"There are a thousand pairs of hands with a thousand flavors." "Chinese cuisine is mystic and hard to duplicate" "From the countryside to the downtown area, cuisine is still inherited via teaching face to face" "The wisdom from ancestors, the secret from family," "the tips from mentorship, the understanding from gourmet. every moment of gourmet" "is created attentively generation by generation" "The canola is getting mature in May" "It is the raw material for local cooking oil" "The busy labor could guarantee the food through the whole year" "The Chinese Cuisine" "Cooking oil is the media between food and pot" "Thermal action creates diverse recipe" "Vegetable oil is much accessible than the animal oil and much healthier" "This finding represents the step forward in the history of cuisine" "The past life of gourmet is the picturesque scenery" "Tomb-sweeping day is the season of canola blossom" "The only owner oil mill in Fuye village is Yazhong Chen, like other Chinese people do worships the ancestor on this day." "The ouputs of oil mill determine the life quality of villager" "Chinese people believe that everything goes will due to the bless from ancestor" "the encounter by the field for villager Goule Chen means,in short time, he could enjoy the fresh-made canola seed oil" "The rain in Spring is evaporated gradually in the morning" "There will be successive sunny days" "It is the perfect time to harvest the canola seeds." "Due to the 5-day's sunshine, the seeds' shell turns to be dry and crisp" "Threshing becomes easily" "The botanic life of canola seeds has turned over" "Now, it starts a magic journey" "The nice Yazhong" "Only when collects the seeds that he will be cautious and serious" "With 30 years' abundant experience," "Yazhong has already possessed sophisticated knowledge to identify the good seeds" "The color should be pure black and shinny" "The shape should be round and full without any impurity" ", especially the level of dryness" "Yazhong has to check the quality" "The water content should be less 11% so that the seeds could be reserved for a whole year" "Oil mill starts to thresh the oil in June" "Threshers are recruited from villages nearby the daily lunches are response by" "Yazhong's wife" "The first step is to fry the seeds" "The high temperature would destroy the chemical structure of cell so that lower the the level of attachment between protein and oil" "The fat separation becomes easier" "With the sounds of burst, the smell of seeds spreads the whole village" "Canola-seed oil has special and stimulus smell" "There are some people cannot get used to it" "However, Huizhouness have special favor of it" "The Stinky Tofu in Huizhou when it is fried by canola-seed oil could only smell bad but tastes good" "There are some tricks when produce the template" "The grounded canola seeds is steamed by vapor" "The control of moisture and temperature is totally depends on experience" "The thickness of template directly influence the oil extraction rate" "The canola-seed oil richly contains Monounsaturated fatty acids, which is good for health, compare with expensive olive oil" "However, canola-seed oil also has disadvantages" "Being smoky is one of them" "Nowadays, via scientific technology, the smoke point has been largely elevated" "Also, with the breed improvement, the percentage of unhealthy elements is lowered." "For Huizhouness, who eat with canola-seed oil, everything starts from threshing the oil" "Threshing the oil by woods is an old technology" ",which has been inherited for more than a thousand of years." "In the electronic era, the corporation between human beings and woods is still sparkling the ancient power" "the hammer weighs over 100 kilograms it is used to strike the wood wedge and put great pressure on the template with seeds" "depends on this physical pressure" "The oil oozes out of the template" "Keeping striking for three hours" "in the days that pursue profits and efficiency is the best way to inherit the ancestor's wisdom" "Canola-seed oil has thousands of years' history" "The popularity is alone the Changjiang river" "For different chefs," "It offers the platform for chef to show different techniques" "The production of spicy oil has to use the canola-seed oil the secret is handled by Sichuanness" "Stir Frying dehydrates the spice quickly," "The tasty smell exudates from stir frying" "The spices are mashed to pieces in order to fully react with canola-seed's oil" "The key point is the oil temperature" "If the temperature is too low, the tasty smell of cannot be exuded" "If the temperate is too high, the spices would be burnt" "The Chinese kitchen does not reply on the thermometer" "It is all relied on the personal experience" "The spicy flavor and red color has already been separated out" "It needs to be settled quietly for a whole day" "A can of perfect spicy oil is the spirit of Sichuan dishes" "The color should be bright red" "The spicy