Ancient Nian Gao | Lunar New Year Cake
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Important question, nyan cat or nian gao? 🤔
Nian gao. We eat similar cakes in the Philippines- stick so all the good luck sticks to you, and your Family sticks together. ❤️
That cat song...although does stick in your head. 😂
Nian cat?
What's "nyan cat"? Is that something different, or the same thing as nian gao but transliterated from a different dialect?
nyan mao or nian gao? or maybe nian gou...
@@OptimusWombat Nyan cat was a meme and song.
"im a pig, as is my chinese zodiac sign" already dropped a like
Better a pig than a boar...
@@Mark723 I saw what you did! ;p
🤣 thank you
@@TastingHistory Such a young and vibrant 25!
Obviously meant year of the pig in 1995 and not 1983 (looks in mirror of my year of the pig birth year) Yeah... 95 not 83.
@@Mark723 nice one!
Hugely respect that you got one successful take of saying 'Zixu' and just cut that audio in every time. Thats big brain thinking babeyyy
Work smarter not harder 🙌
Max is obviously a man of efficacy.
Dude what? That was super weird sounding and obvious xD
@@Serjo777 i mean...better than people tearing him to shreds for daring to mispronounce a language he doesn't speak.
It was SO distracting. I'd rather he just mispronounce it.
"If the people are starving, dig around the city walls" is my new "there's always money in the banana stand".
Instructions unclear burned down banana stand lol
Classic😅
EXACTLY my thought hahaha
I mean it's one banana, what could it cost? 10 dls
Might be a dumb question, but what is the meaning of these sayings?
As a linguist, I must say I’m always impressed with your pronunciation of words from different languages. Even if it’s not 100% native, it really shows dedication to your content. Love the channel!
I came here to say this! I’m also a linguist so I really appreciate that Max takes time to learn pronunciation for non-English names and words. As a voice actor, he probably has some training in phonetics/ipa but learning a tonal language and all of those extra affricates as an English speaker is not easy!
@@jules32391 I’m not actively working in the field currently, so I justify my education solely through UA-cam comments now lol
@@caseyrogers573 I do work in the field..... just not as the “spectrogram in a lab” cool kind....so same 🤣
I agree!
@@jules32391 he's a voice actor?
"His appearance matches exactly what I detest most in a man." This is going to be my new standard reply whenever my parents ask why I don't date this and that guy! 😂
LOL
Mood
Good for you. :-D
😂
It sounds like a Facebook tag group
Max: It's so sticky.. This is not a chopsticks food.
Me, Chinese, sitting at my desk, chomping on some nian gao with a fork: lmao yeah
It's one week later. Are you still chewing?
@@RaymondHng No but I think some of it got stuck between my teeth
@@omegabet3912 My mother makes that soup dish with the glutinous rice balls with a bit of rock sugar inside. I'm not too fond of those because they taste like raw gummy rice flour dough. At the end of lunch, any leftover scraps of food are tossed into the food waste disposal. So a few of those rice balls ended up in the disposal. After ten seconds of grinding, most of the waste food went out the drain. but those damn rice balls stayed INTACT!
@@RaymondHng YIKES THAT'S A MOOD
How did you learn chopsticks? For me it was literally self defense.
"And Rat 'conveniently' forgot". my first chinese teacher taught us that Rat rode on Cat's back to cross the river and drowned Cat. im just now learning about the nice version where Rat is just rude and not a murderer, and i like this version a lot more. the vietnamese zodiac has a cat, though - it replaces the rabbit. nice job on the pronunciation, too!
Oh wow, never heard that version. That's a pretty big difference.
Nice to hear cat got its place somewhere!
What year is cat on the 90s?
@@rosemali3022 same as the rabbit, 1976. If you're born in jan or feb, you may be a dragon b/c its using a lunar calendar & New Years shifts around on the gregorian calendar.
Wait no we do have the rabbit and cat in the Vietnamese one
Being a cat makes me happier then being a rabbit. Thanks! : )
"Ugly people don't deserve justice."
- Prince of Wu
Kuzco energy
Nicki Minaj energy
@@L0rdOfThePies Lolololol, so true. That really does sound like something he'd say.
Funnily enough. it was common Greek philosophy sentiment that beauty and morality were linked! Plato and Aristotle, for example, both believed that if you were beautiful, then it was one metric judging that you were a good person, and vice versa.
