"Home where life begins is also one's ultimate safe harbor" "Under the same roof they cook together, eat together" "They use food to unite and consolate family members" "Though pots and pans are everydayness they are symbols of Chinese living style and more of a reflection of the Chinese ethics" "People grow up in love be apart" "reunite" "In some sense, enjoy home cooking is also an experience of various tastes of life" "T'ai-hang Mountains known as the geographical boundaries of the eastern China are canyons created by geological movement" "Quartzite stones from a billion years ago are exposed here" "Valleys are connected and arable lands are scarce" "Xiaoyou Zhao and his son must seize the time to complete the harvest before the white dews" "Corn is the only kind of grain they are planting" "Summer heat makes the corn mature too early" "The land at the cliff edge occupies a total of 1000 square meters" "The land is used for corn planting which only can bring 2000 yuan annual income" "In the ancestral house 5 kilometers away" "Xiaoyou's wife Ronghua Cheng's work is also toilsome" "Corn originally comes from the South American but enjoys a 400 years of cultivation history in China" "People use stone mill that weighs about 300 kilograms to grind corn into powder in order to make food" "The youngest daughter-in-law comes back home with potatoes she digs" "The eldest daughter-in-law comes home to help" "Under the lead of their mother-in-law" "They three together is going to make lunch for the whole family" "Flour needs to be added in to corn powder to increase stickiness" "In the old China, flour is very precious and expensive" "Sometimes people have to use tree bark to replace flour" "It is with such kind of method and thought that Ronghua Cheng feeds the whole family" "Since harvest is a major event for the Zhao family every family member has to do something to help" "The tunnel hanging on the cliff connects the village to the world" "The tunnel takes 30 years of the whole villagers to build by hand" "Corn batter and leek sections together can make delicious steamed buns which win favor of all the family members" "Based on the lever principle, people squeeze dough into strips" "Northerners name those strips---Hele" "Hele bad stands by the side of the cooking bench therefore strips can go directly into the pot" "As long as the grain be grounded into powder" "Every ShanXi man is gifted with cooked wheaten food making" "Huozhou city is in the central of Shanxi Province" "People make more delicate cooked wheaten food there" "Thanks to their sophisticated techniques of making cooked wheaten food days and food seem no longer tedious" "There is a tradition that newlywed daughter has to return to her mother's home on the third day of the wedding" "Her mother's side of the family will make steamed jujube buns to welcome their daughter" "The number and pattern of the bun are said to reflect how much the daughter is loved by the family" "Therefore every mom takes it very seriously" "Steaming is one of China's most classic form of home cooking" "In Tianmen City Hubei Province" "Housewives know how to make full use of the heat Tianmen City Hubei Province" "Housewives know how to make full use of the heat to finish cooking vegetables and rice at the same time" "These dishes can not only retain their original taste and flavor but also maintain their original shape" "Hele itself is plain so it must go together with strong sauce to reach its best taste" "After this meal more onerous labor is waiting for the husbands" "Long before tables and chairs are invented" "Chinese people are serving meals individually" "After about 1400 years" "Chinese people begin to sit around the table to have meals together" "Four generations reunite to celebrate the harvest" "Common as the home-cooked meals might be the order and orientation of the seat arrangement are paid special attention to" "Grandpa is 90 years old and being a farmer in most of his life" "The seat facing the courtyard door is always saved for him" "This is the respect that traditionally the young shows to the old in China" "With the food planted and made by themselves on the table the whole family enjoys the contentment and joy comes from the tillage" "No matter where they are as long as there is an important occasion every one will come home and sit around the table to appreciate the kinship and mutual support of the family members" "That is why a family can prosperous continuously under such harsh environment" "1000 kilometers