flavor should be rich and pure" "The tasty smell is attractive" "Canola-seed's oil in hands of Sichuanness is used perfectly" "Besides the exciting spicy taste, life in Huizhou is still ordinary" "How many litre of oil do you need?" "19 litre" "The harvest this year will be fully stored in oil mill" "There are totally 105 kilograms of canola-seed's oil" "Goule could require the oil at anytime without deadlines" "It is the promise to villagers from oil mill" "From traditional perspective, people could only live their lives by possessing a technique" "Compare with the downtown area, the countryside could be more easily experience the hand-made techniques." "After the Autumn harvest," "The color of the Loess plateau is fading away" "Shixin Zhang is waiting for the appropriate wheather" ""It's time to make the noodle"" "the ratio of salt and water" "Shixin, with decades of experiences, could be correctly controlled" "Adding the salty water in flour would make the structure of protein molecule more tight" "In order to increase the elasticity, Shixin needs to work dough repeatedly" "Shixin's leg disease recurred this year and had hard time to walk." "The dough weighs 17 Kg" "Shixin's wife work on the dough independently" "In the middle of the night" "The time for fermentation is enough" "Now, it's the time for shaping the noodle" "When Shixin was young, his great techniques were well-know" "People from other village comes here for learning his techniques" "Shixin's wife also learnt the techniques after she married the Shixin" "I started to make noodles since 15 years old" "I have never ever left here the process of making noodles" "I am sophisticated with it." "If you could make perfect noodle, you can sell it to downtown or further areas by making noodle" "Shixin and his wife raised up 5 sons and daughters" "The dried noodle can easily be stored" "The diameter is around 1millimeter" "The continuous fermentation creates the hollow shape" "The noodle tastes softly and smoothly" "Archaeologically, people found noodle from 4000 years ago in China" "It was called "Soup pancake", which commonly appears in Chinese people's lives" "In different locations, noodle has different thickness different shapes." "different recipe." "Noodle is a simple food." "Noodle is the most common main dish" "It can also be used to" "underdress other food material and flavors" "At dawn, the dough has finished the second fermentation" "It's the show time" "The air is pretty dry in Shanbei province" "Water evaporates rapidly" "So, the speed of twisting the noodle is the key of success." "After that, the third round of fermentation starts." "They are waiting for the further stretch" "Loess Plateau, the origin of ancient culture" "The tradition of farming lasts here" "For every family in the cave dwelling, the thing that elders care about the most is to leave something for kids" "Even though the materials are limited, people have their techniques" "However, young people's perspective is changing." "Xuanxuan, coming up" "Young people think that the outside world is better than the hometown" "I could travel around when I work outside" "It's useless to learn how to make noodle" "The grandfather cannot walk well" "It's the time for young people to inherit the techniques" "Has it done?" "Yes." "Jianwei, please hang the noodle outside" "The hanging bar precisely separate the noodle from the middle" "The corporation between flexibility and gravity is perfect" "There are 160 pieces of noodle per bar" "Each piece could be stretched to 3 meters long" "The hanging noodles are like silver lines" "They are receiving the modeling of sunshine and air" "Old people suppose to make noodles for generations" "The techniques generation by generation are inherited" "The white noodle for the desolate Loess Plateu and families live there." "creates the warm feeling" "So called "inherited by heart"" "besides the inherited techniques it also means the faith of living, diligence, and insistent" "Different from flour food in Beijing" "People in southern part of China prefer dessert made of rice" "It cannot be made easily." "The techniques require precise casting" "The categories are diverse" "The whole process should be exquisitely made." "The training session should be serious and cautious" "Every step is elaborated." "Sticky rice is mashed with water" "The quality of processed sticky-rice powder is evenly and smoothly" "The sticky-rice powder and round-grained rice powder should be mixed with different ratios in order to create diverse taste" "It's the base of making dessert in Southern area" "The dessert chef is the expertise for using different tools" "The fillings are changed depend on season" "The colors are extracted from nature" "For example, in summer and fall, chef uses the mint." "In winter and spring, chef uses the rose." "In Chinese kitchen, the jobs which process the rice, flour dessert are called "chef of staple