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Most of great food
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is fissile spectacle
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resulting from combination
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and crash of different ingredients.
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If compare it with human relationship,
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some would be regarded as amazing perfect match.
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Some meet by chance but touched us deeply.
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Some can only make us regret not letting them meet sooner.
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Human activities lead to the gathering of food.
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The separation and reunion of food,
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on the other hand, also controls people.
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What Westerners called "destiny",
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is called "Yuan fen" by Chinese.
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August, when Xilinx Goi Prairie just woke up,
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Wu Liji is taking his cattle to his own meadow.
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Abundant land provides ailment to cattle and flock.
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It also gives birth to a rare fairy.
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Komo after drying up
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is full of Guanylic acid salt.
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Herdsmen use chicken to cook with it,
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which could lift the taste manyfold.
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He Fuzhi, a Komo businessman,
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often drive hundreds kilometers to buy mushroom.
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Komo only grows on fairy rings.
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It depends on the deepness of grass to identify it.
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Thanks to a substance that mushroom secrete,
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grass obtain higher content of chlorophyll
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and we get to see this fascinating phenomena.
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He Fuzhi is going to Wu Liji`s place
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to ask for harvest of mushroom.
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He(何)`s daughter Yufeng is 23-year old.
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Returning back to home, the prairie, after university graduation.
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My mother has been seriously ill
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and always needs someone to look after her.
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Besides, my father is already over fifty.
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Have you dried all the mushroom you picked in the sun?
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Yes, we have.
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Is this everything you have?
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Yes, we only have this small amount.
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Do you have white mushroom?
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No, we only have this ceiling type (one type of mushroom).
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White mushroom
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s the most precious kind of Komo.
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It could get sold up to more than 2000 yuan per kilogram
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after dried in the sun. They had a small harvest this year.
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Herdmen have started
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to storage forage for cattle and flock
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which means the season for Komo is coming to an end.
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He(何) and his daughter decided to try one last time.
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Mushroom yields nicely
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and has better quality in this time of the year.
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Many people are calling
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to urge for white mushroom.
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Dad, there`s nothing.
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Come back then. Let`s go.
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Germinating Komo requires the favor of rain.
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The rain in the forecast, however, hasn`t made its arrival.
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He(何) is not resigned to the current situation.
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He decided to stay at herdsman`s place with his daughter
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and keep waiting.
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The prairie after rain is fresh as washed.
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White mushroom finally appears on fairy rings.
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Dad, go over there and check.
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Let`s go to that fairy ring.
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There`s a lot. Yes. You see.
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There are so many.
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Hurry up. Let`s pick them up. Look at this little one.
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He(何) and his daughter know,
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their wishes
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will finally come true after these few days
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Uncle, it`s getting dark.
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It`s going to rain. Let`s go back home.
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Hurry up.
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Let`s go.
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After sing about Youmian, let`s sing about Komo.
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Komo has tons of beautiful reputations.
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400 kilometers south of Xilinx Goi Prairie is Zhangjiakou, which
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used to be one of the passes for Great Wall in the classic time.
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It was the throat for commercial activities between the central
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and north China. It is also the place that made Komo famous.
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White mushroom
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has thick fat context and tastes fine and smooth.
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It is the finest kind for Komo.
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Put dried mushroom in boiled water and let it absorb.
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After two to three hours,
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white mushroom reverts to its plump shape.
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Put the original soup of Komo aside.
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Pour fresh water inside. Repeatedly stir it.
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Changing three or four times fresh water and stirring
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for thousands of times until all the dirt has been removed.
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Winter bamboo shoots produced from Jiangnan,
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2000 kilometers away, traveled across thousands of
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mountains and rivers when it met Komo for the first time.
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Slice dried bamboo shoots and white mushroom that has
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absorbed enough water. Boil slices in soup-stock
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and then use heavy oil and slow fire to fry those slices.
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When oil infused into ingredients,
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Komo slices grow into full figure and become smooth.
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Bamboo root slices also found its crisp taste.
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Add Komo`s original soup in the end.
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Winter bamboo shoots from south of Long River meet Komo from north of the Great Wall. 10200:08:15,300 --> 00:08:16,580This accidental gathering achieved the dish "Hui Nan Bei" (Fried South and North).
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This famous dish, which has more than 300-year history, from north China,
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not only created one delicacy
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but also bring us limitless spatial imagination.
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Ta-liang Mountains
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have the most iconic seasoning
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in south-west China,
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round pepper.
