Vegan Asian: Recipes from Thailand, Japan and China

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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 Asian offers super-simple recipes by a popular young chef, for recipes that will keep you coming back for more.

Never eat rice after 24 hours (a food poison hazard) 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).

Recipes include:

  • Pad Thai
  • Char siu tofu
  • Vietnamese mushroom pho
  • Singaporean chilli tofu
  • Chinese lettuce wraps
  • Yang chow fried rice
  • Japanese yakisoba
  • Spicy Dan Dan noodles
  • Satay tofu sticks with peanut sauce
  • Korean bulgogi mushrooms

About the Author

Jeeca Uy is a recipe developer from family of foodies, who learned to cook at an early age, picking up tips from her mother and grandmother.

She finds cooking very therapeutic and hopes you can feel the same, after experimenting with her recipes. She always strives to make her recipes simple with affordable ingredients.

More Good Vegan Asian Recipe Books 

Asian Green

Asian Green with simple recipes for nourishing soups and vibrant mains, plus tips on how to use a wok. Enjoy recipes for:

  • Wok-fried orange-soy sticky sprouts
  • Peking mushroom pancakes
  • Smoked tofu & broccoli
  • Korean-style Ram-don
  • Chinese black bean seitan tacos

Plant-Based Himalaya is another unique book, this time sharing 38 recipes from the author’s home country, the food that she has cooked and eaten since childhood. From grains to dal and curries and from greens and sauces to delicious desserts, the book features 250 beautiful colour photos.

The Korean Vegan Cookbook offers recipes from this unique part of the world. This is an award-winning book from a region renowned for barbecue and fish sauce. Recipes include:

  • Black bean noodles
  • Korean potato-leek soup
  • Kimchi stew
  • Korean pear slaw
  • Omma’s BBQ sauce
  • Chocolate sweet potato cake

Not just for recipes, this book is worth reading for Joanne’s story that will move you to tears. Now a top US lawyer married to a concert pianist (others almost drowned her mother in the river when fleeing from North Korea, to stop her starving to death – but she managed to survive on chocolate bars).

Make It Plant-Based! Filipino offers 50 recipes for soups, noodles and snacks. Recipes include:

  • Filipino-style Tofu Sausage
  • Spicy curried taro leaves
  • Sizzling mushroom and tofu sisig
  • Vegetable Noodle Soup
  • Chickpea Lumpia
  • Sweet Banana Spring Rolls
  • No-Churn Ube (purple yam) Ice Cream

Sesame, Soy, Spice is the debut cookbook by a popular recipe blogger, who shares delicious gluten-free meals, influenced by her pan-Asian background and personal journey to wellness.

Growing up in an international family, the author ate food from her parents’ Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese cultures, along with the food of other family members who had French and Brazilian roots.

After struggling with an eating disorder and addiction, she turned to a vegan lifestyle but found herself drifting away from the foods she enjoyed in childhood. So she turned to her old comfort foods as inspiration for new dishes and began to heal.

These recipes are inspired by Korean temple food, Japanese Buddhist cuisine and Taiwanese faux meats. Enjoy easy-to-make plant-based takes on:

  • Smoky maple tempeh bacon
  • Green garden soba noodle salad
  • Taiwanese five-spice Brussels sprouts
  • Spicy peanut ramen
  • Thai basil tempeh
  • Miso caramel crème brulée

Remy Park is founder of the renowned blog Veggiekins where she writes on food and wellness. She loves farmers’ markets and watching the sun rise.

Her love for wellness began after recovering from anorexia, obsessive compulsive disorder, self-harm and substance/alcohol addictions, which lead to rock bottom by age 17. After eating vegan for a week, she began to heal and now helps others to use as food for healing.

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