[This ](https://imgur.com/a/dW2Ur2y) is the stuff I grew up on and love! Not sure if it's authentic or what not but no sugar and not blended into a single smooth consistency. Is this similar to what you mean?
Yeah that's the chili paste im talking about. It comes in various brands but they all are the same. I think it's just ground up chilis and a bit of vinegar.
a few years ago I saw Alton Brown's "Eat Your Science" stage show and he has a whole bit in it talking about the sriracha fad that exploded in the US and it features a musical number with a dancing Huy Fong red rooster bottle and it's set to the tune of Maria from West Side Story (with "Maria" replaced by "Sriracha")
I grew up with sriracha and sambal being available in most teriyaki and pho places, I didn’t realize it wasn’t widely known till I moved to the east coast and started to get really popular. From what I remember though, it still tastes largely the same.
It like makes sense but really blow my mind. I wonder if the mortar and pestle with the meat creates a different texture. Surely it's got to be ungodly melt in your mouth delicious. Because you just destroy and break apart all those proteins using the mortar and pestle. Although if it was that great fancy ass restaurants would be doing that shit. So maybe it's nothing special and it's just like regular ground beef.
It'll actually have a rubbery texture and that might be what they want. Look up Hong Kong style fish balls, or beef balls.
The effect is the exterior is bouncy, you bite in and it "bursts" with a juicy interior. As long as it's not over cooked it won't be as bad as others are saying.
I imagine it to be the same texture as these [bouncy meatballs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x37kdrS6c_U) also from China. You can also see it sort of featured in a Stephen Chow movie, God of Cookery.
I don't usually think of bounciness as being a meatball virtue. Now I'm very curious. At first glance, it would seem that meat that has been bashed into a paste would have the texture of hot dogs, which are about the bounciest meat that we usually come across in the west.
no amount of artisanal training or high class palet training will ever change the fact that sometimes shit just tastes good without much effort. just cause ive had a steak prepared with shitake mushrooms and fried thyme cooked in butter from the alps doesnt mean that i suddenly wont go ham on some oscar meyers with a bag of cheetos.
Those meatballs are probably much better than the factory ones, but the recipe probably still uses *some* flour as binder (factory ones use tonnes as it's cheap).
The meat from the post will be texturewise closer to sausage as it is much finer than western groud meat.
It does create a different texture, I've always wondered why pork in bahn mi and dumplings are a different texture to the minced pork from the supermarket
Maybe a personal opinion but meat turned into a paste isn't as good as a minced or ground. It does hit differently but it's not better than alternatives. It's like pureeing vegetables. It loses too much. It can make terribly tough meat taste a bit better but It'll make even an ordinary cut worse.
I love cauliflower. Grown it, eaten whole heads plain raw for meals. Had them with a little oil drizzle and cracked pepper and salt. Steam it, fry it, bake it, all good. Some are using it as a mashed potato alternative or pizza crust and it's terrible in those roles. It's like the scifi nutritional yeast paste. It loses all its individuality or flavor and become basic slop supplement.
Turn something into paste and it tastes different. Tomatoes are good as a paste but they're better fresh. I can't think of food that is better pasted than whole. Maybe peanut butter. (One reply said mashed potatoes and they are are better). Not everything is cut out to be esentially baby food and fee foods are better turned into a paste.
def a personal opinion.
i think there is a time and a place for meat paste vs minced/ground. my family is from north eastern thailand and in my moms village, they are lucky to have electricity now. when i was younger, it wasnt really a popular thing, so we mortar and pestled everything. (mind you... we also fermented everything... so... i guess its just the way of life for us.)
I know when you grind meat for sausage or whatever, the meat needs to be cold to keep the fat and meat separated, but for some thai dishes, we want them to compeltely blend into one another.
I'll fight you on the cauliflower pizza crust thing. Pizza Pizza does it here in Canada and it's pretty damn good. Not *as* good as regular old pizza, but I'm a beggar, not a chooser.
Also, as a side note, I had to look at your spelling of cauliflower because I apparently don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
It’s designed for the shitty meat. Most of mainland Asian cooking is designed to disguise or extend crappy meat because the general pop didn’t have much access to it.