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This plant fruit, which is originally produced in China,
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would lead to 50 times per second slight prickings
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and strike nerves during eating.
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Chinese
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call this kind of feeling “maâ€
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Tujia, an ethnic minority
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living in Dalou Mountains, 11700:09:04,410 --> 00:09:07,560knows how to cultivate the best pod pepper
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whose pungency degree could reach 500,000 Scoville,
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which means it needs 500,000 times of water
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to dilute its pungency completely.
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After pepper got imported from America to China,
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it developed rapidly.
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Gradually replaced local spice
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and hold the leading role for delicacies.
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These two kinds of food materials
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finally gathered at the same city,
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Chongqing.
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It is the hottest season of the year,
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Chongqing people are keen to
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a type of food with higher temperature.
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Zhang Ping opened a hot-pot restaurant
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named after his wife.
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Because of this restaurant,
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they are having a stable life
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with their children.
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At 10 pm,
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when the delicious spicy smell
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is still floating above the city,
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at the stuffy and muggy hall way entrance,
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Zhang Ping started frying and making seasoning.
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Mix "Chao Tian Hong" (a kind of pod pepper) from Chong Qing
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from Chong Qing with He Nan province`s
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“Xin Yi Daiâ€
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The former has the strongest spicy taste,
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while the latter one is full of Red Chillies Extract,
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giving hot pot gorgeous color.
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Another secret for Chong Qing hot pot
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is butter which can effectively absorb chili
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and round pepper`s taste.
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Thick broad-bean sauce and fermented soy bean could thicken the soup.
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Bruised ginger would make the spice multi-layers
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and full of changes.
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Da Hong Pao (a type of round pepper) from Mao Wen has strong taste of "Ma"
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while Jin Yang blue round pepper has stronger fragrant.
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What is more important than having authentic food materials
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are Zhang Ping`s hands.
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Non-stop frying
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helped fragrant subjects infiltrate into oil.
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After boiling, fragrant elements are released more.
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For the past 10 years, Zhang Ping believes no one but himself on this.
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One all-night cooking with three huge pots of basic hot pot
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seasoning, It could support the restaurant for five days.
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Except for the secret of seasoning, one should also
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give credits to Chong Qing people`s magical handling
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for food materials for the special taste of hot pot.
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Board muscle is the aorta for cattle or swine.
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There`s a layer of membrane that affects taste
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but hard to get tore.
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Wear gloves that could increase friction
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and rip this membrane down carefully.
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Experienced workers could handle 1000 pieces per day.
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could handle 1000 pieces per day.
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Mao Du, took from cattle`s third stomach, of which
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Chong Qing people only make use of the leaf part, 17500:12:52,510 --> 00:12:55,560is thin enough and has a giant surface.
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A huge amount of seasoning could get attached to
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its surface and give it a strong taste.
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After a short blanching, people can feel
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the smoothness the second they put it in the mouth.
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Together with the crispy taste after putting
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strength on the teeth, all make one addicted.
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Except for these,
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duck lung, gizzard, Corydoras, lunch meat
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and many other ingredients for common people
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get together in Chong Qing hot pot
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and give out a magical effect.
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Generally people believe that morden hot pots
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are originally imported to Central China by hordes
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from the north and developed into different forms.
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Beijing has meat hot pot.
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Its mutton slices is thin as paper
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aiming for the softness of meat.
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Mushroom hot pot from Yunnan province
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has fresh and sweet mushroom.
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It`s famous for the scented taste.
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Chaoshan`s beef ball in its beef hot pot
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is juicy and celebrated for its chewy,
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tough texture.
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Hot pot represents the most of
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Chinese people`s yearning
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for family gathering and happy time with others.
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But, as for the love for hot pot,
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no one can compare with people from Chongqing.
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In this city in mountain, there are more than 20,000 hot pot restaurants.
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In every 30 people from Chongqing, there is one
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having a hot pot related career.
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The combination of round pepper and chili
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not only created a passionate crush
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between taste bud and nerve,
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but also represents a crossing continents gathering between Asia and America.
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These two amazing spices,
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not only achieved the hot summer taste of Chongqing,
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but also made Chongqing hot pot
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popular in more than half of China.
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Food travels across the sea
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and gather at one place.
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People`s traveling
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brings huger changes to food.
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In Shenzhen, the youngest city in China,
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new immigrants brought
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their various customs to meet here.
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When their original accents fade out,
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boarders between different local food and tastes
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have been fuzzed as well.
