Title:	Modern Asian Baking at Home: Essential Sweet and Savory Recipes for Milk Bread, Mooncakes, Mochi, and More; Inspired by the Subtle Asian Baking Community
	Author:	Kat Lieu
	Published:	July 26, 2022, Quarry Books
	No. of Pages:	176
	Cover Price:	$24.99 Hardcover, $11.99 Kindle

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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.