away from the farming land is China's most prosperous city---Shanghai" "Ziyu is 16 years old" "Five years ago she came to Shanghai from Henan to attend school" "The mother is preparing dinner" "The mother and the daughter rent a 15 square meters apartment near the school" "There is no private bathroom and four households have to share one kitchen" "The good news is the rental fee is cheap" "This is the home they have in Shanghai" "Most of these teenagers have similar experience" "They come from all over China" "They have learnt musical instruments for more than 10 years and all go through a strict selection" "Their goal is to become professional performers" "Ziyu began to learn viola since she was 4" "She had been to Wuhan and Beijing to attend a better school" "After Ziyu had been admitted by a school in Shanghai her mom quit the job and became a full-time study accompany of her daughter" "All their living expenses are supported by the father" "To better support their daughter to go abroad to compete and perform" "The father never visits Shanghai in 5 years" "For a better education of their children parents are willing to leave their hometown and travel all cross the country" "It is a common choice of many one-child families in China" "For Ziyu" "Viola takes up almost all of her life" "Her mother's life is more flexible in order to buy fresh ingredients she would go to big supermarket that is more far away" "Although she has to live a frugal life she does everything she can to ensure her daughter's nutrition" "Ziyu is now a teenager whoes body is growing besides that she has to stand to practice viola eight hours a day" "The mother needs to provide her daughter energy supply in time" "Meat is rich in fat and the fat can be transformed into calories which equals to twice the amout of protein and carbohydrates" "The best streaky pork is the kind of meat that with the pig skin on it and layers of fat and lean in it" "Ziyu's mom learn how to make this dish from their neighbor after they settle in Shanghai" "In the Han recipes bouilli does not have a long history but enjoys the most popularity" "Pork and soy sauce are common ingredients" "It does not require many advanced skills to make this dish but only takes time and patience" "This makes bouilli a classic Chinese home-cooking dish" "Gastronomers will use high heat to bake the pork skin" "The skin will contract quickly under the heat so that the meat can still be tough and chewy even stewed for a long time" "The dark red color is the symbol of bouilli" "To obtain this color one can add soy sauce red kojie rice or fermented bean curd to it" "Every housewife has her own recipe of bouilli" "Broth can not be wasted" "No matter what ingredients you put in it after saturated with soup will all become bouilli's best mix" "Every household has its own favor of the duration and degree of heating and the taste of the dish" "Compared to the techniques it is the intention that matters the most" "Set the table for dinner sweetheart" "Sure" "Remember to select the music you wanna listen at dinner" "Mom dinner ready yet" "Right away" "Dinner's ready" "Try this bouilli" "Shanghai bouilli" "Henan ramen and Berlioz's music together makes up mom's reserved recipe" "Her body movements are quite exaggerated" "but the atmosphere has been lightened by her" "You see" "She totally rules the stage" "Please have some too mom" "Sure" "The viola class is one on one and once per week" "Today Ziyu is having an extra class" "Try it yourself" "OK" "Mr.Sheng is a very strict teacher" "The international competition and solo concert is imminent" "Ziyu must seize every minute to practice" "This is the fourth notebook that mom has made for her daughter ach one of them is 5cm thick" "Her mom never misses any of Ziyu's practice lessons" "Good job" "Well done" "Welcome" "Most Chinese believe family should stay together at full moon night of August of the lunar calendar" "Mr.Sheng knows that Ziyu and her mom can not go back to their hometown to celebrate the festival" "We eat dumplings to celebrate the New Year" "When guests visit the best way to welcome them is to serve dumplings" "Likewise" "I haven't been home for several years and I miss dumplings the most" "I am sure those dumplings are very delicious" "Mr. Sheng is also a northerner" "Like Ziyu" "Mr.Sheng traveled to many places to study and finally he settled down in Shanghai" "A family dinner cannot go without dumplings and Shanghai bouilli" "Ziyu eat some more" "In order to apply visa" "The