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Some people say
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no one would feel homesick in the city of Shenzhen.
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This new city, however,
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also has its aborigines.
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Villagers from Xiasha village are having an ancestor-worship ceremony,
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along with which is a banquet.
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Purchasing and cooking
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almost 5000 kilogram food materials are anything but easy.
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It relies on the cooperation of the whole village.
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Washing, cutting and chopping more than ten kinds of food
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are assigned to different families at the same time.
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In this giant kitchen, 23700:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,160almost 30 villagers
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are engaging in this cooking mission.
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Conger-pike eel,
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squid,
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cuttlefish,
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radish
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and oyster,
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every kind of ingredients are undergoing intensive cooking.
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Light taste radish are put at the bottom.
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Seafood and meat with heavy taste are added layer by layer.
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This way it follows geometric principle
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as well as gastronomical logic.
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So many kinds of food are cooked separately and then put together
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in the same pot. Tastes interinfiltrate and this is Poon Choi.
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Although there`s only one pot of dish on each table,
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there`s something of each food in the other which referring to
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the motto of their ethnic clan.
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Food and people
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are both gathering for reunion.
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People from Shenzhen call Xiasha villagers “aboriginesâ€
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But actually, they haven`t settled down here
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until about 800 years ago.
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Almost at the same period, another group of their ancestor
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found the destination of their journey to the south in Jiangnan
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which is on the opposite side of the river with their hometown.
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In history, Chinese Song dynasty moved their capital to Hangzhou
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due to war has given Hangzhou a sense of Central China.
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To make Xihucuyu (West lake vinegar fish), 26500:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,370one needs to cut grass carp into two pieces, “Ciâ€
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The “Xiongâ€
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at the third cut at waist fin.
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Put fish in boiling water.
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Add soy sauce,
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cooking wine, sugar, wet starch
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and vinegar after blanched it thoroughly.
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Stirring until it becomes dense.
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This is the famous Hangzhou sweet and sour dish.
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In the north, although it`s also sweet and sour style,
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Kaifeng people would fry the carp thoroughly first
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and then add sugar, vinegar, ginger mash,
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cooking wine and water starch.
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After finished, putting Longxumian (thin noodles) on the top.
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Eating noodles with fish soup is Central China`s way of eating.
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The connection between Kaifeng and Hangzhou
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could also be seen from dim sum.
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Guantangbao (soup dumplings) in Kaifeng,
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after several evolutional changes,
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established its current shape.
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Dumpling skin is made from unleavened dough.
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After mixing water for three times and adding flour
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for three times, the skin becomes pliable and smooth
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with no soup leakage and no skin fall off.
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Beat the dough repeatedly till it become white and bright,
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reaching the standard of “white in color, pliable in textureâ€
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Using water when make the stuffing could let the dumpling
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full of soup as well as guarantee a refreshing taste.
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Workers with more than five years training
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move their fingers really fast
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and fold 18 creases within seconds.
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Steamed bun in Hangzhou
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adopted classic skills from Kaifeng.
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Chop pork jelly into small pieces and mix them with other stuffing.
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Pork jelly would melt into soup after heated.
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This is the secret
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for Steam buns` juiciness and rich taste.
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Scholars claim that Hangzhou
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is the enclave for Central China.
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Proof is the unnatural rhotic vowel in Hangzhou dialect.
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The food, Pian`er chuan
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is the most convincing evidence.
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Inconspicuous restaurant in a not fancy location
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but always has a flood of customers.
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Even now, this noodle restaurant only has seven tables.
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Open for half of the day.
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Take two-month summer vacation every year.
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But none of these stops Hangzhou people`s
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passion for a bowl of Pian`er Chuan.
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Everyday after closing the restaurant,
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Yan Baofu would clean the in and out.
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Some people asked me
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whether I have some kind of disease. I said maybe.
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No one would insisting on cleaning so thoroughly
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for decades without having disorder.
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It`s not for a month or two but everyday.
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There are not many people doing this.
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This insistency
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also shows on his choice of food materials.
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Every from 5 am, the restaurant starts to get busy.
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Using pig fat to make oil
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is able to sustain the tasty smell of noodles.
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Summer and winter, the production of bamboo root
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would not always be satisfying.
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But for the continued meeting between human and bamboo roots,
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Yan would go everywhere in the outskirts of Hangzhou.
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Try to buy the most seasonable bamboo roots
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and invite them to his steaming bowls.
