Nutritious Chinese Food for Infants, Children & Youth

by Ng Siong Mui

The Chinese have a saying: "To love your child, feed him with appropriate food." This is a duty of motherhood practised by good Chinese mothers from time immemorial.

This book continues that tradition. It brings to caring mothers of today, the time-tested recipes and principles of feeding children well-prepared, delicious and nutritious food.

Here, you will find recipes for dishes suitable for children from birth to teenage, set out according to age groups and needs. They are all devised to encourage the development of healthy bodies: food to build strong bones and teeth, dishes to stimulate appetites, fortifying tonics for examination time, refreshing soups for hot days, brews to alleviate common childhood ailments like measles and mumps, and even a few recipes for good eyesight and better complexion.

Your child is what you feed him, and Nutritious Chinese Food for Infants, Children and Youth will help you to feed him right.

This book, with its companion volume, Secrets of Nutritional Chinese Cookery, are invaluable source books for healthy eating. For expectant and new mothers, Siong Mui's knowledge of Chinese pre- and post-natal food is presented in The Chinese Pregnancy and Confinement Cookbook.

Size: 185 x 252 mm
Extent: 152 pages
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 490 g
ISBN: 981-3002-45-X