foods"" "The elegant handwork is the base to make staple foods." "Chef, as a tradition occupation, is continued in the form of apprenticeship" "Today, young people attend school to learn the basic cooking skills" "But, in order to be professional ones, they still need a master" "Apprenticeship is the most important non-biological Confucius relationship" "Working the dough is the basic thing." "Your dough represents your power" "continue" "Jieming Lv has 20 apprentices" "However, not everyone could fully understand what they learnt" "Miao just turned to be 20 years old" "She comes from the northern part of Jiangsu province" "She graduated from high school 3 years ago" "Then, she moved to Suzhou with parents" "My dad works outside for years" "My mom takes care of the family" "So I would like to earn some money to support the family" "I would like to earn my own living" "Parents hope the little brother to get into the college" "Miao is the elder sister" "She needs to earn her life independently" "as they said girls do not need to put much effort but should marry a good guy" "I prefer to earn my own living instead of depending on husband" "the crab cream shao-mai" "Miao has a big problem" "It should look like a flower not a vase" "You remember?" "It should look like a flower" "Shrimp soup dumplings" "Yang-chun noodle" "I want another Bao-zi" "One more sticky cake" "Your hand is a scale" "The color of the sticky cake is fine but the thickness is not enough" "Master could train you but you should understand it by yourself" "In mountain area, 1400 kilometers away from Suzhou, there is another raw material that people could observe the progress of evolution of Chinese dessert" "The daylight time is getting shorter" "It's the time to dig the brake root the European archeologist found" "the oldest bread" "The starch of brake root could make this." "The ancestor of Yao race in Mang mountain also discovered this secret" "They extract the raw material from brake root to make an original Chinese dessert" "Ciba" "Kaifeng's ancestor farmed along the way they lived" "They were called "Cross Mountain Yao"" "The output of food was limited" "So, the Ciba made of brake root is the main dish during the winter" "Nowadays, making the Ciba is not only for the pursue of gourmet but also for a reminder to younger generations of hard times" "different materials in deep mountain generate" "The filter system" "Kaifeng's father taught him how to achieve the gifts from mountain and also remind him to respect the nature" "After one-day set," "It is the time to check the results" "After the carefully wash and filtered, it's time to make brake-root Ciba" "Heated" "It's getting thicker" "Keep stirring until the a layer of gel generates on the surface" "The gel has strong tenacity" ", which can only be drove by father" "Cover the gel with dried starch， separated into small pieces then can be eaten directly." "Children prefer the desserts." "The tasty smell with the sweet taste of brake-root Ciba." "For Race Yao" "It's the flavor code for generations" "Also, flavor is the common language in human history" "when face the cautious Master" "Miao is scared" "Ok." "It's done." "Take it to Room 301" "Miao has repeatedly practice the triangle dessert." "Finally, she gets the acknowledgement of Master" "It's the first time that her works could be tasted by customers" "The little achievements motivate Miao if there are extra materials left" "Miao would stay to practice" "Su style dessert is one of the most important ones in Chinese dessert history" "It's as classic as the Suzhou gardens" ", the label of the city." "The city also has the modern side which attracts 7 million people from other cities" "Suzhou becomes the second immigration city in China" "In the life with rapid changes, the ancient miracle is still playing." "Having worked as chef of staple foods," "Jieming possesses skills" "Our Suzhou style dessert must have fillings." "Botanically, we use like red bean paste and lotus paste for meat we put in the meat fillings" "These filled desserts are made into animal shapes" "From creating the Chinese character to modeling the desserts," ""pictogram"is the special Chinese inheritance" "The special desserts is not only the food but also the higher level of pursue of beauty in life" "Making desserts not only require skillful techniques but also require the personal understanding." "to observe this special techniques" "It's the great motivation" "Master has another meaning." "in order to inherit this tradition" "He is looking for the proper successor" "There's temple up there." "There's society far away there." "to a Chef of staple foods" "Miao just started her way" "There are more inheritance of food in common life." "The day in Shantou begins from the noise in Seafood market" "to purchase the materials for family shops." "is Zhe's daily work" "This young boy is the frequent visitor in food market" "Father is the chef in