mother learned how to write English letter by refering to a dictionary" "Except practicing viola the mother takes care of all the chores for her daughter alone like collecting materials and tablatures" "We haven't been back to our hometown even once for five years" "Grandmother is seriously ill this year" "She has been under a dozen of chemotherapies" "I am afraid to take her back home" "For Ziyu I am a qualified mother but for the entire family" "I am nothing" "I haven't done anything for the family my husband and my parents" "I feel like I haven't fufill any obligations of the family" "In this 5 years" "I" "Just as passing down the mother tongue language" "Mother deeply rooted the taste into child's memory" "This is an unconscious instinct" "Once these seeds germinate" "No matter how far the child goes" "The familiar taste will remind the child where the home is" "Tong Wu's work is an emerging profession" "He is the leader of Hiking Club" "He never shies away from his personal life" "After his parents divorced when he was 10 years old" "Whenever he remembers home he remembers his aunt's pickle jar" "His aunt leaves in Meishan City" "Today she is going to welcome Tong Wu home" "Pickle which has a unique crisp and sour taste makes signature dishes of Sichuan people" "Sichuan cuisine is rich in flavor" "To create complex flavor pickle is one essential seasoning" "In order to make authentic pickle fish pickled ginger and chili are important" "Hot oil can help extract the spicy flavor and release acidic substances which will not only make fish delicate in taste but also wipe off the raw smell" "The large mint leaves add an exotic aroma to the hot and sour soup" "Sister aunt" "I am home" "You are home" "Tong is back" "Where have you been these days" "I've been to Kangding" "Kangding" "Look at your hair" "Meal is ready" "Time to eat the most beautiful fish I've cooked" "Here comes the fish" "Cheers" "Come on cheers" "Happy holidays" "I lived in my aunt's home since I was little" "She has the sharpest tongue but the warmest heart" "She is so afraid that she can't take good care of me and she could not explain to my parents" "My aunt ask me what I wanna eat every time I come back" "I say anything is fine every time" "That kind of feeling is home cooking dishes are delicious no matter what the dishes are" "Try this" "Eat some more" "If you come to Sichuan you will know what pickle means for Sichuan people" "Every household has pickles and the tastes vary from one to another" "Each has its own advantages" "Aunt's recipe of making pickle involves the most tender and fresh seasonal vegetables" "Wash them thoroughly before salting" "Airing under the eaves" "Make the vegetables slightly dehydrated" "Salt and cold boiled water mix together with the ratio of 1:50" "Radishes tender ginger" "Cowpeas add chili to enhance the flavor garlic to sterilize and pepper to improve the aroma" "Everything is ready" "It is time to put "old salt water" into the pickle jars" "It equals to the yeast" "With it the harmful and bad bacteria can be suppressed and the number of lactic acid bacteria will prevail" "With the help of lactic acid bacteria" "The sugar in the vegetables will turn into lactic acid which creates the sour flavor of the pickle" "Pour water into the edge of the jars to block the air and bacteria" "About ten days after microorganisms' hard work vegetables are given new vigor" "The bright color and greenness of the vegetables fade awayv" "Clear crisp and sour pickles come into being" "There is another kind of pickle which is Tong's favorite" "His aunt gets this recipe from grandmother" "Put fresh vegetables and cooked chicken claws into the pickle water" "It takes only one day to make an irresistible tasty dish" "Come here and taste this" "The claw is the perfect picnic food to bring outdoors to share with friends" "I wanna have three" "We haven't got any yet" "Who" "Me" "Be careful and take care of yourself" "Got it" "Good" "Remember to take care" "Sure" "Be safe" "Next time I will make more delicious dishes for you" "I don't say much with my family but when I am with friends" "I can feel it" "I am a totally different person" "If my parents had not divorced and I've been around them the whole time" "I may have another kind of character" "Starting again" "Tong Wu suddenly decided to go to Leshan to visit his father who lives alone" "Tong" "Yes Dad" "These are chicken claws with pickle" "Nice" "Since Tong Wu has to be on his way shortly he only has one hour to spend with his