Yan Can Cook; 614; Best of China -- Streets of Beijing

If. I. High in my opinion picking a big because today we're going to visit Beijing that capital of China Beijing is a vibrant city of 11 million people and the colon they're a focal point of northern China. These Smithfield dumplings can be found in cups or restaurants all over the city. So can these delicate Penne fried green onion cakes and of course the traditional savory chill that you always read in a like paying cake to eat from the streets of Beijing. Next on yen can cook the best of China.

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coach Joe travel throughout China on a journey covering more than 50000 miles. We explore the history and culture and the best of Chinese cuisine from all of the regions. Our journey began in Beijing where we found people constantly on the move. When you take a stroll down the famous tenement square you will be swept away by sea a bicycle as it is surely an unforgivable sight on Martin come along with me on a journey. John plays a very dear to my heart. The place where I was and raised China. Sandra China has been a land of unparalleled diversity of culture religion geography people and of course delicious food. In recent years China has opened its doors to the world and now welcomes over 10 million visitors a year. This open door policy along with the new economic reforms has

introduced many restaurant owners to the splendors of China. And brought a new kind of diversity of the country in the form of Western products and instruments just. From electronic goods and move fast food restaurants. I'm going to take you on a Conan our cultural journey on this. OK you want to most of us have never seen before. Starting right. I can't let us on this corner. Don't worry. Have any baby nice and they won't tell you 10 good reason why you love Beijing dumplings. I only have one they are still really delicious. That's reason why I love it. That's the reason why I want to show you how to do it. This is a very common very popular dumpling that everybody make at home daily weekly particularly around Chinese New Year in France where they make the whole thing it's like a one dish meal here. I want to quickly show you the ingredient by how

you can eat or make your own dope. OK from the flour. Make your own just make some flour and water and you make them let it rest a little bit. You make your own dough. Either that or you go to the store and buy all kinds of red first like there's likely to look at all these wonderful wrappers you can buy one ton wrappers and all you have to do is use a cookie cutter and just cut it and then you have a wrong rappers like this. OK nice wrong wrappers used about 3 inch diameter and then you can also buy parts to cook repr so caustic correct person or be always a repost is available all over the country in all supermarkets and they're nice and round the pasta can represent a liberal thinker. Then the one time ever let me quickly show you they're actually twice as. Look a look at the the thinking is OK now that they have about twice as thick. So that means when you do dumplings you have to have a thinker repr. So first I want to show

you how to make the bold course and I will tell you what I'm going to put in the top selling here. I am going to show you how easy it is OK. This is very very easy and it's interesting to do. Look at that. I have these repartee here. Look at that. No repr. And I hold onto this and I go one two three and four you see you just hold onto it like that and then you go like that. You go like that. You go dead and you go like that. OK. Right. And then put a tiny bit of flour here. Slow motion like that. And then I press the. It's OK but it is nice and round and I used this rolling pin a tiny star rolling pin and I go like that hole into the center and I go wrote it in wrote in wrote it in wrote in wrote it in wrote in wrote it in. Wrote it in wrote it in wrote in wrote it in and wrote it in you look at that perfect

perfect circle like this. OK after that we set it aside. We're at another one. OK look at that I wrote it in. Wrote it in. Wrote it in. Wrote it in wrote it in wrote it in wrote it in wrote it in rolled it in wrote it in nice perfect circle like that was set aside and then more show you. How to Think. Now when all of this direct person is not available all of these read person available. OK all of these available let's set aside nice and round. Look at that perfectly run like hell. OK very interesting. Everybody can do it at home. Now when this or next to ready we're going to get the feeling OK here are some grindingly you can use grandpop you can use Granted you can just draw anything and have some care be straight. It and salted a little bit and squeezed the water out. I put it in OK put it in about 1 to 1 portion. OK this way is a lot of meat and vegetable and put some. Now

normally restaurant do not use this but we want to make it nice and causing some chopped mushrooms she talkin much stronger and also to make it our wonderful very unique We also do some Chinese sausage This is Chinese pork sausage. OK we put upon a bit of busines. You can also use chicken sausage. OK and also a tiny bit of ginger and a tiny bit of green onion. OK look at that and then you mix it up and you put a tiny bit of white pepper a kind of a soy sauce. Look at that but it's so saws and a tiny bit of cornstarch. Sugar and then nice and wonderful. Look at that mixed mixed or more hours. Now if I were you I won't use my hand to do it much more for you. Christian OK for winning a round of a tough steak takes 6 million years. So you do it by him. Look at that. All already mixed already nice and then will

so that the sign of put right here and I want to show everybody how to forward this. OK very easy. When this is all nice and ready we remove all of these. OK and then we show everybody how to do it. I have a little spoon. OK now everybody look this is the code that I had just me and I use approximately this much right here so that now you don't even have to use water for this boat that you are home made dole. All you have to do is put it approximately one heaping teaspoon or one tablespoon you push it like this or that and you go one and you press. And you press for that and you press and you press and you press and you press and you press and you press and you have a nice dumpling shit like death.