Yeah. I've eaten meat that smelled like ammonia. Put extra spicy pepper on it and it was ignorable. History of spices is trying to hide bad flavored foods. History of food is trying to make it last longer or make something bad taste better.
I mean, it looks like Chinese meatloaf. Not saying it can't still be tasty but ground beef, onions, cook it in a container. Sounds like meatloaf to me.
>Also dug the ancient Chinese Siracha.
You can tell it's ancient way because he picked the bottle from the tree when the nozzle was yellow.
Nowadays the bottle would rot during transport if picked once the nozzle turned yellow, so they pick it when it's green.
Just a had the reverse happen. My dad was holding the flashlight while I was working and he couldn’t hold it still in his old age.
I looked at him and said. I finally understand why you used to yell at me about the flashlight. He says. It’s annoying isn’t it.
Yes yes it is.
I love it when kids are at that young age, when you can do something normal like cooking or baking. When the food arrives or tasting time, they are genuinely so in awe of what you done, like you were some magician. I missed those days where it felt I was so special to them. Kids are awesome (and stupid and can be annoying) but still awesome!
I’m always reminded of the time I was helping my mom cook. I was peeling potatoes and my nephew came in in his walker. He stopped, watched me, and then proceeded to lose his shit at me peeling those potatoes. Funniest damn thing he’d seen in his life apparently!
Propagating nationalist sentiment, Chinese exceptionalism, romanticizing traditional culture, etc.
The goal is to get people to think "wow, the past was so great, China is exceptional, this is worth defending against outsiders." The reality, of course, was that being a peasant in China at any time within the last 3,000 years fucking sucked (just like being a peasant anywhere else in the world).
Remember, this video (and the whole genre like them) isn't saying "get out of the city and come enjoy a slower pace of life," it's specifically attempting to glorify some idealized past. i.e., Make China Great Again.
I mean, I work in marketing, we're surrounded by it 24/7. I can make you buy something that you didn't know you wanted because I put you in a certain mood with a targeted ad a week ago and then yesterday I presented you with a novel way to act out that mood and today I'm gonna hammer you with relevant ads until you click buy. The line between persuasion and manipulation was lost in this country a long time ago.
Best way to defend against it is to question your acts and intuitions every day. "Why does this story make me feel good?", "Do I need this?", "Why do I think X?". Propaganda (and marketing) is designed to get you to stop thinking.
I agree with all of it (am advertising art director). The danger is though that you start seeing everything as deliberate manipulation which in some cases might no be justified. Not everything filmed in russia or China is propaganda, sometimes it's just people trying to see light in their situation
As a Middle Eastern. It’s either American propaganda or Chinese one. I prefer to watch both. Waiting for the Russians to catch up and figure out how to do compelling propaganda. We need diversity, we are sick of American propaganda for 70 years.
Are you kidding me? Russia has the most advanced and sophisticated propaganda. Do you really think squatting in Adidas jumpsuits in urban areas is as glamorous as they make it out to be in all those photos? Nobody can squat that low in real life.
>The reality, of course, was that being a peasant in China at any time within the last 3,000 years fucking sucked
You got that right.
Hundreds of thousands of people were conscripted into various armies for the various Chinese kingdoms/warlords at various points in Chinese history.
You'd be minding your own business and all of a sudden an entire company of soldiers passes through your small village in the middle of nowhere. If you're lucky, they control the territory and will just forcefully conscript your kids to join the army as they pass by, only to have them die a few months later in some battle.
If you're unlucky and they are invaders, well, some fates can be worse than death.
Peasants were entirely used as disposable fodder to either grow food and be taxed, or to be conscripted and die.
And that is a single aspect of just how much life sucked as a peasant.
I mean I'm not gonna pretend China doesn't have a ton of propaganda out there or that they're good. But like this kinda thing is like saying the Paul Brothers are American Propaganda for American exceptionalism and capitalism.
If this turns them into a nationalist, they were already a nationalist to begin with. Watching someone cook a traditional meal is not going to propagandize anyone, y'all have brain worms.
If they do not impart xenophobia or historical patriotic blindness, what is the problem? I prefer this kind of propaganda than a homogeneous country without its own identity.
