Eat China Special: Southern Chinese Food (E1)

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Missed our Eat China special that aired on the Asian Food Network? Enjoy the full episodes right here.
There’s not just one type of Chinese food. This is Eat China, where we dissect Chinese cuisine region by region to understand the sheer variety of flavors and techniques that have evolved over the centuries. Join our host Clarissa as she uncovers China’s signature dishes, from east to west, north to south.
In the first episode, we head south to the home of Cantonese food. Cantonese cuisine is not all dim sum, but bao mastery and rice-based dishes are strong here. Discover the food of the south, take a tour of Hong Kong, and watch our producer make rice noodle rolls from a dim sum school master chef.
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0:00 Introduction
3:42 Hong Kong food tour
12:06 How to make rice noodle rolls
19:09 Foraging in Hong Kong
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Producers: Clarissa Wei and Venus Wu
Videographers: Nicholas Ko and Hanley Chu
Editor: Mario Chui
Animation: Ray Ngan
Mastering: Victor Peña
Special Thanks: Ashley Yue
Music: Audio Network
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@str2010 3 жыл бұрын

Cantonese culinary influence persists very notably in Malaysia and Singapore too.

@gibsonkellen444 2 жыл бұрын

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@juanbilly1364 2 жыл бұрын

@Gibson Kellen instablaster :)

@AsianPoshDorene 3 жыл бұрын

As an American born in Hong Kong in 1969 & immigrating to the US in 1974, I love watching your channel. My parents still do dim sum every weekend even in Ohio! :). They made sure me and my siblings knew the Cantonese way of life.... meaning good food!

@paulm500 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an ABC in NYC and have the same experience with Dim Sum

@AsianPoshDorene 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulm500 we are lucky!

@Gunman1628 3 жыл бұрын

@@AsianPoshDorene same here . born in HK and came to the us in the 70's. the link between the generations is food. Even though my kids don't speak much canto, they sure know what real canto food is. its not chop suey and almond chicken.

@arnoldaugustinesee3935 2 жыл бұрын

There is also lots of Cantonese here in South Africa, most of the Cantonese settled in the then Transvaal and the Hakka people settled in Eastern Cape, I'm 3rd generation Cantonese in Johannesburg, South Africa,and our food is unique because we've stuck with Cantonese food traditions using South African food resources 😋😋🍜🍜

@mr.normalguy69 Жыл бұрын

Eat China Special is a criminally underrated series, especially considering it's production quality. Definitely gave this video a like and shared it 👍

@Ealsante 3 жыл бұрын

There's a saying in the area: "Guangzhou is where the eating's at, and Fengcheng (Shunde) is where the cooks are from."

@leafster1337 3 жыл бұрын

i wonder why

@Brick-Life 3 жыл бұрын

Guangzhou is city of food

@joyjoyoo 3 жыл бұрын

@@leafster1337 顺德has a lot of the original dishes of canto

@Ealsante 3 жыл бұрын

@@leafster1337 It's likely because Guangzhou is the commercial centre, so it has the economy necessary to support plenty of restaurants. But to make authentic local cuisine, these restaurants recruit from nearby Shunde where the culinary traditions are strong.

@pulum40 3 жыл бұрын

Aside from Chifa, don't forget the migration from canton to cuba and panama, specially Panama because of the railroad construction and later panama canal. Cuba's china town is the biggest in latinamerica (but i think its the least chinese people nowadays). Proud chinese mestizo here.

@whywho8887 3 жыл бұрын

What a start to this series. First its over twenty minutes, chapters added and new reporters. Great upload everyone. Looking forward to seeing all these episodes.

@gp2779 3 жыл бұрын

Northern Chinese food usually involves noodles and dumplings as the main ingredient as wheat is their main produce. It’s also very heavy in terms of sour, sweet, salty and spicy. Rice is more widely available in Southern China, so ppl in the South consumes rice and rice products as their diet. Their dishes emphasises on the ‘freshness’ of the ingredients and the cooking procedure is much much more delicate, highlighting the original taste of the fresh ingredient. Edit: My ancestors are from the Fujian (Hokkien) province and I’m a Malaysian Chinese. Hopefully this series would be able to highlight Min-Nan cuisines. It would be even better if they can venture out from China and introduce the overseas Chinese community from the Chinese diaspora, especially the long established South East Asian Chinese.

@wanh3703 3 жыл бұрын

Hope nyonya cuisine will well known like chifa cuisine too.

