Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure Episode 2

China - the superpower the world fears, but few really know. Ken Hom, the godfather of Chinese cuisine, and Ching-He Huang, leading chef of the contemporary generation, together undertake an epic 3000-mile culinary adventure across China - not only to reveal its food, but its people, history, culture and soul.
Ken and Ching explore the effects of sweeping modernisation in China's fastest growing city, Chengdu. It is the capital of Sichuan province, where the locals cling on to their identity through food. Here, in one of the culinary capitals of the country, they explore the complex and almost addictive spices that set Sichuan food apart and make it the most memorable of all Chinese cuisines. And in a desire to get under the skin of the city, they explore the back streets in search of the most authentic dishes and traditional snacks. They also visit homes and restaurants to banish the gloomy Sichuan climate with some hot and fiery cooking.

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  • @anuradhachatterjee3420
    @anuradhachatterjee342010 жыл бұрын

    Very nice family visit.

  • @suzyhiphop
    @suzyhiphop12 жыл бұрын

    ♥♥♥ OMG - Thanks for posting this program ~ I cannot get it in USA - Nashville, Tennessee ♥♥♥ Thank you so very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ChinaMemo
    @ChinaMemo10 жыл бұрын

    Excellent document film for authentic Chinese food, love it.

  • @lstruggy
    @lstruggy10 жыл бұрын

    Girl do u always have to take over in all the kitchens u go to? Mr. Peng says "too salty" hahahaaaa

  • @MrYetze

    @MrYetze

    10 жыл бұрын

    haha, so funny, I also heard Mr.peng said that what qing cooked is not authentic. It is just like a Chinese saying "班门弄斧", means showing Luman who is the most famous carpenter how to use axe.

  • @nunvikingsofthesea
    @nunvikingsofthesea10 жыл бұрын

    Ken Hom on the other hand is great, I really like his open-minded attitude to everything.

  • @imhellag
    @imhellag10 жыл бұрын

    The aunt feels obliged to hold the groceries cuz Ken is old lol

  • @starlessartemis
    @starlessartemis10 жыл бұрын

    this video makes me so proud of chinese cooking. it is absolutely beautiful and complex. very different from western food, but with an open mind, you can enter new worlds!

  • @wangsharon2583
    @wangsharon258311 жыл бұрын

    my hometown foods,love them all♥ if come next time plz try 绵阳米粉 which is really nice rice noodle soup.

  • @diegorivera9248
    @diegorivera924810 жыл бұрын

    I love cooking with Sichuan Pepper!!! When I use them I prefer to leave them in the final dish, so I have to spend hours in preparation by picking out the peppercorns that still have seeds in them. It is definitely a labor of love!

  • @jerryGaoSoton
    @jerryGaoSoton11 жыл бұрын

    Great program about chinese sichuan cuisine, one of the most popular cuisine in China

  • @shafqatmirza3388
    @shafqatmirza338810 жыл бұрын

    my forefathers belong to Mongolia, perhaps, that's why i love china beside some other countries as Morocco and Tunis ... little lady in the program is an innocent actress along with having wonderful cooking skills ... God bless you all

  • @ellysdreem
    @ellysdreem11 жыл бұрын

    i love this people and the sichuan

  • @yokoliu4039
    @yokoliu403911 жыл бұрын

    Great vids!!love it

  • @Tiberiotertio
    @Tiberiotertio Жыл бұрын

    Found this per chance, wonderful series, very enjoyable. Would love to try some of the recipes shown!

  • @eveeludbrook
    @eveeludbrook11 жыл бұрын

    This is a really wonderful series. It makes my heart ache to be so far away! I love China so much and can't wait to go back there =)

  • @Thebigdogg616
    @Thebigdogg6169 ай бұрын

    Love this programme

  • @ChrisZ901
    @ChrisZ90111 жыл бұрын

    awesome documentary. now I know how the chilly bean paste I use in my mabotofu is made. This series has become my top favorite Chinese food documentary second only to the "a bite of china" series.

  • @Bloodangel8299
    @Bloodangel829911 жыл бұрын

    interesting,yummy and spicy lovely cuisine,I admire everything!

