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Early Look: Cantonese Scrambled Eggs (黄埔炒蛋)

Hey guys, just finished editing this one up. Hope you give it a try :)

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Early Look: Spicy 'Freestyle' Fried Rice from Guizhou (怪噜炒饭)

feat. colander!

Hope you guys like this one. Awesome sort of fried rice, hopefully we were able to give some general fried rice tips too in the process :)

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[BOOK] Flavor Profile #1: Minsi Paste

Minsi Paste (面豉酱)

Introduction

Picture yourself a hundred y...

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Early Look: Guizhou Fermented Chili Paste (糟辣椒)

Just finished editing this one up :) This's another Steph VO'd one - originally we were planning on tossing out two videos this week (this plus Guizhou 'freestyle' fried rice), but things got a bit...

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Early look: Suzhou Big Meat Noodles (苏州大肉面)

So... this one is undeniably an intense one. Hope that one of you guys can actually make it sometime lol. We'll try to type something up akin to a baker's schedule to help with logistics - it's not...

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Calling all questions for Kenji...

So we've been hashing out doing a collaboration of sorts with Kenji - we ended up settling on doing a conversation for now. So uh... because I'm certainly no professional interviewer, I figured I'd...

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[Book] Introduction: Thinking in Flavor Profiles

Feedback welcome :)


Take a look at the menu of your local Chinese restaurant. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Cha Chaan Teng in Hong Kong, or a takeout joint in the U...

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So... a book.

We’re writing a book. Or at least, we’re going to try. 

We explored the possibility of going the normal publishing route with book proposals and so forth, and while we did make some ...

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Early Look: Laozao, Fermented Rice (醪糟)

Hey guys, sorry for the delay here, found out that my laptop wasn't fit to cut this sort of video... the hard way. Had to wait til we got home from traveling to cut this one on my box.

This o...

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Early Look: Horse Station Pot, Lost Cantonese Street Food (大马站煲)

Hey guys, just finished editing this one up. 

Another Dawei video, which's always awesome to film. This time, we decided to sort of split the difference between the Chris-VO style we did...

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An actual proper early look: Stir Fried Milk (大良炒鲜奶)

Just finished editing this one up. Pretty excited for this one - it's a dish that's local to exactly where we're living - Daliang subdistrict in Shunde. I can see Jinbang from my balcony :)

W...

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Early Look: Bingfen, Ice Jelly (冰粉)

Hey guys, just finished editing this one up :) Hope you like it! It's one of Steph's all time favorite things... and just something awesome to eat in the summer.

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Update regarding sales tax in the US, Australia, Quebec, and a couple other locations

Hey guys,

If you support anyone else on Patreon you've probably seen this going around. People that've been Europe based have already been paying VAT on their pledges, but starting July 1st t...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe # 23 Pan Fried Bun Roll (Shengjian Style Huajuan Bun Roll) 生煎花卷

(Served with some tom kha gai, makes a great meal)

Hey guys, how's it going?
This wee...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #22 Steamed ”Huajuan/Flower Roll" Buns with Five Spices and Scallion (葱香花卷)

Hey guys, how's it going? So right, we put out the Mantou steamed buns recipe last week. And that can c...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #21 Coconut Chicken Hotpot (椰子鸡火锅)

Hey guys, how's it going? It's been a very weird and kinda crazy time in the past two weeks, it's literally a staycation that I never left the building... We've been whipping stuff up using food st...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #20 Savory Sticky Rice Ball Soup with Chicken and Shiitake Mushroom (咸汤圆/咸丸)

Hey, guys. Happy Lunar New Year. It turns out to be a highly unusual new year holiday with the current ...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #19 Cantonese New Year Sweet Rice Cake (广东年糕)





Hey, happy weekend, guys. Chinese Lunar New Year is coming ...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #18 Shanghainese Peanut Mochi (擂沙汤圆/糖不甩)


Hey, guys. Happy weekend!

As Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching, I figured it'll be...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #17 Rice Cake Soup with Tofu, Pickles, and Mixed Veg (嵊州豆腐年糕)

Happy New Year, guys!!! Wish you a happy, prosperous, and healthy year of 2020!

A quick update on my side, I (Steph) officially quit my job as the Simplified Chinese Language Consultant at Ma...

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A (poorly edited) video of us meandering a Guiyang market

Are you a Chris and Steph completionist? Are you super bored and want to kill 21 minutes of your life? Do you like shaky iphone footage? Are you interested in listening to my (Chris's) crappy M...

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City Eating Guide: Beijing

So some of you would ask for restaurant recommendations when traveling to China. We've been giving out some spots we like, and now we decided to compile a list of each city we been to (or we have t...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #16 Cantonese Rice Flour Dumplings (水狗乸/水菱角/Water-Caltrop-Shaped Rice Flour Dumplings)

Sup, guys. I hope you're doing great.

So this week I was craving the rice flour dumplings my mum ...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #15 Steamed Napa Cabbage with Garlic Sauce


Sup guys, I hope you had a wonderful week.   

This week, I wanna show you ho...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #14 Two Homemade Sauces for Your "Cold Dishes"

Sup, guys. I'm back, lol.

It's been a super crazy summer for us, going up to film in Shaoxing, then coming back looking for apartments, then getting ready to move, then settling in... Then fi...

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Calling all requests! Plus, a note about requests.

Ok, so I know it's been a while since I've done this. 

Just to explain ourselves a bit... it sometimes feels like fulfilling requests can get sort of overwhelming. I mean, it'd be easy e...

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Where Shaoxing Fits on Our 'Tier List' of Chinese Cities

About a year back when we were traveling in Quanzhou, me and Steph were sitting around after dinner, having a beer and were killing time by ranking our favorite cities in China. We did this using a...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #13 Sesame Cold Noodles (麻酱凉面/Ma Jiang Liang Mian)

Sup guys. Again, appologies on being a bit late on Patreon recipe. We got a lot to catch up for the channel and everything after Chris is back from the U.S. Anyway, I'm on a noodle kick recently an...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #12 Northern Style One Pot Noodle with Pork Belly and Long Beans (豆角焖面/Dou Jiao Men Mian)


Sup guys. Sorry for posting a bit late again. We've been having this crazy schedule these tw...

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Patron Exclusive Recipe #11 Shanghai Breakfast Rice Ball (粢饭团)

Sup guys! Hope you're doing great~
It's been a long week for us, the recent filming and editing schedule has been intense. Apologies for not putting this one out earlier. But I guess it's in tim...

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