Chinese Cooking Demystified: Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li visit Shaxi!

This week on Sinica: On my final two days in Shaxi in Yunnan, Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li, the hosts of the marvelous YouTube channel Chinese Cooking Demystified, joined me for some cooking and lots of chatting about food! We recorded this show together and focus our conversation on their heroic attempt at a taxonomy of different Chinese cuisines. We don't talk about all 63 that they identify, but we do get into their 04:31 - Flavors of Yunnan  08:44 - On balancing between the “exotic” and “normal” China  11:53 - The origin story behind “Chinese Cooking Demystified” 14:56 - The Breath of the Wok (Wok Hei, 鑊氣 / huo6 hei3) 21:05 - A Comprehensive Taxonomy on Chinese Cuisine  32:25 - Correlations between dialects and cuisine  37:15 - Efforts behind the work 39:09 - Promoting local specialties 44:23 - Chinese identity and food trends 52:30 - "Minority" cuisine in Yunnan 01:00:52 - Yunnan cuisine and the Chinese hipster generation 01:05:52 - Dali dish recommendations Recommendations:  Chris & Steph: Shunde Lao Baby, Pin Nuo, Lao Dongbei Kaiser: Taking time off to do something you love! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.