dad" "In the on-call room" "Simple dishes" "Father and son that haven't meet each other for six months" "Fall silent with each other" "Thoughts can't help running through their heads" "In the central Sichuan the weather is warm and humid which makes it perfect place for making another traditional pickle" "Sprouts choose from nice dried mustard" "That's it" "Sprouts that have been marinated for over a year have the best flavor" "Yibin hot and spicy noodle is Yibin's special local product" "Although oily and spicy the sprouts smell can not be concealed" "There is a kind of food can be considered course and seasoning at the same time" "Only a little of it makes the rice taste amazing" "This is what Chinese people called dish goes with the rice" "Here you go" "On the sultry July" "At the alluvial plain of the Yellow River watermelons are ripe" "One can enjoy the sweet taste of watermelons for more than one season" "Watermelon sauce is a typical course that goes with rice" "It can magically preserve the taste of summer" "The dog days of summer brings the best time to make the sauce" "Step one make beans ready for making sauce" "Grandma picks small soybeans and make them crispy" "It's done" "Spread the soybeans and wait for them to cool down" "There are ten people in her family" "The grandma have raised her children and now she begins to raise the third generation" "There are many things to do in this long summer but grandma knows that doing all these things just like making sauce" "It can't rush" "When soybeans become semi-dry wrap them with fried flour" "The protein and starch in the flour will provide nourishment to soybeans' fermentation" "Make a straw mat for those beans" "This is a hotbed" "Spread the soybeans" "Quilt can control the temperature and block bacteria all at once" "With a 40 years of experience grandma knows that the growth of the mold determines the flavor of the sauce" "I am 70 years old now" "I have two sons two daughters and three grandkids" "The young go to school" "The elder busy for work" "They all come back for" "Spring Festival every year" "As soon as one Spring Festival is over she begins to look forward to the next one" "Grandma seldom calls her children" "She always tells them not to worry about her" "Step two" "Cut the watermelon" "This is the favorite part for grandkids" "The sweetest part of the melon left for the kids" "The part that connects to the melon skin is not high in sugar which is more suitable for making watermelon sauce" "During the hottest 10 days in a year" "Mycelium grows fast shows the color of yellowish-green" "Step three" "Sprinkle with salt ginger pepper" "Star anise bay leaves and other spices" "Watermelon is fresh and juicy" "Constantly stir and mix them" "All the ingredients can absorb the sweet watermelon juice" "I like Peking Opera" "So my grandson bought me a radio with a memory card in it" "The card has many plays" "He always go to school far away" "He comes back once a year" "What been sealed into the urn is not just delicious food but also expectations" "40 days later" "When the urn reopens a overwhelming sweet soy sauce aroma sweeps the room and only a small portion can make people open the appetite" "For grandmother" "The real taste of watermelon sauce is when the children come back home" "and that is her happiest time of year" "In the productive region it is easy for housewives to make a meal for the whole family" "But nature will not forget some other places" "China's cleverest housewives are good at using local materials" "Yuezhen Wu is looking for a wild cane shoot locals call it pusun which is the stem of cattail" "I began to pull the pusun since I was a child" "Since I grew up along the Liaohe River that riverside has never been out of pusun" "It is something that grows naturally it does not need special attention and fertilization" "You just pick it up and eat it" "Before the next harvest season of pusun and the last pick" "Yuezhen Wu has her own plans" "The upright young stems are edible parts of pusun" "The cane shoots that people are familiar with are a variation of pusun" "It has a large spindly and fleshy stem only China and Vietnam cultivate this vegetable" "Shrimp roe stewed with cane shoots" "Though ingredients are simple after coloring saturated with clear soup simmered on low flame becomes the most common dish in summer" "Use fresh picked pusun to make a braised pork with pusun" "By Northeast words" "Fresh and alive" "Dry up the rest of the pusun" "Air dry them so that they can be