The Nostalgia Behind Your Favorite Chinese Food | Vincent Yeow Lim | TED
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- As a proud and passionate restaurant owner, Vincent Yeow Lim takes after his father and grandfather in the family tradition of Chinese cooking. Lim makes a delicious case to elevate the reputation of Chinese food, sharing why the comforting flavors behind iconic dishes -- like a hearty helping of perfectly made fried rice -- come from a long line of love, nostalgia and mastery that deserves to be recognized.
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Honestly the best one I've ever watched on Ted, not that it talks about sophisticated ways to improve your life, which is not bad at all of course, but it's just heartwarming and so satisfying.
I love restaurants that have traditions and passion handed down from father to son. These are values to be greatly appreciated and they are exactly the things I try to get people to like in my channel. Great TED! and then I love Chinese food. Greetings from Italy🇮🇹
One of the most poetic TED talks I've ever seen.
What a great talk! I wasn't expecting to like it this much! 🙂
There actually is always a kid sitting at one of the tables doing homework in my favorite Chinese restaurant when I go during the week. 🙂
If it weren’t for Thailand, you guys would have the best food in the world.
Wow just saw this presentation and it became soooo clear why you have captured my and millions of other people's attention. Your easy going style and absolute attention to detail and process is nothing short of amazing. God bless and may there be many more people who will have a deeper understanding of the difference between the local fast food Chinese restaurant and your explanation of what next level Chinese cuisine is all about.
In a Western restaurant, you can often judge the food by the decor, the plating of the dishes or even by the number of different forks for each course. But in a Chinese restaurant, it's a little bit different. You can often judge it by things like the kids sitting on the first table doing their homework. That's when you know a Chinese restaurant will have amazing food.
To a lot of us Chinese immigrants who started our own restaurants, the restaurant isn't just a business. It's a part of our lives. We eat almost three meals a day there, and often we just use our homes as a place to sleep. We dedicate our lives to these restaurants and to making delicious food.
there was a young boy and girl who use to sit at one of the three tables in a restaurant in washington heights. one day the little boy was doing his homework while munching on a chicken foot. first time i had ever seen that! really enjoyed this, thanks!
Chinese food is always superior to fast food. Fast food is always corporate pablum that is engineered to be exactly the same wherever you get it, but when you order Chinese food, you get a version of the dish that is unique and special.
My grandfather was a restaurant owner. My father was a restaurant owner. My name is Vincent Yeow Lim. I'm a chef, content creator and restaurant owner. Owning and running a Chinese restaurant is one of the hardest and most valuable things I think you can do.
Great talk,great voice and great content which is my favorite show❤
Thanks for sharing this wonderful talk! 😊🙏
The oil goes into the wok first, but only when the wok is hot enough. The egg goes in next. This creates a nonstick coating for when the rice hits the hot wok.
channel that is very inspiring and adds insight, I really like it, greetings from Indonesia😊
In 2017, my dad passed away. I looked up to him. He was my best friend. When he passed away, I realized -- I realized my passion of cooking dishes from my childhood. I was working as a chef at an airline’s first class lounge at the time, but I didn't have any memories of the dishes I was cooking. I wanted to feel closer to my dad. So I quit. I dropped out of university on my last semester. I hopped onto a plane, and I flew over here to Sydney. And I took over the restaurant that I own today. I wanted to record everything that my dad taught me, so I shared it on social media. It went viral. Hundreds of millions of views. A lot of people related to the recipes that I was cooking because it was what they grew up eating with their parents. I remember this one fried rice he made. I was eight years old at the time. It was the first time I recall my dad stepping into the kitchen cooking. He made this fried rice with spam, seafood, peas and a little bit of dark soy sauce. It was a little bit salty, but it was the best fried rice that I've ever had.
Brilliant talk, wonderful presentation.
My dear friends own a Chinese restaurant. The food is amazing and yes there is a Chinese kid doing their homework : )
The best chef ever. I love every video of he’s yum yummy
So that's how you do it. I will never be able to replicate. Did I miss something, the name of your restaurant?
