Cha Chaan Teng

Closed, opens at 11amIndependent shop in FremontDirections

Available from Book Larder when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Chef, teacher, writer, and Food & Wine Best New Chef, 2021, Lucas Sin writes his first cookbook to highlight the beloved dishes of Hong Kong-style comfort food. The food of Hong Kong is a mashup of Asian culture, Western culture, and the forces of colonialism and migration, and some of the most representative dishes of the cuisine are best found in cha chaan teng (aka Hong Kong’s diners). The resulting Chinese-Western dishes are known to feed everyone from day laborers to school children and inc