Okay, so apologies that this one is not a delicious recipe like we had planned - next video is a pretty cool Hakka dish with some Thai connections! - this was just something that we felt like we ju...
2024-08-17 04:43:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve always had a real soft spot for Fujian fried rice.
For many years in Shenzhen I lived right across the street from a Hong Kong style Cha Chaan Teng called Sun Fat, and ...
2024-08-06 08:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick one before we head out for our next trip back to China. Hopefully it's not overly navel gazy - we often get questions about "inches of ginger", and wanted to use that as a platform to ...
2024-07-11 05:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
For me, deep frying herbs is a technique that I associate quite a bit with Thai cooking.
Because... it’s a move that makes a lot of sense if you’re running at, shall we say,...
2024-06-25 08:45:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so... you know those cliché, food bloggery, white people “rice bowls”?
As people interested in the cultural dimension of food, there’s always something so incredibly odd&n...
2024-06-18 05:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we wanted to share a summer classic from the Henan province - Basil noodles - Jingjie Banmian (荆芥拌面). It's a mixed noodle dish topped with (1) stewed tomato and egg (2) ...
2024-06-10 07:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay! Apologies for not uploading for a hot second there, this one's been a while in the works. Was definitely one of those research-heavy videos.
We had a lot of fun with our previous 'weste...
2024-05-31 03:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Bit of a fun one this time. You see, one of the ‘trendiest’ baked goods in China these days is… the bagel. The popularity began ramping up during the COVID years, and as of late, they’ve fi...
2024-05-08 05:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post
A good while back, we went over one of the classic Chinese congees - Pork and Century Egg - in the Dim Sum style. With this one, we wanted to give a bit more of a 'general' congee overview: a formu...
2024-04-30 05:20:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, just finished editing this one up :)
I hope this one isn't overly navel-gazy. Sometimes, when we're chit chatting on the Discord, we find ourselves discussing certain cooking habits that...
2024-04-15 08:19:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, just finished editing this one up. Fantastic dish from the Guizhou province - specifically Xingyi, tucked in the Southwest corner near the border of Yunnan.
Really fun video to mak...
2024-03-01 04:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post
So... we've done this a couple times on the channel before, but I think this was the most fun instance.
You see, the two of us have this game that we like to play when we’re bored on the tr...
2024-02-21 04:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Spring Festival everyone! Just finished editing this one up before we start doing some cooking with Steph's parents tomorrow, figured we might as well release it here at first.
Not Spri...
2024-02-08 07:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! So just a simple one as we were coming back from traveling around Yunnan and Guizhou.
See, one of the spots we were going around Xingyi in Southwest Guizhou – a city not too<...
2024-01-29 07:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, just finished editing this one up. This one way a fun one to do - really happy we were able to finally show a (slightly different) angle on Sichuan hotpot, as well as get a chance to show off ...
2024-01-06 08:47:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Actually got something out festive this year, hope you enjoy it :) This is a classic Cantonese winter solstice dish, though you can definitely see it throughout wintertime.
It's particu...
2023-12-19 07:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, we just got back from our trip the other day- proper video recipes will be coming soon, promise (we've got three coming up that we're quite excited about).
With this one, we sort of want...
2023-11-11 12:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is a bit of a different one - in it, we really wanted to zero in (1) what this thing is that people online seem to refer to as Chinese brown sauce and (2) the technique to make it. 2023-10-04 06:40:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Cantonese Plum Sauce 酸梅酱, 梅子酱 or 苏梅酱
Introduction
Plum, is one of the oldest seasoning ingredients in Chinese cooking. It was (and st...
2023-04-04 09:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Daipaidong-style fried chicken wings are quickly becoming a modern classic in Guangdong. As eating establishments that specialize is serving up, well, whatever food's tasty and comforting... over t...
2023-03-23 04:42:19 +0000 UTC View PostIn recent years there’re some Chinese style baked sticky rice cake shops sprouting around the country. These shops are usually called 粑粑坊 (baba workshop), in which “baba” means rice cak...
2023-01-19 09:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostAmong the old cook books we collected, there’s a book of mostly Sichuan vegetarian dishes from temples and day to day eating, within which, there’s a Sichuan style vegetarian stock recipe that ...
2022-10-29 08:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostGreen Sichuan Peppercorn and Rattan Sichuan Peppercorn 青花椒与藤椒
Introduction
So, green Sichuan peppercorn. You may start to see them appearing on she...
2022-09-16 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTwo more shiitake recipes as previously promised. Also trying out a fun little project for Patreon.
So we loving collecting old and/or weird cookbooks, and we love reading them. They're very ...
2022-08-27 05:57:57 +0000 UTC View PostDried shiitake mushroom, a.k.a. fragrant mushroom as suggest by its Chinese name, for a reason (香菇)
Introduction
With our recent 2022-08-16 21:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Ginger and scallion, a classic combo from the Chinese cooking trinity (姜葱)
Introduction
Scallion, ginger, garlic are the trinity in Chinese cooking in gene...
2022-04-23 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHuangjiang soy bean paste, a classic fermented soy bean product from northern China (黄酱)
Introduction
In our last ingredient of the “fermented soy bean...
2022-03-27 11:14:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Just finished editing this one up. Enjoy :)
2022-03-13 06:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Guizhou street food classic :) With this one, we decided to also have a street food companion video, so you can also check out how our favorite vendor in Guiyang also whips it up - a card's...
2022-03-08 03:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, apologies for taking an extra week (and a day) with this one, it was... a monster of a video. Basically, we wanted to discuss red braised beef noodle soup, which you might know best accor...
2022-02-28 06:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post