@gp2779 3 жыл бұрын

@@wanh3703 This would be interesting. Baba and Nyonya culture is distinct only in Malaysia, Singapore and parts of Indonesia (Medan), and this well assimilated culture can be traced back to the 1500s when Chinese settlers begin to settle down in South East Asia (Nan Yang) and marry local Malay women. They speak a creole of Hokkien with significant Malay loanwords; dresses Malay attires; but practices Buddhism. Their dishes are also very well known for borrowing element from both the Chinese and Malay culture.

@CandraSurya-um9yt 2 жыл бұрын

@@gp2779 peranakan culture.... Baba and Nyonya.... Could be found in all over Indonesia.... Not only in Medan.... Actually Chinese peranakan cultures mostly could be found in Indonesia other than in Malaysia or Singapore.... But The Indonesian Chinese hardly promote it.....!!!

@benjamins8082 Жыл бұрын

I was in Northern China ans rice was everywhere I went. Not only wheat. China is so different today sorry man but your incorrect.

@benjamins8082 Жыл бұрын

I went to a 5 star restaurant in Shanghai and it was top notch.

@Kristina_in_Perspective Жыл бұрын

Love this series! Thank you so much for sharing, it's exactly what I was looking for and even better :) This channel needs more attention! ❤

@CJPhu 3 жыл бұрын

So glad I found this channel! ✊😆 love it, great videos!

@glossonema 3 жыл бұрын

love this! please continue with the great content

@michelle2shop750 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This was awesome!

@evaren2154 3 жыл бұрын

Good episode showing Hongkong cusine. Because of Hongkong unique influences, it's hardly representative of "Southern" Chinese food. Wish you have more content on cusine from a variety of places of Guangdong. Southern Chinese food is so much more than this.

@gp2779 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Cantonese undoubtedly is tasty, but there’s A LOT more of variances in Southern Chinese dishes. For example, Shanghainese cuisine heavies on sour and spicy; Fujian cuisines notes on seafood as they’re a coastal province; while the Hakka dishes are noteworthy of being less oily and likes steaming. Hong Kong and Cantonese cuisines shouldn’t ‘represent’ the entire Southern Chinese cuisine.

@evaren2154 3 жыл бұрын

@@gp2779 YES! I wanted to point this out too, but didn't only because in the beginning the video defined "Southern" as Guangdong, Hong kong and Macau. But really, Southern Chinese food wayyy bigger than Cantonese food and simply cannot be captured in one video :)

@neofils 3 жыл бұрын

Even in Guangdong there several types of cooking , Guangzhou , Hakka etc

@pejakenovic805 2 жыл бұрын

I like this channel because the hosts always introduce with facts but not with commercial bias... straight to the point but not joking with nonsense...

@Goldthread 2 жыл бұрын

This means a lot to us :)

@LBVED 3 жыл бұрын

I found this channel about a week ago I cant belive its so small this is trully underrated I love this content so much please keep it up I already subbed

@platystrophia 3 жыл бұрын

I’m excited! Cool series!

@officialcheung3351 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a long one

@TheMaster375 3 жыл бұрын

Lol, everyone's mad that this is a bunch of reused clips. It's actually an episode from a special that aired on the Asian Food Network (which they make clear in the first sentence of the description). They're just uploading them here for us without that TV channel to watch - never said anything about it being a "new" (as in new content-wise) series.

@SanfordChin Жыл бұрын

awesome documentary. Love it! please do more :)

@johnbarron4843 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing series!

@aps125 3 жыл бұрын

My fav dim sum dish has to be the chicken feet. I always order double or even triple whenever I visit my local dim sum shop.

@Nanancay 2 жыл бұрын

Cantonese food is literally the best, and cantonese glazed meats are JUST THE BEST. Sweet flavours with meats are so delicious omg.

@Stumfilmjatack 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh, this is going to be epic!

@angelad.8944 3 жыл бұрын

agreed!

@Just-YOLANDA-T.C 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot wait for the next episode. I love your series.

@moo422 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, you guys are doing great! Congratulations on the TV spot!

@neofils 3 жыл бұрын

Guangdong does not include only Yue ( cantonese) speaking people but also hakka in the East .

@9grand 3 жыл бұрын

Not only Hakka but also others chinese dialect !

@ehjo4904 3 жыл бұрын

Same as the food it is not only Yue speaking region but also Hakka food in thr East.

@YeetusTheFetus 3 жыл бұрын

They should have made yan ju ji as well

@kwanshawn 3 жыл бұрын

you guys deserve all the subscribers in the world.

