The Asian food system has long been recognized as one of the healthiest in the world. In the book Ginseng, Bamboo, Bok Choy and Other Delicious "Asians," renowned chef Ying Chan Compstein offers recipes skillfully using ingredients that determine the taste, consistency and color of dishes based on the best traditions of ancient Asian cooking. With 150 original recipes for soups, salads, fried and grilled dishes, and desserts, you can easily incorporate some of nature's most precious foods into your diet. Once these products were considered exotic, but today they are already accustomed to them both in the kitchen and in the market. This is cholesterol-lowering ginger; garlic, which scientific studies have shown protects against stomach cancer and cardiovascular disease; soy, mitigating symptoms of menopause in women; ginseng, which boosts the body's vitality; green tea and shiitake mushrooms to help fight cancer.