A Book of Simple Vegan Chinese Recipes

Learning to cook your own food is empowering, as you no longer have to rely on expensive plastic-wrapped ready-meals and takeaways. Master your favourite cuisines at home. Then every night is restaurant night!

Vegan Chinese Food uses plant-based alternatives for sauces, dumplings, noodles and desserts. Learn how to season a wok from a couple who met in Spain (Yang Liu was born in Hunan province in China and spent her early years sampling cuisines from each region).

Never eat rice after 24 hours (a food poison hazard) and avoid unpasteurised miso for pregnancy/nursing or weak immune systems (and use bamboo chopsticks). Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many ingredients are unsafe near animal friends).

Bin allium scraps (onion, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives) as acids may harm compost creatures (same with tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps).

The book begins with an overview of tofu. Then you’ll find all kinds of recipes to use it, like sweet and sour tofu and five-spice tofu.

Other recipes include:

Kung Pao King Oyster Mushrooms
Zha Jiang Mian Noodles
Yuxiang Aubergine
Biang Biang Noodles
Wontons in Chilli Oil
Mango Sticky Rice Balls
Hong Kong Milk Tea

More Good Vegan Chinese Recipe Books

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen is by a woman who wished to still enjoy the food her family ate, when she went plant-based. She learned of zhai cai (a plant-based Chinese cuisine that uses umami-rich ingredients traced back over to centuries to Buddhist temple kitchens) and offers recipes for:

Soft tofu in Black Bean Sauce
Sichuan Chilli-Oil Wontons
Spicy Mushrooms in Dandan Noodles
Flaky Scallion Pancakes
Pea Shoots in Mushroom Broths

The Vibrant Hong Kong Table is a visual guide to 88 classic colourful dishes, made plant-based, from banquet-style restaurant feasts to simple home-cooked dinners.

After leaving Hong Kong, the author yearned to recreate flavours and textures of her family’s food. Christine Wong (@conscious_cooking) is a cook and health coach with a focus on environmental sustainability.

Organised by a day of eating through the city and paying homage to its culinary heritage, these fresh recipes include: