Reddit reviews The Complete Asian Cookbook

Well, it's not limited to China. It covers 16 asian countries but it is very authentic.

I've owned this book for about 15 years and couldn't live without it.

Charmain Solomon's The Complete Asian Cookbook

I cook mostly Asian food, although I'm not Asian. Here are several cookbooks I couldn't live without...

Real Thai (McDermott)

I have David Thompson's epic Thai cookbook, but that's more for special occasions. McDermott's book has excellent recipes from many regions of Thailand. The homemade curry pastes are really worth the effort.

Chinese (Sichuan): Land of Plenty, Dunlop

Chinese (Hunan): Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook, Dunlop

I can't recommend Fuschia Dunlop's cookbooks highly enough. You will have to search for some ingredients, but these days this is pretty easy.

General Asian: Complete Asian Cookbook (Solomon)

Charmaine Solomon's book is hit or miss sometimes, but it has so many recipes in it that it's worth it, from Sri Lanka to the Philippines to Japan, etc.

My favorite new, specialty cookbook is

Cooking at Home With Pedatha (Giri & Jain)

which has delicious Indian (specifically, Andhran) vegetarian recipes.

Charmaine Solomon's Complete Asian Cookbook is excellent for a wide variety of Asian cooking.

I recommend them all, if you get the chance. If you're interested in Lao food, then this book is worth a look - it's not the easiest book to work from (it kinda assumes you have a palace-full of kitchen lackeys to do the hard work for you), but it's a wonderful read, and all the dishes I've managed to cook from it have been delicious. Also, this book covers everything I listed, IIRC - we only got our copy recently and have only made a few recipes from it, but so far everything's good :-)