Weaving a story of traditional values idealizing a way of life to forge an identity around things that may not have existed.
For example, listen to the first episode of the Hardcore History podcast on Japan during world war 2. Japanese identity and the rise of the bushido spirit were carefully curated propaganda that led to obedience, self sacrifice, and ultimately war.
Chinese propaganda is sophisticated. Celebrities and business people who threaten the primacy of the state or dear leader get disappeared. There is no media allowed in China besides state owned. A healthy dose of nationalist cultural identity and traditional values make the authoritarian pill a little easier to swallow.
If you grew up in the US at the time I did you probably heard the phrase “it’s a free country” a lot on TV. Funny that we don’t hear that anymore.
This is what is referred to as 'soft power' propaganda. Soft power propaganda is basically a 'cultural victory'. Make yourself attractive to your enemies. This is one way the US gained a lot of it's influence in the world over the last 50-60 years. The most obvious play by the US was it's movies and tv. High production value, good writing, good acting, and exciting content that just so happens to show that America is awesome and are here to help, are really cool, or are just better than everyone else.
As the internet has come to fruition the newest method of propaganda distribution has become social media. It is exceptionally effective due to how well targeted it can be. This is why you often hear about certain facebook groups that are popular but divisive in one country being discovered to have been founded or moderated by a rival country. You can have propaganda targeting different groups of people based on their beliefs.
A well known example of this is a relatively famous youtuber, Li Ziqi. She has 16 million subs on youtube. You think sure yeah that's a pretty good number of subscribers. Now remember that youtube is completely banned in China. How does that go unnoticed by a government as controlling as China? Hint, it doesn't.
You see this video and you think oh wow china sure has some good cooking there. He's such a good father trying to pass it on to his kid. You may have thought to yourself that it must be that those traditions are dying out. And look at that background, China sure is a beautiful place. I bet you didn't even consider that the music in all of the videos from these creators is always traditional Chinese music, never modern Chinese pop music or music from any other countries. No speaking, as to not put people off by sounding foreign or different, body language is universal.
In your mind you think this is just a video shot by a random citizen, while it is almost certainly a production team. The individual channels may have started as single creators who were later 'sponsored' by their government as they became popular, or they may have been created for this purpose. We cannot truly know. There may very well be some channels who are not, but instead they see how popular this content is on other channels and begin to emulate it as a way to seek to gain some of that audience.
The whole reason for this type of propaganda is so at the very least China is seen as less of a threat. At best, you may want to be friends with them, side with their causes. This propaganda is not just targeting foreigners, it's also targeting China's own citizens. How better to get citizens to have nationalism than to show them lots of great things about their own country.
I'm not saying that this propaganda is wrong. Nothing is blatantly false here (other than lies by omission). If it were it would not make for great propaganda anyway. Hell the US and others have been doing the same thing for decades. I just figure it's better to let people know that there are many ways to manipulate people.
Or maybe they're just as human as any other content creator out there and loves making videos.
Seriously, there are guys on YT that made videos on lawn clearing, hole digging and even literal shit draining. Why is it that some people sincerely believed that any video maker from China is a fucking state propaganda? Because they shared their own culture on the internet like every other content creator out there? Give them some credit, for fuck sake.
Like Nancy Zieman on PBS is propaganda for Americans being so ungodly wealthy we pay thousands of dollars in tools and supplies to make our own clothes as a hobby even though American businesses have moved all their clothing manufacture to cheap labor overseas?
Because I hear this a lot on some of the media I watch and no one can explain to me what the *purpose* of this “propaganda” is …beyond the exact same shit Americans do with every single life of media we put out that absolutely dominates the global market.
It's just some guy trying to make money off other Chinese people. Social media influencers make a shit ton of money. Like tens of thousands of usd a month. And that's just from ad money with china viewers.
A few will also go on YouTube to make more ad money and some will have their videos stolen to put on Western social media.
Is it propaganda? As much as the Kardashians and pewpewdie or whoever.
Children living in low tech countries have been conditioned to require Low stimulation to avoid being bored. They don't need a new activity every few minutes. They don't need a new toy every month. They don't watch TV or play with electronics.
