Thank you so much Netgalley for the advance reader's copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
5 stars. I absolutely love the cover of Mooncakes and Milk Bread. It doesn't hurt that everything on the cover makes my mouth water. I would recommend this book to everyone.

Positively inspired! Not only does Kristina Cho bring delicious recipes of all types to the home baker to try she also highlights several must try bakeries for Chinese scrumptiousness. Cho brings a high attention to detail with each recipe, providing more than just a final product photo when necessary and helpful tips throughout is italicized gold. Every single one of the recipes featured in this cookbook entice me to try them out, and as an avid cookbook fan that does not happen often. You may come for the breads but you will stay for the flavor combos, heritage, and the wide array of techniques featured within the pages of "Mooncakes and Milk Bread". Happy feasting!

I love this book! I grew up with a Chinese grandma and this whole cookbook is nostalgia. I love the pictures, the cultural background and twists on some favorite treats. In a crowded cookbook field, this is a standout.

In this book I learned about Chinese culture. I had no idea that many things might not be baked but made differently because of the cultural living spaces. Chinese history was weaved throughout the entire thing. I’m going to see Chinatowns very differently now and can’t wait to visit a bakery.
The photos are wonderful in this. I got a glimpse of the authors childhood. l saw Chinese cooking spaces and yummy foods. Utensils.
The author gave clear details with photos (which I love about this book).
The book contains:
• Lots of photos
• Ingredients
• Essential equipment
• Recipes
• History and more…..
In an easy to understandable way the book provided what felt like Chinese secret recipes. There wasn’t one thing I didn’t like about it. I highly recommend it for yourself or as a gift. You won’t be sorry. And If your mouth isn’t watering after seeing this then there’s something seriously wrong with you. I just know I’m going to dream about Chinatown and food tonight. **Sigh**
A special thanks to Harper Horizon via NetGalley for this wonderful ARC.
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Kristina Cho has produced a wonderfully relatable book containing stories from her upbringing with accompanying recipes. It is a very refreshing and authentic take on Asian baked goods. I was very excited to discover a cookbook that covered such a topic, as I think this area is severely under-appreciated and neglected. Thank you to Kristina for bringing it to the spotlight!

The layout of the book is logical and the photography is lovely. The storytelling is easy to read and interesting.

I successfully made the custard bun recipe. It is quite difficult to find a good recipe for steamed bun dough but this one was definitely one of the better ones I have tried. I found the custard filling to be a little bit bland (even for my sweet-averse palate) but the process was easy to follow and the resulting texture of the custard was good. I also referenced her mooncake recipe while making mooncakes last year and found her instructions to be authentic and reliable compared to other recipes that I researched. There are many cookbooks that do not have the same high level knowledge of the technique and processes involved in such recipes, so Kristina Cho definitely should be applauded for her research and efforts.

Overall, Mooncakes and Milk Bread is a beautifully put together book of Asian childhood (nay, life?) favourites that will delight all. I was very glad to come across it, and look forward to Kristina Cho’s future releases.

Mooncakes and Milk Bread - Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries by Kristina Cho is an amazing Chinese cookbook! Reading through this, my mouth was watering. The beautiful pictures make me want to try each recipe. Just the bread section alone is enough to make this book worth buying. But there is so much more to this book than just bread. There is also cakes, tarts, cookies, breakfast recipes and drinks. The descriptions/instructions are clear and make me think I could actually make any of these recipes. I can’t wait to try some of them. I am looking forward to purchasing my own copy so I can have it on my bookshelf with all my other cookbooks.

Thank you NetGalley & Harper Horizon for letting me read this book in exchange for an honest review. #MooncakesandMilkBread #NetGalley

This book is amazing!! I am so grateful to Kristina Cho on creating this one of a kind book. I had originally found Kristina due to her instagram and tiktok prescence- wherein she exudes such a warm and reassuring prescence! The recipes upon face value feel as though they could be very intimidating, yet her descriptions and instructions are so thorough I felt that I could take on the challenge!

Most of these recipes I have only been able to buy at stores like H-Mart until now. What is so smart about these recipes is that not only can I make dessert like the Shiny Fruit Cream Cake or the Kinako Sewing Tin Butter Cookies at home, but they honestly taste better than the store bought. I also loved learning not only about the Chinese holidays, but Kristina even includes mini travel essays on family owned Asian Bakeries in the United States that I had no knowledge of on the East Coast- places that look so delicious I will have to go in the future!

Thank you to Harper Horizon and NetGalley for my copy!

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. I cannot wait to try some of these recipes! They look pretty easy and the directions are wonderful!

On a recent trip to California with my boyfriend, I was introduced to brick toast for the first time in my life and I’ve thought of it ever since. I’ve always loved Asian dishes and flavors but cooking them felt intimidating. This author breaks everything down and makes it seem doable! Needless to say, I was so excited to receive this book and i cannot wait to try many if not all of the recipes. I think that the author’s family history and family photos were a nice, sweet touch to the cookbook as well. I loved the explanations from the author, the pictures for each recipe, and honestly how many different delicious recipes there are all in this one cookbook.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with the copy of this cookbook!