  • @eveeludbrook
    @eveeludbrook11 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out!

  • @disneycrazii
    @disneycrazii11 жыл бұрын

    Chengdu is such a great city

  • @ekg1967
    @ekg196711 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE sichuan and it's cooking. It's where my wife is from and I have been to Chengdu many times :-)

  • @TheMchristofi
    @TheMchristofi12 жыл бұрын

    thanks so much for posting this! it's no longer available on iplayer...you're a star!

  • @ZerkaS
    @ZerkaS10 жыл бұрын

    Yup, I think it's already pretty popular in big cities now

  • @LY121688
    @LY12168811 жыл бұрын

    I just recorded the episode in 1080i on bbc2 but unfortunately there was interference, I'll try uploading later but it looks miles better than this

  • @parisgala88
    @parisgala8811 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou so much!

  • @YWu1990
    @YWu199011 жыл бұрын

    我爱祖国 i love my motherland

  • @linziai
    @linziai11 жыл бұрын

    im from this city and i can tell u for sure this should be written in 豆瓣酱 for chilli bean paste and (四川)花椒 for sichuan flower pepper ))

  • @alaindelonhj
    @alaindelonhj11 жыл бұрын

    of course dark soy sauce can be used for marinating. it depends on which flavor you want to have. the dark one tastes more heavy, but has less unami flavor. the little one is more unami.

  • @Spanishfutbol2010
    @Spanishfutbol201011 жыл бұрын

    I love Chinese food and Chinese girls! Haha! One day I will go to China! Greetings from Spain

  • @danpt2000
    @danpt200010 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen this the Szechuan Peppercorn flower. I'll have to find it.

  • @gunnetcn
    @gunnetcn11 жыл бұрын

    Sichuan food is soooooooooooooooooooooo good

  • @sushibboy
    @sushibboy10 жыл бұрын

    all the chefs were like, bitch get out the kitchen!!

  • @k.w5804

    @k.w5804

    10 жыл бұрын

    so true,hahaha. but they had to lie about how the food she made tasted like tho!

  • @ChyhooSun
    @ChyhooSun11 жыл бұрын

    Why there is no HD1080P verision of this LOVELY programme???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @yokoliu4039
    @yokoliu403911 жыл бұрын

    Im feeling weird here why haters watching vids bout china?and its a cuisine documentary?lol how suprise level of jealousy n anger. Love chinese cuisine so much yummy

  • @prawncrackers75
    @prawncrackers7511 жыл бұрын

    Ken introduced the wok to the west. He stole the secret of silk and porcelain.

  • @merciasound
    @merciasound11 жыл бұрын

    I hope these people are well after the earthquake

  • @rohikunokami
    @rohikunokami11 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why people in sichuan loves spicy food. Last time i was in chongqing, and the weather was so hot like hell, and yet they eat super spicy food! crazy!

  • @muting1943
    @muting194310 жыл бұрын

    the chefs are like "what is that woman doing?"

  • @ChrisZ901
    @ChrisZ90111 жыл бұрын

    okay you win. China has not had any drastic changes in the past decade. All the skyscrapers I saw in shanghai and beijing were just illusions.

  • @klaus150365
    @klaus15036510 жыл бұрын

    There are also chillies in the Philippines. Very small but hot and spicy like hell.

  • @GrumpyOrang
    @GrumpyOrang11 жыл бұрын

    xing 星 is star. So it's half meaning half sound translation, exactly.

  • @ChrisZ901
    @ChrisZ90111 жыл бұрын

    last time I checked, China's been making drastic changes continuously for the past decade.

  • @kotrynaxD
    @kotrynaxD11 жыл бұрын

    I'm hungry now ;)

  • @djokawari1
    @djokawari110 жыл бұрын

    Rice is a staple in Latin America and it is from Asia. Tomatoes are not native to Italy. This is the history of the world. Before chilies, they would have used peppercorns.

  • @tastedduckling1
    @tastedduckling111 жыл бұрын

    oh my god, this makes me miss REAL chinese food so much.

  • @ValisFan3
    @ValisFan311 жыл бұрын

    I think its kind of strange that they would make this series set during the winter. Why not make it set during the summer or spring instead? When more vegetables are in season. I imagine Chinese cuisine would be different depending on the seasons.

