China moon is the restaurants name the cookbook has absolutely no authentic chinese recipes or even remotely resembles to westernized chinese dishes the recipes may include chinese ingredients and vegetables but the dishes are cannibalized that use things like pesto sauce i was severely disappointed with this book as i wanted authentic or westernized chinese recipes there is a section on dim sum none of the recipes resembles anything like commonly served dishes at a chinese dim sum . The china moon cookbook is written by important chinese cookbook writer barbara tropp the author of the earlier the modern art of chinese cooking one of the three or four best manuals of chinese cooking written in english it is the modern art book which earns ms tropp the honorific of julia child of the chinese kitchen from the san francisco chronicle this volume is much different than mme tropps manual and it is much different than anything julia child ever wrote it is . China moon cookbook by barbara tropp sandra bruce illustrator 409 rating details 113 ratings 10 reviews winner of an iacp julia child cookbook award the julia child of chinese cooking san francisco chronicle barbara tropp was a gifted teacher and the chef owner of one of san franciscos most popular restaurants. China moon cookbook by barbara tropp publication date 1992 topics cookery chinese cookery american publisher workman publishing collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks china digitizing sponsor internet archive contributor internet archive language english access restricted item true addeddate 2012 08 23 200029 boxid ia162406 boxid 2 ch126804 camera canon eos 5d mark . The china moon cookbook is written by important chinese cookbook writer barbara tropp the author of the earlier the modern art of chinese cooking one of the three or four best manuals of chinese cooking written in english it is the modern art book which earns ms tropp the honorific of julia child of the chinese kitchen from the san francisco chronicle this volume is much different than mme tropps manual and it is much different than anything julia child ever wrote it is