Playing Chopsticks

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. 

Author: Sally Hammond

Publisher: New Holland

Released Date: 2006

ISBN: 9781741103977