@user-td2vm2dl4c 9 ай бұрын

Looks perfect

@law4ahyc 3 жыл бұрын

I love Hong Kong

@lauramcmahon602 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!!!!

@wongjefx980 3 жыл бұрын

Cantonese ...yay! Fresh ingredients, clean tastes. In North America, Cantonese was the main form of Chinese food, which adapted to North American style Chinese food...but now you are seeing Chinese food forms from all over China. Only recently have I had Xiao Mein street noodles....but forever is Cantonese style for me.

@circleancopan7748 2 ай бұрын

Besides Cantonese, Hakka, Guangzhou, Hong Konger, Macanese and other Southern Chinese cuisine: Many Southern Chinese developed their cuisine and adapted to local spices and the indigenous cuisine the place they settled in. Malaysian Chinese, Chinoy, Chinese Indonesian, Singaporean, Vietnamese Chinese and others was influenced by Southern cooking.

@chansowping1811 3 жыл бұрын

Im cantonese and a malaysian.i mgonna go hong kong for the best cantonese food in the world .i love dai pai dong

@kylin3197 3 жыл бұрын

cool I've seen these vids!!

@duncanmit5307 3 жыл бұрын

💜💜💜💜👍👍👍👍👍,,,,great video

@armchairwomanmao2922 2 жыл бұрын

As a Cantonese x Shanghainese woman myself, I'll have to say I prefer Cantonese cuisine ✌️😂

@DiptiMali 3 жыл бұрын

Wowww...

@boxingprodigy2345 2 жыл бұрын

4:49 best part

@Chat_Po 3 жыл бұрын

Miss HK food

@John77Doe 2 жыл бұрын

Fish balls. 😍😍😍😍😍

@winter2690 8 ай бұрын

I'm literally starving now 😭

@0animalproductworld558 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness!!!! I can’t believe it! 🐁 0:01… that is where I live!!!!!!! 🐘 I think it is Temple City right next to Chase 🐁 I miss that town working as an engineer when I was living there 🦆 I am currently somewhere else temporarily 🐖 🐁 🐁

@antho5466 3 жыл бұрын

This is priceless!! Btw what does "the shelf life" mean??

@jeanemata9240 2 жыл бұрын

good vidd

@pakngah3715 3 жыл бұрын

South East Asian cuisine was influenced by South Chinese and Indian cuisine due to past trade links and immigration. Thank you to both.

@leafster1337 3 жыл бұрын

yes of course!

@gp2779 3 жыл бұрын

To think that we can savour good dim sum and roti canai where both shops are just located opposite to each other, this makes me feel glad that I’m a Malaysian.

@amarbaha 2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful series, I love Cantonese food. I am Indian and grew up in Vancouver in the 1980's and all my school friends were new emigrants from HK. I learned conversational Cantonese from them and I ironically feel more at home in HK than Richmond/Vancouver. I used to get a lot of surprised people when I would order in Cantonese but I was always met with smiles. With the present shift in migration to Canada from China my son is 19 and all his friends taught him Mandarin. He favours Northern food and I favour Southern cuisine. It is funny that we will go to a Southern Chinese restaurant in Vancouver and he will order in Mandarin and me in Cantonese from the same waiter! Most of the mainlanders don't speak Cantonese in Canada but the HK people do more often than not. Chinese and Indians are very similar with their values and food culture which is always based around sharing and family. I have NEVER been to a Chinese household or a restaurant in HK or China where people did not welcome me or recommend something when I ordered in my terrible Cantonese. I love your shows please keep them coming. I have seen the changes in HK from the 80's to now and the dai pai dongs are definitely disappearing and it is a pity. I am more successful now and can afford to eat at fancier places, but when I am alone in HK I always eat at the wet markets or the local neighbourhood restaurants. You get the true sense of a place when you eat with local people. I really miss my lai cha! Do je sai

@philipthao8527 3 жыл бұрын

i feel like ive seen these clips already.

@Koenigg99 3 жыл бұрын

No joke but I've seen this chef (11:16) in almost every HK food tour video that features Dai Pai Dong. I guess they're all filming at the same restaurant.

@joenroute9646 3 жыл бұрын

Very Cantonese speakers centrict vlog !

@saputraadi6580 3 жыл бұрын

11:15 these uncle are so famous.. Use key search on internet Oi Man Sang or Hongkong street food the uncle always appear.. 😆

@WhatsUpDivv 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Can't wait to get back to traveling and experience this stuff for myself...