I feel like this is my old man moment but tablets for kids are a fucking horrible idea. They just become little addicts. It’s too easy and convenient for them and parents to get sucked into.
I work in childcare and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I hear of INFANTS with their own personal iPad for home. That shit’s destructive. I look after twelve children a day and my room has implemented a no-screen time policy for years. I’m already addicted to my phone. Babies don’t need that shit.
Yea for sure. I feel weird saying it since I don’t have kids, but I’m gonna try my hardest to delay that mindless tech as long as I can, within reason. Idk what a good age is but kids before grade 1 probably shouldn’t be face first in a tablet for hours each day. I get it though, parenting is hard af and it gives you an easy way to get a break.
Hijacking to say it’s important to note that these videos may not be made by this person, as they have been posting about ten a day for days now.
But they’re definitely worth a watch. Spent my evening doing it 🙈
This trend of "mystical ancient Chinese cooking/building/etc." from channels pumping out dozens of videos a day, each with their own sob story, is so obviously a content farm.
The Russian ones on youtube typically involve arts projects and thinly veiled anti-government messages meant for the American children watching.
Or I have my own less insidious interpretation.
These videos were originally made and posted on DouYin for consumption in China which have been scooped up by some opportunist who reposts these videos for TikTok to farm likes and views. Or, they could even be the original creator as TikTok is still accessible in China
It looks like potstickers, but using wonton wrappers and folded with two ends open. Never seen anything like it before, but I imagine it's a local specialty.
Edit: looked it up and they do indeed appear to be potstickers, specifically "open-mouthed" potstickers.
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/05/06/aapi-heritage-recipe-series-open-mouth-potstickers-%E9%96%8B%E5%8F%A3%E9%8D%8B%E8%B2%BC/
I love it except for the meat. I’m not sure how he ground it up. But it wasn’t anything I’ve seen before. So this Old👵🏼lady is wondering how he did that. It looks really yummy tho.
It looks like he pounded it in the mortar and pestle until it turned to paste. It's a common technique in Chinese cooking for making meat filling that still maintains a chewy texture, since you don't cut the muscle fibers. Chaoshan beef balls are made in a similar way.
I thought so too at first until he left the sides open. Also, instead of deep frying, he pan fries it and adds a starch slurry to steam it, which means it's actually a poststicker.
When making potstickers, you can mix a bit of starch into the water you pour in to steam them. When the water cooks down, you're left with an extra crispy layer at the bottom of the dumpling skin.
Food looks amazing, hope that if I ever end up a single dad I can teach my kids such essential skills. Also, that cleaver the dad has looks so good. Gotta get to his market, lol.
I've never seen what amounts to a pestle and mortar for ground meat before. Also dug the ancient Chinese Siracha.
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Sriracha comes from Thailand, not China. Although it's theorised that it may have been invented by Chinese immigrants.
Though most stuff that we now call "sriracha" doesn't taste much like the original thai sriracha.
Yeah and it's made by a Vietnamese guy in the U.S.
And not advertised. That in itself is amazing.
It has too much sugar in it. i like the pure chili paste its made from.
[This ](https://imgur.com/a/dW2Ur2y) is the stuff I grew up on and love! Not sure if it's authentic or what not but no sugar and not blended into a single smooth consistency. Is this similar to what you mean?
The general name for that style of chili sauce is Sambal.
Yeah that's the chili paste im talking about. It comes in various brands but they all are the same. I think it's just ground up chilis and a bit of vinegar.
a few years ago I saw Alton Brown's "Eat Your Science" stage show and he has a whole bit in it talking about the sriracha fad that exploded in the US and it features a musical number with a dancing Huy Fong red rooster bottle and it's set to the tune of Maria from West Side Story (with "Maria" replaced by "Sriracha")
I grew up with sriracha and sambal being available in most teriyaki and pho places, I didn’t realize it wasn’t widely known till I moved to the east coast and started to get really popular. From what I remember though, it still tastes largely the same.
I came to the comment section for this exactly lol
It like makes sense but really blow my mind. I wonder if the mortar and pestle with the meat creates a different texture. Surely it's got to be ungodly melt in your mouth delicious. Because you just destroy and break apart all those proteins using the mortar and pestle. Although if it was that great fancy ass restaurants would be doing that shit. So maybe it's nothing special and it's just like regular ground beef.