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Pickled cabbage needs to use the first harvested batch.
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The ratio between leave and stem is also important
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that Yan has to check it himself.
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Bamboo shoot slices and pickled cabbage, white and blue,
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fresh and sour, are both from Jiangnan,
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following their season closely.
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Slightly blanched noodle in boiled water
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is apparently the inheritance of north style noodle.
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No matter how exciting and thrilling the history is,
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when it comes to food, everything looks so simple.
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For tradition,
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people from Kaifeng have a obstinate persistency.
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Newly renovated ancient city and replica for traditional
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cruise does not exist only for attracting tourists
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but also showing their hidden proudness.
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If the “Fang shiâ€
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has established the rudiment for Kaifeng`s current city structure,
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Shanghai, on the other hand,
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provides us a model for modern city.
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This city`s taste is
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as complicated as its own historical identity.
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It is exquisite, fashionable
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but also full of civil life.
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More than 170 years ago, Shanghai opened its gate to westners.
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Western food, along with western culture, moved into Shanghai in a strong pose
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which once became the elegant symbol for “Modern Timeâ€
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Shanghai people, however,
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always have a way to shorten the distance with food.
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Borsch and fried pork chop
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have finally assimilated as part of Shanghai taste.
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Two potato salad sets.
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Zhou Yongle used to live abroad for many years.
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He has seen a variety kinds of western food. But,
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deep inside of him, what he cherished the most is still
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the Shanghai style western food from his childhood memory.
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To tenderize meat,
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use meat hammer to beat it.
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Loosened pork chop is going through three steps,
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dipping into egg
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and wrapping with flour repeatedly.
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After dipping into egg for the third time,
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wrap the chop with breadcrumbs instead.
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In this way, fried pork chop would be
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crispy on the outside and soft and delicate
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in the inside instead of being too oily.
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Eating Shanghai fried pork chop
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has to go with spicy soy sauce
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which is sweet, sour and a little spicy,
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to effectively neutralize the oily taste.
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Spicy soy sauce is actually an imported goods
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from the UK which can be made fast.
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There`s a really similar sauce
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in Guangdong province.
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Worcestershire sauce is the standard sauce for
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Canto-style dim sum, spring roll and beef ball.
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Chinese soy sauce, however, is the product of fermentation.
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Wash and boil soybean. Scatter aspergillus oryzae
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over it to help with the fermentation process.
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Put them into giant bamboo plaque to evaporate water.
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Finally, add crude salt before sealing the jar.
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With nourishment from sunshine and raindrops,
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it requires half a year to complete perfect soy sauce.
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Some are yearning the old Shanghai
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in western restaurants on the Bund.
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Others, on the other hand, is going miles away
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to trace for their second hometown.
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In the year of 1966, Dong Cuihua was 16-year old.
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She was on her way for her first trip to the west.
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Back then, 100,000 young people from Shanghai went to
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Sinkiang to participate in agricultural production.
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The minute I graduated from school,
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I went to Sinkiang.
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So the place that witness my personal growth 40600:27:43,170 --> 00:27:46,040and the shinning part of my life is Sinkiang.
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Sinkiang which has the longest history of food transmission,
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is at the very west end of China.
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Food materials and seasonings from all over the world are gathering here.
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Hamiti`s family is preparing for lunch,
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stewed mutton
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with hand-rolled noodles.
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This dish with meat and wheaten food
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is called Naren.
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A good Naren has to be
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scattered with onion at the end.
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From the day of import,
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onion has been loved by the locals
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who gave it a nickname. "Pi yazi"
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Nowadays, goods imported from uncharted oceans
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has also transmitted here
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and become the largest chili planting area
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on gobi desert.
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Ingredients from different areas provided possibilities
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for the birth of one single dish.
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Chop a whole chicken
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and cut capsicums and potato into pieces.
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Fry sugar till it turns golden and then put chicken in it.
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Add the symbolic chili pepper for Sichuan style
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and Gansu people`s favorite potato.
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Use the Central China cooking style, fry-first-stew-second
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to infiltrate meat and vegetable with each other.
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With amylum in potato,
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delicious chicken soup has richer flavor.
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Put Shanxi style belt-wide noodle at the end
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and all flavors are here.
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The constant change and converge of Big plate chicken is satisfying
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the desire for tastes of people from everywhere in China.
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The big plate of Sinkiang
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is not only bearing food and condiments
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but also witnessing the crash of wisdom in food
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from different ethnic clans.
