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Chinese "New Cook" Dishes (新手菜)

Ok, so I don't know how best to describe this one. We were mulling over the types of dishes that were popular with people new to the kitchen in China. It's a category of food that's not quite View Post

Early Look - Chili Tofu Rice: A Lunchtime Integration Initiative

Ok! Finished editing this one up. It was a bit of an intense edit (apologies for the extra long video), so I'll finish up with the CCs tomorrow morning. 

Now, we've already done Sichuan ...

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Poll: Upcoming video ideas for Jan

It's been a while! So yeah, we got some video ideas here and want to see what you guys think about them. This time, we want to do it a little bit differently. We'll look at the ranking of the final...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #7: Laoyou, Ol' Buddy

Laoyou, the quintessential Nanning flavor 老友

Introduction

Just like what we talked about in our 2021-12-04 09:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post

How to Get That Achang People's Knife from the Videos

Ok, so we've gotten a lot of questions about the so-called "orc knife" that we've used from time to time in our videos - and a lot of people wondering where they could buy one themselves. It's some...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #6: Furu, White Fermented Tofu

Furu, white fermented tofu 腐乳/白腐乳

Introduction

Fermenting soy bean is a corner stone in Chinese cooking, we have soy sauce, douchi fermented soy bean...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #5: Nanru, Red Fermented Tofu

Nanru, red fermented tofu - (南乳)

Introduction

Similar to douchi fe...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #4: Cantonese Chuhou Paste

Cantonese Chuhou Paste – (柱候酱)

Introduction

Chuhou paste is a classic Cantonese fermented-soy-bean-based sauce for braising meat. Garlic, sesame paste,...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #3: Douchi black bean sauce

Douchi black bean sauce – Cantonese style (豉汁)

Bonus Recipe: Fried rice with douchi canned fish and preserved lemon 咸柠檬豆豉鲮鱼炒饭

Word of warnin...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #3: Douchi black bean sauce

Douchi black bean sauce – Cantonese style (豉汁)

Recipe #2 Steamed ribs with douchi and preserved lemon 咸柠檬豉汁蒸排骨

On top of the basic douchi sauce, o...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #3: Douchi black bean sauce

Douchi black bean sauce – Cantonese style (豉汁)

Recipe #1 Braised cracklin and lotus root 猪油渣焖莲藕

Let’s begin with the most basic combo – only using...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #3: Douchi black bean sauce

 Douchi black bean sauce – Cantonese style (豉汁)

Introduction

Douchi (“豆豉”, Dousee in Cantonese) are often translated as 'black beans', but -...

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Upcoming Q&A Video(s) - Calling all Questions

Ok, so for the whole half a million subs marker, we'll be doing a pair of Q&A videos. They're not going to be taking the place of the normal recipe videos, so I'll be taking my time editing the...

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #2: Sesame paste

Northern-style Sesame sauce (麻酱)

Introduction

What peanut sauce is to Fujian, sesame sauce is to Beijing. And just like how that Hokkein peanut sauce from ...

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Vote on Video in February, 2021

Hey guys, I know it’s been too long since we’ve done one of these. Seriously, if I blank on it posting this poll don’t hesitate to bug me about it - sometimes we can get lost in the whirlwind...

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Early Look: Cuishao, Guizhou Cracklins

Ok! This one is also finished editing. Another ingredient one, as I said a couple days ago :)

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Early Look: Guizhou Pickled Daikon (酸萝卜)

Hey guys, early look it out. This is a quicker and easy one, mostly so that we can be sure that you can have it in your cupboard for some other Guizhou recipes :)

The next video - Guizhou Cra...

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Plans for 2021 & Moving Forward

Happy end of 2020! We wanted to give you guys a quick update on what’s going on with us, the channel, and our plans for the future.

Before we get into what we’ve got on the plate, I did w...

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Early Look: Spam Oreo Burger at Home, but Better

I don't know what to say. It, uh... had to be done.

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Early Look: Hong Kong-style French Toast (西多士)

Hey, just finished editing this one up. Three styles of toast are included: (1) peanut butter stuffed (2) ovaltine stuffed and (3) gooey salted egg yolk stuffed. Hope y'all like it... this style of...

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Early Look: Guide to Tofu Sheets (with 3 recipes)

Just finished editing this one up. Another Steph narrated one, I feel like we're getting the hang of that style a bit :) Excuse the random street noise that seems to make it up here, the lav mic se...

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Cantonese Braised Pomelo Skin (feat. Papa Li)

Hey guys! New video is up. This's a super classic Cantonese dish showed to us by Dawei. He makes a very delicious version of the dish... and while I know this'll probably take a couple subs here or...

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Patreon only Non-Recipe: 'Sichuan-ish' Mixed Noodles

Ok, so on the Patreon Discord here, there’s one person – Neil – that no matter how hard he tries,...

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Early Look: Why Chinese Cuisine Uses So Many New World Plants

Ok! A purely food history one this week... I really hope you guys like this one. Over the years, we've gotten a lot of questions about how/why Chinese cuisine uses corn/chili/tomatoes/potatoes/etc,...

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Early Look: How - and why - you should make hotpot at home

Just finished editing this guy up :) Starting to get to be hotpot season, hope this one can be a bit of help! We made the executive decision to not to cover how to make the spicy Sichuan hotpot bas...

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Early Look: Cantonese Swiss Chicken Wings (瑞士鸡翼)

Hey guys, this one's done editing. Will be making public the day after Halloween, so a proper early look this time :)

Hope you like the video and that the recipe's not too confusing. I wanted...

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On Bon Appetit's return, plus some YouTube channels that I think you should watch

[Note: this was also posted on the YouTube community tab, but I wanted to share with you guys too... just in case you didn't use YT on mobile so much]

So, Bon Appetit is back.

We’re c...

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Shaxian Peanut Sauce Noodles (沙县拌面)

Apologies for the late-ish early look again :) Pretty easy dish this time, hope you guys like it! From my favorite fast food chain of all time.

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Early Look: Three core stir-frying techniques, feat. Kenji

Ok! So this one was a lot of work. A couple weeks back we sat down and did a zoom call with Kenji - it was pretty awesome, I was like... geekily like star struck lol. Probably not the most interest...

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Early(ish) look: Cantonese Chicken Cookies (鸡仔饼)

Hey, know this's kinda late for an early look. Was a bit unproductive yesterday, being the day after Mid Autumn and all.

Next week we're off, then the week after we'll be finally releasing th...

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