restaurant." "People call him Wu" "Zhe has four sisters" "He's the only boy at home." "In Chinese society," "The inheritance relationship is more tight between father and son than between master and apprentice son should take over father's career is perceived as reasonable" "A few years ago," "Zhe entered a college in Guangzhou and hoped to work there." "in college and in society" "Life was different in society" "There were much more pressure." "He had hard times and got back to hometown." "Zhe helps in family's shop." "The popular dish is the fried oyster for this ordinary dish" "There are a lot to learn." "Before that," "Zhe has not even wash a dish." "Oysters live near the coast." "Around two thousands years ago," "China has the history of breeding the oyster" "Near the water area in Chaoshan, families live on oysters local people prefer those are small and fertile because they taste more fresh" "Those are also the best choice for fried oyster" "In the old city in Shantou with the long history, in the deep of alley the traditional recipe of fried oyster is hidden" "Mix the sweet potato flour" "Cover the flour over the oysters so that they can slow down the process of dehydrate" "Fry the two sides of oyster until the color turns to be yellow pay attention to keep the oyster juicy and fresh" "people eat them with fish sauce." "The fried oysters taste is crisp." "both crisp and fresh" "Besides the fried oyster," "Wu could also host the feast" "Zhe always host the feast with his father" "He stars from supportive role" "Zhe graduated with Management major" "But he is working as a chef" "He found that it's harder to curve the radish as a flower compare with a calculus question" "I'm learning everyday" "I'm improving everyday." "Of course, it needs a process." "At the very beginning" "People may not acknowledge my talent." "this time" "Zhe could dominate the feast" "Before the dishes are delivered to the customers" "His dad is doing the final double-check" "Now, my skills have improved." "Sometimes, I even receive compliments very happy" "In the high-speed developing China" "People are more eager to pursue fresh things" "To insist the traditions or to make changes that's a question" "Yangzhou, among those developing ones in Yangtze River Delta area is a special one" "Kunming Yang, a 63 year-old" "Pinghua artist" "In the past, we performed Pinghua outside" "It's called " running the wharf"" "Running the wharf is running the society" "Everyone has his/her own wharf" "Everyone has his/her own platform" "Yangzhou Pinghua is an art which is inherited for over 4 hundred years" "War" "Hero" "Romance" "Betray" "The endless stories are spread by mouth" "It's not only a story-telling mouth but also a picky mouth" "Go to food market" "Performing outside alone pushes Mingkun to cook for himself." "and learn one cuisine skills" "Sometimes, some chefs in restaurants would come and listen to the Pinghua" "Mingkun is also very happy" "I have a special skills to teach you to make friends with chef and discuss cooking with them" "It's pleasure for Mingkun" "A dish of Tofu Stripes with soy sauce represents the Yangzhouness' requirements of life white bean curd" "Each of them is divided into 28 pieces then, the pieces are threaded separately" "The Tofu Stripe is firm." "the skill is delicated" "The ginger flavor penetrates in the Tofu Stripe." "the stripe was burnt with boiled water for three times" "In order to remove the Tofu flavor," "The tofu stripe is stirred with sauces." "The stripe looks simple but tastes soft and delicious" "Mingkun prepares the family feast once a year as tradition" "Master cooks for apprentices as treatments." "The tofu stripe with sou sauce" "Please taste" "It tastes very well." "The inheritance of food cannot leave without gourmet with abundant experience and sensitive sense of taste" "Mingkun could correctly catch the preference of the city" "There's a few people could understand the flavor of Yangzhou than Mingkun could." "In Shantou, with fast-pace updates," "Zhe is trying to break-through" "Clams clams" "Tofu fish" "Customers could freely order what they want" "The fried oysters, which has inherited for four generations, are innovated by Zhe" "After taking experiments for many times based on the traditional way" "Zhe continuously add new materials in fried oysters the most familiar dish" "Zhe's innovation brings surprise to customers" "The vitality of skills is inheritance and promotion of traditions" "As time flies, tasty foods meet with tough and heart." "Yangzhouness usually have morning tea in the morning and have shower in the afternoon" "Moreover, if they also enjoy Pinghua, it would be an wonderful and ordinary day," "like beautiful stories that you would never tired of." "In daily life, the traditions are repeatedly day by day" "Zhe's shop has already existed for hundreds of years" "Tomorrow, it will still bring innovations to customers" "In Sanlin