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The village, Shihezi, closely next to sandy bay, used to be
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a small village used by soldiers from Qing dynasty for reclamation.
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In the middle of last century, millions of people
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came here to dedicate in developing and constructing projects
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which made this place have a great variety of food custom.
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45 hours and 4100 kilometers,
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Dong Cuihua spent four days and four nights when she arrived here for the first time.
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Dapanji, roasted dumpling,
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shelves of meat, hourse intestine and Latiaozi
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accompanied her
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for the best time of her life.
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Sandy farm road
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has been replaced by neat street.
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A reunion after such a long time,
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her second hometown has been through countless hanges
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during this whole time.
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History is a story for spectators,
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but self-experienced happiness and sentimentality
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for people who has gone through them.
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After going back to Shanghai, Dong Cuihua cooked by herself
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and made the compulsory dish for educated youth reunion, Dapanji.
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Delicacies are excuses, pretexts and especially,
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taste memory of the time they shared
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bitterness and enjoyed happiness together.
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One kind of food
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connects the two hometowns that witnessed their steps.
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In the fluctuant time,
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Chinese are used to using food to shorten
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the distance between an alien land with their homeland.
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More than 60 years ago,
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after the Kuomingtang retreated to Taiwan,
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families of garrison are emplaced in Juan village.
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One can still see the mixture of different tastes
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in south gate market,
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tofu sausage from Sichuan,
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jinhua ham in Zhejiang,
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Shanghai`s osmanthus cake.
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Converging of different groups of people
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provide possibilities for food innovation.
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Beef noodle from Juan village emerges as time required.
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Use heel muscle
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which has tendon and full of colloid for beef
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and become pliable but strong after stewed.
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Stir-fry ginger and shallot in oil
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with fermented soy bean and broad-bean sauce.
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Putting these seasonings into beef Bulalo
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and soup for beef noodle is finished.
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Cut heel muscles into big pieces and stew until flavors filter into it.
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Put noodle in boiling water just for a moment
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to keep its tenacity as possible.
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In Taiwan, there are many beef noodle
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named themselves as Sichuan taste.
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This let people easily associate it with
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the land of abundance--Sichuan.
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Shenhai well is the only reserved traditional
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well-salt workshop in the city of Zigong.
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Tianche, a special facility for extracting well-salt.
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Zigoing is has the longest history
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for cooking beef in Sichuan.
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In the era without electronic machinery,
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cattle is the major power source.
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This place has more than 2000 years history of producing salt.
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Extract brine from thousand meters under-earth stratum
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and then deliver the brine to stove room.
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Chinese wisdom about transforming soybean
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could also apply here.
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There are lots of impurities in brine.
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By adding soybean milk,
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calcium ion in brine would
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combine with proteins in soybean milk
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and form solids.
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Repeat this several times
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until impurities have all been taken out.
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Now it`s the matter of time.
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White crystals gradually appear.
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Continue heating
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and water would go down while salt comes out.
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Workers here have simple and robust meals.
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Especially the beef,it has magically
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similar way of cooking with Taiwan.
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Fry broad-bean sauce, dried pepper and round pepper first,
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and then put blanched beef and radish inside. 52500:36:08,890 --> 00:36:11,890Next, use light heat to stew them slowly.
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Of course, salt is absolutely necessary.
520
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Self-made well salt
521
00:36:15,093 --> 00:36:17,093
could stimulate and trigger out
522
00:36:17,093 --> 00:36:19,093
the tasty sweetness of beef and radish.
523
00:36:21,049 --> 00:36:23,091
Well salt set the base taste
524
00:36:23,091 --> 00:36:24,153
for Sichuan food.
525
00:36:27,007 --> 00:36:30,088
Stewed beef, the symbolic dish for traditional
526
00:36:31,082 --> 00:36:34,085
well-salt workers. But it goes the best with rice.
527
00:36:35,088 --> 00:36:37,106
Even in Zigong`s traditional snack,
528
00:36:38,006 --> 00:36:40,073
there`s no record about stewed beef noodle.
529
00:36:44,045 --> 00:36:45,053
As for beef noodle from Juan village,
530
00:36:46,044 --> 00:36:48,044
the general accepted idea is that
531
00:36:48,076 --> 00:36:49,157
after many Sichuan people moved to Taiwan,
532
00:36:50,057 --> 00:36:52,116
they developed their skills
533
00:36:53,016 --> 00:36:57,053
according to different needs.