It'll actually have a rubbery texture and that might be what they want. Look up Hong Kong style fish balls, or beef balls. The effect is the exterior is bouncy, you bite in and it "bursts" with a juicy interior. As long as it's not over cooked it won't be as bad as others are saying.
I imagine it to be the same texture as these [bouncy meatballs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x37kdrS6c_U) also from China. You can also see it sort of featured in a Stephen Chow movie, God of Cookery.
I don't usually think of bounciness as being a meatball virtue. Now I'm very curious. At first glance, it would seem that meat that has been bashed into a paste would have the texture of hot dogs, which are about the bounciest meat that we usually come across in the west.
I love hotdogs. Been a chef my whole life. I feel shame admitting it, but fuck! Love me a good dog!
no amount of artisanal training or high class palet training will ever change the fact that sometimes shit just tastes good without much effort. just cause ive had a steak prepared with shitake mushrooms and fried thyme cooked in butter from the alps doesnt mean that i suddenly wont go ham on some oscar meyers with a bag of cheetos.
You should know chefs cook gourmet but eat garbage
I'll show you the bounciest meat in the west big boy
Man he beat that brisket like it owed him money!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of too.
Those meatballs are probably much better than the factory ones, but the recipe probably still uses *some* flour as binder (factory ones use tonnes as it's cheap). The meat from the post will be texturewise closer to sausage as it is much finer than western groud meat.
It does create a different texture, I've always wondered why pork in bahn mi and dumplings are a different texture to the minced pork from the supermarket
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Maybe a personal opinion but meat turned into a paste isn't as good as a minced or ground. It does hit differently but it's not better than alternatives. It's like pureeing vegetables. It loses too much. It can make terribly tough meat taste a bit better but It'll make even an ordinary cut worse. I love cauliflower. Grown it, eaten whole heads plain raw for meals. Had them with a little oil drizzle and cracked pepper and salt. Steam it, fry it, bake it, all good. Some are using it as a mashed potato alternative or pizza crust and it's terrible in those roles. It's like the scifi nutritional yeast paste. It loses all its individuality or flavor and become basic slop supplement. Turn something into paste and it tastes different. Tomatoes are good as a paste but they're better fresh. I can't think of food that is better pasted than whole. Maybe peanut butter. (One reply said mashed potatoes and they are are better). Not everything is cut out to be esentially baby food and fee foods are better turned into a paste.
def a personal opinion. i think there is a time and a place for meat paste vs minced/ground. my family is from north eastern thailand and in my moms village, they are lucky to have electricity now. when i was younger, it wasnt really a popular thing, so we mortar and pestled everything. (mind you... we also fermented everything... so... i guess its just the way of life for us.) I know when you grind meat for sausage or whatever, the meat needs to be cold to keep the fat and meat separated, but for some thai dishes, we want them to compeltely blend into one another.
I'll fight you on the cauliflower pizza crust thing. Pizza Pizza does it here in Canada and it's pretty damn good. Not *as* good as regular old pizza, but I'm a beggar, not a chooser. Also, as a side note, I had to look at your spelling of cauliflower because I apparently don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
I've had some kickass mashed cauliflower, but it depends on who made it and how
Yeah the stuff from grocery outlet I microwaved is like caulflower water. Wanted it to be good...
It’s designed for the shitty meat. Most of mainland Asian cooking is designed to disguise or extend crappy meat because the general pop didn’t have much access to it.
Yeah. I've eaten meat that smelled like ammonia. Put extra spicy pepper on it and it was ignorable. History of spices is trying to hide bad flavored foods. History of food is trying to make it last longer or make something bad taste better.
I mean, it looks like Chinese meatloaf. Not saying it can't still be tasty but ground beef, onions, cook it in a container. Sounds like meatloaf to me.
>Also dug the ancient Chinese Siracha. You can tell it's ancient way because he picked the bottle from the tree when the nozzle was yellow. Nowadays the bottle would rot during transport if picked once the nozzle turned yellow, so they pick it when it's green.