preserved for a long time" "Smart housewives would make early preparations" "In the reservoirs of Huaiyang region" "People chase another hard-core edible wild herbs" "Although it has the same growing environment and similar name with pusun they are two completely different plants" "It has its position in many cuisines" "Chop cattail and put it into the egg" "Make it into a pie shape" "This cooking method in Yangzhou highlights crisp cattail with egg's soft" "And make it into fillings" "Make Dumplings" "This is the famous snack in Huaian" "Just one bite and you will notice the exotic smell" "Let the oral and nasal together form a three-dimensional feel" "Choose the most tender part of the cattail to make a featured dish of Jinan-stewed cattail in milky soup" "Ordinary people do not always prepare soup-stock" "But using flour paste it can also produce a thick creamy white sauce" "Add ham mushrooms and bamboo shoots into it" "The amazing taste can be doubled" "In the fall" "Suaeda grass in Liaodong Bay forms a red ocean" "On the Yuezhen's windowsill" "Cattail has been dried up" "Hot water makes the cattail stretch up" "Soup needs to be added to the meat so that the dried cattail can be fully flavored" "Add a handful of reed and simmer for a hour and wait for food to ready" "During the ripen season of rice" "Cattail is off the market in the South" "But for Yuezhen Wu it still has its value" "Dried stems of cattail can weave into various daily articles" "Eight years ago her husband suffered a heart attack and almost died" "She shouldered all housework and farm work and took good care of her husband for five years" "She is as tough as cattail to sustain the whole family" "When families come back home" "Yuezhen Wu feels the most content moment of her day" "I just want to take care of my old man and let him have a happy life" "As an old proverb goes you might not be the best but you are better than the worst" "Look at my five family members we are always united and happy never argue or fight" "The money is not important family matters the most" "My biggest hope is everyone in my family can stay happy" "For Chinese females" "Thrifty" "Has always been one of the traditional virtues" "There is only one exception" "Menglu Twenty nine years old has been pregnant for seven month and preparing for the baby's birth everyday" "My first reaction is in fact an amazing feeling" "Since I have my first fetal movement" "I feels like there is a new member in the family" "Zhuhai is a place where 90 percent population comes from other cities" "Her husband Hansheng is a native Cantonese" "Menglu comes from Sichuan" "In this particular phase of life mother-to-be can legitimately enjoy the meticulous care" "The north port of Gongbei connects Zhuhai and Macao" "There is a stream of people in rush hour at 9 o'clock at night" "Mr.Pan lives in Macao" "In every two or three days he will cross the border to Zhuhai to buy food which has become the habit of many Macao people" "His 20-year-old daughter Peiqi lives an independent life but her father still worries about her" "Are you ready to cook dad yes" "He stewed a pot of orange flavored red bean paste as dessert" "Mr.pan originaly from Zhongshan City Guangdong Province" "This is a hometown habit and his daughter has been affected deeply" "It is sweet and delicious" "Sweetened water has been regarded as a typical Chinese dessert" "The dessert always comes in soup or rice paste form" "Guangdong and Guangxi people's evaluation to the sweetened water can be concluded with two words and one of them is sweet which refers to the flavor" "Another word is smooth which refers to the taste" "There is a kind of sweet moment in one's life" "Taipa which is the favorite place in Macao to take wedding photos" "Three years ago" "Peiqi and Zhiming felt in love at first sight" "Dad how long should I soak the dried beancurd-stick" "A little longer" "This is the first time that daughter help her dad in kitchen" "Guests will come to visit today" "When will he come" "He is almost there" "He just finished from work" "He needs to hurry up" "Nice to meet you Mr.Pan" "There is a gift for you" "Thank you" "Make yourself at home" "Try it a bowl of sweetened water melted father's deep and silence love" "At the first time to meet the future son-in-law" "Every father's feeling may be more complicated than a bowl of sweetened water" "On the other side of the port of Zhuhai the atmosphere is a little tense" "Menglu is experiencing the first throe before childbirth" "We are waiting