@98thunderbird Жыл бұрын

Part of Guangxi province also speaks Cantonese or 白话 and although it does has its unique food culture, it is somewhat influenced by the Cantonese cuisine

@natoriamakawa6520 3 жыл бұрын

Can U make an episode of Macau 🥺🥺🥺

@MrNikil-jx2jb 2 жыл бұрын

Northern Chinese food? Need a video on it too

@neptune.mp3 3 жыл бұрын

Waaaw

@BraveNewWorldSH 3 жыл бұрын

when was this filmed?

@cici_julja Жыл бұрын

that's a great hairstyle Ashley ngl

@someperson9536 2 жыл бұрын

I've had chicken feet in some restaurants in California.

@shannonrobinson262 3 жыл бұрын

The reason rice needs flooding is to help it out compete weeds. The weeds cannot survive hypoxia while the rice can during its early growth.

@Brick-Life 3 жыл бұрын

South eats rice North eats flour

@pandabear153 3 жыл бұрын

Actually it was people of Hoisan region that immigrated first not Cantonese!

@Drenoxian 3 жыл бұрын

😍👌🏼

@PureBadBreath 2 жыл бұрын

Screw Instagram, it's all about the taste. These dishes are killer, nothing beats tradition.

@Eleora1997Msia 3 жыл бұрын

i am a Cantonese mix tribe with Hakka and Hokkien i allergic with seafood watching this video introduce we live near to sea... me ... ahh so sad my skin hurts

@ziqiantransforms 3 жыл бұрын

So rice actually doesn't require flooded fields to grow. It's customarily grown in flooded fields because it can survive them whereas other weeds cannot, cutting down on a massive amount of labor. Rice plants are actually healthier when not submerged.

@leafster1337 3 жыл бұрын

yea i think a french guy developed (or popularized idk) a method which increased yields why some great amount. instead of multiple plants in one spot youd aim for one very large and efficient plant. of course you must deweed and i think people of the past probable had a similar method of this frenchman, and opted to flood the fields instead so they could cover a massive plot, but i think they mightve chosen the wrong path. i think this method is being used mainly in africa and india for very low tech farmers and it’s like magic to see how much they harvest and it’s really wonderful to see how much more food and prosperity there is

@ziqiantransforms 3 жыл бұрын

@@leafster1337 Very interesting. It's hard to say whether or not ancient farmers chose the wrong path; the weed pressure, especially in tropical and subtropical regions, might've been so strong that flooding the fields was just the better tradeoff, even if that led to massive levels of malaria and hence the prevalence of certain genetic haemopathologies in rice growing region's gene pools. In Thailand they apparently tried to control the mosquitoes that would breed in the flooded fields by introducing their famous betta fish, which do well in the low-oxygen water of the rice paddies, to eat mosquito nymphs, so there's one approach. Masanobu Fukuoka pioneered dry ground rice cultivation in Japan and he reported that he was able to produce higher yields as well, he just kept the chaff from the previous year's harvest on the ground to act as mulch to help keep down weeds, and he'd also rotate in other crops (wheat if I recall correctly but I might be wrong) to prevent fertility and disease issues.

@csong9940 3 жыл бұрын

Am I going crazy or didn't they already release this video a long time ago?

@leafster1337 3 жыл бұрын

i think it’s an amalgamation of past videos into one cohesive journey. despite the shortening attention spans of modern people, longer form entertainment is still popular, though it wasn’t long ago many hours long live stage performance was popular, so there is a point of many in the claim of shortening attention spans

@slomo4672 3 жыл бұрын

On one hand, you wanted to show authentic Cantonese food. On the other hand, you stated Hong Kong food is a blend of Chinese and European influences. So what's stopping you from going to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, where there's little European influences and the Cantonese food is more authentic?

@m4xs0ng66 3 жыл бұрын

Hong kong has many authentic Cantonese foods too, plus hong kong is a small place thus it will be easier to show everything, while in Guangzhou you may spend hours just to go from one restaurant to another

@NewTypeAlex 3 жыл бұрын

I was excited by the title, I was hoping you'd visit or showcase parts of Southern China. This is just a recap of HK food culture, which is a let down of the title.

@gp2779 3 жыл бұрын

People rarely think of other Southern Chinese province like Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai etc. That’s pretty sad since they only think about ‘Cantonese’ food, where there is so so much more in other Southern provinces of China.

