Introduction: Land -- Cooking techniques -- Eating with chopsticks -- Regions of China -- Holidays and festivals -- Before you begin: Careful cook -- Cooking utensils -- Special ingredients -- Healthy and low-fat cooking tips -- Metric conversions chart -- Chinese Table: Chinese menu -- Chinese basics: rice -- tea -- Appetizers and soups: Wonton -- Egg-flower soup -- Watercress soup -- Main dishes: Fried rice -- Stir-fried beef with sugar peas -- Spiced roast chicken -- Pork with green pepper and pineapple -- Shrimp with hoisin sauce -- Vegetables: Chinese cabbage --Bean sprouts with scallions -- Desserts: Almond fruit float -- Almond cookies -- Fortune cookies -- Holiday and festival food: Boiled dumplings -- New Year's cake -- New Year's noodles -- Moon cakes -- Index.