A 200-Year-Old Recipe for Sweet and Sour Fish - Eat China (S1E10)
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- Deep-fried sweet and sour fish-no, this isn't something from Panda Express. It's been a staple of Chinese cuisine for over 200 years.
In eastern China, "squirrel fish" is a delicacy-and it's called that because the fish is trimmed into the shape of a squirrel.
It's a deep-fried perch, dressed in a tomato-based sauce and garnished with pine nuts and sweet river shrimp. We learned how to make it at Songhelou, a restaurant in Suzhou that makes over 300,000 plates of the fish every year.
This is the 10th episode of our 13-part series on Chinese food called Eat China. In the next episode, we're going to explore the food of northern China.
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Host and Producer: Clarissa Wei
Videographer: Nathaniel Brown
Editor: Nicholas Ko
Mastering: Victor Peña
Music: Audio Network
If you want to try this at home, we have the recipe right here! gt4.life/sweetandsourfish
What kind of fish should I use for this recipe?
@@SnowPout maybe a meaty freshwater fish.
Why hasn't this channel blown up yet?
My dad never cooks but he makes that fish every CNY ! Interesting to see how it’s cooked
Hope you cover West Lake Vinegar Fish and Dongpo Pork from Hangzhou :)
*drools* dongpo rou is the frigin best!!!
@@Life-oo2tr Yes, it is :) Especially with some Dragon Well Tea (Long Jing Cha).
Love your videos. Keep up the wonderful work!!
Sooooooooo hungry. One of my favorite dishes.
starting to subs your channel cause of Dianxi's vid.. I love it, the way you speak and the cameraman did a great job. keep up the good work!
I just found your channel throu an piece you did on Apenjie and I absolutely love it.
Woah a real masterpiece! Thanks ^^.
NICE! Would love to be there to try that one out. Made me hungry but I don't think my skills are good enough to try this. Maybe someday I'll get to visit China for myself. Thanks for sharing.
Looking yummy!
Lmao Clarissa's Mandarin accent is endearing
Very good food
my favorite dish when I was in Shanghai
Wait it minutes. I think I had it before. And man it was good.
Chinese restaurant chains more than 200 years old?!! didn't know we had that!
first time I had this was at Taizi Xuan in Wuhan!
....... and that is how the corona virus spread ..... 😂
I love your videos, we Americans have these white guys always telling us stuff, your videos are real, thank you..Downey California
I would love to learn the Chinese language
Well the only thing i can say is goodluck since i heard its hard for westerners to learn chinese
Love Sang Hai.
will it work on big tilapia?
The chefs is attractive
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this is my favorite chinese food but here they serve it with bones on
im part chinese but this dish is uncommon here, i just know it from genshin impact game and to me its one of the most appealing dishes there. im drooling... i wonder if we can replicate this in our measly home kitchen with out small wok...
The Chef's using only 1 knife to cut, hack and de-bone the fish!
Can I ask where did the tomatoes come from during the 18th century? I heard tomatoes is a new world crop. Did China have their own version of a tomato?
Linda’s Channel hi! Producer here. That’s a great question. Tomatoes arrived in China sometime in the late 16th or early 17th from South America.
Clarissa W thanks for the response. ❤️That makes a lot of sense. Didn’t know access to The America’s dates that far back. That’s really interesting
@@Ladeliciadelinda Yep! Many ingredients like chili and potatoes and tomatoes came through Portuguese or Spanish maritime trade routes. In Chinese, tomato is 番茄 fan qie...which literally translates to foreign eggplant. Eggplant is in the same plant family as tomato!
Clarissa W wow shows how bad I am with my Chinese. 😂I am from a Cantonese speaking family. And the word tomato in Cantonese (faan keh) is similar to Mandarin. It never occurred to me it meant foreign eggplant as my grandma always called eggplant “ay gwah” but then again she spoke Taishanese and even then I am not confident that meant eggplant 😅Language is so interesting ❤️
@@Ladeliciadelinda There’s actually another way to say 番茄(fan qie), 西紅柿(xi hong shi); just a fun fact i wanted to share!
My dad makes this whenever he gets into trouble with me 😂. It doesn’t have to be perch, and for my fellow OCDers... yes, it’s immensely satisfying to pick all the chunks off the back :D
Real Asian Dad give you whack when you get into trouble.... what you mean get into trouble with you
@@bsolutions525 He has a quick temper that comes on fast and loses steam just as fast. So “get into trouble with me” as in he jumps to conclusions before figuring out the whole story, which results in me ignoring him until he apologizes.
But more importantly... it works only as I am the favorite child (i.e. child with best grades growing up).
1:19 300k?! That’s like 800 per day
A big part of the chinses cuisine is live fish
Precisely, us southerners love it, people who say it isnt are just from another corner of China.
Holy fuck I haven’t eaten that since I was in China..
This would put off many westerners who do not like to be reminded that the fish they eat was alive and flapping before it was killed and cut up.
That is so saccarry .
没王刚做得好
Wat the bout th egg rool
Lookwise yucky 🤮 taste wise yummy
It agonizes me to listen to this girl’s Mandarin Chinese......
Cmon she is trying her best! I think it is cute
Clarissa you can stop this for a while till the corona virus is over
They probably have stopped filming for the time being and just releasing the videos that they've already got as when they've finished the post production. The channel need to release the videos or else they won't get the ad revenue and pay their staff
Corona's favorite meal
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Improve your hair stye please !!!
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Ur mom promised me on bad, that u won't be this annoying anymore.