for you" "You will see your mom and dad soon" "It is very painful" "Menglu and Hanseng's parents all come to the hospital" "You sweats a lot" "Do not be afraid" "Mom do not be afraid" "Baby do not worry" "Mom is not afraid" "The pain lasted nine hours so her strength declines quickly" "But Menglu must stay strong and the baby needs her help" "Hansheng and Menglu's child is the second generation of China's one child family" "Four parents" "One pair of husband and wife" "One child" "This "421" family structure has already become a mainstream phenomenon of Chinese urban society" "This chuid affects three families" "Congratulations sir" "Here is your baby" "Congratulations and it is a girl" "She is seven pounds in weight and fifty centimeters in length" "Hansheng and Menglu had already agreed on the daughter's nickname" "Xiao Fuxing which means happy little star" "Fuxing's first meal does not go well" "She still needs more practice" "For Menglu giving birth to a child is just the beginning of her life experience" "To be a good mother perhaps is the bigger proposition" "Hi baby" "I am your mom she is hungry" "Kitchen quickly becomes a matching field" "The competitors are their parents" "Sishuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine" "Every dish comes to the spotlight" "Everyone is determined to win" "Instead of saying it shows the cooking skills of elder people" "Rather say that it expresses the joy of welcoming a new life" "Baby's home" "Thank God Hope you can grow up quickly" "Here you go" "Come to take some water too？" "The grandparents who came from Guangdong are confident that they have secrets recipes to take care of lying-in women" "They believe that the soup made with spring water is the best" "The grandmother who came from Sichuan brought the dried houttuynia cordata" "Stewed chicken with it is considered to be beneficial for healing wounds and recovery" "Papaya, sweet and rich in juice cam stew together with carp" "The Chinese traditional medicine believes that those two food materials contribute to galactosis" "This is the Guangdong way of cooking" "Cantonese love to drink soup and they are skillful in making soup" "The modern science considers that any kind of processing of the food will cause nutrition lost in some degrees but this cannot persuade Cantonese" "Double-stewed soup is the pride of Cantonese" "All kinds of food materials marked with health care function are added in the clay pot" "Simmered through several hours the fragrance of the food material releases repeatedly" "The stewing soup is strong and sweet and been endowed with various tonic hints" "Another kind of stewing soup also emphasizes on slow" "With help of the steam" "The airtight stew pot locks the moisture so that the cooking time is longer" "Though the soup stews for a long time it doesn't boil" "The umami and flavor substances can generate multiplied" "The best stewing soup has the color of tea" "Grandpa is the soup ready yet" "Almost" "I stewed the soup for you" "I stewed it today" "Here is the soup of red dates with carp and papaya" "Drinking soup is Meng Lu's assignment every day" "Her diet not only concerns postpartum recovery ut also concerns about providing enough nutrition for the little baby" "Is mom ready?" "Eat it quickly" "Our baby has been ready to feed" "Guangdong is 1500 miles away from Sichuan" "They are totally different in language and traditional diet" "But both sides of the parents are confident that food can preserve people's health" "Facing the double care" "Menglu feels like there is too much to take in" "I've had enough" "Are you sure" "Fine I help you to eat it all" "Don't let our parents see it" "I ate it up for you" "OK" "So as to not to hurt their feelings" "Menglu and Hansheng are both born as the new generations with higher education" "Even though they understand the parents' love they have their own propositions for raising their kid" "Two months later the happy story has a dramatic ending" "Hansheng is overweight" "During spring" "Yuezhen Wu sows new seeds in the soil" "Zi Yu wins the champion in the international competition and heads towards a higher level" "Ronghua Cheng and Xiaoyou Zhao expect good weather for the crops next year and can have good harvest" "One reason that the human organize family is to produce and allocate food more reasonably" "It is the home cooking and food sharing that tie the family more closely" "Although the home cooking dishes vary from family to family" "A writer says that happy families are similar"