Title: This book is not for me!
Product review: My best friend recently gave me this book for my birthday. As a keen fan of Vietnamese cuisine, I was rather excited and could not wait to try out the recipes. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed after my third attempts. The recipes I tried (seafood stew with lemongrass, beef stew with star anise and basil, and braised duck with pineapple) are mostly strongly-falvored, but did not taste too great. In addition, as indicated by another reviewer, the ingredients are difficult to find. This cookbook lacks the pictures that would help entice one to make the dish. If I wanted to look at photographs of a country, I would result to National Geographic, not in a cookbook. As for most the recipes in this book, I find them to be too extravagant and require too much time. This book is definitely not for me. I am glad I did not buy it.
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