hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re adding on to our series on foods from TV and Film with a sweet and sour chicken, inspired by “How I Met Your Mother.” Its origins (as you may have guessed) very much come from American cuisine, and for this reason, very prominently features the use of both canned pineapple AND the pineapple syrup that it’s canned in, for an almost aggressively sweet quality.

It is commonly paired with a handful of other colorful veggies like red bell pepper and white onion, and of course makes use of the all American classic condiment, Ketchup, in order to achieve that bright red color that you’ll know and love. We’ll be using one of my favorite go-to fried chicken recipes with a double fried, carbonated soda water tempura batter, which yields (in my opinion) the best fried chicken results in a Chinese glazed chicken dish like this one that i’ve ever managed. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday July 9th, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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