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Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!
Sep
9
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!

hi hello everyone!! Tonight we're making my favorite Chinese noodle dish of all time, which is a "Zha Jiang Mian." Zha Jiang Mian is a meat sauce noodle dish that leans heavily on the use of chinese fermented black bean paste. The recipe I'm following today is one I wrote in an attempt to recreate the zha jiang mian that my dad used to make when I was a kid, which is why it definitely has some americanized elements involved.

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 4 tbsp ginger

  • 1 carrot

  • cucumber

  • 4 strips bacon (thick cut)

  • 8 oz egg noodles (or dried fettuccine)

  • 8 oz ground pork (or any ground meat)

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 shiitake mushrooms

  • 4 tbsp black bean sauce

  • 4 tbsp low sodium soy sauce (or 2 tbsp full sodium soy sauce)

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

  • 1/4 cup chicken stock

  • 1 star anise pod

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp hoisin sauce

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Hot and Spicy Chow Mein, AMA!
Aug
17
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Hot and Spicy Chow Mein, AMA!

hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we're diving back into our series on foods from the Bay Area restaurant scene with a request that a few folks from the Oakland subreddit have been asking for, which is the Hot and Spicy Chow Mein from the one and only, absolutely legendary noodle and dumpling shop, Shan Dong in Oakland, CA.

For the Bay Area locals that are not familiar, Shan Dong is a LONG time staple of the Oakland restaurant scene, offering hand made noodles, dumplings, and Chinese comfort food right in the heart of Oakland Chinatown. While their Hot and Spicy Chow Mein may at first glance look like a pretty typical chow mein (with its inclusion of carrots, zucchini, and onion, paired with a dark soy sauce noodle marinade), it is unique not only because it can be ordered featuring Shan Dong's handmade noodles, but also because of their approach to creating the "hot and spicy" qualities that the dish's name promises. Today we'll be doing this with a combination of Chinese fermented chili paste "doubanjiang," lao gan ma "chili crisp oil," and my personal favorite, a healthy handful of dried toasted tian jin peppers. Hope you try it.

Freshen up on the recipe here (out August 13th!), bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 1 inch (about 1 tbsp) ginger

  • 2 green onions

  • 16 oz Shanghainese round noodles

  • 1 medium zucchini

  • 2 medium carrots

  • 1/2 medium sweet white onion

  • 8-10 dried Tian Jin peppers

  • 2 medium chicken thighs

  • 1/4 cup chicken stock (or water)

  • peanut oil

  • ice

INGREDIENTS (noodle marinade)

  • 2 tbsp dark soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp sesame oil

INGREDIENTS (chicken marinade)

  • 4 tbsp soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp shaoxing wine

  • 1 tbsp brown sugar

  • 1/2 tsp white pepper

  • 1/2 tsp corn starch

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 1 tbsp dark soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce

  • 1 tbsp doubanjiang

  • 2 tbsp lao gan ma

  • pinch kosher salt

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Woo Can Cook | Hot and Spicy Chow Mein (Shan Dong Oakland)
Aug
13
9:00 AM09:00

Woo Can Cook | Hot and Spicy Chow Mein (Shan Dong Oakland)

hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we're diving back into our series on foods from the Bay Area restaurant scene with a request that a few folks from the Oakland subreddit have been asking for, which is the Hot and Spicy Chow Mein from the one and only, absolutely legendary noodle and dumpling shop, Shan Dong in Oakland, CA.

For the Bay Area locals that are not familiar, Shan Dong is a LONG time staple of the Oakland restaurant scene, offering hand made noodles, dumplings, and Chinese comfort food right in the heart of Oakland Chinatown. While their Hot and Spicy Chow Mein may at first glance look like a pretty typical chow mein (with its inclusion of carrots, zucchini, and onion, paired with a dark soy sauce noodle marinade), it is unique not only because it can be ordered featuring Shan Dong's handmade noodles, but also because of their approach to creating the "hot and spicy" qualities that the dish's name promises. Today we'll be doing this with a combination of Chinese fermented chili paste "doubanjiang," lao gan ma "chili crisp oil," and my personal favorite, a healthy handful of dried toasted tian jin peppers. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday August 13, 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.

We're live streaming every Tues/Thurs at 6:30PM PST, with new recipes out every Friday!