Sit right there this is the home make dumb point and we'll put it on the site but the thing that you can buy in the store you can also do it like this but without the very very simple. OK Ron keeping teased born but others. Everybody look one pink he's born a lot of stuff this is a hungry persons stuff and they use a tiny bit of water. You put it right here. Half moon but that just from here to here and then you start forwarding it like this look at squeezed in and then your plea is used to push those in push push. Push and you push and you push and you push and you push mower that you have a beautiful dumb point you sink this ship this ship this ship to another sit there like death and you have an other dumb point. Now we have make a whole bunch of these for everybody so everybody can enjoy their

own home. Now look at that. Let's clean up all always a good idea. The first thing you do is heat up your frying pan right here look at that low get this to me at this dump and you can make it home starting from the flower and want to make your own dome or you go to the storm by some one can read her parts to correct her. And Joan do you rappers and do it again and would turn this song and with the first thing we do is wrong look at that. This is hard enough. I'm. Hot and you brung it look at that you can actually tell the browning of browning it. OK. Brown it line them all up like this one tool three. Four five. Look at your line them all up like that. Very simple. Lying them all up. N. Brown it runs down the bottom is brown. You think you do not have the ticket out. Then you put water on broth and let the steam let the whole thing steam you cover it and I want to show you how the powers you have brown. First of all the good that is already brown.

Take a look at this nicely browned. Look at it. It's already brown so when it's almost brown you put this tiny bit of homemade soup stocks look at that about one third of a cup to one out of a cup and you'll cover this off another steam farmhouse six to eight minutes until most of warning that print and the bottom is perfectly round just like this a little instead of this I want to take this out so everybody can see this OK now I want to show you. We'll clean this up. All look at that. We take this towel. And I want to show you how easy it is to serve this just perfectly OK. Very nice very nice. Very nice. Take them or I'll. OK let's shut this off. I want to show you how easy this is to some of these and you serve with two different sauce. One is the chili oil one is vinegar and you can mix them

more up your them show you. You put this sideways like this one. OK. Two and then three easy and then four five and then six. And then put them all together put the more together and then you serve with the chili Oreo and a tiny bit of vinegar. OK and of course garnish a little bit and that's what you have baby dumpling. Now our next recipes for green only includes all you can call agreeing that onion pinking is like some cookbook order. OK here I have some dough Mikkel flour hot water and a tiny bit of shortening. OK let her rest for a little while and then we'll roll this out Rhoda style rodent style

and all I need is about half as much as was David for the other half and then I roll this out. I want to show you something very interesting. OK. That two way of doing it. First rewrote it I'll and we'll cut this up. With a knife and you can cut it up like this and cut it up and you wrote it and you cut it up and you wrote it and put it up or you can throw it like that. OK they use their fingers. They just go snap it off they snap it off and they snap it off. This how they do it much faster. OK I thought this was all nice and done and then you all rolled them all up put some flour on your cutting board. Nice clean cutting board. And you'll a road there stop ok road is stop and you have a not don't want to show you the first one first OK. Now like this. And then you'll go one OK and then you turn to the other side. You go one.

Make sure they are nice and then you roll and you'll roll. Make sure and your role and your role and your role. Make sure your rolling pin is. Just OK roll it I'll throw it up. I wrote it I wrote it I wrote it out and wrote it down. OK and then Abdulla wrote it I'll. Have you put out tiny tiny about all of our shortening all your bullshit right here this is one of the way of doing it OK. Shortening shortening shortening not too much. OK about 21 or so and then you put some salt and a bit of salt. Kind of a song on a timer to green only in pain a bit of green in the end and a bit of green in the end I'm kind of a silent troll. Normally they don't use a lentil but I put that in anyway in fact you can even put some

meat for him inside you can put anything and then you wrote it out wrote it out and wrote it out wrote it out good as you just wrote it out like this you just wrote it and you wrote it and you wrote it and then you twisted twisted twisted this to is just and you twisted and then you present this. Look at your prez this and then you who wrote it I wrote it I only wrote it out and you wrote it out and you wrote it out and you'll continue to write it out or make sure and you wrote it out and all the only in is inside or the onion is inside. You wrote it you wrote it I know and you wrote it out and then you have won over here. OK very simple. Now want to show you another one. OK very simple this is something everybody can do at home. Very easy to do.

Now look at that one. Put it right in the middle. OK right in the middle and then you only have to root it out and link right there that look look at just the time. A bit rode it out lengthwise. OK Ling Ling's wife lengthwise lengthwise lengthwise laying OK nice pieces like that and then you put all of these stuff put a tiny bit of OK right in the middle point and filling Ryan a middle right in the middle I hear oh this is dot shortening and then you put them at a green onion right in the middle. Some central right in the middle right in the middle and then append a bit of salt right in the middle. OK and then you wrote it up and look at that. Very interesting you wrote it up. Hold it hold it and you wrote it and then you'll present this a little bit and then you'll fall again.

