ChinaFood Recipe

Learn how to cook Chinese cuisine with this database-style application, though not everything works as promised. ChinaFood Recipe has a simple, understandable interface with categories offered in a tree listing and just a few buttons to add or delete recipes or categories, or print a recipe. Though it's easy to add a category, the option to delete categories over the tree listing didn't work, and there weren't any options supporting the publisher's claim that the app could be used to print a cookbook or easily produce Web pages. Downloading new dishes online requires you to manually copy and paste new recipes into the program and you can't add images to ChinaFood Recipe. The tips and common kitchen terms given in particular recipes are a nice touch, but some data entries are a bit cumbersome. Any users looking to try Chinese cuisine will surely appreciate what this freeware has to offer, but they'll probably want to sample more functional applications.