Zao Dao - Cuisine Chinoise: Tales of Food and Life

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From the mind of prodigy cartoonist Zao Dao comes Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Life and Food, featured here in English for the first time!
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From insects looking for a meal made of ghosts, to a man named Yuzi who's passion for cooking is the only hope of maintaining a family legacy, these wonderfully illustrated stories explore the rich and humorous lives of the characters within. This volume showcases the wonderful relationship between Chinese folklore and culture to food!

Insect spirits
Two funny little spirits are looking for ghosts to eat. They go to a birthday party at the Zhu's where the family's parade to shower the ancestor with gifts takes a most unexpected turn...

Entomology
A young boy spends his nerves on every insect he can get his hands on.

Hai Zi
Yuzi's grandfather is getting old. He can no longer run his restaurant properly and customers are becoming rare.
Yet Yuzi is passionate about cooking, he likes good products and often innovates, but his dishes are not appreciated. The young man becomes bitter and aggressive, convinced that one day the whole world will rush to taste his cooking. One day two strange visitors enter his restaurant...

Immortal Breath
A curious pastry can only be made by an old woman, because it must contain the breath of an immortal. But it is said that sometimes strange things can be found inside...

A-Tchoo and A-Yi
A little monkey finds a pot that he thinks is full of food. No sooner does he open it than a black demon comes out to devour him!

Author DAO Zao
Language English
Publisher Dark Horse
Binding Hardcover
Number of pages 96
Height (cm) 28.5
Width (cm) 22.5
Thickness (cm) 1.2
Theme Asia
Signed / sketched No
Technique Traditional black-and-white Traditional colour drawing
Weight (kg) 0.72
Release date 2018
Audience Suitable for all ages
ISBN 9781506717760

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