@kathrynh7358 2 жыл бұрын

While I enjoyed the content, I can’t help but feel like the title’s a but misleading as I thought the video is intended to showcase a variety of southern Chinese cuisines rather than just one- Cantonese cuisine? Southern cuisines are so diverse: cantonese, hakka, yunnanese, guangxi, hunan, shanghainese, etc. The list just goes on and each region has their own very unique cuisines. Why not give those at least an honorable mention?

@moreevents4335 3 жыл бұрын

the toast bread 8.04, i thought kaya is from Malaysia, chinese style. HK adopts this style too ?

@gp2779 3 жыл бұрын

Kaya is a a South East Asian thing, notably originating either in Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia. Pretty sure it doesnt have anything to do with China. Btw kaya + roti bakar + kopi beng + 2 half boiled eggs is the PERFECT breakfast.

@sunnyoutdoors 3 жыл бұрын

HK people are simple people. If u are not rich enough to go out of the HK, you just basically don't have much to do. Eating is a big part of your life, play MJ, watch movie.

@jasonreviews 3 жыл бұрын

they're not toxic. It takes poison to cure poison. It's depending on situtituation.

@RadeTcg 2 жыл бұрын

you should look up what umami means. Umami does not mean the character you used

@nilnil8411 2 жыл бұрын

Hong Kong & Macau should stay independent.

@johnchernabcinterviewandca3153 3 жыл бұрын

These are just clips from past episodes....

@CaptainM792 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell this is shot before the pandemic by the lack of masks in the video. Everyone’s wearing masks these days.

@lolitzvelda 3 жыл бұрын

The narrator has a such a strong vocal fry that it hurts my ears. I think the microphone emphasizes it too

@user-vb3rv2cr4t 3 жыл бұрын

It gets better after the first minute

@neofils 3 жыл бұрын

Should hire a British .

@joenroute9646 3 жыл бұрын

Yep!

@willengel2458 Жыл бұрын

there is no such thing as Chop Suey in Chinese cuisine, or Chow Mein - shredded cabbage and onions topped over fried noodles.

@boxingprodigy2345 2 жыл бұрын

could be better

@aw4610 3 жыл бұрын

Omg. Why do you guys keep reposting?

@mikeeweismannn7292 2 жыл бұрын

Is the country I wont never be back when I saw the goose turtles and dog meat in the market mas me si k NO THANK YOU AND SMELL BAD

@lentostinato 3 жыл бұрын

The idea is good, it's just the script and the editing didn't up to the par. Topics changed too often and too sudden without any transitions in between. And sometimes, the footage couldn't justify the topic, especially the black rice part. The interviewee has clearly stated that he used rice from Heilongjiang (the very north part of China), and you guys still made it into the cut, and even under the segment of telling how rich the rice are in southern China. That's the biggest turn off of this video.

@bobotmeister 3 жыл бұрын

man... people with valley girl accents.

@RoerDaniel 2 жыл бұрын

no bat, dog cat rat stew? where the real chinese food?

@joshuabowen1969 3 жыл бұрын

The rustic permission findingsinitially like because porcupine osmotically glow beyond a rainy rise. upbeat, poor guarantee

@mukadessekadesse7231 3 жыл бұрын

Please, add subspanish

@yttean98 3 жыл бұрын

Buy groceries on a daily basis, this type is activities are disappearing fast.

@yttean98 3 жыл бұрын

After watching the full length of this video, two words: well done.

@yan2503 3 жыл бұрын

At first I think this is a new upload. But then the content already shown before. Running out of ideas?

@earlystrings1 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful cooks, fascinating photography, but a sixth-grade level story line and the narrator has a terminal case of annoying vocal fry.

@justinliu7357 3 жыл бұрын

HK should have stayed a fishing village.

@AsianPoshDorene 3 жыл бұрын

And a British Colony....

@neofils 3 жыл бұрын

@@AsianPoshDorene A British colony obtained after the Opium war ( war to force China to buy Opium from the Brits)

@AsianPoshDorene 3 жыл бұрын

@@neofils I know the history of it and it’s not pretty, but I’m quite certain people in HK want their freedom and not be ruled by the communist party of China.

@neofils 3 жыл бұрын

@@AsianPoshDorene . As such it is not about to be a british colony but about freedom . And do not forget freedom is not only about freedom of speech but also about the freedom of walking without fear at night . ( A freedom your adopted country can not always provide)

@zsarimaxim692 3 жыл бұрын

@@AsianPoshDorene What freedom does a colony have? The freedom to serve their white masters?