Zipporah Malka and Shifrah Devorah
What do you get when you take a single mother working full-time with a little girl commuting an hour and a half into San Francisco from Vallejo, CA. to work and school each day? Lots and lots of take out. Didn’t matter to us whether it was Chinese, Thai, Sushi, or dim sum. As long as it was Asian, we were hooked.
After years of eating out , due to my sweet mother simply not having time to cook, our lives took on a different twist. We decided to become ba’al teshuvah (Torah Observant Jews). Over the course of a few months, our go to dinner (Chinese carry out) had to suddenly adapt to our new life style (keeping kosher).
What’s a girl to do? Learn to cook I guess. So we decided to divide and conquer. Mom (Zipporah Malka) took on tofu and salads, and I went straight for the noodle dishes. We both love appetizers, like egg rolls, pot stickers, and wraps so we took turns developing those recipes.
Fifteen years later my sweet son, Menachem Mendel, was born and we faced a new challenge. We wanted all of the flavor of real Asian food but had a lot less time on our hands with a new baby in the house.
So we set out to adapt our recipes even further, this time simplifying to get us in and out of the kitchen asap. The result, yummy dinners, lots of fun, and The Complete Asian Kosher Cookbook.
The Complete Asian Kosher Cookbook 
Cant wait to try some of your recipes…. My husband always jokes that he’s really asian(of course he’s not)but as a baby he was adopted by a childless couple in Forst Hills . He could live on Asian food alone and so could I .its great to finally have a entire cookbook of authentic. Asian recipes that I do not have to doctor up to make it kosher …. No losing that great flavor that they are known for