What do you think?
Rate this book
Playing Chopsticks: Travels Through China
Playing Chopsticks is a light-hearted visitor's view of a vast country with a long and revered history.
Sally Hammond shares entertaining and informative stories about her visits to China: strolls through a Kashgar cattle market, meetings with nomads, and searching for a western-style loo in the wilds of China.
Read about yak's butter in Tibet, and her experiences on the Silk Road, the Great Wall, Macau, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
There are tips on chopstick etiquette, and how to cook rice, as well as recipes for delicious regional dishes.
Anyone interested in life in modern day China, planning a visit there, or wishing to recreate authentic Chinese cooking, will find this a very helpful book.
Sally Hammond is a freelance journalist, and award-winning food and travel writer, based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She has written cookbooks, guides, and directories. She has also taught extensively, and run her own food businesses. She travels, and collaborates, with her award-winning photographer husband, Gordon.
Sally Hammond shares entertaining and informative stories about her visits to China: strolls through a Kashgar cattle market, meetings with nomads, and searching for a western-style loo in the wilds of China.
Read about yak's butter in Tibet, and her experiences on the Silk Road, the Great Wall, Macau, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
There are tips on chopstick etiquette, and how to cook rice, as well as recipes for delicious regional dishes.
Anyone interested in life in modern day China, planning a visit there, or wishing to recreate authentic Chinese cooking, will find this a very helpful book.
Sally Hammond is a freelance journalist, and award-winning food and travel writer, based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She has written cookbooks, guides, and directories. She has also taught extensively, and run her own food businesses. She travels, and collaborates, with her award-winning photographer husband, Gordon.
- GenresTravelNonfictionChina
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
1 person is currently reading
11 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
September 20, 2019
Sally shares stories from several trips to China in this book. She sets a light-hearted tone, and made a point to put all her 'negative' impressions altogether in one chapter. Her husband, a photographer, travels with her, and contributes one chapter from his point of view. She includes several authentic Chinese recipes at the end of the book. Scattered throughout are Chinese quotes, which were interesting ... at least the ones I haven't seen before were.
If you like reading about modern (published 2006) day China, and don't want anything very deep or dreary, you'd probably like this book.
3 Stars = I liked the book. I'm glad I read it.
If you like reading about modern (published 2006) day China, and don't want anything very deep or dreary, you'd probably like this book.
3 Stars = I liked the book. I'm glad I read it.
Displaying 1 of 1 review