Seafood of South-East Asia : A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes

Davidson brings his wide-ranging expertise to bear on this authoritative guide to the fish & shellfish of SE Asian waters. Provides detailed, illustrative descriptions of nearly 200 species, complemented by 150 traditional recipes from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, & Indonesia, among other countries. With his usual scholarly rigor & lively wit, Davidson shares such recipes as Mohinga (the nat. dish of Burma) & Chao Tom (spiced prawn pate grilled on sticks of sugar cane); provides a lexicon of Filipino fish cures; & extols the virtues of the strange & engagingÓ sea cicada, one of the prized delicacies of the Thai royal family. The fish & shellfish Davidson profiles are increasingly available in Asian markets & restaurants in North America. Exhaustive!Davidson, Alan is the author of 'Seafood of South-East Asia : A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422350829 and ISBN 1422350827.