"If Yan can cook, you can cook!"

@@toymachine2328 "and So Can You!" is what he liked to say.

Same for me I learned a lot about cooking from watching him on PBS growing up

@@midengineZ06 I was born in 1970 and loved to watch tv cooking shows. Martin Yan was a favorite and at that time, Asian cuisine was newer in the US but even in my small southern town, we took well to it. We had a great spot called The China Inn and in was nice and considered special enough for eating out even on date nights.. The owners of China Inn grew out of this original location and eventually the third and fourth were highly invested in and became tops on Great Chefs series and plenty attention in local papers. Name and branding changed to Trey Yuen. These four brothers did very well because they kept it not only approachable to us southerners but focused on quality of food and service and intelligent marketing. Their children went to school with us, they donated to our causes and our private schools, they contributed, purchased more real estate and always worked well within our small community. Today, they are very well known restauranteurs and they've passed their businesses to their sons to carry on. but I've digressed lol : I went to culinary school in upstate NY in 1994 and Mr. Martin Yan visited our classroom of 16 students while he was on campus for filming demonstration. Everyone was excited but only those in their mid 20's really knew of him. Anyway, while Martin was saying goodbye and leaving through the door to continue his tour of the school, a "class clown" yelled out, "Yan Can Cook!!" Well, sure enough, Martin Yan stepped back through, smiled so huge and called right back, "And So Can You!!" We laughed for the rest of the day and we revisited the story of Yan Can Cook many times over the following month. hahaha! 🙂 So sorry to carry on with such a long story and post ....but your mentioning of PBS cooking shows really got me thinking of my younger days of coming up. Maybe for these cooking shows early on, I'm still so much enjoying this same foodservice, service industry, restaurant kitchen work today! Over 30 years now and some might even say I've finally kinda gotten the hang of it 😉😉 Cheers to you, friend 🍻

@mfish007 Dude was filming cooking back when they were first discovering you could point camera's at things. His pbs show was part of the cave paintings that the food network drew inspiration from. THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME

@@jeffanderson3424 lmao, if cooking on TV was human civilization, he along with Pepin and Julia Child would be on those cave paintings, bringing light back to the cave to show these people how it's done. Except today.. instead of following in their footsteps, they decide to do this drama/competition CRAP instead. it's infuriating that they're not doing the old school format anymore. They'd rather watch Chef Sara and Chef Linda spew vitriol. Give it another couple of years and we'll be seeing a Chef's husband sleeping with another Chef's wife or some crap like that.

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j it's the loss of family focused content after the 90s.

​@@shindukess I think it's less so that than it is the rise of reality television. I had a really bad feeling when the Real World and Big Brother sort of television was gaining popularity. By the time the late 90s and early 2000s came around, reality TV was getting much higher viewership than well written shows. People loved trashy drama and it's really really a shame. I have more or less tried my best to avoid any and all reality TV. It decays the mind. (I am painting with a broad stroke though... there are some good ones, but the terrible ones are the most popular)

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j so like I said the loss of family focused content.

Take care of your self. Have a check your stomach. What ever you eat may cause you get it.

I❤Martin Yan 😊

Yes here too he was on PBS we would tune in to watch his show and then martha stewart after. Ahh the good ol days

Best first sentence of any cooking video comment.

The western diet is purely toxic...whether it's by accident or design...you don't need to dive deep to see how truly toxic it is...As a matter of fact...you'll find the same toxic foods in the hospitals where people go to get better.

Ahhhh! the 80's.... what a time!

I can't think of anything to ask him , it was a good lesson.

Indeed there is no shame in not having a question.

@@france976you must question everything

Hell ya! Got my first #1 around that age, still use it! Thing can chop a branch camping, be on the line the next day then still be a home knife now! Chefs used to think i was nuts using it. I would chop circles around them. I’m goin to go cook some corn chowder from stock and because of watching this, it will be my knife of choice today. I like to change up. But today, #1 for the #1.

@@MurderBong Respect 👊🏻

Always watched him as a kid and I think that was 30 + years ago Chop chop set aside

I agree

He is showing off not teaching. For common people who want to learn how to cook decent Szechuan food, I will recommend Wang Gang, he teaches common sense cooking method so people can cook Szechuan food themselves.

​@@dragonball41876 these are not normal people in the room. They're people learning to become professionals and become top chefs. You show them basic cooking skills an amateur can do at home and they're gonna think " Is this all he's got? chinese cuisine is easy af"

I miss living in Hong Kong! The apartment my wife and I had was in Causeway Bay, very small, but we could walk every place we needed (or take the metro to the Kowloon side). My wife was born in HK, and while I lived there for years, we moved to the US back in ‘18; and, developed a few bad habits. I think it was much easier to cook fresh, or buy fresh, in HK… But, with some effort and planning, we do everything fresh here in the US; bake our own breads, make our own pasta, shred cheeses, to avoid all the chemicals - and, let me say, our bodies feel the difference… Point is, I think convenient packages (stuffed with all sorts of additives) are really the root cause of so many health issue… Frankly, it takes effort, and who wants to bake and cook all the components - and even the so called healthy foods are not that healthy with processing and preservatives!

I think he was on PBS, I remember watching him right before lunch if my memory is right!

@@apemancommeth8087 Yes, before cable was a thing now streaming. We are telling people our age. LOL🤣🤣🤣

Just me two cents… It is not so much the carbs as the additives when you buy from the grocery store or chain restaurants… I make my own dough to bake baguettes, pizza, and make my own noodles and pastas… Frankly, I forgot how much healthier that was until my wife and I moved from Hong Kong to the US in 2018 and got into some bad habits due to convenience… But, the pandemic gave us a reason to cook more as even take away is not as healthy here as it was in HK…

His shiny bald spot was trying to be the star of the show

Yeah, they put the tallest guy exactly in the middle so he would block everything.

I think you're thinking of Stephen Yan

Still nothing compared to the West.

The camera guy should have either spotted Chef or moved the dude.

That head irritated me a lot too!! I was shouting inside my mind move your head man!!

Thats just bad production.. always have clear view.. they should have just moved the guy