🤤🧧 Dad’s 3 Essential Chinese New Year Recipes! (必備年菜)

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Watch my dad teach you 3 essential Chinese New Year recipes: Siu Yuk (crispy pork belly), white cut chicken, and whole steamed fish. These are classics that will be perfect for a Cantonese feast!

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🍴 RECIPE + INGREDIENTS🍴

Check out our blog for an adjustable list of ingredients and step-by-step videos:
https://madewithlau.com/recipes/siu-y...
https://madewithlau.com/recipes/white...
https://madewithlau.com/recipes/steam...

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🔗 LINKS MENTIONED 🔗

Chinese Knife Skills 101:    • 🔪 Chinese Knife Skills 101: How a che...  
Orange Peels (from our Spare Ribs recipe video):    • 🤤  My dad's Steamed Spare Rib recipe ...  

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⏲ CHAPTERS ⏲

00:00 - Parboil pork belly
01:46 - Prepare skin
03:26 - Score & season meat
05:08 - Salt & vinegar skin
09:04 - On siu yuk (pork belly)
09:41 - Cook pork belly
11:55 - Take out & cut meat
14:00 - Start Bak Chit Gai
14:22 - Prepare and cook chicken
18:23 - Mince scallions and ginger
20:36 - Prepare ginger scallion sauce
23:07 - Prepare ice bath
24:49 - Lift and transfer to ice bath
27:10 - Carve & plate chicken
33:08 - Start Steamed Fish
37:04 - Prepare flavors
37:30 - On Mandarin Orange Peels
37:57 - Mince ingredients
39:24 - Prepare sauce
40:13 - Steam fish
46:17 - Add vegetables, oil to the fish
47:33 - Debone and serve steamed fish

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🎵 OTHER CREDITS 🎵

Produced by Randy Lau
Edited by Willard Chan, Nicole Cheng
Translation by Arlene Chiu, David Loh

Intro Flute Music - Performed by Daddy Lau
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