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!
Jul
1
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!

hi hello everyone!! Tonight we're making my favorite Chinese noodle dish of all time, which is a "Zha Jiang Mian." Zha Jiang Mian is a meat sauce noodle dish that leans heavily on the use of chinese fermented black bean paste. The recipe I'm following today is one I wrote in an attempt to recreate the zha jiang mian that my dad used to make when I was a kid, which is why it definitely has some americanized elements involved.

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 4 tbsp ginger

  • 1 carrot

  • cucumber

  • 4 strips bacon (thick cut)

  • 8 oz egg noodles (or dried fettuccine)

  • 8 oz ground pork (or any ground meat)

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 shiitake mushrooms

  • 4 tbsp black bean sauce

  • 4 tbsp low sodium soy sauce (or 2 tbsp full sodium soy sauce)

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

  • 1/4 cup chicken stock

  • 1 star anise pod

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp hoisin sauce

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Sichuan Sesame Noodles (Dan Dan Mian), AMA!
Jun
22
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Sichuan Sesame Noodles (Dan Dan Mian), AMA!

hello hi there! Tonight we're making one of my favorite Sichuan noodle dishes of all time, which is a peanut-sauce noodle called Dan Dan Mian. This is definitely one of those noodle dishes that is prepared in vastly different ways depending on who's making it. My recipe is based off of the version that I've been eating since I was a kid, which uses peanut butter (in place of the more traditional sesame paste or tahini).

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS (dry)

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 1 tbsp ginger (about 1 inch)

  • 1 small carrot

  • 1/4 cup cucumber

  • 1/3 cup peanuts

  • 1/2 lb ground meat (pork or beef)

  • 8 oz Shanghainese flat noodles (or similar)

INGREDIENTS (wet)

  • 6 tbsp peanut butter

  • 2 tbsp oyster sauce

  • 7 tbsp soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp brown sugar

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 3 tbsp sambal oelek

  • kosher salt

  • vegetable oil

  • 2 tbsp corn starch

  • 1/3 cup chicken stock

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Tomato Beef Chow Mein, AMA!
Jun
14
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Tomato Beef Chow Mein, AMA!

hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re taking a crack at a Chinese take out classic, which is a a Tomato Beef Chow Mein. For those not familiar, tomato beef chow mein as you might guess, prominently features the use of tomatoes, which happen to be in season right now here in CA. If you don’t happen to be so lucky though, you can also totally make use of some canned whole tomatoes, too (which actually might be preferable than an out of season tomato, since it’ll have been picked and preserved at its peak ripeness).

Our flavor palette is mostly going to be drawing from a number of familiar pantry sauces that you’ll likely recognize here. There will however be one VERY American addition, which is a little bit of ketchup for that classic form of sweetness you’ll know and love, cut with a bit of sweet chili sauce, for an interesting sweet and savory addition. Hope you try it.

Bookmark the recipe here (out June 11th!), bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 1 inch (about 1 tbsp) ginger

  • 16 oz Shanghainese noodles

  • 16 oz flank steak (or skirt steak)

  • 3 green onions

  • 2 vine ripe tomatoes (or whole canned tomatoes)

  • 1 green bell pepper

  • 1/2 medium sweet white onion

  • ice

  • peanut oil

INGREDIENTS (steak marinade)

  • 4 tbsp low sodium soy sauce (or 2 tbsp full sodium soy sauce)

  • 1 tbsp shaoxing wine

  • 1 tbsp brown sugar

  • 1/2 tsp white pepper

  • 1/2 tsp corn starch

  • pinch kosher salt

INGREDIENTS (noodle marinade)

  • 2 tbsp dark soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 tbsp low sodium soy sauce (or 2 tbsp full sodium soy sauce)

  • 1 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 1 tbsp dark soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce

  • 2 tbsp doubanjiang

  • 1 tbsp ketchup

  • 1 tbsp sweet chili sauce

  • 1/2 cup stock

  • pinch kosher salt

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Woo Can Cook | Tomato Beef Chow Mein (Will & Grace)
Jun
11
9:00 AM09:00

Woo Can Cook | Tomato Beef Chow Mein (Will & Grace)

hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re taking a crack at a Chinese take out classic, which is a a Tomato Beef Chow Mein. For those not familiar, tomato beef chow mein as you might guess, prominently features the use of tomatoes, which happen to be in season right now here in CA. If you don’t happen to be so lucky though, you can also totally make use of some canned whole tomatoes, too (which actually might be preferable than an out of season tomato, since it’ll have been picked and preserved at its peak ripeness).

