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The takeout you love. Made better in your own kitchen.

For 41 years Ruby Fong ran the Golden Lantern, the only Chinese restaurant in a small Ohio town. Now every restaurant secret is written down: 168 recipes with exact cups and spoons, made with groceries from your regular store.

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Years behind the counter
Sound familiar?

You tried to make it at home. It never tasted like the restaurant.

Chicken breast came out dry and stringy, like chewing a sponge.
Fried rice turned into one wet, sticky lump.
Lo mein glued itself together in the pan.
General Tso's lost its crunch before it reached the table.
Beef was tough as a work boot, no matter what you paid.
Broccoli went olive green and the sauce slid right off.

It was never your stove. Nobody told you what the restaurant kitchen does first.

Ruby Fong at her kitchen table in Ohio
Ruby at her kitchen table, three blocks from the old Golden Lantern
Meet Ruby

Henry had the fire. I had the secrets.

I was born in 1947 in a village of rice fields and duck ponds near Taishan. At twenty-one I came to San Francisco and worked in my Uncle Wing's kitchen in Chinatown. That is where I met Henry, the loudest cook at the wok.

In 1974 we opened the Golden Lantern in a little Ohio town. Two traffic lights and one Chinese restaurant. For 41 years Henry cooked over the fire, and I made every sauce, every marinade, and every bit of prep that made his food come out right.

People still stop me at Kroger. "Ruby, how did you make that sauce?" So my granddaughter Jenny came every Sunday for a year with a notebook, and we wrote down every spoon and every minute.

I am not a chef. I ran a family restaurant and fed four children while counting every dollar. Everything in this book works in an ordinary skillet, with groceries from an ordinary store.

— Ruby Fong
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Do the math

One Friday takeout order costs more than the whole book.

Friday night takeout for four

General Tso's chicken$16
Beef and broccoli$17
House lo mein$14
Egg rolls & crab rangoon$12
Delivery fee & tip$11
One night≈ $70

Ruby's Chinese Kitchen

168 recipes, all of them✓
Every restaurant favorite, numbered✓
Everyday suppers on a budget✓
70 answers when something goes wrong✓
Yours to keep, for years✓
The whole book$39

Make one supper from the book instead of ordering, and it has already paid for itself.

Look inside

Real pages. Clear, easy-to-read type.

Every recipe starts on its own page, with numbered steps and big, friendly print you can read from the stove. Tap any page to see it up close.

ContentsEvery chapter and recipe
General Tso's ChickenChapter 4 · Chicken
How to Make ItStep by step, numbered
Pork Fried RiceChapter 2 · Rice
Number FourteenSweet and Sour Chicken
Beef and BroccoliChapter 6 · Beef
The Golden Lantern Menu40 numbered favorites
Ruby's Kitchen Rescue70 answers
What's inside

18 chapters. From Friday takeout to Tuesday supper.

CHAPTER 1
The Sauces of the House
The brown sauce half the menu stood on, plus sweet and sour, General Tso's, orange and garlic.
CHAPTER 2
Rice
Fluffy rice without a rice cooker, and fried rice that never turns mushy.
CHAPTER 3
Noodles
Lo mein, chow mein, chow fun and Singapore noodles that stay separate and shiny.
CHAPTER 4
Chicken
The secret to chicken breast that is never dry. Orange, sesame, kung pao, number fourteen.
CHAPTERS 5 & 6
Pork & Beef
Char siu, spare ribs, Mongolian beef, and how cheap steak eats like a good one.
CHAPTER 7
Fish & Shrimp
Shrimp that isn't rubber, honey walnut shrimp, and steamed fish with ginger.
CHAPTERS 8 & 9
Eggs, Tofu & Vegetables
Silky eggs, egg foo young, and broccoli that stays green to the last bite.
CHAPTERS 10 & 11
Soups & Dumplings
Wonton, hot and sour, egg rolls, crab rangoon and crisp-bottom potstickers.
CHAPTER 12
The Golden Lantern Menu
The 40 numbered favorites from the wall above the counter, at home.
CHAPTER 13
One Pound, Four Suppers
A four-week supper plan that feeds a family on a small grocery bill.
CHAPTERS 14–16
Late Nights, Holidays & Sweets
Leftover magic, New Year dishes, egg tarts, almond cookies and fortune cookies.
CHAPTERS 17 & 18
For One or Two & Kitchen Rescue
Small suppers for a quiet table, and 70 answers to "why did my...?"
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Every recipe

Not just the steps. The reasons.

