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10 videos, 1 h 23

10 videos on Chinese stir fries, Korean kimchi, Japanese home kitchens and the smoothest hummus anyone has managed. Cooks who explain why the technique works, not just the steps.

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01
Stop Overthinking Fried Rice
Chinese Cooking Demystified
Starts with the one dish everyone gets slightly wrong, and fixes the reasons why.
02
Stir Frying 101, Chinese Stir Fry Techniques Using Pork and Chili (青椒肉丝)
Chinese Cooking Demystified
The base technique behind hundreds of dishes: velveting, heat order, sauce timing.
03
How to Make Any Fried Rice - Three Flavors and Recipes (沙茶牛肉炒饭/菠萝炒饭/菜心炒饭)
Chinese Cooking Demystified
Three versions that show fried rice as a formula you can vary yourself.
04
Three Chinese Tofu Frying Techniques
Chinese Cooking Demystified
Why tofu sticks and falls apart, and three frying methods that stop it.
05
Shaxian Peanut Sauce Noodles (沙县拌面)
Chinese Cooking Demystified
A regional noodle dish with a peanut sauce you can make on a weeknight.
06
Make Your Own Kimchi At Home! | Maangchi Recipe
Cook with Wonky
Whole cabbage kimchi from brining to fermenting, following Maangchi's method.
07
How to make Spicy Kimchi Ramen
Ryo's Kitchen
What to cook with the kimchi once it is sour enough to want cooking.
08
We Made YouTube's Best Hummus EVEN BETTER!
Middle Eats
Hummus argued from the Levantine side: chickpea cooking, tahini quality, texture.
09
Can I Recreate the World's Smoothest Hummus?
My Name Is Andong
Tests the tricks people claim make hummus silky, and reports which held up.
10
Just One Cookbook Kitchen Tour キッチンツアー
Just One Cookbook
How a Japanese home kitchen is set up, tool by tool, before you cook from it.