If you got lost and are somehow looking for the English video, that's here :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKdso9aKhtrYfLw.html Edited 3 hours later: thanks everyone for liking the Cantonese version! We decided to try something new, had fun filming it and glad you like it as well. In the future, we can try to poke around and maybe do more "dual-language version" for Cantonese related cooking content. 1. Vegetable quantity. The veg quantity we gave in the video is based on a general nutrition guide that’s used by doctors in China, which suggests about 200-300g green vegetable per day plus 200-300g fruit. And it also jives with my experience growing up, we usually have about 500g-720g worth of stir fried leafy green at dinner for three people (lunch is much simpler and maybe just a small stir fried whatever with rice). If you’re a family of 6 and you want to stick with the veg quantity (roughly 1.2kg), then I’d suggest split it into two dishes, e.g. stir fry half and turning the other half into a soup or simply blanching it and eat with oyster sauce. 2. Aromatics prep. When cooking at home, if it weren’t for a specific dish that needs special shaped aromatics, garlic and ginger are generally just crushed. So don’t obsess over finely mincing your garlic and ginger for everything. 3. From what we’ve seen, the more local dai pai dong around PRD (Pearl River Delta) often use Cantonese rice wine as well, it adds a nice “homey” and special local taste. Then some people would also drink the rice wine alongside a meal, it does pair really well with Cantonese food. 4. “One fish multiple ways” is a very fun way of eating. Nowadays, it’s most common at sashimi restaurants and some places that feature fish. In some restaurants, they can even do “whole fish banquet”, i.e. a table’s worth of dishes that’re all made from fish, there can be fish ball, fish cake, steamed fish, stir fried fish, baked egg with fish intestine, and so on. 5. The soup culture. As we said in the video, Cantonese soup culture is so vast that it’s impossible to cover even in a full video. In fact, in addition to that cookbook we showed in the video, we have a separate cookbook that’s just Cantonese “soups”. Hopefully one day we can at least do a video on the general ideas of how to make Cantonese “lou fo leng tong” (old fire good soup, which is the long brewing one). Oh, the very fist soup that Canto kids learn to make is often a soup with pork bone + carrot + corn + red date because it’s very easy, got a natural sweetness, and almost impossible to go wrong. 6. When making a soup base with dried seafood, cure meat, and such, the key is to make them small. I usually like to mince up the dried shrimp or dried scallop before tossing them in; or cutting the cure meat (usually cured duck is used) into small piece and give it a quick fry, then let it cook on high with hot water to create a milky soup. 最后，来意不善既诸君请看： 1. 对于各位打算来挑剔我既用词、发音乃至遣词造句既朋友请就此打住，比如咩娃娃菜应该叫黄芽白，黄花菜应该叫金针之类，语言系变化既，词汇亦系，某D事物所对应既词语会随着时间流逝或使用人群的改变而变化。请用发展既眼光看待语言，请勿用固化既思维来挑剔别人的表达，否则见一个闹一个，请勿犯贱，多谢合作。 2. 对于各位打算来搞个简繁大战既朋友亦请就此打住，咩正体字、残体字之类。文字无高低之分，繁体简体自有其用，我用简体，亦用繁体，按需而已。如果你真系觉得自己咁劲，追求正本清源，麻烦去研究及使用战国时期竹简上的文字，否则搞事者亦系见一个闹一个，多谢。 3. 点解会有以上既两条note？上网上得多，自然就见识到人类物种多样性。有时有D发言真系低智到令人惊讶。我地既宗旨一直都系尊重不同文化、地域以及人群，饮食无高低之分，所以我地亦非常反感各式居高临下、吹毛求疵或者眼界狭隘既发言。 有容乃大，适口者珍，希望大家食得开心。 -Steph

@llkurofoxll1013

6 ай бұрын

竹简哈哈哈哈哈

@Obscurai

6 ай бұрын

Slightly higher level of snark and sass in the Cantonese version. 🙂

@swallowprompt1373

5 ай бұрын

讀得書多真係令雞蛋入面挑骨頭者冇縫插針哈哈哈

PLEASE do more videos in Canto! My favourite part is how your sense of humour comes through so much more when you talk in Cantonese. I genuinely found myself giggling throughout the video (and as an overseas Chinese, my own Canto comprehension isn't even that good!).