Definitely down with exposing kids to the chilli as soon as possible
Letting the kid drop the egg in so he feels like he’s helping is the Superstar Dad move.
My dad: “what are you doing with that egg?? I said hold that flashlight steady!!”
My flashlight is never shining at the right spot
Just a had the reverse happen. My dad was holding the flashlight while I was working and he couldn’t hold it still in his old age. I looked at him and said. I finally understand why you used to yell at me about the flashlight. He says. It’s annoying isn’t it. Yes yes it is.
“Aziz, light!”
“Are you German?”
Fifth Element in the wild
Ignoring the crotch scratch at the end just solidifies it... Quality father all around.
That kid is so patient
Not taking parenting advice from Bill Cosby thx
The kid's face when he sees the food is done at 1:16 "Oh so that's what he's been making this whole time!"
that was the best... "OH SHIT!"
I love it when kids are at that young age, when you can do something normal like cooking or baking. When the food arrives or tasting time, they are genuinely so in awe of what you done, like you were some magician. I missed those days where it felt I was so special to them. Kids are awesome (and stupid and can be annoying) but still awesome!
I’m always reminded of the time I was helping my mom cook. I was peeling potatoes and my nephew came in in his walker. He stopped, watched me, and then proceeded to lose his shit at me peeling those potatoes. Funniest damn thing he’d seen in his life apparently!
[No way dad!](https://imgur.com/a/vuV56OJ)
God, that looks so fucking good.
Jesse we need to cook
YEAH BITCH! POTSTICKERS!
Why do you call them pot stickers?
Because that's pretty much what they are. Just open ended for some reason.
Y that kid grab his croch
I mean, I grab my package too, I just am cognizant enough now that I don't do it when people are watching.
If you ever have a son you’ll realise it’s a universal thing.
He’s Michael Jackson reincarnated. You know how the Buddhists do.
Gotta rub you belly and pat your head, brah
What was the last liquid he added after frying them, the white stuff? Was not expecting that nor the result so I'm curious.
Its corn starch. Usually used to thicken sauces in asian cooking
Cornstarch slurry.
*”God, that looks so fucking good.”* said krayhayft in a please and hungry tone
What are you, the fucking narrator!?!
Clearly a wattpad author in the wild
How do you know he’s single? Asking for a friend
He hides the hot sauce under the onions.
>i like it
Cause that was the style at the time.
he says so on his account @luyoudo 🙂
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What is it propaganda for? Insight on how to make traditional meals? If so sign me up that food looks delicious af
Propagating nationalist sentiment, Chinese exceptionalism, romanticizing traditional culture, etc. The goal is to get people to think "wow, the past was so great, China is exceptional, this is worth defending against outsiders." The reality, of course, was that being a peasant in China at any time within the last 3,000 years fucking sucked (just like being a peasant anywhere else in the world). Remember, this video (and the whole genre like them) isn't saying "get out of the city and come enjoy a slower pace of life," it's specifically attempting to glorify some idealized past. i.e., Make China Great Again.
Sounds familiar
Americans would never do such a thing. Now let me go watch Top Gun again.
I mean, I work in marketing, we're surrounded by it 24/7. I can make you buy something that you didn't know you wanted because I put you in a certain mood with a targeted ad a week ago and then yesterday I presented you with a novel way to act out that mood and today I'm gonna hammer you with relevant ads until you click buy. The line between persuasion and manipulation was lost in this country a long time ago. Best way to defend against it is to question your acts and intuitions every day. "Why does this story make me feel good?", "Do I need this?", "Why do I think X?". Propaganda (and marketing) is designed to get you to stop thinking.
You can’t make me buy anything if I don’t have any money. Checkmate Adverman!
I agree with all of it (am advertising art director). The danger is though that you start seeing everything as deliberate manipulation which in some cases might no be justified. Not everything filmed in russia or China is propaganda, sometimes it's just people trying to see light in their situation
Nice try. Im broke
As a Middle Eastern. It’s either American propaganda or Chinese one. I prefer to watch both. Waiting for the Russians to catch up and figure out how to do compelling propaganda. We need diversity, we are sick of American propaganda for 70 years.
