Family Style Chinese Cookbook

“Shanti’s quest to learn authentic Chinese cooking led her into 40 families over 3 years and culminated in this treasure trove of family recipes. Her superb story telling makes us feel like an extended family, privy to secrets that have been passed down for generations.”–Wok Star Eleanor Hoh, cooking teacher, entrepreneur, wokstar.com

Shanti Christensen grew up in Stockton, California. With a degree in graphic design from University of California, Davis, Shanti worked as a digital marketing consultant. Following her curiosity about how other people in the world live and eat, she cut loose in 2005 to travel across Asia and live in Beijing. She started to document her food explorations in China and was the food editor for Time Out Beijing. She currently works as a freelance graphic designer in the Bay Area. Shanti loves cooking for friends and family and telling stories. This is her first cookbook.

Bee Yinn Low is the author of Easy Chinese Recipes and Easy Asian Takeout and the publisher behind the hugely successful and popular Asian recipes site. Her passion for food and cooking has turned her into an Asian food authority, and her easy, tried and tested recipes have earned her many accolades.