Red-cooked chicken wings | Yan Can Cook | KQED

Chef Martin Yan kicks off this episode full of his family's favorite recipes by making red-cooked chicken wings. After marinating, he browns the wings with a master sauce made with green onions, ginger, garlic, star anise, cinnamon, chicken broth, brown sugar, dry sherry, and both dark and regular soy sauce.
Then a very special guest drops by - Martin's mom! (19:15) She brings along a clay pot full of preserved vegetables to use in his stir fry pork dish. (14:36). Afterwards, she sticks around to help Martin create a healthy and flavorful dish, steamed tofu with shrimp mousse (21:10).
Martin also makes another very nourishing recipe, his uncle's favorite poached fish with sweet and sour sauce (9:37).
Yan Can Cook
Season 4, Episode 2: Yan Family Favorites
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About Yan Can Cook:
After receiving his formal restaurant training in Hong Kong, Chef Martin Yan immigrated to Calgary, Canada where he was asked to appear in a daytime news program to demonstrate Chinese cooking. The rest, as they say, is television history. In 1978, he launched the groundbreaking Chinese cooking series 'Yan Can Cook' on public television. Infused with Martin's signature humor and energy, Yan Can Cook has gone on to become a global phenomenon and has won multiple James Beard Awards.
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[@EmilyMDong]

Who likes the new intro of Martin Yan can cook or the old intro better?

[@SOSOUNDTV]

Old one, lay hou mah? Thats means hello in Cantonese.

[@EmilyMDong]

@@SOSOUNDTV I speak Cantonese actually with my family and friends. Wo hou, nei ne?

[@gameshowguy2000]

Wo hou.

[@gameshowguy2000]

If you are talking about the old Yan Can Cook and NOT his spin-off shows (Quick & Easy or Chinatowns), the new intro.

[@EmilyMDong]

@@gameshowguy2000 I agree the old one is kinda boring.

[@philandviki]

This is fantastic !!!!!! I just ordered one of his cook books ! I watched him when I was a child with my grandmother . Such great memories

[@bubblezovlove7213]

I loved watching Yan can cook so much... I was always waiting for the "loak at dis!"

[@michaelbullen3104]

L O O K A D I S

[@corylombard]

Decades of loving this guy...such a sweetheart, so talented.

[@jaredconnor]

So wonderful. I loved watching Mr. Yan cooking on TV as a kid. Truly an inspiring figure in the world of cooking.

[@leowvm6215]

Mum so sweet. And proud of you at the same time.❤️❤️❤️

[@LifeofBrinc]

Cooking shows these days don’t have this type of quality. He is still one of the best TV chefs. He still looks the same in 2022 lol.

[@docschweitz7606]

I Love you Mr Yan. I hope you are still alive. I watched you LIVE in the 80's. Your guidance and Info is TIMELESS!!! TY for YOU being YOU. Today's videos LACK compared to you. TRUTH!

[@TheBigBenji890]

I was born too late to watch this show when it first came out, but I'm so glad I found it now! Mr. Yan is awesome!!

[@vincentwong9001]

Yan's Mom is so cute 😂😂😂

[@andrewps84]

One of my favorite episodes.

[@LL-sd2fc]

There are only two kinds of chefs in the world: the one who became a chef because of mom’s awesome food and the one who became a chef because of mom’s terrible food.

[@derekdimeglio5951]

Your right on! I learned to cook because my mom thought she was a great cook... Lol😂

[@NormanLor]

A GREAT SERIES IF ONLY THE VIDEO QUALITY WAS BETTER ESPECIALLY FOR COOKING SHOWS!!

[@littlewolf9049]

I love this guy. Just discovered this show in the last year and it's become my new favorite. Ironic, considering it's from the 80's and no longer on the air. Haha, even the phrase "on the air" is outdated nowadays. It's been wild growing up and being young during the great transition to the computer/digital age.

[@brandonjanuhowskimusic3034]

You can tell he really loves his mama

[@StrongStyleNinja]

WOW! Martin Yan is the original Uncle Rodger.

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

except he's positive and not grumpy

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

except he's positive and not grumpy

[@mirandavinci4146]

Who's Uncle Roger?

[@wenqijie945]

proud of him!

[@michelleharkness7549]

KQED:again, thank you

[@kqed]

Thanks for watching, Michelle!

[@chrisandersen5635]

Wonderful.

[@misstee101]

19:08

[@simonjzhang]

This is so heart warming and touching. Hug your mom and highlight your career and her life in front of millions of witnessing eyes is THE life memorizing event. Tears. How many celabrity chefs do we see nowadays hugging their moms on their shows?

[@cyberline3]

Love this dude. Don't love all the cross contamination 🤣

[@gameshowguy2000]

On the newer shows, he makes sure to clean up.

[@michelleharkness7549]

KQED: thank you-Again, thank you

[@michelleharkness7549]

Martin Yan does an awesome job! Greetings and thanks ! again, thanks!

[@michelleharkness7549]

Fabulous!!!!

[@michelleharkness7549]

Your mother is wonderful!!!! Bless you . Again, bless you. A true joy to see you both on the show.

[@kairyokaku8607]

new episode.good.

[@EmilyMDong]

His mother is so young actually.

[@undertraderforex7230]

correct , how did you know? So Yung and his dad Tu Yung :) lol

[@lilprotein]

What did Yan add at 11:00 after green onion?

[@NoLifeStarCraft]

ginger

[@michelleharkness7549]

KQED: thank you

[@birdsandthingsbeachandbush1064]

This can be all that's around? He must have more, his show went for ages

[@aleykeg6322]

So wholesome. It's so fucking whoolsooome!!!!😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@simontaavoniku6803]

They didnt think about cross-contamination back then huh.

[@gsent56]

I was thinking about that too. Maybe salmonella was not as bad back then?

[@tjlovesrachel]

It’s not bad now…

[@marc23009]

He just shows the dishes..

[@klaimster3184]

Why do they clap when he chops?

[@donnybereznak8653]

The captions shows Martin Yan saying Cat, when he said Cod. That might want to be corrected. at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hF7YeZSNZdJ6bNE

[@水云子taoist]

I only understood one Cantonese😂

[@KL005]

SEK CHOAM LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@ztz818]

In the 80s at the height of the cold war they were showing a man from china cooking and today they're showing shooting down baloons from china what happened?

[@kelvin513]

Don’t use the preserved vegetable right from the jar or end up with dishes sanding your teeth

[@suebowman7258]

I like his cooking style, but he should wash his hands after touching raw chicken

[@wa2k99]

Diseases didn't exist back then...

[@8beef4u]

That rag he uses to wipe his hands on is a bleach rag I believe, super common for chefs. Still though, wouldn't wanna eat it. Then again, rare poultry isn't uncommon in East Asia

[@kelvin513]

Haven’t seen any rare poultry dishes in Asia tho