@Serkunny

6 ай бұрын

Ya I was laughing out loud when she said " if you are lazy you can have 10 people and 1 dish"

@cactuscattus9

3 ай бұрын

YES 多啲廣東話 😍

As a British born Chinese person with semi-broken Cantonese speaking ability, this is an awesome video that mixes my love for cooking with my desire to improve my Cantonese language skills!

This sounds exactly like the conversations I had with my family growing up about what a "meal" is. My mom would always make a vegetable dish and soup, but my dad would always ask for beef, and we'd always argue what was enough or too much.

My Cantonese is so broken but it feels wholesome and homey to hear the language again! Hope you do more video in Cantonese in the future!

I don't speak a word of Cantonese, but it was a lot of fun to watch and listen to Steph speak it!

0:06 I really appreciate you having a little disclaimer for English-only viewers to switch videos if they didn't understand Cantonese... Narrated entirely in Cantonese. And then I realized there's a CC button.

@chankwanting

6 ай бұрын

Anyone who's not here put your hands up. :D

@canuckkat

6 ай бұрын

CC sadly didn't work for me (I always have it on but I am fluent in Cantonese) :(

More cantonese content please! I love listening to her accent (compared to my HK family)

好嘢 Steph！多謝出依條正片！好鍾意聽你用廣東話傾廣東菜。As 一個香港人，我 💯 同意沙律嘅問題就係佢完全唔夠菜！等唔切老火湯嗰集！

love hearing you speak cantonese! thanks steph, great video as always

I'll switch to the English version in a bit, I'm just enjoying listening to Cantonese again. Miss you, Nainai.

Wooo finally Cantonese! Thank you 🙏There are many things that are much better explained and understood in Cantonese than English because of the jokes and cultural references. Please make more of these videos 🙏.

As someone who's been teaching themselves Cantonese, I appreciate the all-Cantonese spoken in this video! And my mom cooks basically exactly like this here in the US

Yes! This is exactly what Cantonese typical dinners are. Ppl ask me and will say I love orange chicken blah blah blah, but I tell them it’s fish steamed/salted and friend, soup of some kind, and some kind of Chinese leafy/ or zucchini like veggie stir fry or steamed. Thank you for the video! I will not feel as alone when my grandparents aren’t around to share this type of no more. It is just us three and my grandma is still able to cook and I do as well. You’re also right about the maybe 1 or 2 dishes, I feel bad when I don’t make “a lot” (like 3 dishes) but they understand I’m not so fluent in canto cooking, so it is what it is.

Aaah.... it's nice listening to you speaking Cantonese....I like it more when you speak Cantonese than when you speak English.

I speak Cantonese pretty well, but this is humbling me a little. But it could be just cause in amercianized and speak canto with family only. Please do more Canto speaking videos!!! I absolutely it and would help me expand my own vocab.

@canuckkat

6 ай бұрын

If you're not used to hearing different dialects of Cantonese, you might struggle! Don't be too hard on yourself and just listen to more Cantonese things :) My parents speak an older dialect of Hong Kong Cantonese, and I speak a more Canadian version of that dialect. But growing up I was exposed to at least 3 other regional dialects so I got to practice figuring out the similarities!

I am cantonese, please make more cantonese videos!

As I’ve probably commented on other videos in the past, I absolutely adore listening to Steph’s voice - I find it to be something like a gently ticklish brain massage (fwiw you both have wonderful “vocal aesthetics,” if I may use a term I just made up - honestly that’s the main reason I follow and regularly watch the channel; I’m only mildly-to-moderately interested in the actual cooking lol but I digress…). Now, I’ve really only ever heard her speak English before, and just for context I don’t speak a lick of Cantonese (tbh I also know less about it than I do most other widely spoken languages - there is definitely a European bias to my linguistic knowledge-base), but oh my goodness, I somehow find it even more enjoyable and soothing listening to her speak Cantonese! In other words, please do make more of these. 😆

Thank you SO MUCH for making a video in Cantonese. I have been looking for more content so that I can stay in touch with my mother tongue (I speak mostly English and French, nobody to speak Cantonese with here). I hope this becomes a ritual

I speak about 5 words of Cantonese but I am somehow 8 minutes into this video and fully enjoying myself

@Bimbambommel

6 ай бұрын

Same

I know it must take a lot of work to do a video in two different languages but it is much appreciated. I'm trying to learn more Cantonese to be able to speak to my fiance's family more and it would especially be great to get used to talking about cooking in Cantonese, especially to talk to her grandmother who doesn't know any English apart from "hello" and "bye bye".