Tang, Pudong district, there's a groups of country chef" "People call then "Knife club"" "They explored Shanghai in group over a century" "There are lots of talented people" "Once there's a family," "which has five-generation's chef" "After decades' practice, they are still famous as chef." "Finally, they become great masters." "Mingfu Li used to manage a family-runned restaurant." "at 5 am every morning." "He goes to food market 00:38:45,680 -- 00:38:47,510 In order to guarantee the freshness, he only buy food on daily basins" "depends on the previous assumptions." "plan in detail and work by themselves." "as Men in shanghai always do" "Today, the restaurant is full." "These days are hot." "Every position should be careful" "We are going to be busy" "Guests are coming" "Every evening," "the restaurant stays busy." "Yue Li cooks while Wei Li cuts." "They are sons of Mingfu" "They are the leader in kitchen with excellent skills." "The brothers' skills are getting better than their father's" "Mingfu doesn't need to cook himself." "family skills are inherited" "It is great pleasure for Mingfu" "The Huangpu River 604 00:40:22,220 -- 00:40:24,240 witnessed the growth of Shanghai" "The mix of eastern and western culture in this city cover the history of sense of taste" "There's a flavor that being a style in low status in changes not disappeared becomes stronger with repressions" "Benbang dish" "It represents the flavor of Shanghai" "In the society of Benbang dish," "The 83-years old Borong Li with skills wins reputation There is no shortcut to practice the skills Wei and Yue start to learn cooking from their father" "since 14 years old, The skill of cutting is the core of Chinese cuisine" "It represents the level of a chef" "The linear cut depends on the power of wrist" "The power location and direction of cutting should all be in control" "Getting rid of fish bone" "Chef has to learn the constructions of food so that could correctly separate the meet and bone perfectly" "The perfect cutting equals skillful Kongku only if you have sophisticated hand skills" "You can use your knife freely" "the one that requires cutting skills in Benbang dish" "Boiled three stripes" "Wei is good at cooking it." "Ham" "Chicken breast" "Bamboo shoots" "These are three tasty materials" "First, chef should slice the materials into 0.5mm thin layers" "The materials should be boiled first." "Then, sliced in order to expand the face to touch the soup" "During the process of steaming," "three flavors release at the same time and mix together" "The detailed cutting also generates the special beauty." "The care of beauty and flavor" "is the philosophy of Chinese cuisine" "Elder brother has perfect cutting skills" "Younger skills has wonderful cooking skills" "The fried shrimps only take no more than 10 seconds" "once the oil temperature reaches to 200 degree" "The shrimps could be fried" "So that the shrimp would taste fresh" "The shell tastes crisp but not burnt" "The timing is important depends on the sound of burst of shell" "Yue could even decide the timing" "for drying the soup" "Shrimps are double-cooked" "The process is still simple and clean" "The dish is the strict test to timing like for textbook" "About the timing and firing," "Guangdong dishes provide more examples" "DuDu pot" "In order to pursue the freshness, it requires strong firing" "in short time" "Besides that," "Chef needs to determine the timing based on the distance between table and kitchen" "The cooking is still processing while running" "If it's a performance, the show time is the time when people start to enjoy the foods" "The foods show perfectly" "In Chinese" "Timing and firing" "not only restrict in kitchen" "It can also be used as a manner" "The level of manner" "Borong is happy to get back to the kitchen he used to work in." "We have to practice a lot." "No practice no gain." "Borong starts to learn cooking since 1945." "He retired since 80 years old." "As time flies," "Borong has never leave the kitchen" "Studying, being careful, training, teaching" "Let him achieves the respects." "hand over the Chinese tradition," "No only do poem and opera but also every details in our lives." "From this perspective," "Chef is the successor" "of culture and the builder of great culture" "In Huizhou, the leftover from squeezing the oil could be the best fertilizer in farm" "In front of the cave dwelling, the sons and grandsons of Shixin is hanging their noodles" "Yao race in Mang mountain is still appreciating the gifts from nature" "From hands to mouthes, from mouthes to hearts," "Chinese is continuing the special way of sensation of world." "With fire, bowl and chop sticks, every ordinary people," "at some moments, participates the process of creating the history" "The modern society distances the human beings and nature" "But on the table of Chinese cuisine we can still sense the changes of seasons and times through the changes of food."