534
00:37:03,024 --> 00:37:05,092
Hao Zhiyu who is settling in Chongqing is returning to his hometown.
535
00:37:06,038 --> 00:37:09,043
Walking on the road in Juan village with a huge luggage
536
00:37:10,002 --> 00:37:12,074
has been reduplicated for countless times.
537
00:37:19,037 --> 00:37:21,123
His sister, Hao Shufen, has her own beef noodle restaurant.
538
00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:22,166
Inside the luggage,
539
00:37:23,066 --> 00:37:25,161
it has the secret for her self-made exclusive deliciousness.
540
00:37:38,045 --> 00:37:39,123
His father, who is originally from Sichuan, comes
541
00:37:40,007 --> 00:37:41,078
after hearing the news. This father has left
542
00:37:42,052 --> 00:37:44,110
his hometown in a very young age and run for life ever after.
543
00:37:47,052 --> 00:37:50,081
Round pepper is one of the seasonings,
544
00:37:50,081 --> 00:37:51,150
his sister asked Hao to bring from thousands miles away.
545
00:37:53,089 --> 00:37:53,158
Is it okay?
546
00:37:54,058 --> 00:37:54,136
Yes, it`s really ma.
547
00:38:03,077 --> 00:38:04,098
Zhiyu, you are back.
548
00:38:04,098 --> 00:38:05,122
Hi dad.
549
00:38:06,008 --> 00:38:07,017
It`s really happy to see you.
550
00:38:08,014 --> 00:38:09,058
You brought so many stuff this time.
551
00:38:09,058 --> 00:38:10,095
Sis needs all of them.
552
00:38:12,014 --> 00:38:14,052
Under the same name of beef noodle, 56000:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,330different Juan village have their own style.
553
00:38:18,006 --> 00:38:20,015
“62-gram noodleâ€
554
00:38:21,024 --> 00:38:23,056
All the seasonings are for it.
555
00:38:30,029 --> 00:38:33,052
Making spicy pepper oil is simple but it requires original
556
00:38:33,066 --> 00:38:37,129
and authentic ingredients to make it spicy, tasty and attractive.
557
00:38:39,004 --> 00:38:42,006
With it, even if the extreme mediocre noodle
558
00:38:42,006 --> 00:38:45,080
could have fascinating taste in a second.
559
00:38:52,007 --> 00:38:55,059
Chinese using mixed five flavors to describe human life
560
00:38:56,071 --> 00:38:58,078
is because they understand that taste
561
00:38:58,078 --> 00:39:01,081
is the unchangeable homesickness deep inside everyone.
562
00:39:09,078 --> 00:39:10,121
The taste of Juan village
563
00:39:11,033 --> 00:39:13,122
is actually the taste for one of the Taiwanese generation.
564
00:39:14,093 --> 00:39:16,116
Here, the difference between hometown and alien-land
565
00:39:17,016 --> 00:39:20,112
is vaguer and vaguer.
566
00:39:37,012 --> 00:39:39,067
Zhang Shizhong, a retired boat-header,
567
00:39:39,081 --> 00:39:41,130
is living in a fishing harbor on the east side coastal
568
00:39:42,003 --> 00:39:42,094
of Zhejiang province, Shipu.
569
00:39:45,014 --> 00:39:46,111
Under the tranquil life,
570
00:39:47,028 --> 00:39:49,083
this old man has his secret story.
571
00:39:50,033 --> 00:39:53,086
This year, he wants to achieve his wish
572
00:39:53,099 --> 00:39:54,145
of going to Taiwan.
573
00:39:58,034 --> 00:39:59,091
On this side of the strait,
574
00:40:00,014 --> 00:40:03,072
he is a father, a husband and Zhang Shizhong.
575
00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:05,134
On the other side of the strait, however,
576
00:40:06,034 --> 00:40:09,110
he is a son, a brother and Xu Langxiu(used name).
577
00:40:14,002 --> 00:40:15,050
Langxiu, my brother, how do you do.
578
00:40:15,069 --> 00:40:17,075
It`s been a long time since last letter.
579
00:40:18,024 --> 00:40:19,060
How are you?
580
00:40:19,061 --> 00:40:21,134
I feel really sorry. Please forgive me, my brother.
581
00:40:22,036 --> 00:40:23,037
This is your brother.
582
00:40:23,054 --> 00:40:24,087
This is your sister and your brother-in-law.
583
00:40:29,096 --> 00:40:32,114
Qiaocai is the most regular seen sea food here.
