great to see a dedicated guide to Asian baking, can’t wait to try all these recipes

Great book with some incredible range of Asian recipes (some traditional and some with a good twist!) I cannot wait to try them out!

I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review: 5 stars.

This is quite literally everything I look for in a cookbook. The authors voice really shines through which I love. It feels personal. It feels like I’m talking to a dear friend in her kitchen. As a baker it can be pretty difficult to find authentic Asian pastry/baking recipes online so I was thrilled when I was accepted for this ARC and I have to say it did not disappoint! This cookbook would be perfect for both new and avid bakers. I LOVE that the ingredients are listed in us measurements AND grams! All techniques are explained in detail which is great if you’ve never steamed buns or whipped egg whites before. There is also descriptions of the Asian ingredients used in many of the recipes. I love this cookbook so much that I plan on purchasing a copy when it’s published. (Which is saying something because I rarely buy cookbooks)

I received an ARC of Kat Lieu's Modern Asian Baking at Home and it is amazing! I really enjoyed looking at the pictures and feeling really inspired to make these baked goods. All of the ingredients are pretty basic and can be found in most grocery stores. I also liked how the ingredients were used in multiple recipes instead of just one. Some of these Asian baked goods are on the more traditional side and some of them are very modern. I can't wait to try baking both!

Thank you so much to Netgalley for this digital copy in exchange for an honest review!

I am so happy to be able to receive this copy of an awesome Asian cookbook! I felt like this is the perfect way to start AAPI Heritage month. All the recipes sound delicious. The instructions are easy to follow and the photos are beautiful! They are vivid and definitely make you want to bake and eat all the delicious goodies.

I am also excited as a Filipina to see a recipe for Mochi-Stuffed Ube Crinkle cookies! Ube is Bae, and a comfort flavor of my childhood.

So happy to be able to make some amazing and delicious desserts!

Modern Asian Baking at Home by Kat Lieu's title says it all. It really is a recipe book for modern baking. During the pandemic and all the time spent at home, the rise of interest in learning how to bake or baking for fun grew. A Facebook community called Subtle Asian Baking soar in popularity as members share their own creations and recipes. This recipe is the epitome of this new hobby and community.

I am so excited to try some of these new recipes, as I've also been a member and huge fan of the Subtle Asian Baking community. There are so many recipes on here that includes so many of the popular food trends and desserts you might see on TikTok or restaurants during the last 2-3 years.

Thank you Kat Lieu, the publisher, and Netgalley for sharing!

Prior to receiving this advanced copy, I had very limited knowledge of Asian baking. However, even with this little experience, this cookbook is well-designed and easy to follow. The recipes have a wide range of flavors to suit different tastes and are intuitive to make. Having tested a few in my kitchen, I can guarantee the recipes are absolutely delicious.

This is an amazing recipe book! I decided to try making the egg tarts and I think they turned out pretty well 😊 The crust was a little hard, but that's just cause me and dough don't do well together 😅 This recipe also ended up yielding 24 tarts instead of the recipe's listed 12. The recipe was super easy to follow and I had almost all the ingredients at home. I like this book because of its simplicity which allows anyone to be able to make these delicious treats! You can also easily find the ingredients at your local Asian grocery store or even from Amazon. I can't wait to try more of the recipes!

4.5/5 Stars

I really enjoyed this book and can't wait to make some of the recipes! I love that the recipes come from a variety of Asian cuisines, including some that are Western-Asian, because it really offers a wide variety of recipes - I suspect most people will be able to find something that they enjoy in here.

The photography is very pleasing - illustrative and informative but also calming - and makes everything look so delectable. The instructions are easy to follow and Lieu offers enough substitutions to make the recipes more accessible, whether you simply can't find an ingredient or if you need an alternative because of dietary reasons.

I would absolutely recommend this book.

This book is beautiful, with lovely colorful pictures and a lot of great information about technique and ingredients. Unlike last year's Mooncakes and Milk Bread, this book is a little less intensely focused on the Chinese bakery and is more pan-Asian, with recipes that draw inspiration from South and Southeast Asia along with the more common East Asian recipes. It is a best of/greatest hits book drawing inspiration from "Subtle Asian" community and feels modern and inviting to try out recipes from.

I love this cookbook. There are so many delicious recipes, and the pictures are beautiful too. Some of the recipes I will try include:

Lunar New Year Nian Gao (I cannot find any gao in our area, so this is a must!)
Snowy Skin Mooncake
Gooey Fudge Miso Brownies
Hanami Dango with Sweet Soy Sauce Glaze (they're shaped like little bears!!)
Effortless Matcha Chia Pudding

A lot of recipes have kid appeal, and I appreciate that some of these are naturally gluten free as well.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.

I am reading this beautiful book as a pdf; I do not like to read cookbooks as pdf's, because I like to carry the hardbound outside, where I can sit under the trees and browse and choose what I want to create. I live in the country, where internet can be spotty. I'll give this book a 4 for the beautiful photography and the creative recipe ideas. When this is available as an ILL at the library; I'll check it out and come back here to leave my review of any recipes I create

Fabulous recipe book! I have so far made the vegan milk bread and also the pineapple bolo buns, and both were incredible. Highly recommend!