I would love a future series on old fire soups. I only know a handful of basic versions and would love to expand my database but my mom would only give approximations with no real explanations (per auntie standard) and I don't want this wonderful and comforting piece of our culinary culture to fizzle out. I know there are other channels that do teach recipes for old fire soups but you guys always include so much more background and context beyond a simple recipe ❤

Grew up in the 60s & 70s in southeast asia & yeah everything mentioned in this vid was what we had lunch dinner. brought back so many memories. Thank you so much! please do more canto version vids because I need to stay connected to the dialect!

I don’t write much Chinese but understand its vernacular. I love your Cantonese videos. Please do more!!

My family is Fuzhounese, and I grew up in a neighborhood with a good many Cantonese speakers (NYC). Being (barely lol) conversational in Mandarin and Fuzhounese, I find it fascinating how some words are closer to Fuzhounese than Mandarin, and some words are closer to Mandarin than Fuzhounese. Though I only knew a few Canto words from my best friend, this video wasn’t completely incomprehensible to me and I even learned a few new vocab today :) it was a nice little mental exercise. Definitely looking forward to more Cantonese-spoken videos! ❤

Earned my subscription on this canto version

Loved this! Been following the channel for years, and spent a few years learning Cantonese. It's hard finding content I would watch anyway that happens to be in Cantonese to keep me practicing, so hoping for more like this!

It was so nice to hear Cantonese!

I really appreciate this video being in Cantonese only! Would LOVE to see more of this

With English or Chinese subtitles (I only know Mandarin), I would so watch more of this. Steph 讲广东话很好听啊

I saw the English version first, but got excited for this one. Watching to see how good my Canto is. (It's okay enough to understand everything... enough. ) Definitely enjoyed having this in Cantonese!

I love this canto edition!!!! You are now my unofficial cousin!!! much love from Vancouver CA

正呀！感激同支持你地呢個系列！

this is so wonderful! if you do canto voice over of your previous videos i would totally watch them all again. canto feels like home.

Love hearing you in Cantonese!

it's great to hear cantonese, I can practice my vocab a bit : ) (half french/HKer here)

Lucky I speak Cantonese, being a German that lived in HK for 27 years. More Cantonese content is welcome 👌🏻

Love this! More Cantonese videos! Or segments in Cantonese even :)

Love it. Please do more!!

I have no idea what you're saying, but I found myself listening for about 5 minutes just because it sounds beautiful.

I LOVE THIS CANTO VIDEO. Hope to see more!!

i absolutely love fuyu... my favorite way to eat it is with sugar, sesame oil and eat it with rice... my grandma often eat it this way during the "vegetarian period", the 1st and 15th of the month.

I love. And I like this "cook" the premise. I often more traditional Chinese fare. One of my favorites i when "if you don't have..." oh, baby, I have, and probably too much of it. I don't do a lot of Cantonese food, but videos like this make me want to.

Love this video. I don't practice my Cantonese half than enough, but it was really great listening to this video. This video feels so nostalgic, my mom used to cook like this all the time, but since I don't live at home anymore, I don't cook like this anymore. Might have to do this once in a while when my schedule allows for it!!

Here's a comment for the algorithm engagement. Keep it going!

好親切❤

love the canto! please keep doing the occasional language in them! also this is 100% the food i grew up with, minis the bean curd because my mom didnt like it

I love love love love love love love love love love. LOVE this

It’s always interesting to hear the difference in accent between Mainland Cantonese and HK Canto (even if I can’t speak a word of it).

哈咾! 謝謝你! 我希望你繼續製做粵語videos!

@ChineseCookingDemystified

5 ай бұрын

多谢支持，以后粤菜相关内容希望可以做多D粤语旁白。

冇諗到CCD會做嗰全廣東話嘅video, 支持👍🏻

@ChineseCookingDemystified

5 ай бұрын

多谢多谢~

I would love for someone to translate a Chinese soup cook book for those of us who grew up drinking them but can't read Chinese. I would definitely pay good money for this especially if you explain why we use certain ingredients for the different seasons and if you want relief for I remember dry skin, get more collagen etc... My mum use to say "drink this it's for beauty" every soup she made was for beauty...lol... I loved them...

it's fun listening to your chinese, but....for some reason, you didn't include the captions except for the "hey amercians go to the english version." I did watch that one first, but....I dunno, I was seriously considering watching this one too if i could follow along with captions. more of an ASMR, experience than reaaaally following the lessons. *hug*

I saw the English version first, but I am def rewatching this in Canto, XD

Would love more Canto videos please!