Our flavor palette is mostly going to be drawing from a number of familiar pantry sauces that you’ll likely recognize here. There will however be one VERY American addition, which is a little bit of ketchup for that classic form of sweetness you’ll know and love, cut with a bit of sweet chili sauce, for an interesting sweet and savory addition. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday June 11th, 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.

We're live streaming every Mon/Tues/Thurs at 6:30PM PST, with new recipes out every Friday!

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!
May
4
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!

hi hello everyone!! Tonight we're making my favorite Chinese noodle dish of all time, which is a "Zha Jiang Mian." Zha Jiang Mian is a meat sauce noodle dish that leans heavily on the use of chinese fermented black bean paste. The recipe I'm following today is one I wrote in an attempt to recreate the zha jiang mian that my dad used to make when I was a kid, which is why it definitely has some americanized elements involved.

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 4 tbsp ginger

  • 1 carrot

  • cucumber

  • 4 strips bacon (thick cut)

  • 8 oz egg noodles (or dried fettuccine)

  • 8 oz ground pork (or any ground meat)

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 shiitake mushrooms

  • 4 tbsp black bean sauce

  • 4 tbsp low sodium soy sauce (or 2 tbsp full sodium soy sauce)

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

  • 1/4 cup chicken stock

  • 1 star anise pod

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp hoisin sauce

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!
Mar
18
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!

hi hello everyone!! Tonight we're making my favorite Chinese noodle dish of all time, which is a "Zha Jiang Mian." Zha Jiang Mian is a meat sauce noodle dish that leans heavily on the use of chinese fermented black bean paste. The recipe I'm following today is one I wrote in an attempt to recreate the zha jiang mian that my dad used to make when I was a kid, which is why it definitely has some americanized elements involved.

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 4 tbsp ginger

  • 1 carrot

  • cucumber

  • 4 strips bacon (thick cut)

  • 8 oz egg noodles (or dried fettuccine)

  • 8 oz ground pork (or any ground meat)

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 shiitake mushrooms

  • 4 tbsp black bean sauce

  • 4 tbsp low sodium soy sauce (or 2 tbsp full sodium soy sauce)

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

  • 1/4 cup chicken stock

  • 1 star anise pod

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp hoisin sauce

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Sichuan Sesame Noodles (Dan Dan Mian), AMA!
Mar
2
6:30 PM18:30

Woo Can Cook (live) | Sichuan Sesame Noodles (Dan Dan Mian), AMA!

hello hi there! Tonight we're making one of my favorite Sichuan noodle dishes of all time, which is a peanut-sauce noodle called Dan Dan Mian. This is definitely one of those noodle dishes that is prepared in vastly different ways depending on who's making it. My recipe is based off of the version that I've been eating since I was a kid, which uses peanut butter (in place of the more traditional sesame paste or tahini).

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS (dry)

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 1 tbsp ginger (about 1 inch)

  • 1 small carrot

  • 1/4 cup cucumber

  • 1/3 cup peanuts

  • 1/2 lb ground meat (pork or beef)

  • 8 oz Shanghainese flat noodles (or similar)

INGREDIENTS (wet)

  • 6 tbsp peanut butter

  • 2 tbsp oyster sauce

  • 7 tbsp soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp brown sugar

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 3 tbsp sambal oelek

  • kosher salt

  • vegetable oil

  • 2 tbsp corn starch

  • 1/3 cup chicken stock

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Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!
Feb
17
6:00 PM18:00

Woo Can Cook (live) | Beijing Wok Fried Noodles (Zha Jiang Mian), AMA!

hi hello everyone!! Tonight we're making my favorite Chinese noodle dish of all time, which is a "Zha Jiang Mian." Zha Jiang Mian is a meat sauce noodle dish that leans heavily on the use of chinese fermented black bean paste. The recipe I'm following today is one I wrote in an attempt to recreate the zha jiang mian that my dad used to make when I was a kid, which is why it definitely has some americanized elements involved.

Freshen up on the recipe here, bookmark the stream here, and pick up the ingredients below if you want to follow along and cook dinner with me.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 4 tbsp ginger

  • 1 carrot

  • cucumber

  • 4 strips bacon (thick cut)

  • 8 oz egg noodles (or dried fettuccine)

  • 8 oz ground pork (or any ground meat)

INGREDIENTS (sauce)

  • 4 shiitake mushrooms

  • 4 tbsp black bean sauce

  • 4 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar

  • 2 tbsp shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

  • 1/4 cup chicken stock

  • 1 star anise pod

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp hoisin sauce

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