I am someone who has been running away from baking for a long time and only focusing on cooking (really, dough especially is my nightmare, I would never get it right) - my experience in the kitchen could be summed up as me and the internet against starvation, so baking really wasn't my focus, especially when I didn't have a working oven. In Modern Asian Baking though, the instructions are very clear and specific, paired with extensive pictures. Most of the recipes don't even use the oven, something the author discusses at the very beginning. It takes a very kind approach to beginners (and those who don't have much money) - it reuses a handful of ingredients and allows for substitution frequently enough.

The layout and photos are beautiful and charming. The tone with which Kat Lieu wrote this cookbook really makes clear the fact that this was all developed in the community, through the SAB group. It's playful, direct, and unpretentious. I found myself excited to try out some of the simpler recipes right away!

This is the first cookbook I want to have a psychical copy of. It has the foods you know about or might've heard about on the internet, like milk bread, but never thought you could do it or looked up the recipe for. If you aren't looking for 5 variations on milk bread, through, you might not find use for that particular section of the book.

I don't really like cooking and making food as hobbies, but I love eat delicious snacks. Asian delights is very tasty and I growing with them. This book bring back my childhood memory with a modern spark. The author give alot mouth watering recipes and honesty I am tempting to trying making something from here.

Thank you Netgalley to provide me with this book. I am sure my diet will failed again haha..

This book is amazing, if you would like to cook/ bake asian dishes. It is very easy written, so everyone can understand it and there are pictures, which is very helpful. What I really appreciated was that at the beginning, asian ingredients were described. This is very helpful for those who do not know them. I did some recipes from the book, and they all turned out perfect.
There are new dishes I have not hear before and I found some combinations very interesting.

Honestly haven’t been this excited about a recipe book in a long time and Modern Asian Baking at Home by Kat Lieu makes me so damn excited!
If you have seen Japanese Baking week on the Great British Bake Off, it’s a really pale imitation of the real deal. But this - this is the real deal!

Firstly, the photography in this book is gorgeous, and all the photos are stunning. The pastel hues of this book make me feel bright and cheerful.
I’d categorise the recipes into two types; both are equally delightful.
1. Cultural recipes from all over East and South East Asia with a funky twist, like moon cakes, milk bread, Korean egg bread, dorayaki, Taiwanese snowflake crisps,
2. Western-style desserts and baked treats with many ingredients commonly used in Asia for baking, like matcha, ube, pandan, anko, and black sesame.

Because I’m illiterate in my other native language, which has been a barrier to why I’ve never made any Asian baked goods until now. So I am so excited to have this book guide me through the recipes in a clear and friendly manner. I also enjoy the option to adapt recipes for Air fryers and different types of steamers. The explanations for the ingredients are the right balance between enough detail without being a whole chapter in themselves. I absolutely loved trying out the recipes from this book, although I opted for the simpler ones, I felt like the longer and more complex recipes would be equally easy to follow.
This would be a great addition to any keen cook’s bookshelves.

I was so excited to get this because I love Kat Lieu on tik tok! The photos are so beautiful; I would happily buy this book. The recipes are not just ingredients and steps. She includes a little paragraph about what she’s making as well. The ingredients are not hard to find and the steps are clear. More than anything, she is so funny! As a huge matcha fan, you’d better believe the matcha cheesecake is FIRST on my list to make.

*I received an electronic copy of this book on NetGalley in exchange for honest feedback. Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGallery for this opportunity.*

I am the perfect example of a novice baker. I can somehow scrabble together a loaf of bread, my cakes hold up at family birthday parties, but my macrons are ALWAYS wrong. While I enjoy shouting at my TV during the Great British Bake Off (who in their right mind would start a curd with five minutes to go??) I could never, ever be an actual competitor.

This book, however, has made even the incredibly intimidating jiggly Japanese cheesecake and elaborate mooncakes seem within my reach. I follow Kat Lieu on instagram (@subtleasian.baking), and have enjoyed her wit and humor for months now. I was so happy to find the book littered with awful puns and her trademark quips, as well as personal anecdotes and heartfelt thanks to the recipe's initial inspiration.

As far as the recipes go-- they are clear, concise, and many offer alternatives for dietary restrictions (gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and vegan are the most common). She offers step by step instructions that break down hard-to-replicate techniques. There is a great balance between popular and traditional recipes and it's obvious they were chosen with great care.

There is a section in the beginning of the book that details some of the less common Asian ingredients in Western cuisine (and some common ones as well), and also suggests places these ingredients should be available for purchase. The three central flavors (ube, black sesame, and matcha) are present in almost every recipe, with suggestions on how to personalize your bakes or change the flavor profiles.

Lieu did a wonderful job of simplifying a complex and rich history of baking into a manageable book-- ready for a wider audiences' consumption. This is a wonderful book for anyone looking to expand their baking repertoire beyond their standard recipes and dip into the world of subtle Asian baking.