584
00:40:33,048 --> 00:40:36,103
Take out the flesh and fry it with cut luffa.
585
00:40:37,003 --> 00:40:39,003
This way it could keep their original taste to the maximum.
586
00:40:44,025 --> 00:40:45,094
Qiaocai is officially called mussel
587
00:40:46,017 --> 00:40:47,113
which has fresh, tasty and fat flesh.
588
00:40:48,062 --> 00:40:50,103
It`s produced in every sea area in the world
589
00:40:51,003 --> 00:40:53,067
and become a world class delicacy.
590
00:40:57,004 --> 00:40:59,073
Mussel is the favorite for French chief.
591
00:41:00,028 --> 00:41:02,030
They would use condiments to lift the taste
592
00:41:02,089 --> 00:41:04,144
and wine to rich the layers of mussel`s texture
593
00:41:05,044 --> 00:41:07,141
also remove the fishy smell.
594
00:41:15,072 --> 00:41:18,087
Are AE the English alphabets?
595
00:41:20,008 --> 00:41:22,044
A call from Zhang`s brother-in-law from Taiwan,
596
00:41:22,044 --> 00:41:24,044
confirming his schedule carefully.
597
00:41:24,094 --> 00:41:25,181
For a 76-year-old man,
598
00:41:26,081 --> 00:41:28,133
traveling this far is not a easy thing.
599
00:41:43,065 --> 00:41:46,069
Ke Xiuquan is the brother-in-law from the other end of the phone.
600
00:41:47,048 --> 00:41:49,096
This is my wife and this are my two grandsons. 60900:41:53,690 --> 00:41:56,050These are pictures more than twenty years ago.
601
00:41:55,037 --> 00:41:58,082
Ever since his wife passed away, he`s been living by himself.
602
00:41:59,072 --> 00:42:00,134
Too quiet life has made him
603
00:42:01,034 --> 00:42:04,048
really look forward to the arrival of his brother-in-law.
604
00:42:05,061 --> 00:42:08,076
Fugang the new village is also called "small Shipu"
605
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
since fishermen from elephant hill Shipu
606
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,048
who followed Kuomintang moved here.
607
00:42:18,054 --> 00:42:21,112
Yushan island is where Zhang`s family left.
608
00:42:23,009 --> 00:42:25,080
Zhang was attending a school in Shipu town at then.
609
00:42:26,089 --> 00:42:28,093
They were segregated in two places
610
00:42:29,006 --> 00:42:31,019
and got apart in different parts of the world ever since.
611
00:42:32,093 --> 00:42:34,099
This island is at the joint of north and south ocean current
612
00:42:35,069 --> 00:42:38,126
that is rich in sea products with mussel growing all over reefs.
613
00:42:44,009 --> 00:42:45,082
Age never gave mercy to any one.
614
00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:49,097
The gains is positively related to limited physical strength.
615
00:42:50,086 --> 00:42:53,179
No to mention, the real delicious mussel is at the bottom of the sea.
616
00:43:00,041 --> 00:43:03,052
It requires high level cooperation when collect by divers.
617
00:43:03,052 --> 00:43:05,123
One is the diver, the other one steers a boat.
618
00:43:11,073 --> 00:43:14,129
Mussel adheres tightly on undersea reefs by byssi
619
00:43:15,029 --> 00:43:18,055
and has to be took down by crooked chisel.
620
00:43:41,038 --> 00:43:42,125
Young men brought their harvest
621
00:43:43,025 --> 00:43:45,089
and old man`s wishes back on shore.
622
00:43:54,022 --> 00:43:56,054
Fresh mussel has to be handle quickly.
623
00:43:56,085 --> 00:43:59,161
Stew it in boiling water till the shell opens. Take out flesh
624
00:44:02,038 --> 00:44:05,066
and cut off byssus that could affect taste.
625
00:44:19,032 --> 00:44:22,130
From May to August, it is the fishing off season.
626
00:44:28,044 --> 00:44:30,130
Sunshine in this seaside village could produce mussel flesh
627
00:44:31,003 --> 00:44:33,046
in beautiful shape.
628
00:44:36,069 --> 00:44:38,095
The departure date for Zhang Zhizhong is approaching. 63800:44:42,690 --> 00:44:44,680Mussel flesh, called "dan cai" by locals,
629
00:44:42,002 --> 00:44:44,008
is also ready.
630
00:45:42,014 --> 00:45:43,107
I didn`t see you, Langxiu.