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Exact measures

Cups, spoons and minutes. No "a little of this" guessing.

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Ruby's Restaurant Secret

The one thing the Golden Lantern kitchen did that home recipes leave out.

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Where It Goes Wrong

What you'll see if it's going sideways, and how to fix it on the spot.

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Tomorrow's Supper

How to turn what's left into another meal. Nothing wasted.

From the book

Seven habits of a restaurant kitchen

I
Make a prep tray before the fire goes on.In a restaurant the thinking happens before the first order. At home it saves your garlic from burning.
II
Heat the pan first, then the oil.Uncle Wing's rule for every young cook. It is why food browns instead of sticking.
III
Give sliced meat a gentle coat.Ten minutes, a spoon of cornstarch, and ordinary chicken comes out soft as the restaurant's.
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Thicken at the end, never the start.That's how the sauce shines and clings instead of turning into glue.

The other three are in the book, along with every recipe they make work.

Order by number

The menu from above the counter, now in your kitchen

✦ THE GOLDEN LANTERN ✦
1Egg Rollscrisp, never greasy
6Pork Fried Ricefrom yesterday's rice
14Sweet and Sour ChickenMr. Pruitt's every Friday
16General Tso's Chickenstays crisp
17Orange Chickenbetter than the mall
24Beef and Broccolirestaurant-soft beef
33Honey Walnut Shrimpthe birthday special
40Pu Pu Platterto pass around

…and 32 more numbered favorites, each with its full recipe.

Who it's for

For anyone who wished somebody would just show them.

For the takeout loverwho wants Friday night flavor without the Friday night bill.
For the cook who's triedand still can't get the chicken soft or the rice right.
For the grandparentwho wants the grandkids asking for their egg rolls.
For the one who missesthe little Chinese restaurant in their old hometown.
For the careful budgetfeeding a family on one pound of meat and a pot of rice.
For a giftto a daughter, a son, a friend who loves to cook. Better than another sweater.
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Ruby Fong's Chinese Kitchen

Everything in Ruby's Chinese Kitchen

  • 168 recipes with exact cups, spoons and minutes
  • 18 chapters, 700+ pages in clear, easy-to-read print
  • The Golden Lantern Menu: 40 numbered takeout favorites
  • Ruby's Kitchen Rescue: 70 answers to "why did my...?"
  • Four Weeks of Suppers on a budget, with shopping lists
  • What to buy and what to skip at Walmart, Kroger, Aldi and Costco
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Questions, answered honestly

Right after checkout the book is sent to your email. You can read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or print the pages you cook from most and keep them by the stove.

Free recipes give you steps. They rarely tell you why the chicken came out dry or the rice turned to paste. Every recipe here has Ruby's Restaurant Secret and a Where It Goes Wrong section, so you can fix it the moment it happens.

No. It was written for someone cooking alone in an ordinary kitchen: exact measures, numbered steps, and plain English. If you can cook rice and an egg, you can cook from this book.

No wok needed. A good 12-inch skillet does the job. Most ingredients come from Walmart, Kroger or Aldi. The book even has a page called The Five Bottles: the only five things you need to start.

Both. The takeout favorites people ordered for 41 years, and the everyday home cooking Ruby grew up with near Taishan.

No. One payment of $39. No membership, no trial, no monthly charge. Ever.

Yes. Buy it with your email, then forward the book to them. It makes a warm birthday, Mother's Day or Christmas present.

Reply to your receipt email within 7 days and you'll get a full refund. No reason needed.

This Friday

Skip the takeout menu. Make the Golden Lantern at home.

Picture the family at your table, and someone asking where you ordered from. You just smile.

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