@@ddd8828so many beautiful woman n hansem men are so bad natured and arrogant! If by "ugly" is meant the character n conduct then True
Dang, imagine having a fiance so supportive of you and your hobby they make a youtube channel interviewing you about it.
It’s pretty awesome
Never even seen Jose and yet I still have couple envy.
Its adorable channel too. Really friendly atmosphere @ketchupwithmax
Jose is goals.
I was just about to comment on that, it's so sweet :D
Taiwanese here.
The uncooked sticky rice cake is literally as hard as a brick.
But when you slice it (around a half inch) & deep fry it with batter, it just become a sweet, al dente starchy goodness with a golden crispy crust.
So hard to describe.
IT IS SOOOOOO GOOD.
Good pronunciation
Good research
Thumbs up
Thank you!
That sounds amazing
Sounds like EXTRA dirty food porn. STOP YOUR FOOLISH TEMPTATIONS ! 😋😁😄
mmm - sounds so much better than the steamed cake. this i would try :) i do hope they have it somewhere in China Town (NYC) (that is, if i get the nerve to venture out in a Hazmat suit :) maybe next year. . 🐼
@@feralbluee They probably do have these in Chinatown, since they're really quite popular here in China. I think the type that Cliff was talking about often comes in large round blocks, kind of like cheese. You can slice the blocks up real thin, like half a centimeter. coat them in egg batter and fry them. Delicious.
The red shirt was a nice touch (symbol of good luck/prosperity for the new year).
His pokemon in the background is tauros, one named after the zodiac
Oh man if you loved the nian gao pun, you're gonna love all the other food puns we've got for lunar new years 😂 Some of the classics are fish for the saying "nian nian you yü" ("every year gain wealth" where "yü" sounds like both "wealth" and "fish") and fa gao (a steamed puffy cake; "fa" meaning "growing" and "gao" meaning both "higher" and "cake", like with the nian gao)!
That's awesome :D
I think... I think I just understood one of obscure references/jokes in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. 'And the New Year was a great big fish'. (Which apparently is some kind of pun in the original Borogravian.)
@@Teverell oh snap, i love monstrous regiment, and that would make sense. Sir Terry was such a smart dude. His breadth of knowledge was huge, and i wouldn’t be surprised if he knew about that pun, or pune, as some would call it 😄
I'm from southern china, our sticky rice cakes are round and flavored with brown sugar. They are made by steaming, but when we eat, we cut them into slices and pan fry them, this way they form a thin crust but stay hot and sticky in the inside.
Thats sounds good.
Oh, my!
Sandwich the 年糕 in-between two slices of taro or sweet potato, dip in tempura batter and fry. That’s how it’s eaten in Singapore.
@@jeremychoo934 thats sounds even better!
Brown sugar sounds so good with nian gao. Super good stuff!
The rising panic/regret in Max's eyes as he realizes just how long he's gonna be chewing this one....Priceless.
🤣 it was unexpected
Imagine having to cook the modern version in all its sticky glory. You can almost taste the fork you ate it with 🤣🤣🤣
Were you expecting something closer to mochi, Max? Most non-Asian I've seen eat it for the first time have stated they expected a mochi-like texture (same main ingredient, after all), but nian gao is much much stickier due to the steaming process. Mochi is also generally ate at a much lower temperature than nian gao and dusted with cornflour, which helps significantly in cutting the stickiness.
I personally prefer nian gao out of the two treats-- I prefer the warmer and simpler flavor palate, even if the chewing is a small exercise montage.
I know, my fillings were crying 😂
@@TastingHistory it was a very big bite for something so chewy
My girlfriend who’s Chinese really appreciates your accuracy with your Chinese pronunciations, and the in depth research. She loves your channel
I am impressed by your remembering to mention the help you get from other folks. Interpreters, historians, and other cooks, they all get kudos. Makes YOU look good, and very professional. Aside from the great presentation, of course. yeah!
When he pronounced "Qimin Yaoshu" and "Jia Sixie" I was like 👌😳
He did it perfectly
Yeah omg! I am amazed!
I don't speak Chinese, but when he said it, I had to come to the comments to see if it was right!
@@codyofathens3397 yeah, me, too, lol
Im mostly chinese and i cant move my mouth and tongue to make these sounds lmfao :')
The way he flawlessly switches between Latin and English (and apparently Chinese now) is very impressive lol
it is an overdub - he always cuts away from his face when he says the word.
That said, most people wouldn't even bother to learn how to say it right - so
The magic of editing can make anyone appear to be polylingual, but it still requires significant effort do as well as Max does.
@@jacoblabach4970 I wondered who else was catching that. Good stuff though!
Maybe Zixu was a more rotund man, when he was running away, he lost alot of weight hence the rapid aging thing, it was actually just loose skin.
I think that might do it
Also maybe his facial hair grew longer or he somehow cut it, but thats just another guess
Fun fact: the character for luck "fu, 福" often written on Chinese paper lanterns, is hung upside down at many homes and businesses at new year, so one can say "fu dao le 福倒了," meaning "luck got turned upside down" which sounds identical to "luck has arrived" or "fu dao le 福到了" (even tones are the same and you can see the characters look similar)
That _luck fu_ looks so much like something else.
@@RaymondHng in Cantonese 福 is pronounced fuk so 🤔
Ok I'm ABC and my Mandarin is really crappy so I could be wrong- but aren't the tones actually different here? "Upside down" should be dao3, and "arrived" should be dao4, right?
@@its_clean there's two "dao" that are associated with upside down, dao3 which more closely translates to "fall down" and dao4 which is more accurately "reverse/upside down" so the one here should actually be dao4
Interesting. Canadian here, and I would imagine 'Luck' written upside down would be inviting a lack of it. Like western superstition of the horseshoe over the doorway; hanging it right side up so it looks like a U catches the luck, while an upside down horseshoe suggests luck running out.
You're probably the only youtuber that bothers with researching pronunciation and I really appreciate that.
So much this! It irks me as a non-american that whenever there's a word or name that's anything but English, most UA-camrs just go "oh lol, I'm probably gonna butcher this pronunciation, soz guise!" Even if it's like German or French. Lazy.
@@janisuutarinen1715 even when they use English they still butcher words. I almost like they type more than they speak to people.
It definitely speaks to what a quality person Max is. It's actually a form of oppression that many people don't bother to learn how to say names from another culture, and just say "oh I can't pronounce that" when they didn't try, or even think they should try. You see it everyday, with people who feel they need to have a "western" name to go by when they move away from their home country, and often they will name their kids with "western" names.
He's one of the few to be sure. But, you know, i would say that when you find someone who does, it often is a sign that they do their research in general and are a rare trustworthy source of information.
@@celticlass8573 As an immigrant whose name gets mispronounced by the locals all the time: calling that oppression is insulting to people who face actual oppression.
Y'know I'm a person of Chinese descent who have been living in Taiwan for the past few years but I never really bothered to find out the myths behind the Chinese New Year. So here's to you, white guy who taught me my people's history!
Chinese descent
Living in Taiwan
So a Chinese living in real China
@@fatchins9126 well strictly ethnically speaking, yes. But I was born as a 5th generation Chinese...immigrant? And I grew up in an environment quite far removed from Chinese culture and tradition. So no, I don't consider myself fully Chinese in that respect. Most of what I know about Chinese history and culture I learned from movies and youtube videos lol.
@@kevinevano4497 well then
@@fatchins9126 I'm first generation and mixed. Not Taiwanese though, as I understand it that is in flux. I see it almost like Palestine. Not as many bombs but the same energy.
And that has nothing to do with the/ your people. Governments aren't good and they go against the people constantly. (Byw workers should own the means of production, aka own what you produce).
@@charlietian2074 It's not even bait tbh. Both sides regard Taiwan as rightful Chinese clay.
“You can’t mold water unless your the Avatar” I really appreciated that reference. For that, you get a like from me.
But you only need to be a waterbender and not necessarily the avatar
Yeah there are two tribes of people who can do it.
Let's hope José won't turn into the Moon.
@@NWolfsson “my biggest patreon supporter and all around good buddy turned into the moon”
“That’s rough buddy. Pass the salt, please?”
Uncle Iroh is laughing in the spirit world.
Dude integrates the memes, food, and history so solidly.
If you had asked me a year ago what I would be doing now, probably "watching a Disney prince cooking Nian gao and talking about history" would have never crossed my mind
Disney prince???
lol he does look like a disney prince doesn't he? Where are all the talking animals to help him cook 😹
IIRC Jose works for Disney
@@secretalias2264 The talking animals are what he is cooking
@@secretalias2264 does the occasional Pokemon plushies count?
Can't believe Max is hitting us with Chinese New Year content. Great pronunciation as usual. This video is getting me all hyped up for CNY. WOO
Thank you 🙏
A non sweet version of Nian Gao with just glutinous rice is also made and cut into thin pieces. These pieces are boiled and then stir fried like noodles and are eaten year round. The Nian Gao in this episode is also the precursor to the Japanese Mochi.
I was really confused for a minute when you introduced your fiance's channel and showed the thumbnail. "Oh my god, they look exactly the same!"
Ohhhhh... never mind me...
Tbh same tho 😳
OMG The subtle incorporation of the drag queen Jujubee's face with the fruit was hilarious!
Thank god I"m not the only one who got that XD
5:02
That's hilarious, I didn't notice until you pointed it out. Thanks!
Love her! One of the top queens from RPDR, imo. Thanks for putting her face on here Max ❤
I was THRILLED!
The Year of the Pig is a fortuitious year to be born in, because people born in the Year of the Pig are thought to be intelligent, clean, hard working, and good with money and have refined tastes especially in regards to food and wine...sounds like you, Max. Your fiancee is a fortunate man!
I’m no farmer, but somehow I’m skeptical of “pig” and “clean” in the same sentence
@@dimsum81 pigs in their natural habitat are very clean, and will actually bathe if they have acess to water, because it helps them keep cool. Their reputation for being dirty comes from being kept in pens and forced to wallow in their own excrement...and like most omnivores (including humans) their poop stinks!
you're right on the wrapping with bamboo leaves. I feel like its something only old school grandmas can do.
"Together, Pigs and dragons will have a lot of fun. They're both very engaged and enjoy social situations. If you, like a Pig, are looking for a fun companion, a Dragon might be an excellent option."
My theory is that this was originally a treat for hyper kids to literally keep them quiet.😓🤣
And if chewing it didn't do the trick, some cake was used to glue them to the chair
That is brilliant! This tribal knowledge must be shouted to the masses! We can call them "Hush Cakes" :)
@@Nova_Needle Hush cakes?
Is that why "let them eat cakes" was born?
This is too deep! /J
Max and Jose picking out a wedding cake;
wedding planner: here we have a lovely 3 tier cake
Max: you know, wedding cakes originated (starts rattling off trivia)
Jose: (to the planner) now you 've gone and done it!
Ha! Reminds me of the character of Detective Arthur Dietrich on the TV show Barney Miller. He was always dropping tidbits of arcane information into conversations, no matter what the subject. But Max is so much cuter.
Sheldon cooper vibes.
The fact that you put Jujubee with the jujubes made my day
I appreciate how knowledgeable Max is and can say "et cetera" absolutely correctly.
It's crazy to me that this channel only started at the end of 2019, it feels like you were made to do this Max! Great video as always :)
One year anniversary is at the end of this month when I posted my first video :)
My girlfriend's name is Nian.
After all this talk of murdering people and eating children, maybe I should have her sign a pre-nup.
Just wear some red knickers.
You have blossomed into a foodie anthropologist and tour guide. This is immensely entertaining and very educational. Jose and your eminence are putting Food Network and all those stuffy networks to shame. Great work guys...and I do mean work. Your research is astonishing. I thought I knew some stuff. You folks really go the extra 10 miles!!!! Thank You!
We are pig brothers! Also, congratulations on being engaged, I am as well. It would be a shame if their are not some of these foods from antiquity at the wedding.
"All warfare is based... as well as this cake" - Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu said that
@@dominicesquivel3901 And I reckon he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal!
"All warfare is based on confection."
Sorry tira, but TissuePaper version is better
@@elennapointer701 Because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man could beat him in the ring of honor!
Chinese-Indonesian grandmothers watching Max struggles to wrap the rice cake: *laughing in Surabaya dialect* 😂😂😂
As a fellow Chindo, I can hear that 😂
Kinda sad I never knew them till I stumbled on them on CNY abroad. Either Jakarta is too focused on moon cakes or I’m just uninitiated since I’m not Chinese lol
Love your “related to topic” pokemon at the back in every vdo
Max, I love how you also do non European cooking history. And your do it so well.
I always appreciate when you say, "I tried this, according to the old recipe and... it didn't work out," because how many of us try to follow a recipe to the last period and the result didn't look like the pictures? Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.
"This is why I don't run."
I felt that in my soul.
My Mom buy this cake every lunar year. We're not of Chinese. But Mom grew up in a neighbourhood with 50% Chinese people. So she likes to taste her childhood around this time of year.
PLS I love how sincerely you tried the pronunciations. The results were super impressive and the sentiment was so nice
Nothing makes me happier than listening to people put in the work to pronounce different languages correctly
“I’m a pig, and so is my zodiac sign”
I couldn’t stop laughing for a good minute. I had to rewind to listen to what we were making xD
Yes that was one of his best openings ever🤣
I'm a Taurus, Year of the Ox.
Your super-authentic pronounciations of Chinese words, names and terms was not only really cool but has me suddenly mulling over the idea of trying to learn the language myself. It's been vaguely on my brain for awhile but something about seeing a guy I like and respect on youtube going way out of his way to 'do it right' by the language instead of just the usual "apologies for butchering this" has made me all hyped up about the idea.
Niangao (and any form of glutinous rice cake) can be reheated perfectly well in a microwave.
Your content is a production. It is theatre. It is comedy. It is drama. It is what I need in my life!
That Simpsons "He's already dead!" cut is Emmy's-tier editing.
That was my favorite moment!
Jujubee made an appearance I LOVE IT
A staple for any Chinese household during the Lunar New Year holidays! My favorite are ones with coconut milk mixed in, the texture is softer and more "marshmallowey" so it's friendlier on the jaws 😋
The struggle to make 年糕 is real which is why most people just buy it from the supermarket or order ahead from Chinese restaurants in the run up to the new year.
I have never had a homemade 年糕 in my life. 😂😭
The amount of effort he puts in is astronomical. He might be a bit too humble about it.
@@Angels-3xist Most definitely, I spent a lot of time in China and currently living in Singapore and not many people make 年糕 from scratch, very few most of the older generation, because it's so time-consuming to make.
Ture. In fact Nian Gao is so notoriously finicky that even the professionals have superstitions around it, eg not speaking bad words while making it and not letting women on their period in the kitchen. Or the Nian Gao will turn out bad.
@@marcheck3400 : Probably one of those things where humidity, air pressure, and moisture content of the rice all have an effect.
Maybe even the starch and/or protein content of the rice, too.
I love how you not only do European recipes, but you also look at history of different cultures around the world. Maybe you should try Polynesian recipes from anthropologist records? I dunno
I would LOVE to see max cook in an imu but also I'd rather he find nesian recipes from actual islanders (which I'm sure is the approach hed take) and not biased western sources
WAIT WAIT WAIT. Cersei and Jaime??? Those are incredible names for a couple of pets, good job! 1+ cookie from me
i love the tiny picture of jujubee, the drag queen, thrown in with the rest of the actual jujubees
I'm not Chinese nor do I know anything about how to speak it, but those Chinese pronunciations sounded extremely authentic.
I’m from Northern China, our Niangao is made with cooked red beans instead of dates or chestnut. This video made me miss my hometown. 👍
I live in China and am married to a Chinese woman. I do not understand red beans and probably never will. Why is it in everything?!
The pandemic really made things hard, for all of us.....
@@WMDistraction red bean is like chocolate for chinese desserts. along with lotus paste. and there's a poem to go with it, basically describing it as a bean of longing. Red bean gets better as it gets stewed in the red bean soup, and the more broken down it is, the better (some people put dried orange peel to it, adds a little fragrance to it), but the thing is, red bean is definitely associated with romance in chinese culture, or a good sweet soup dessert, next to tangyuan, or the dumpling made in another previous episode in this channel. Tangyuan is associated with unity, while red bean is associated with longingness. Either way, brings a little sweetness to end a meal with friends.
@@WMDistraction sorry to say that but you will wonder even more in Japan (and missed a lot of chances to try their traditional desert). They’re even more fanatic about red bean than the Chinese they basically have red bean flavors for every sweet dish possible. They even adapt western bread & invent the “red-bean bun” flavor 😂😂 It’s one of the most popular bread entry in Japan only *curry bun* & *fried-noodle bun” can ever rival it. And us Taiwanese adopt it as well we now almost have red-bean bun in every bread bakery possible 👍
Taiwanese also have Nian Gao mostly in red bean kind (us obviously being majorly tied to Southern Chinese culture, though personally my grandparents are from the north who came with Chiang Kai Shek ), so I guess nowadays red bean is the staple flavor for general folks , ... dates or chestnut I thk I’ve seen their version somewhere, probably made by fancy restaurants or something, definitely at a higher price than red bean for sure 😂😂 Not too surprising people who’s capable of writing it down for Max to discover, is most definitely a noble or high ranked official in ancient time their version of Nian Gao is no doubt the up scale version ~
Deity of the Stove: *Chewing sounds*
Jade Emperor: Well? What of the family you were watching?
Deity of the Stove: *Gives up*
Anybody else appreciate just how amazingly he pronounces words in other languages? You are incredible, sir!
Max :*Proceeds to edit every utterance of Wu Zixu's name post video*
Fans :"Wow, that's some authentic pronunciation!"
Max :*Sweat*
I had mispronounced it the entire time. It killed me to have to re-edit it in.
@@TastingHistory the repronunciation was so cute haha. I feel bad for all the editing though!
Say it right once. Then edit it in every other time. I appreciate the extra work rather than butchering the language.
@@TastingHistory You should have dubbed it with Jose saying it.
The poor guy who first made this stuff probably didn’t use oiled bamboo leaves. The guy had to buy a whole new kitchen.
🤣
😂😂😂
Actually, we knew perfectly clear it was gonna be hella sticky when we first started eating sticky glutenous rice - that's why they figured out they could even do this sticky rice cake thing.
Putting sticky rice dishes onto lightly oiled leaves is a common way to package and preserve them. It's easy to portion and transport too! Nowadays you see them in plastic wraps more, though some dishes will still have big leaves wrapping them, like zhongzi.
I really appreciate how much effort Max puts into his pronunciations. Sometimes it's so hard a shift in gears it feels like an automated message. That's a compliment!
"Snitches get... glutinous rice cake" should be something on your merch. :)
I appreciate that you let us know when you fail. A lot of content creators only show their successes, but failures are just as important.
It’s how we learn 😁
Chef John's failures are some of his most hilarious videos.
OMG I almost spilled my coffee when I saw Jujubee's face
🤣
As soon as he started chewing I was waiting for the Spongebob reference, and I was not disappointed.
Just so you guys know, we still love to eat niangao today. Its super tasty, and i would definitely recommend it.
5:10 "honestly, any date will work" Been telling myself that for years. Have yet to find one so I'm still single.
Your pronunciation is *chef’s kiss*
Thank you 😊
Better than a lot of people, to be honest lol
You mean xief's chizz?
Well... some of then he just got right once, and copy-pasted the soundbyte everywhere else...
Lot's of love, no shade, but I see you lazy pig:)
@@HangryinBrussels lol.. Is that why it sounds like when movies swap curse words with other words? 😂😂
That was as wonderful historical story! I also think that because the cake is so chewy and sticky, giving it to the monster gave the villagers enough time to make their get away lol.
My compliments Max. As someone who studied Chinese, I can definitively say you nailed the pronunciation. As an aside, it is a common misunderstanding in Western cultures that the dragon is a popular or fortuitous symbol, but it is in fact the opposite. In Chinese myth, the dragon is a god-like being who jealously guards its status. In the eyes of the dragon, for a mere lowly human to associate or attach the symbol of the dragon to himself is to invite the ire of the dragon. More than one elderly Chinese have commented to me that Bruce Lee's untimely deaths was because his nickname was Little Dragon. BTW: I think it tastes better with dates rather than jujubes.
Thank you 🙏
“There are also appearances by our cats, Cersei and Jaime” for that, I’ll go sub right now
I'm guessing the cats are fixed! Lol
I guessing that aren't and related
Happy Chinese New Year!
Kinda crazy how much I'm learning from this video, considering... I'm Chinese.
I absolutely love your videos.
啊。。。你好像被我关注了。。。
Ayyy channel hybridization
WHOAH! Fancy seeing you here! Happy new year!!
YOOOO ITS MAH BOI YANG ZHANG
Holy shout! My mom had a Bo Donaldson wax! ....I used to sing along to it when I was 3 YEARS OLD! I would bring up his and other obscure 60's 70's bands as I went mohawk punk in the 80s... And sung Don Ho and Franky Sinatra on stage. ...now I feel old
with how long it took you to chew just one bite of this stuff, i can totally believe several entire cakes shutting up a god for his entire meeting.
This show has gone from "good" to "I need 1000% more max and Jose content"
Good news. There’s a channel for that. :)
Yeah...UNSUBSCRIBED
Honestly im both embarassed for how long it took me to realize Max has a husband-to-be (ive watched this channel for the past two months and just subscribed to ketchup a week ago) and im also super excited for him and José (sorry if i spelt it wrong) are engaged! Congrats you two!
Same with me 😂
@@ladycrowley1413 idk, he always came off gay to me :P
He never really mentioned it, surprised me too
Lmao I'm both happy for the rep and happy that my gaydar was so good at picking it up so long ago lmao
@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 yeah I guess I'm just finely tuned lol
The pan-fried method with the egg crust is really good for combating the stick factor! Also the thin slices really help! My family is from Southern China and it’s the way my mum has been making it for us every year :D
I love the fact that you said "full disclosure... Sometimes I come across a recipe that kicks my ass... "
5:03 One of the Jujubes is not like the others. It has Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent.
Yeaaaasssss I was looking for the person who commented about Miss Jujubee!!!!!💞😊
LMAO I CACKLED AT MISS JUJU IN THERE
And one of them can read you to filth.
“I’ve never been blown like that”
Yes! I legit LOL when I saw her! 🤣🤣 nice detail
Did no one notice the jujube edit? LMAO My kind of humor!
Every time he says Zixu, it sounds pre recorded and edited in. Love it
your humor is already on point, but that tiny jujubee reference was the cherry on TOP
I’m a rooster, which makes me laugh since my mom collects rooster figurines. I tease her about being the first in her collection 😂
Shanghainese person here. Despite our city's fame for sweet foods (well, sweet by Chinese standards), we often eat our niangao savory. You can buy them pre-cut into little discs and frozen from the grocery. They can be used in soups or a stir fry, a practice that is also common in Korea and Japan. For the stir fry, you stir fry some meat and mushrooms in a pot with some soy sauce, then put nappa cabbage on top, add salt, then put the frozen nian gao on top. A lot of water comes out of these ingredients, so you then shut the lid and let it steam until the niangao is soft, lightly mix, and then it's ready to eat.
My family does it dipped in egg and fried. Another way is we cut the rice cake up into smaller bite-sized pieces and stir-fry them with cut-up sausages, bacon and veggies. We usually eat it for breakfast.
Didn't know you were engaged! Congrats to you and José!
Legend also has it that Wu Zixu's last words before committing suicide were 'dig my eyes out and hang them by the city gates, as I want to be watching when we're invaded by the Yue'. So yeah, between that and the corpse whipping... Some character he is. And when that ultimately happened, King Fuchai of Wu committed suicide as well. Before dying, he covered his face with a white cloth as he was too embarrassed to face Wu Zixu in the afterlife.
To this day, Wu Zixu is venerated in the land where the Kingdom of Wu used to stand (modern day Suzhou, which happens to be my hometown haha). One of the city gates is named after him (胥门).
Fun fact: here in the Philippines, we call nian gao "tikoy" and it comes in a lot of flavors apart from sugar and molasses. I've seen strawberry, ube and pandan lately. We usually slice them into rectangles, coat them in egg and pan fry them. My personal favorite is wrapping slices in spring roll wrapper, fry them and drizzle condensed milk over it.
ube tikoy would be awesome! sadly, i doubt the fillings in my teeth would agree :D
My mom is from the Philippines and she just dipped tikoy in egg. My dad is from Taiwan and he insists on adding flour to the egg 🤷🏻♂️
@@Keeperoffyre Ube anything is awesome.
@@Keeperoffyre I'm intrigued by the pandan also.
nah... gi gutom ko hahaha
then there's moon cake, and rice dumplings, and delicacies we celebrate with.
This makes a scene in one of my favorite Asian dramas make SO much more sense! Thank you!❤️
Last time i was this early, the guards still recognized me
🤣 on point
Well played
I love how detailed your research is! Kept making mental notes of “I’ll google that later” only for them to be answered in the video! :)
That's such a great compliment! Thank you.
I really just can't get enough of you ! Your knowledge mixed with all kinds of humor...Umph, Genius ! ( That jujube queen photo slip in... hysterical ! ) Thanks for all the hard work you guys do 😀