  • @YWu1990
    @YWu199011 жыл бұрын

    chilli bean paste? perhaps it is 辣椒酱 . citron flower pepper =香橼花胡椒

  • @djokawari1
    @djokawari110 жыл бұрын

    Soybean, rapeseed, or peanut oil (the most expensive). Most cheap oils are blends.

  • @andyh87able
    @andyh87able11 жыл бұрын

    Can someone please tell me what the music with the pandas is at 50:30? Thank you!

  • @Taron-ex7et
    @Taron-ex7et10 жыл бұрын

    i really want to see what taiwan is like now!!

  • @jaredphilbrook6845
    @jaredphilbrook684510 жыл бұрын

    This is a very good program. I'm curious about what kind of oil they cook with.

  • @22poopoo

    @22poopoo

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes me too. Traditionally would have been lard. Think that's less common now. Some areas use tea oil (from the tea seed). But I bet now its the usual crap refined extended life rapeseed/canola/corn/sunflower. Oil so prone to oxidation..

  • @parisgala88
    @parisgala8811 жыл бұрын

    can you write to me what chilli bean paste and citron flower pepper are in chinese please?? I want to try to find in my local market :)

  • @ChrisZ901
    @ChrisZ90111 жыл бұрын

    It treats the joint soreness caused by the humidity, and it gradually became a huge part of the culinary culture. I guess it's crazy to you because you did not grow up in that environment.

  • @iamzzl
    @iamzzl11 жыл бұрын

    "starbucks" in Chinese is "xing ba ke". they sounds totally different.

  • @ZerkaS
    @ZerkaS10 жыл бұрын

    I think it's the usual groundnut or sunflower oil

  • @sunshineman143
    @sunshineman14311 жыл бұрын

    Makes you sweat. The more you sweat, the better you cool off latter.

  • @parisgala88
    @parisgala8811 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou, i will print this out and show it to the chinese people at the market because i can't read it :) but sorry i made a mistake it was supposed to be 'sichuan flower pepper' named after the place in china...is it still the same spelling?

  • @shawnwilliams7751
    @shawnwilliams775111 жыл бұрын

    Ah ok. Thanks.

  • @arthritismutilans
    @arthritismutilans11 жыл бұрын

    A better series is "A bite of China"also on youtube, translated.

  • @imhellag
    @imhellag10 жыл бұрын

    As they say, the English are famous for their manners lol.

  • @shawnwilliams7751
    @shawnwilliams775111 жыл бұрын

    Isn't the currency Yuan? Why does she keep saying Yen? e.g. 28:48

  • @gunnetcn
    @gunnetcn11 жыл бұрын

    I'm travelling in India, the hot pot makes me home-sick so much

  • @Darkdrakan
    @Darkdrakan11 жыл бұрын

    Starbucks at 26:01 lol

  • @kevinwang8245
    @kevinwang824510 жыл бұрын

    Food

  • @uberkitten3
    @uberkitten311 жыл бұрын

    It's hard to find good Mapo Dofu in the U.S. :(

  • @alexlee3834
    @alexlee383411 жыл бұрын

    may be the Chilie should be called Chinese Chilie, cause there are different types

  • @doubllle
    @doubllle11 жыл бұрын

    Ching should say “星巴克” instead of "Starbucks". Then the lady might know.

  • @sakesama1
    @sakesama111 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE CHINESE FOOD, but it is funny that in Chengdu the capital of Sichuan the Chilie is KING, but all Chilies came from Mexico & Central America, chilies are NOT Indigenous to ANYWHERE IN CHINA or ASIA !

  • @victorkinng
    @victorkinng11 жыл бұрын

    2 dislikes? some people dislike anything.

  • @Tone-Contreras
    @Tone-Contreras3 ай бұрын

    26:58 wait what did she say ? 😅 I’m kidding lol going up as a Mexican American in San Francisco’s Excelsior district if you didn’t know how to use chopsticks you were a horrible San Franciscan. Love my authentic Chinese American food❤

  • @stevenwilliams7262
    @stevenwilliams726210 жыл бұрын

    please don't say in England that pig ears are cheap!! now they will raise the Price once they know some cultures use the ears to cook, I love pig ears, tail, feet, the whole pig.

