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"Exciting storytelling and Chinese culinary traditions create a delicious book for young readers." - San Francisco ChronicleThis hilarious tale is redesigned, featuring revised illustrations and a new bilingual simplified Chinese translation.Long ago in old Beijing, a hungry ghost finds a boy, who doesn't want to become a midnight snack! What wackiness ensues when the child tempts the ghost to make the tricky "Boy Dumplings" recipe?Ying Chang Compestine, an award-winning author of cookbooks, novels, and picture books, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.James Yamasaki, an Art Center graduate (Pasadena) , teaches at the Academy of Art (San Francisco) and lives in Northern California.