Xi'an Famous Foods

Shop Notes: I used to travel to China a good bit for business and this book brings me back to exotic lunches in local restaurants, meat sticks over gigantic after-work beers, and hot pot to mark team celebrations.  It's also a throwback to those halcyon days when the Golden Shopping Mall in Flushing, NY was a foodie's dream stop.  Most importantly though, it's a story of an immigrant family building a modern food empire out of a lot of hard work, a love of traditional flavors, and tremendous love for each other.  You find yourself cheering the Wang family on and on throughout.   From the Publisher: The long-awaited cookbook from an iconic New York restaurant, revealing never-before-published recipesSince its humble opening in 2005, Xi'an Famous Foods has expanded from one stall in Flushing to 14 locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. CEO Jason Wang divulges the untold story of how this empire came to be, alongside the never-before-published recipes that helped create this New Yo