Eat China Special: Eastern Sweets (E3)

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.
Shanghai is the home of pan-fried buns and the best soup dumplings. We uncover a 200-year-old recipe for sweet and sour fish, and find out how the people here cook a local version of shrimp ceviche.
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0:00 Introduction
3:29 Shanghai food tour + the best scallion pancakes in town
11:15 Harvesting hairy crabs
15:12 How to make traditional sweet and sour fish
19:49 The world’s smallest wonton
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Producer: Clarissa Wei
Videographers: Nathaniel Brown, Beimeng Fu, Jiakai Lou, and Shirley Xu
Editors: Nicholas Ko, Mario Chui, and Joel Roche
Animation: Ray Ngan
Mastering: Victor Peña
Special Thanks: Wilson Mao
Music: Audio Network
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[@revolutionarycomrade]

I would love for you guys to do a special on old Imperial Cuisine 😻

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[@AsianPoshDorene]

That precious little girl eating the dumpling.... so adorable 🥰

[@AmerzBubble]

I really enjoy these videos and love Clarissa. As these videos reach a more broader audience who may or may not speak Chinese I hope the city names can be pronounced correctly going forward to avoid confusion.

[@marcuskim9123]

This series is great. It shows China in the prism of cuisine. Love this.

[@anniec734]

This is so cool! I hope there's also an episode coming about the north/north east. It's so hard to find since so many videos focus on Shanghai and Sichuan! My boyfriend is from Shenyang, Liaoning and I always love to learn about his culture!

[@edwardchan6976]

This series is awesome, great job! I love exploring the regionality of Chinese cuisine. You guys deserve more views!

[@SteelCurious]

Love this series!

[@kylefang2377]

Love these food adventures!

[@elimiranda2069]

Love this series 😍😍

[@2010XJP]

The foods in this video are exquisitely beautiful and delicious. Thanks 🤤😋👍

[@EatAwayTV]

Enjoyed the whole episode start to end, the hairy crabs are awesome. And the panfried buns 😄

[@glynislailann9056]

Oh wow. My mouth is watering 😋. Now I need to make dumplings, scallion pancakes & sweet & sour deep fried fish.

[@wonhome2711]

thanks for sharing the regional cuisine of China

[@Just-YOLANDA-T.C]

Excellent episode.

[@MikeChowda]

my ancestral home. I love eating Shanghai food

[@jmhsieh7103]

Taiwan seems to have a lot of Shanghai and jiangsu culture it looks like wow.

[@Life-oo2tr]

I'm DYING! I want those pan fried buns so badly T_T.

[@alanchen8272]

Why you only mentioned jiangsu and shanghai? Zhejiang is also the typical representative of this area.

[@dankmemer9731]

A+ documentary

[@duncanmit5307]

💜💜💜💜💜👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@eg1197]

Do some vegetarian eatery

[@heesingsia4634]

Tried my hand at making the squirrel fish a week ago. Difficult when it came to the cutting part. Needless to say it didn't turn out quite as eye pleasing as I expected but it tasted alright. Might need a few more practice rounds to get the flower shape of the fish right

[@user-kv4lx3ex3c]

Angry Zhejianger's noise

[@maggiejetson7904]

1:27 That's tofu? WTF?

[@aps125]

yep this dish is what Chinese called 文思豆腐. Using concentrated chick based stock for flavor with really thin shredded tofu for garnish

[@syoukiko4818]

江浙沪集合🙋‍♂️

[@alanchen8272]

话说这个视频不提浙江是几个意思

[@aps125]

The scallion pancake shop featured in this video is the famous Ada Pancake aka 阿大葱油饼. But I have to be honest with you, this is Not the authentic version of Shanghai style scallion pancake. It’s way too greasy. This is what the locals refer as pan fry pancake or 油煎饼.

[@sinnio5006]

Yangzhou is the main core of huaiyang cuisine, why did you not go there to observe the real eastern china cuisine?

[@frankkarauwan8964]

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[@adal3737]

I'm not the first one to comment on Clarissa's minnan/taiwan accent. I love this channel and I respect dialect accents. But I do wish she would at least use standard mandarin pronunciation for names of places, considering her role as the producer. "Yang ceng" instead of "Yang cheng" and "Sang hai" instead of "Shanghai".... Kind of makes me cringe.

[@gaylayaffa7655]

YESSSSSSSS

[@ZoeCuiM]

Yes. I cringe everytime she speaks in Mandarin.

[@bh3326]

Gayla Yaffa you aren’t even chinese. Why do you even cringe

[@neofils]

As such she should change her American accent to the British R.P accent?????

[@adal3737]

@@neofils there is no universally "standard" English. But there is a standard/official Mandarin (Putonghua). People use standard Mandarin for formal affairs and on TV. I speak a Chinese dialect but I use standard Mandarin at work and in official settings. If I had to film and produce a show, I'd speak in standard Mandarin too. But then again, this is a preference of mine. As is the opinion above... My opinion.

[@neggy2926]

"chinese will eat anything that fly,walk,crawl, and swim as long as it breathe"

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[@MrBoliao98]

Beijing Food tasted like crap compared to this, so salty, oily and disgusting, Southern food is more refined, and good quality ingredients.

[@kevinlecavalier3377]

Sad your using old footage!!!! Disgusting

[@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters]

What are you going on about? This is a compilation video around the stated theme, it's not meant to be new content in the first place.

[@bh3326]

Kevin should make his own shit. Wtf you complaining about a free channel for? Did you make as good content?

[@kevinlecavalier3377]

@@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters Doesn’t say it is a compilation ass hat, it says it aired on a Asian Food Network when it actually had portions on You Tube. Don’t be a hater and appreciate other’s opinions.

[@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters]

@@kevinlecavalier3377 Hey man, I asked you a legit question without any insults. You're the one throwing around "disgusting" and "asshat" and you're saying I'm the hater here?

[@kevinlecavalier3377]

@@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters yep...your the hater for sure

[@alanleealanlee]

Love this series !