Create mouth-watering recipes with the must-have Chinese cookbook

Gok Cooks Chinese

Replicate your favourite takeaway dishes in your own kitchen, with simple, healthy and delicious Chinese recipes from TV favourite Gok Wan 
 
Discover Gok Wan's modern and personal take on the Chinese food that he grew up eating. 
 
For Gok, a Chinese meal is all about sitting down with others, tucking into fantastic food that is fuss-free, healthy, and packed with flavour. 
 
With 80 recipes and chapters on Dim Sum, Street Food, Takeaway Classics and One Pot Wonders (to name a few), you will find recipes for all occasions and moods, whether entertaining friends or enjoying a meal at home by yourself. 
 
Gok's mouth-watering recipes include: 
· Perfect Fried Rice 
· Spicy Sichuan Chicken 
· Poppa Wan's Amazing Pork Ribs 
· Leftover Roast Duck Noodles 
· Sweet and Sour Fish 
· Ma-Po Tofu with Chinese Omelette

Acclaimed fashion stylist and on-screen consultant Gok Wan was shot to fame by his Channel 4 Series, How to Look Good Naked. On the back of the show's success, Gok crystallized his position as a true champion for women with Gok's Fashion Fix and Gok's Clothes Roadshow, helping them to feel confident and stylish. This has led to his enormously popular women's wear collection for Sainsbury's, released in October 2011. He has published four books, including his autobiography Through Thick and Thin, and his openness about his own weight issues as a teenager led him to film two searching documentaries, Too Fat Too Young and Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth. 
 
Optomen Television is an independent production company the forefront of the food television revolution both in the UK and the US, known for the flair and originality it brings to its productions. Making shows for all UK broadcasters, Optomen has launched the television careers of household names, including Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Valentine Warner.

Not only is Gok Wan one of the UK's top fashion stylists, but he can cook too! His fantastic new book, Gok Cooks Chinese, contains 80 personal and family recipes, which are not only delicious and healthy but incredibly simple to make. His love and passion for Chinese food and cooking techniques shine through from every page. From his unique perspective he gives us his personal and modern take on the Chinese food that he grew up eating, drawing on his Chinese heritage to give us a different angle on how to eat - for Gok, it's all about sitting down, tucking into fantastic food that is fuss-free and relaxed. His food is about balance, health, flavour and fun. From his absolute favourite recipe for Prawn Wonton Noodle Soup (which he calls 'happiness in a bowl') to Perfect Fried Rice or classics like his dad's Honey-glazed Char Siu Pork, through chapters on Dim Sum, Street Food, One Pot Wonders and Feasting, you will find recipes for all occasions and moods, whether entertaining friends or enjoying a meal at home by yourself. Above all, Gok will demystify Chinese ingredients and equipment, showing us how easy it is to shop and cook just like him.

My Autobiography

Through Thick and Thin

The bestselling and inspirational autobiography by every woman's favourite celebrity stylist, Gok Wan

As funny as it is moving, Gok's inspirational story is a fab read *****

It's the autobiography we've all been waiting for - the incredible story of how a 20st Chinese kid from a housing estate grew up to become a fashion guru ... this intimate memoir is full of insights about bullying, fashion and celebrity. Witty, honest and inspirational! *****

A revealing and unglitzy autobiography, about being a podgy, spotty teenager in Leicester, feeling out of place and out of luck and without much hope for a better future ... honest and moving

Told with the wit and warmth we know and love him for

Immensely readable, touching and at times funny

An honest book, full of graphic and therefore gripping detail ... it's also a teensy wheensy bit inspiring

Wan's book is a page-turner, told entirely in his candid, personable voice

A confident, accessible memoir, a must-have for Gok fans

Wan has an extraordinary messianic appeal for many women. Though his fashion shows draw big ratings, it was his autobiographical film that got the largest audience. Writing the book himself, and reportedly with a 'devastating eye for detail' this might just turn out to be more substantial than the average celebrity autobiography.

Unflinchingly honest about the trials and traumas of his life, and his slow rise to fame, this is a perfect gift for any of the many women who would love Gok to take them shopping!

Gok Wan was born in 1974 to a Chinese father and English mother. He grew up on a Leicester housing estate before becoming one of Britain's leading stylists. He dominates the Channel 4 schedules with no less than three shows: How to Look Good Naked, Gok's Fashion Fix and Miss Naked Beauty, and has published three bestselling style guides to go with them.

With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. 
 
Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love - and Gok was so well loved that by the time he was a teenager he weighed 21 stone. Being Asian and gay as well, Gok felt lonely and out of place. He was an easy target for bullies and suffered terribly at their hands. 
 
In a moment of inspiration, he decided to reinvent himself with his first style makeover and a larger-than-life personality to go with it. But his next move was to lose a devastating ten stone in nine months. In Through Thick and Thin, for the first time, Gok reveals all about that life changing period. 
 
The lessons Gok learnt during this time helped him bounce back to become a stylist to the stars, every woman's best friend and a national treasure. In this intimate memoir Gok tells his full story in his own words. Whether he's recounting the horrors of childhood bullying or riotous anecdotes about his loving family, behind the scenes in the fashion world or TV shows, Gok's voice jumps off the page with all the honesty, wit and warmth we've come to know and love him for.

Gok Wan

In his brand new book, Gok Wan shares his favourite recipes for fresh and healthy meals - inspired by the flavours of Asia 
 
Gok's recipes draw influence from the East, as he teaches us how to add flavour and a splash of originality through his distinctive style of simple, fast cooking. Chapters cover all occasions from lunch ideas to dinner parties and date nights and include curries, stir-fries, noodles, salads, soups and even desserts. He shares many of his family's traditional recipes too, but gives them a modern twist for today’s kitchen tables - try Sweet miso marinated chicken and pak choy, Sweet potato and Brazil nut curry and Poppa Wan's fu yung. And, running throughout, are Gok’s words of advice on wok cooking, his favourite ingredients and tips on preparation and entertaining Gok-style. 
 
For Gok, great eating should be hassle-free, and these recipes are exactly that - tasty dishes that are low stress, good for you and make minimal mess.

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