Cantonese


Cantonese Complete Course (Teach Yourself)
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)
Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners
Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)
Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)
Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century
Cantonese for Everyone (English and Chinese Edition)
Everyday Cantonese for Parents: Learn Cantonese: a practical Cantonese phrasebook with parenting phrases to communicate with your children and learn Cantonese at home. JYUTPING edition
Assimil le cantonais sans peine SUPERPACK [livre +4 Audio CD's + 1 CD MP3] (Cantonese Edition)
A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs And City Life (English and Chinese Edition)
Cantonese Culture: Aspects of Life in Modern Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (Travel/Hong Kong/Se Asia)
Dim Sum: A Pocket Guide
Cantonese characters from HSK level 1 with stroke order
Navigating Night
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia DunlopEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopServe the People by Jen Lin-LiuCrazy Dumplings II - Even Dumplinger by Amanda   RobertsThe Breath of a Wok by Grace Young
CHINESE Food Writing & Cookbooks
51 books — 21 voters
South China Morning Blues by Ray HechtFactory Girls by Leslie T. ChangAdventure, romance and war in the Far East by Iris Hay-EdiePearl of China by Anchee MinPearl River Drama by Ray Hecht
Books Set in SOUTH CHINA
35 books — 18 voters

Crazy Dumplings by Amanda   RobertsEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopPei Mei's Chinese Cookbook Volume I [Pei mei shi pu (1)] by Peimei FuLand of Fish and Rice by Fuchsia DunlopThe Breath of a Wok by Grace Young
Best Chinese Cookbooks
48 books — 10 voters

Tai-Pan by James ClavellNoble House by James ClavellSouth China Morning Blues by Ray HechtThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamEating Smoke by Chris Thrall
Books Set in Hong Kong
147 books — 120 voters
Crying in H Mart by Michelle ZaunerThe Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika KimNumber One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian LiSex and Sushi by Tassa DesaladaEarly Mornings at the Laksa Cafe by Janet Tay
Chopsticks
44 books — 7 voters

Hannah Tunnicliffe
I pass the bakery on the corner, the smells hitting me before I reach the shop itself. They are thick and sweet. Cars are double-parked down our street, locals dashing from the passenger doors to pick up their breakfast. A long queue snakes from the entrance. Inside there are piles of pork buns, slices of dark honey cake, rolls topped with pork floss, bread with ham laid on top and stuck fast with melted cheese. It is a different smell from bakeries back home. I tried a loaf of bread once, but t ...more
Hannah Tunnicliffe, The Color of Tea

John Lanchester
...Mandarin sounds like someone chewing a brandy glass full of wasps and Cantonese sounds like people having an argument. The written language of both dialects, incidentally, is the same.
John Lanchester, Fragrant Harbor

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