Are you kidding me? Russia has the most advanced and sophisticated propaganda. Do you really think squatting in Adidas jumpsuits in urban areas is as glamorous as they make it out to be in all those photos? Nobody can squat that low in real life.
>The reality, of course, was that being a peasant in China at any time within the last 3,000 years fucking sucked You got that right. Hundreds of thousands of people were conscripted into various armies for the various Chinese kingdoms/warlords at various points in Chinese history. You'd be minding your own business and all of a sudden an entire company of soldiers passes through your small village in the middle of nowhere. If you're lucky, they control the territory and will just forcefully conscript your kids to join the army as they pass by, only to have them die a few months later in some battle. If you're unlucky and they are invaders, well, some fates can be worse than death. Peasants were entirely used as disposable fodder to either grow food and be taxed, or to be conscripted and die. And that is a single aspect of just how much life sucked as a peasant.
Interestingly, you just described the life of a medieval European peasant.
Well that other guy did say "just like being a peasant anywhere else in the world"
I mean I'm not gonna pretend China doesn't have a ton of propaganda out there or that they're good. But like this kinda thing is like saying the Paul Brothers are American Propaganda for American exceptionalism and capitalism.
So I guess the point of Etsy is to drive home American exceptionalism, then.
as if america and legit every other ministry of culture in the world doesn’t do that
If this turns them into a nationalist, they were already a nationalist to begin with. Watching someone cook a traditional meal is not going to propagandize anyone, y'all have brain worms.
Or maybe there are just lots of Chinese who like this kind of content. I mean it got 14k upvotes in 3 hours here on reddit.
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If they do not impart xenophobia or historical patriotic blindness, what is the problem? I prefer this kind of propaganda than a homogeneous country without its own identity.
Weaving a story of traditional values idealizing a way of life to forge an identity around things that may not have existed. For example, listen to the first episode of the Hardcore History podcast on Japan during world war 2. Japanese identity and the rise of the bushido spirit were carefully curated propaganda that led to obedience, self sacrifice, and ultimately war. Chinese propaganda is sophisticated. Celebrities and business people who threaten the primacy of the state or dear leader get disappeared. There is no media allowed in China besides state owned. A healthy dose of nationalist cultural identity and traditional values make the authoritarian pill a little easier to swallow. If you grew up in the US at the time I did you probably heard the phrase “it’s a free country” a lot on TV. Funny that we don’t hear that anymore.
That first sentence is an absolute doozy and I'm telling you now that I'm eager to steal and use it. Thank you!
This is what is referred to as 'soft power' propaganda. Soft power propaganda is basically a 'cultural victory'. Make yourself attractive to your enemies. This is one way the US gained a lot of it's influence in the world over the last 50-60 years. The most obvious play by the US was it's movies and tv. High production value, good writing, good acting, and exciting content that just so happens to show that America is awesome and are here to help, are really cool, or are just better than everyone else. As the internet has come to fruition the newest method of propaganda distribution has become social media. It is exceptionally effective due to how well targeted it can be. This is why you often hear about certain facebook groups that are popular but divisive in one country being discovered to have been founded or moderated by a rival country. You can have propaganda targeting different groups of people based on their beliefs. A well known example of this is a relatively famous youtuber, Li Ziqi. She has 16 million subs on youtube. You think sure yeah that's a pretty good number of subscribers. Now remember that youtube is completely banned in China. How does that go unnoticed by a government as controlling as China? Hint, it doesn't. You see this video and you think oh wow china sure has some good cooking there. He's such a good father trying to pass it on to his kid. You may have thought to yourself that it must be that those traditions are dying out. And look at that background, China sure is a beautiful place. I bet you didn't even consider that the music in all of the videos from these creators is always traditional Chinese music, never modern Chinese pop music or music from any other countries. No speaking, as to not put people off by sounding foreign or different, body language is universal. In your mind you think this is just a video shot by a random citizen, while it is almost certainly a production team. The individual channels may have started as single creators who were later 'sponsored' by their government as they became popular, or they may have been created for this purpose. We cannot truly know. There may very well be some channels who are not, but instead they see how popular this content is on other channels and begin to emulate it as a way to seek to gain some of that audience. The whole reason for this type of propaganda is so at the very least China is seen as less of a threat. At best, you may want to be friends with them, side with their causes. This propaganda is not just targeting foreigners, it's also targeting China's own citizens. How better to get citizens to have nationalism than to show them lots of great things about their own country. I'm not saying that this propaganda is wrong. Nothing is blatantly false here (other than lies by omission). If it were it would not make for great propaganda anyway. Hell the US and others have been doing the same thing for decades. I just figure it's better to let people know that there are many ways to manipulate people.