Family owned restaurants are the best! They offer the best taste and quality 💯💯💯
So what is the value of Chinese food? Is it the taste? Is it the hard work and the training? Or is it the dish's history and the nostalgia it makes us feel? To me, it is all of those things. But being in the restaurant industry, I can tell you the most obvious value of food. And that is the price at which we choose to set it at.
In a Western restaurant, you can often judge the food by the decor, the plating of the dishes or even by the number of different forks for each course. But in a Chinese restaurant, it's a little bit different. You can often judge it by things like the kids sitting on the first table doing their homework. That's when you know a Chinese restaurant will have amazing food.
That was exactly what I was thinking about these days. In Germany most of the Chinese restaurants serve cheap and fast food. There ist no combining, no adding flavor. Only opening a frozen bag of fried food and heating it up in a wok. I really got sad by realizing this. Because Chinese food is so much more. It’s got nothing to do with what you get here around in most of the restaurants.
It’s great seeing someone talking with so much passion about his roots, his hometown, his family. I would really love to see more of those traditional Chinese restaurants here in Germany. 🙏❤
And a little bit of yum yum 😉
Now we add the cooked meats and vegetables. I'm tossing it to combine the flavors of the meat and vegetables with the rice. Even if we were to remove all the meat and vegetables, your rice should still have all the flavor.
From experience, you can tell when the rice is too wet or if the wok is too hot or too cold. All these small factors will create a different end result. If the rice is too wet, you lose the smoky aromatic flavor. But if the rice is too dry, you're basically eating pebbles.
People fall in love with Chinese food restaurants when they're kids. You have candied chicken, candy beef, and candied pork
If only the food tasted like real Chinese food rather than altered to fit with the country it is being served in. UK Chinese food is nothing like real Chinese food.
I loved Chinese kid as a kid but as an adult I much prefer Thai, I think they use less sugar. I also learned to prefer the Chinese dishes that aren't so sugar heavy, I sometimes wonder if the sugar dishes are mostly in the US.
Just got back from running errands and funny enough the Panda Express was packed with High School kids, so I went to Cafe Rio. Almost everyone in the Cafe Rio was over 30.
@@jeffk464 in the UK the Chinese food is excessively sweet but it's also very oily. I have eaten Panda Express when I lived in the states and yes that is very sweet as alot of American foods are, or excessively salty. But being married to someone from Taiwan and having visited China many times I can appreciate what real Chinese food is like and it is so much better.
From years of experience, I can tell you the difference between a good fried rice just from the feel and from the smell, without even having to take a bite.
Now talk about how MSG is xenophobic becuase it's on doritos or something.
2:52 lets all laugh at MSG, which is the main ingredient in all 'Chinese' food.
Induction cooking (on a concave hob) is the future !
Nicee
Great
Super
Very good presentation
Does everyone in the audience get a taste?
i think favorite chinese food is bat. so if you want to eat learn it.
This guy COOKS
And he cooks with his soul. The man has a passion and desire that burns within him.
Uncle Rogers approves
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Noodles 🍜🍜🍜😌👌😎
I grew up eating noodles from a young age 。中国河南😀
It was really good 👍
All my respect ❤
so the next time you visit McDonald's, just remember it`s not just a hamburger, it`s so much more than that.
Excellent ❤❤
🌎🇪🇨🙂👍
Interesting!😁😋
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Someone should open a Chinese restaurant called “Spy Balloon” 😂
It’s Seinfeld
This is worthy of a TED talk? Fried rice? Really?
What’s next? “Toenail clipper spirituality”?
best TED talk I seen in a while
Wow, apparently you weren't listening at all.
Cooking is life!
It is ok if you want to do Selective listening. But It is so much more than fried rice my dear.🙃
@@erdiaz13 that's not my point. I get the theme but I question the venue. If I wanted a life lecture id go elsewhere.