Look at you fold it again. You forward it one more time for that very interesting. You'll forward it one more time and then you twist this on this end so that like a donut you twist it you see this opening. You twist and you put it right here and then you press it you know what you have a donut. Look at that you have a donor. So we're going are we basically have to show you how to build both of them. Now when you are done with it we're going to cut cut. First you get all these if you could both at the same time this is like a Chinese donut. OK put it right here right here and then put it right here. OK. Turn it up Turn it up. Yes you are look at that pen fighter and then you do a big one. All a small one the big one first through the whole thing to do that immediately cooking this will look at that. You'll come in approximately 1 to 20 was an oil look at us you'll probably

until the nice thing Gordon Brown of course we already have done one ahead of time look at this nice and brown and this is done. Pick it out. Who'll look at that beautiful wood pick this style which is already done ahead of time and would show you how easy it is to do this. Have a nice look at that in my all purpose knife and you cut it up. Cut it up and you've cut it up and I want to show you how easy it is. You go one you go to and you go three and you know what you have you go one you go to and you go free. You know what you have. You know how beautiful green onion pink at night invading the streets are a lie you what the. And allies in a row of all kinds of fun. Every night around dinner time whole street comes alive.

Look at all of these people eating Ryan a lot of history. The only place I know where you can get stuck going to traffic jam and have dinner at the same time. Coming here is like taking a crash course in Chinese. You're going to write everything from just next to the search dishes from Manchuria yun. Tongue to. A gene and more. On Wednesday. There's a saying the Chinese would anything want to politics and anything that surprised. In fact this is a really special session is this week's dinner and I'm going to order a couple of these balls and I'm going to join in this is a typical cold groaning. To the market every day by full bicycle it is hard work. But running a market stall can actually be quite profitable. Lately I should try it. But it is this girl is not killing or slicing a carrot. She's actually making her

own make sure no one goes wow. What a close shave. This dish found salmonella or nightshade lubes comes from the sun she promised to notice the show used to order into a big pot of boiling water. Then be good in all kinds of condom is the en route chart I have tried and it's wonderful. In this store. You can have dinner and being entertained at the same time of a song from this beautiful girl this is just rice noodles with Chick fil A. But we must remove all kinds of seasonings I call for TELL ME. Look at this this is definitely and it is and Salon next. Can you still make the roots one marinated mutton on skewers. We were over hot coals on the skin. Any popular street food it takes to keep everything from burning and I

find it is really I couldn't get to him. I'm starving it's a wonderful time to strike might be a very famous specialty in fact in just two months a little league a small fortune in a few more months I'll be going Oh you'll be at the house so I wasn't on my going to know his one my favorite from the bank market is actually sold pay the chewable. Q And then you put in a rep or and I want to show you how to do it very simple and we'll put it here first. First I'm going to get all the thing ready. First the rock oh look at the heat up the walk a frying pan put a time but oil get all the filling ready but you got to chew it. OK and then you put some garlic. Would put some garlic and then some shredded must draw and throw That's what you're all Chloe and also some heavy.

All look at the head of the office. There are third is again what a tiny bit of try even you can find some yellow tie is optional. OK and then some green onions. Oh let it cook all while everything is here and also some being sprawled fresh greens grow let across a little while and a kind of a sissy so long all the time it rolls sugar look at that one as I never saw any stars and let it cool for a little while. Let's look at the odds of that. I feel comfy as you know what you can feel it. OK let me chill. To lose temperature you can we even put in the fridge the already very tasty it was finished by itself and then put them all together and then after you already you cut out some of these. OK agunot stick them all out and you go. Look at that. This is already done. Cut them all out and also put it in your to a vegetable mixture right here.

Then I want to show you how easy it is to cook fish lettuce soup. Let's shut it off and turn it on and we can kill the hero. I want to show you how easy it is to make it OK here. I have some rice flour rice paper you can buy and mentally store rice paper and sheets like this. All you have to do all you can use one ton wrappers are a spring roll wrappers. All you have to do is used a spray sprays of water sprayed is allowed to sit for a few seconds okay a minute or so until there's softened. Then you can use it here. I have one piece right here. OK let's clean this up. Not dry very very dry and I put this right here for that. I put this wire one heaping table's boon a little who wrote it up. Look at that very very simple road is stop road this road is not right before you finish. You put some horse genes passed and a tiny bit of so lentil right in the middle and you wrote it

up and you wrote it up. You know what you have a beautiful. Let's put it and serve it right here OK. Let's put it right here so everybody can see how beautiful this Cheeto vegetable Romo. Thank you for traveling with us today and enjoy this. Remember if you like it. I call the number on your screen. Enjoy more than one hundred twenty five. Step by step recipes. More than a beautiful color photograph of Martin's own cooking technique. Call 1 800. 730 600 for your copy of MARTIN Yeah cookie is made possible by.

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