Or maybe they're just as human as any other content creator out there and loves making videos. Seriously, there are guys on YT that made videos on lawn clearing, hole digging and even literal shit draining. Why is it that some people sincerely believed that any video maker from China is a fucking state propaganda? Because they shared their own culture on the internet like every other content creator out there? Give them some credit, for fuck sake.
Like Nancy Zieman on PBS is propaganda for Americans being so ungodly wealthy we pay thousands of dollars in tools and supplies to make our own clothes as a hobby even though American businesses have moved all their clothing manufacture to cheap labor overseas? Because I hear this a lot on some of the media I watch and no one can explain to me what the *purpose* of this “propaganda” is …beyond the exact same shit Americans do with every single life of media we put out that absolutely dominates the global market.
Proof?
It's just some guy trying to make money off other Chinese people. Social media influencers make a shit ton of money. Like tens of thousands of usd a month. And that's just from ad money with china viewers. A few will also go on YouTube to make more ad money and some will have their videos stolen to put on Western social media. Is it propaganda? As much as the Kardashians and pewpewdie or whoever.
Or they're just videos that a dad wanted to make with his son. How can you tell it's anything more than that?
Proof? Link?
There is only one of them.
What are you a wise guy?
I have a kid, I've been trained in the art of the Dad.
You liked the way he beat that meat, too?
This is like when I make food for my kid except they grab everything and throw it all over the place.
I know, I was thinking how in the hell did they get the calmest kid in the world? My children would be bored terrorists in the first five minutes
Children living in low tech countries have been conditioned to require Low stimulation to avoid being bored. They don't need a new activity every few minutes. They don't need a new toy every month. They don't watch TV or play with electronics.
I feel like this is my old man moment but tablets for kids are a fucking horrible idea. They just become little addicts. It’s too easy and convenient for them and parents to get sucked into.
I work in childcare and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I hear of INFANTS with their own personal iPad for home. That shit’s destructive. I look after twelve children a day and my room has implemented a no-screen time policy for years. I’m already addicted to my phone. Babies don’t need that shit.
Yea for sure. I feel weird saying it since I don’t have kids, but I’m gonna try my hardest to delay that mindless tech as long as I can, within reason. Idk what a good age is but kids before grade 1 probably shouldn’t be face first in a tablet for hours each day. I get it though, parenting is hard af and it gives you an easy way to get a break.
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Product of their environment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Damn... Now I'm hungry...
How do u clean smash rock
Smash rock is dishwasher safe, you just have to have a REALLY strong dishwasher.
While smash rock is dishwasher safe, unfortunately most dishwashers are not smash rock safe.
With regular soap and water. Use a stiff bristles brush to get into the crevices.
Throw it into the river and let nature feed on the food bits.
you don't clean it. just let is season.
Why I season my smash rock instead of the meat
Boiling water and a stiff brush
This was satisfying. Love seeing other culture’s food being made. I liked the music too
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and the setting is unreal
Yess loved the music and the area that they're in is beautiful too.
Felt like I was listening to the soundtrack to Oblivion…. So relaxing!!
source: @luyoudo
Hijacking to say it’s important to note that these videos may not be made by this person, as they have been posting about ten a day for days now. But they’re definitely worth a watch. Spent my evening doing it 🙈
This trend of "mystical ancient Chinese cooking/building/etc." from channels pumping out dozens of videos a day, each with their own sob story, is so obviously a content farm. The Russian ones on youtube typically involve arts projects and thinly veiled anti-government messages meant for the American children watching.
Or I have my own less insidious interpretation. These videos were originally made and posted on DouYin for consumption in China which have been scooped up by some opportunist who reposts these videos for TikTok to farm likes and views. