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…
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