WONTON WOMEN

Two friends got serious about Asian cooking during the pandemic and wrote Chinese-ish — a book of not-quite-authentic recipes that are 100% delicious!

RECIPES ROSHEEN KAUL

Why Chinese-ish? During the pandemic, Rosheen Kaul began documenting all the inauthentic Asian recipes she loved to eat and asked her friend Jo Hu to illustrate them. That became The Isol (Asian) Cookbook on which this book, Chinese-ish, is based. As immigrants with Chinese heritage, who both moved to Australia as kids, Rosheen and Joanna spent their formative years living between (at least) two cultures and wondering how they fitted in. Food was a huge part of this journey: should they cling to the traditional comfort of their parents’ varied culinary heritage, attempt to assimilate wholly by learning to love shepherd’s pie, or forge a new path where flavour and the freedom to choose trumped authenticity? They chose option three. Chinese-ish celebrates the confident blending of culture and identity through food –…

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Inside Out (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2022

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