That was absolutely beautiful! Do you know what the leaves were that she picked and threw in with the noodles?

Yummy, Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. Yes, i wondered if it was an amaranth, but the leaves seemed sturdier than the amaranths we grow down here. Anyway, that was the most beautiful Chinese cooking video I've ever seen.

Beautiful!

Would the greens be Tung Choy or water spinach?

There are many more so savor them. I often get to work early so I will watch one in the mornings. At the beginning she did all the filming, sound, editing on her phone.

I'm envious of the huge twin woks!

Woks are interesting multipurpose cooking pots, that are used for frying and boiling. The sloped walls mean the center is hotter than the sides, which is useful. I have never seen, even in videos, a giant wok setup as cool as that one.

I wonder how much of a problem it is to not be able to pour things out of the wok. For example, seems you'd want to drain off the excess oil used to fry the beef before continuing the soup?

That seems like something to make this weekend.

Another question for those who know Asian vegetables well. Those red onions. I've noticed them, too, in the videos of an Indian youtube channel I used to watch quite a bit. They don't seem to be much like red onions as we know them in the US, more like a huge shallot. Does anyone know anything about those and whether the flavor is more shallot-y or our kind of red onion-y?

Wow...that was really nice! The woks blew me away, and the colors of all the food. Thanks, sleevendog! :-)

Beautiful! I can see that there are more uses for a "pizza" oven then just baking bread and pizza. I loved that the other person in the video was her elderly mother.

Simply the nicest thing I've seen all day. In every way.

Beautiful. Peaceful. Thank you.

Mesmerizing, couldn't look away. Watched a few more and made myself stop! Thank you!

Just lovely to watch.

Thanks for posting this. It was lovely.

Dccarch, there's a video from about a year earlier where she built the oven. I think she used too much clay (she got directions from the internet) because it cracked a lot, so she seems to keep adding more layers on the exterior in later videos. Originally it looked like a cat, with the vents in the ears.

For anyone who wants to try this at home, here's a video on the western-style version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0foHjPVbP4

It circulates air out the front. I'd be curious to know which manner of venting is more effective.

The short version of the story is her parents divorced when she was young. Her father passed away. Her grandparents raised her and her brother. They both moved to the city when old enough. Odd jobs... in a kitchen, (maybe waitress as well) then did or along with, DJ at night. When her grandfather passed she went back to the family farm to take care of her grandmother. Needing income tried on-line selling, then started making some videos posting on another platform more common in China. Not that successful but some started cross posting on youtube.

She lived a modern life for half a dozen years so it makes sense to welcome seeds from all over. Potatoes have been grown in China since trades just maybe not that popular?. Obviously some things she remembers from her childhood. Thankfully her grandmother is still alive to teach as well as learning on-line.

Amazing video. There are many videos made. Each generates millions of views. Obviously she couldn't be experts in all of these video. It's all about presentation.

I like this one, which generated over 8 million views so far:

Yeah, it's about silk making, but actually silkworm farming has a lot to do with food.

Many years ago I was traveling in China. In a village, I visited a silk making family. This is how they make silk.

Silkworms only eat mulberry leaves. They planted many mulberry trees around a large pond. In the pond the family raised carps.

The mulberry trees produced leaves for the silk worms and berries for people. After the worms matured and spun themselves into silky cocoons and molted into shiny pupae (chrysalis.) Just like in her video, the cocoons were boiled to harvest the silk. In this village, the villagers would deep fry the leftover boiled pupae and eat or sell them as snacks. I ate a few. They were delicious.

As the silk worms grew, they would make lots of droppings. The droppings would be thrown into the pond to feed the carps, and the carps of course would become delicious protein on the dinning table.

It was an amazing 100% environmental renewable food chain system.

dcarch

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Not that successful but some started cross posting on youtube.

She evidently has somewhere between 10 and 15 million followers on Weibo (although she only went viral fairly recently), so I'd say that's pretty successful, much more than her youtube, which generates no income for her, since those are posted for her by people outside China.

I do wish she weren't branching out with MRE-type meals, though. She should find a way to let people into the fantasy, not kill it. But I guess we all have to live.