A busy Chinese restaurant owner finds time for family during the holidays | A Sweet & Sour Christmas
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Don’t care to cook a Christmas meal? Is everything closed during Hanukkah? Just order Chinese! Most Canadians have several days off in December and spend time with family and friends but, for some, time off during the holiday season is a luxury. Restaurants across the country are scrambling to crank out Canadian Chinese comfort food to satisfy the seasonal crowd. #CBCShortDocs #Sweet&SourChristmas
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A Sweet & Sour Christmas is the story behind a family-run Chinese restaurant spreading their deep-fried holiday cheer and even taking a bit of time during the seasonal rush for their own holiday celebration.
This is a portrait of the Ho family, who operate King Wok Restaurant in Kitchener Ontario. Through them, we see the bittersweet balance of business and life through two types of meals. One, the deep-fried take-out Chinese Canadian food staples delivered to families across the city. And the other, a traditional Cantonese meal for the entire family as they come together for a rare celebration on Christmas Night.
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"In China, there's no Chinese food." LOL
Haha thats kind of funny. The way I see it, is that chinese food is different in every country, from Taiwan to China to Malaysia to Indonesia to Japan to Singapore and more. Our Chinese food may have the same name but adapted to the culture, ingredients and taste of the people living there.
Love that the documentary is in Cantonese. You don't see a lot of this anywhere. You can see the love and effort these people have. This definitely worth more views!
These people are absolutely wonderful. I loved eating here while growing up in the city. I still think of them from time to time, so it was really nice to see this short. I'm glad I got to see it, and I hope you get to give this place a shot if you haven't already. It's great to support local businesses and even better when it feels like home.
Wow! I loved this doc. It's so true though, so many Canadians order Chinese take out for Christmas and New Years. My family doesn't order take out for the holidays but we know many people who do because they have a smaller family or they're divorced or going through a hard time and don't want to cook. But my family does order Chinese food at random times throughout the year.
The owner is right in this video about the food being different in China. My dad went to China for a work trip for the first time few years ago, and he missed the Canadian Chinese food back in Canada. But he did like some dishes in China, but I think he's just used to what we eat in Canada. So my dad was sad lol
these kids will find themselves one day looking at a discarded takeaway container and start bawling
My dad worked as a Cook in a Chinese restaurant nearly all of his life so I get it. Really hard work on your feet all day and super long hours. The two daughters in the film are amazing. Parents should be proud. Great doc and thanks.
Wow ! So glad this doc popped up in my RUclips feed. A Chinese Canadian expat now, I grew up in a small family business on the west coast. Our parents ensured we celebrated Christmas every year. I totally appreciate the cultural fusion - made me nostalgic for those childhood days…😌
Many thanks to the producers and especially the Ho family!
The sad part, is that many American/Canadian Chinese restaurants will close in the next 10 to 15 years. The number of children taking over their parent's restaurants is rapidly declining and the immigrants coming in are either looking for other jobs because of better training or better education. Chinese workers who come to America specifically to open restaurants has continued to drop as well. It is sad, but in a decade or so I believe this type of Chinese food will actually start becoming quite rare.
In melbourne a lot of outer province restaurant is opening. Less Guangdong food. A lot of Sichuan restaurant
Lovely documentary! Thank you CBC docs and thank you to the Ho family.
Thank you, I feel all Christmasy now! Lovely Family and story.
Thank you so much to the family for sharing your time, space, and story. Much respect and love to you. Thanks again, and you will get offers to purchase the restaurant now, just watch!! 🇨🇦💖💚🌻🍃🍂
Yeah but new owners change things usually :/
I really enjoy the video,hard work people ,nice family and thanks for shearing this
I worked at my parents Chinese restaurant every Christmas. Everything is so relate able.
Merry Christmas!🎁🎄🎹🍰
What a happy and hard working family 👪 I'm glad they're taking time out to celebrate Christmas.
I wish you and your family a happy and successful New Year!💚❤
As Always, CBC! A thoughtful and beautifully produced documentary! Thank you so much!
Really enjoyed this story. It makes me appreciate even more now the hard work people in restaurants do to keep us well fed, and the feeling of home some of that cooking can instill in us. That part is priceless.
This is a lovely documentary. Thanks to the filmmakers and the Ho family for sharing their story.
Wow what a lovely family. Me and my wife will be visiting this fine establishment when we get the chance =)
These docs are so wholesome. Its exactly what i need right now ❤
Just stumbled across this heartwarming documentary which definitely made my day. It reminded me so much of my own family and our annual family dinners we have. Wishing the very best for the Ho family!
CBC you guys are making very amazing documentary. I really enjoy it. Especially in this hard time. We need to stop the racism again chinese
圣诞快乐，很让我感动的一家人，希望勤劳的中国人在加拿大为更多大的人带去食物的快乐！这就是快乐，这就是生活，这就是人生。
Great docs! It brings up sweet memories for me. I've worked in a similar restaurant in Southern Ontario ( family owned business chineese canadian food ). We used the same boxes that they do haha! It was such a enriching experience for me to work with a hard working family like them. Altough I don't speak madarin and my english is quite broken, we somehow easily exchange and communicate and working there for a year made me feel part of their family for a little while to!!
insightful and entertaining
Sad the restaurant must've closed last year and reopened under new owners that ran it to the ground based off of reviews last year about the food. Hope they enjoy their retirement. They've earned it!
100 gong means 100kg, that more than 200 pounds
Would love to visit the restaurant
Smart business people
What a heartfelt and warm story, thank you CBC for making such a fantastic documentary.
As someone who spent maybe 15 years of my life in a Chinese restaurant, this was so familiar. Hope the family is doing well!
Thanks for sharing this story!
This was so lovely to watch!! I enjoyed this immensely!
Just Awesome
To be honest, I didn't like the food in Beijing, it was very foreign to me and not of my liking. I'm much more used to Cantonese food because of the restaurants in Chinatowns across North America I usually go to. Food in Hong Kong is more of my taste.
Guangzhou ccook food better than hong kong
Same here
Just rocked some ginger beef, chicken balls in nuclear orange sweet and sour sauce, and chicken fried rice. Heaven.
Where is it, I couldn´t find it!
Likes currently at triple-8.
Lol, chicken balls. XD
i never heard of people eat "Chinese food" for xmas. maybe only canada/usa
i want to go there now
Favorite languages: Cantonese, French, Russian (softly spoken by a woman)
0:16 the same cannot be said for Hong Kong where I came from this year (#PrayForHongKong)
Don't think i've seen chicken balls in Vancouver at all :/ guess it's just vancouver
Vancouver is best Chinese food outside China. I live in melbourne and went the vancouvre in sep 2019. the food is same level as China. cheap and big serving. In australia it is no effort put in, expensive and little serving and taste like rubbish
I tried Chicken Balls,... never again
unfortunately, Cantonese food is slowly losing its appeal
Seems good, but I seriously dislike all of this textual stuff, the subtitles, rather than having understandable verbal language. I'm NOT Chinese, so this type of video isn't good for me, not fitting. Seems interesting though.
Can you not read, Mike? I'd recommend learning Cantonese if the subtitles are getting too much for you...
jesus ive never seen a dumber comment in 2020