  • @Densley612
    @Densley61211 жыл бұрын

    想吃烧烤 火锅 干锅了。。。哎。。

  • @GrumpyOrang
    @GrumpyOrang11 жыл бұрын

    Is it just me or does she keep saying "TengDu"? 50:41. Wtf?

  • @djokawari1
    @djokawari110 жыл бұрын

    Americans tend to say "yoo-awn" but it's pronounced the way she says it.

  • @zjqbuaa
    @zjqbuaa11 жыл бұрын

    The Chinese map is incorrect.

  • @yourbestwhatever
    @yourbestwhatever11 жыл бұрын

    Wow i want to test their Kung Fu so badly

  • @hewittzhong
    @hewittzhong11 жыл бұрын

    the sichuanese have really good skins, haha

  • @peterwan89
    @peterwan8911 жыл бұрын

    I was taking you seriously up until you mentioned "China Focus" and "NTDonChina".

  • @DAIGORO14
    @DAIGORO1411 жыл бұрын

    they call Starbucks 星巴克 so she knew it just not in English

  • @Redraw4444
    @Redraw444411 жыл бұрын

    She made a pigs ear of that salad.

  • @yiminglai5017
    @yiminglai501710 жыл бұрын

    The translation is totally shitty. The chef said probably he will try. However, she said he will definitely try. Sometimes, the local give you compliments just to keep your little dignity

  • @kevinwang8245
    @kevinwang824510 жыл бұрын

    O.o

  • @anuradhachatterjee3420
    @anuradhachatterjee342010 жыл бұрын

    Why Chinese eat so much exotic stuff.

  • @willchu

    @willchu

    10 жыл бұрын

    Because we know how to eat.

  • @thecook8964

    @thecook8964

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not exotic to Chinese, very common😆. 1 in 5 people Chinese. Your Mac & Cheese, Dal, etc. could be considered exotic. Suprise, you are not the center of the Universe.

  • @amyluo2001
    @amyluo200111 жыл бұрын

    if she say starbucks...how does she expect someone doesnt know English to know that...she has to say the Chinese name of starbucks...

  • @jbrkonthescene
    @jbrkonthescene10 жыл бұрын

    26:57 I swear I think she said the n-word...

  • @defunct32

    @defunct32

    10 жыл бұрын

    No, that word that sounded like the N word means "you know" or "ya'know?" So in context she was asking "have you heard of this popular store called Starbucks? You know (sound like N word) like a coffee chain store."

  • @damon123jones
    @damon123jones10 жыл бұрын

    why does she insist on her dish? me me me. annoying but the show and the other host ,the people are so fanatastic

  • @alexlee3834
    @alexlee383411 жыл бұрын

    well, I am not sure that we Chinese eat pig's brain,lol

  • @bourbakis
    @bourbakis10 жыл бұрын

    I wish Ching-He Huang got of the way of the grand master Yu Bo. I want to hear his views on cooking, not an amateur cook mimicking what she just learned 5min ago. Such a waste of viewing time.

  • @fuxinwang2003
    @fuxinwang200311 жыл бұрын

    Come on guys, it's just a food documentary! I don't see how politics can play into it...

  • @sfg078
    @sfg07810 жыл бұрын

    Mr Peng's daughter is creepy as hell

  • @khunpingpong
    @khunpingpong11 жыл бұрын

    You go to someone house as a guest and try to show them how you can cook, then expecting them to like your dish...hahaha, very absurd. Like some stray dog piss on your shoes...Very risky in culturally rich country.

  • @danpt2000
    @danpt200011 жыл бұрын

    Western eats big slabs of cow, and smelly cheese... barrghff !!

  • @nunvikingsofthesea
    @nunvikingsofthesea10 жыл бұрын

    The woman host is very irritating, she is condescending and keeps on mentioning that she doesn't like being Chinese and would rather be "Western".

  • @johninchengdu
    @johninchengdu11 жыл бұрын

    你四川人的身份暴露无遗