Cha Chaan Teng
Comfort Food From Hong Kong's Iconic Diners
$55.25
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
Chef, writer, culinary educator, and Food & Wine Best New Chef, 2021, Lucas Sin writes his debut cookbook on Hong Kong-style comfort food.
The cha chaan teng-Hong Kong’s iconic neighborhood diner-is where the city has always fed itself. Born from the collision of Chinese cooking, Western influence, and a century of migration and colonial exchange, the restaurants serve everyone from day laborers to schoolchildren, and the food is some of the most beloved in the world: Bak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781648294136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1648294138 |
| Author: | Lucas Sin |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Artisan Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 790g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 191mm x 254mm |
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Lucas Sin
Lucas Sin is a chef from Hong Kong working to bring focus and a deeper understanding to Asian cuisine worldwide. He began his culinary career at the age of 16 in Hong Kong and went on to run restaurants out of his dorm at Yale. He cooked at Modernist Cuisine in Seattle, Kikunoi Honten in Kyoto, and Michelin-starred kitchens in Hong Kong and New York before co-founding Junzi Kitchen and Nice Day Chinese, two casual Chinese restaurant brands based in New York and Connecticut with the goal of revitalizing Chinese cuisine in America.
Lucas has been named a Forbes 30 under 30, a Food and Wine Best New Chef, a Star Chef Rising Star, and an Eater Young Gun. He divides his time between New York and Hong Kong, serving as a culinary educator on shows found on YouTube, including National Geographic, Food52, and Bon Appetit, for which he won a James Beard Media Award.
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