Sometimes a dish is just in the right time and the right place, and this was definitely the case with Chengdu tomato and egg noodle soup. The dish isn't rocket science: it's more or less just fried...
2025-10-23 04:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Beans and rice. Pickles and rice. Hot dogs and baked beans.
Everywhere’s got something. And in Yunnan, that tasty, humble light-on-the-wallet dish is guihuolu –literally, “Ghos...
2025-10-15 01:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I love big bowls of rice smothered with various dishes. Maybe it’s in my blood as an American – I mean, we are the proud originators of innovative food concepts such as the ‘garbage ...
2025-10-05 23:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
So... we have an increasingly problematic collection of old Chinese cookbooks.
The vast majority of them are from 70s, 80s, and 90s. And flipping through them, it really impresses on you jus...
2025-09-27 00:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always understood the instinct to store homemade stock in an ice cube tray, but... it always would (1) take a lot of freezer space for a single batch of stock and (2) risk a bit of gr...
2025-09-08 03:51:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been a video that's been in the works for a while.
This dish is a very a traditional Cantonese dish, reportedly popular in the 19th century, called gouzaie (狗仔鹅): lite...
2025-09-04 02:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post
On the 7th day of the 7th lunar month – coming up this August 29th – throngs of couples will celebrate Qixi, commonly translated as “Chinese Valentine’s Day”. For a flower shop, it’s on...
2025-08-25 02:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve always loved the dishes that sit awkwardly in between cultures: the well-done Cantonese steaks, the Canadian Hawaiian Pizzas, the Japanese boxed curries.
They give a rare honest prism ...
2025-08-11 03:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I have probably overly developed opinions on the topic of deep fried wontons.
Everybody loves a deep-fried wonton, of course, but they’re among my favorite dishes to order at a Cantonese re...
2025-07-31 05:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Porco Balichão Tamarindo is a Macanese dish, and it’s not just a tasty stew — it’s a dish that really changed the way I looked at food, and how food spreads.
If there’s one thing that I – and most foreigners in China, it seems – love, it’s some kind of bing in the morning.
There’s a lot of great breakfasts that can be had in Chi...
2025-07-02 02:09:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Lushui — Chinese master stock — is something you can find all across the country. It might be a bit more concentrated in the south (Cantonese and Teochew-style master stocks are quite ...
2025-06-21 05:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
As a home cook, I’ve always hated what I call ‘nested’ recipes.
You know the sort —open up some cookbooks, and it’s like a damn matryoshka doll: recipes needing a spice blend given...
2025-06-03 10:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post
What Chili is to America, Stewed Beef Brisket is to the Cantonese world.
It’s a dish, yes. A tasty and much beloved one, for sure. But Chili would not have the cultural cachet it does toda...
2025-05-11 05:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post
These are crispy pork noodles, from the Guizhou province. At some level, I probably don’t need to elaborate any more here: if you like spicy noodles, and if you like crispy por...
2025-05-02 03:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In a province of great food, the town of Yuanjiang has stood out to us so far as one of our favorite places to visit.
Administratively, it sits underneath our current home of Yuxi, and rathe...
2025-04-24 03:59:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Should we even bother to use rice cookers?
In the above video, I make the case why anyone seriously interested in Chinese cuisines (or East Asian, generally) probably should. I'm pro...
2025-04-10 02:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1996, in the Frank Sinatra Celebrity cookbook, Henry Kissinger shared his recipe for Moo Goo Gai Pan 2025-03-31 05:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post
So... we've covered how to make from-scratch oyster sauce before. It's a fun project, an educational endeavo...
2025-03-22 03:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Pictured is a humble Chinese dish called jidansuan (“Garlic Eggs”) from the North of the country, from around Henan, Shandong, and Northern Jiangsu.
Let’s call a spade a s...
2025-03-14 03:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, we're back! We'll be back to our previous schedule of three videos a month - apologies for the hiatus.
We're starting this year with Eshan style chongji, pounded chicken. It's ...
2025-03-07 06:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So historical Mapo Tofu used to be... different.
If you're familiar with the canonical Sichuan variety of the dish, you know the usual suspects: minced beef, Sichuan chili bean past...
2025-01-07 04:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post
After the monster of the video last week, we needed a simpler dish before we hop over to China for a few weeks to sort some things for the upcoming move. This was a suggestion in the comments of th...
2024-11-27 04:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so this video has been... a long time in the works. It was supposed to be a quick one while Steph was away in Yunnan and, uh, I might be guilty of a little bit of feature creep.
People ...
2024-11-11 07:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The other day, we were watching this video from the esteemed travel vlogger A Xing (whose totally ...
2024-10-14 06:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A little over seven years ago, we called for MSG for the very first time in a recipe – Yunnan Dai flavor cucumber.
At that time, there was already starting to be a chorus of people pushing ...
2024-10-04 07:21:11 +0000 UTC View Post
With this video, we wanted to talk velveting – what it is, how to do it, and why I’m… actually not crazy about the terminology.
Which can actually present a bit of...
2024-09-23 07:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Go to practically any Chinese supermarket anywhere in the world, and it’s practically a guarantee that you’ll be able to find Zha Cai – Chinese Pickled Mustard Stems. Even poorly stocked groc...
2024-09-13 02:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I think there’s always a temptation for recipe writers to try to squeeze Spaghetti into Asian noodle dishes. You want to try to make things accessible for people, and perhaps there’s no noodle ...
2024-09-02 04:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s no dish that tickles my brain as ‘Thai’ quite more than a Yam salad.
It’s not just their sheer ubiquity in Bangkok, though to be honest honest tha...
2024-08-23 08:52:59 +0000 UTC View Post