I hope Chris is working on understanding Cantonese as well as Mandarin

@erdyantodwinugrohozheng

6 ай бұрын

And also put Chinese subtitles in it. Because majority of viewers are not Cantonese speakers, even are Mandarin speakers. So, that's why, putting/providing Chinese subtitles is important for giving information on it. That's my suggestion......

I like the sound of Cantonese. I may not understand it (learning Japanese) but it sounds i don't know smoother to me.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Steph for this video. It brought back so many comfort foods and flavors that have forgotten. Now I have to make some of these to stop my mouth from watering. Some are so easy to make, like the fermented tofu, less than 20 minutes and you'll have a piping hot 3 course meal!

love this, need to work on my canto. would be nice to have bilingual videos!

finally a chinese cooking demystified i can understand

Cantonese Steph rules! 👍🏽😋✊🏽

this was a fun video. maybe once a year around the holidays?

估吾到出左廣東話片! 正啊!

@ChineseCookingDemystified

5 ай бұрын

多谢支持~

Last time I heard Steph Canto was with her Dad in a previous video. pls more canto video! You should do a video on Canto Lo For Tong and when to have it.

more cantonese please! and if possible also with subtitles please, cos I really want to learn and improve my cantonese!

Count me among those watching this too despite not understanding a word. Might be worth exploring too. Western Cooking Demystified for Chinese viewers? :D

LOVE this

Cantonese is crazy wow

So true about being lazy and just having hot pot

Great video, more Cantonese

How do you keep things hot when trying to do so many dishes? I usually only make one or two dishes only in larger quantities (and while my parents do the whole soup thing, I don't).

Always love cooking show in my mother tongue 😅

Thanks a lot for making a vid in my mother tongue ❤

一樓！我每一次返屋企最中意飲媽媽煲啲老火湯。

你條仔啲入廚功架確係有番咁上下，好嘢！

16:44 I love how so much of our common issues with our own culture, heritage, and background comes from the trauma and frankly embarrassment of being so bitterly poor in East Asia 😂 I love canned fried dace with salted black beans, and i love having it with thai jasmine white rice. But that is the quintessential poverty food, when all you have is a small bowl of rice, a small fire or lighter, and can of fish. and i will never see it in my grandparent's or older uncle's pantry. I genuinely think it tastes a lot better than some of the overpriced king crab dishes. even snow crab tastes better than king crab.

More cantonese videos in future please!

Thank you, I greatly appreciate the canto version to share with my canto friends and to study the language. Id love to see less english videos and more subtitled canto vids, but subtitling is undertaandably bothersome.

👍

This is worth pointing out again, the disappointment in her voice when talking about minced garlic, it's the same, regardless of language, lol

YAYYYYYY

Fuck yeah, still got it.

I VASTLY prefer these videos in Cantonese actually, the videos in English almost feel like they're missing something in comparison

@canuckkat

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget that Steph is fluently multilingual. Please don't assume you know what language the two of them are working in when they create these videos. For example, she could be working in English and then have translated into Cantonese and, as she is fluent in both (or even Mandarin to English to Cantonese). The translation may feel seamless but maybe there are things being said in English that get missed in translation when it's converted into Cantonese. There's a big reason why it's very common in Hong Kong, a pidgin language of Hong Kong Cantonese and English is spoken. Some things are just conveyed better in one language. tl;dr Don't be a language gatekeeper.

@rockinstrawberries

6 ай бұрын

@@canuckkat I don't need to assume to know that I feel like I've learned more about her listening to her in her native language in one video than I ever have from all of the other ones. I feel like there's just this lightheartedness that's missing in the English ones, she uses a lot more "slang" and casual speech here in Cantonese than I've experienced from her before. I'm not sure why you accuse me of language gatekeeping? I'm not even sure which language you are accusing me of gatekeeping here. It's not offensive to say someone can express themselves more naturally in a language that they consider their mother tongue

@canuckkat

6 ай бұрын

@@rockinstrawberries I don't get that impression at all in Steph's English, so I definitely think it's confirmation bias on your front.

@Duiker36

6 ай бұрын

@@canuckkat Also, Chris says as much in the description of the English video: that her personality comes out more when she's speaking Cantonese. I think he's wrong, personally; it's mostly a different cadence of expected tonalities in Cantonese that make it sound more sassy to an American English speaker, because that kind of tonal modulation in English is usually done to make fun of the listener.