631
00:45:45,011 --> 00:45:46,073
Come to my place first.
632
00:45:46,073 --> 00:45:48,130
Let`s go to dinner at ah sou(sister-in-law)`s home afterwards.
633
00:45:50,003 --> 00:45:52,031
Ah sou arranged a place for you to stay.
634
00:45:52,062 --> 00:45:54,108
My place is too empty.
635
00:45:55,008 --> 00:45:56,012
This is sea product from Yushan islands. This is anchovy.
636
00:45:56,048 --> 00:45:56,056
Oh, qiaocai.
637
00:45:57,033 --> 00:45:58,072
Yes, this is qiaocai.
638
00:45:59,067 --> 00:46:00,073
This is dancai.
639
00:46:01,075 --> 00:46:02,127
And this is anchovy.
640
00:46:19,065 --> 00:46:20,069
Elderlies think that
641
00:46:21,005 --> 00:46:22,086
it is their ancestors and ruyi empress`s bless
642
00:46:22,086 --> 00:46:25,088
that they could have this reunion.
643
00:46:29,056 --> 00:46:31,082
Sister-in-law is preparing dinner at home.
644
00:46:32,049 --> 00:46:33,130
Except for regular seafood,
645
00:46:34,003 --> 00:46:37,009
she also prepares the dish of stewed pig`s feet with daylily.
646
00:46:37,098 --> 00:46:40,172
This used to be the specialty dish for Zhang`s sister.
647
00:46:47,078 --> 00:46:49,100
Having a dinner together with all family members
648
00:46:50,024 --> 00:46:51,031
is the simplest wish for every Chinese.
649
00:46:51,094 --> 00:46:53,140
For some, however,
650
00:46:55,006 --> 00:46:56,070
they need to wait
651
00:46:56,007 --> 00:46:58,007
for half a century
652
00:46:58,007 --> 00:47:00,071
to accomplish this wish.
653
00:47:03,061 --> 00:47:06,087
Daylily is ready for harvest in this season in Taichung.
654
00:47:07,045 --> 00:47:09,084
It has another name,
655
00:47:11,012 --> 00:47:12,077
forget-me-not.
656
00:47:18,042 --> 00:47:19,089
Good harvest of mushroom
657
00:47:19,089 --> 00:47:21,145
rewarded He Fuzhi on the prairie.
658
00:47:23,059 --> 00:47:24,112
Yan Baofu`s family
659
00:47:25,012 --> 00:47:27,021
is enjoying the rare relaxing time in a year
660
00:47:28,002 --> 00:47:30,046
by treating themselves a feast.
661
00:47:34,037 --> 00:47:36,056
The returning date for Zhang Shizhong is coming.
662
00:47:36,065 --> 00:47:37,129
Saying goodbyes to all the friends and families,
663
00:47:39,035 --> 00:47:42,042
they don`t know when the next reunion will be.
664
00:47:50,092 --> 00:47:51,187
From east to west, south to the river to
665
00:47:52,087 --> 00:47:54,134
north to the Great Wall, human migrations lead to
666
00:47:55,034 --> 00:47:58,097
the gathering of food. The separation and reunion
667
00:47:58,097 --> 00:48:01,179
of food, on the other hand, also witness the same of people.
668
00:48:03,066 --> 00:48:05,072
However, is it the human who changed food
669
00:48:06,026 --> 00:48:08,098
or food that has changed human?
670
00:48:09,057 --> 00:48:11,124
The dish on the table
671
00:48:12,024 --> 00:48:14,078
and taste on the tongue
672
00:48:14,097 --> 00:48:16,170
would nevertheless,
673
00:48:17,092 --> 00:48:18,164
tell us the full story.
674
00:48:27,016 --> 00:48:29,032
Mountains, forests
675
00:48:31,008 --> 00:48:32,036
rivers
676
00:48:32,061 --> 00:48:33,149
prairie
677
00:48:35,067 --> 00:48:36,121
and desert,
678
00:48:37,032 --> 00:48:39,060
places that are too far to reach,
679
00:48:39,006 --> 00:48:42,007
are hidden what kinds of delicacies that are unknown to us?
680
00:48:43,005 --> 00:48:45,013
How did human cooperate with the nature
681
00:48:45,085 --> 00:48:48,112
to inherit ancient tastes and dishes till now?
682
00:48:49,053 --> 00:48:51,145
Secret land is taking us to search and discover
683
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special people and special food.
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