This book was amazing!!! One of the first Cantonese Chinese cookbooks in English. I cannot wait to try out some of the recipes. The photos are beautiful and the writing allows you to connect with the author's culture.

Kristina Cho shares more than just recipes in her cookbook “Mooncakes and Milk Bread”. She also shares her personal experiences growing up and living as a Chinese American in the United States. She also shares stories of her family history and some bakeries that are famous and important in Chinese American food history.

There is all of this, but there are also many, many delicious looking easy to follow recipes. As well as beautiful photography. This cookbook should be a staple for any baker who wants to experiment with new food or experience food that they can taste and think of their history and feel at home.

Ah. I love this book because the content bring me back to my childhood with my mom and grandma handmade bread and snack. I cant cook as good as both of them but this book make me want too.

Not only provide us with amazing recipes, the author give us a storybook about Chinesse snacks and sweet. She share about her experience and suggestion to get perfect ingredients and tools. some of it easy to replace with modern tools so dont overwhelmed with that list.
Overall this is a one stop book when you need knowledge and delicious recipe of Chinesse sweets and snack.

Thanks Netgalley for providing me this amazing book. Love it.

To say I loved this book would certainly be an understatement. This book felt like learning family recipes with a seat at the author's table. The recipes were clear and concise and the stories felt short, sweet and intimate. So many of these buns and dumplings I always considered impossible or too much work. But, Kristina Cho made them all so approachable. I just made the Steamed Cupcakes for Chinese New Year and the secret ingredient blew my mind (and my family's). Such a great book to bring childhood eats back to my kitchen.

Kristina Cho's Mooncakes and Milk Bread is an exciting book, since it seeks to bring the largely as yet unexplored world of Chinese baking to the fore. Books on Chinese cooking have far too long focused mainly on wok based dishes, stir fries, soups and other techniques, whereas Cho's book feels like an outlier. Peppered with beautiful photographs and easily achievable recipes, the book sets approachable goals for both beginner bakers and enthusiasts curious to experiment with Asian style baking. Everything from savory and sweet to breakfast dishes, cakes and tarts, Cho's book is a delight to look at and to bake with.

This cookbook is filled with nostalgic recipes of some of my favorite treats growing up. Im not really a baker but excited to try my hand at it soon. This book made me hungry! Brought back a lot of happy childhood memories..

I'm an indifferent bread baker at best (I prefer cookies or traybakes), but this book has made me want to try baking something yeasted. I say this a person who is near to several different Asian and Western bakeries.

The recipes are easy to read and understand (though I have not yet tried to make anything) and the pictures are lovely. I definitely found this easier to browse on my computer than on my kindle (screen size, maybe?). The steps are easily followed, with generous explanations.

All in all, a lovely cook book and cannot wait to try some recipes out.

I love how this book is constructed. Mooncakes and Milk Bread starts off with the Mother of All Milk Bread recipe and builds off of that. Different from other cookbooks that are full of completely different recipes, this one is full of recipes that begin with the same milk bread recipe. I love how it really gets you to become an expert in the dough recipe and shows you the different ways you can use it. The book is inspired by Chinese bakeries and the Chinese American experience, which I think is a unique perspective in modern baking. This is a great addition to any cookbook library.

Anyone who hasn’t been to an Asian bakery has really missed out. The baked goods are unique, and always fresh and delicious. If you don’t have access to a good Asian bakery, you can actually duplicate these baked goods at home. Kristina Cho ‘s excellent cookbook, Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries shows how in step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow.

Although the recipes are the main attraction in this cookbook, Cho has included information that is very helpful to all who aren’t familiar with Asian baking such as “How to Shop at an Asian Grocery Store,” as well as essential equipment. She also showcases several excellent Chinese bakeries in the US.

I love this cookbook! I have visited Asian grocery stores in Japan and China, as well as Hawaii and locations in the mainland US with large Asian populations. The baked goods are mouthwatering and I’ve tried to duplicate them, mostly without much success. Now, with this cookbook I have been able to bake some of my favorites. I must admit that I have even adapted some of the recipes to make the dough in the automatic bread machine to save time and have had perfect results.

There are enough appealing recipes to keep readers baking for months. Every time I peruse this cookbook, my baking queue gets longer. The cookbook inspires me to stay home and bake, and it will inspire readers to do the same. This cookbook is highly recommended.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!
I really love this cookbook. It feels like part essay, combined with amazing recipes. Cho shares so many details of her life and childhood and how it connects with her food journey and what she makes. Not only did I get a bunch of new recipes to try to make, I got to read really intimate and personal writings about the author. I recommend this to anyone who's potentially interested!

There are no words to describe how fantastic this book is and to say my daughter and I loved this book would be an absolute understatement. Honestly, I almost never read the backstories of the creator, but this is so much more than "just" a recipe book... It's nostalgia, warmth and love wrapped in a beautiful bow.

We can't wait to make these recipes, because believe you me, we will be making most, if not all, of the recipes!