@canuckkat

6 ай бұрын

@@Duiker36 I 100% agree with you about the "sassiness"! Also it's one thing if Chris/Steph says Steph's in English isn't as strong as her Cantonese. It's another thing for a total stranger to say that she doesn't sound fluent enough in English so she should do more videos in Cantonese cuz her Cantonese is much stronger. IMO that is rude. If your Cantonese is stronger than your English and that's why you prefer Steph to do more Cantonese videos, that's fine. No one should be like the commenter I replied to and say that the English script feels like it's vastly "missing something in comparison" cuz that's rude and unnecessary, you know?

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

How come we don't "clean" the fish after blanching like we do with red meat?

@thihal123

6 ай бұрын

Probably because red meat products have a lot of myoglobin and blood and fish doesn’t?

Watched this video with my limiter cantonese, and then watched the english video for full comprehension 😂

Ah. Like when I was little, this is how we ate at home! Does Chris understand any Cantonese? I'm just curious ;-)

@ChineseCookingDemystified

5 ай бұрын

He does not actually. When you know Mandarin, you can get around and there's less incentives to learn Cantonese.

I’m too lazy to peel garlic sometimes 😂

估你唔到

还是粤语比较好听!

But surely the average Cantonese already knows what they typically eat at home.

idk why i laugh so much when the subtitle is just gone after pointing the non-cantonese speaker to the english video

Is you don't understand Cantonese, just listen for the word "gum" and you'll never be able to stop hearing it... gum... gum.... gum.... gum.... :)

@ChineseCookingDemystified

5 ай бұрын

There's even thesis studying the phoenonmenon of "gum".

oh you can speak cantonese

Remystified 😎

S，點解最後叫救命啊？點解我覺得你講廣東話似粵語殘片女主嘅？Ur speaking classical Canto lol! As Stephen’s associate and friend, i also have this sort of multi-lingual experiences. Ah yeah, when we speak a different language, we do assume a different personality. And for sure, we are most comfy, at true ease and self, when speaking our first language: Cantonese…

Somehow it does sound different from mandarin

@abydosianchulac2

6 ай бұрын

Canto has sounds/phonemes and tones Mandarin doesn't have. So even if you don't understand either language, or are completely new to tonal languages, it's like listening to Italian and French: there are similarities due to their similar background, but there's a lot to make them distinct from each other beyond vocabulary.

@Duiker36

6 ай бұрын

I mean, really, it's closer to English and French. Cantonese comes from the language spoken by the Yue people who were conquered by the Chinese long enough ago that no one bothers differentiating them anymore, and the languages mixed as a result. Kinda similar to how English has a bunch of French loan words because of the Norman conquest way back when. The difference is that pre-French English (a Germanic) was so structurally different that they couldn't integrate anything else, whereas Yue and the Beijing language were similar enough that a thorough mixing wasn't a problem. (I'm very badly oversimplifying the history for brevity, for the record, but it's a complicated topic.)

@abydosianchulac2

6 ай бұрын

@@Duiker36 Much better explanation on the historical side of things. I'd avoided using English only to provide a comparison between two related languages outside the English/Germanic family the OP might not know, as it sounds like they're observing Mandarin and Cantonese as a non-speaker, that is only on the component sounds and not the words.

:(

BRB, just gotta learn Mandarin.

@fakehombre

6 ай бұрын

Omg gurl stawp! She's speaking Cantonese

@mariopartylover10

6 ай бұрын

Instructions unclear, learning Taishanese RN

@moo422

6 ай бұрын

Her French is pretty good!

@msemilyli

6 ай бұрын

Save your time because Steph is speaking Cantonese (she even specifically wrote this in the title)

@TheHeavenlyRice

6 ай бұрын

Not sure if joke, but she’s speaking Cantonese. It’s so far different from Mandarin that I can’t understand a single word that she’s saying even though I’m fluent in Mandarin.

Never knew Cantonese is an inadequate language that needs to be supplemented by smattering of English.

@Supatsu

5 ай бұрын

Don’t be an ass. Do you have any idea what a loan word is? Do you know that every single language has long words? That’s right- almost every single language uses long words from a different language. Cantonese is no exception.

@Stabbyhara

4 ай бұрын

I really want to assume you’re not being a dick and are just weirdly blunt, but if so MY GUY, english is literally the 5 in 1 shampoo of languages. Half of your vocab is from languages english has roots in. This happens in every culture, we’re actually a standout example of it kek.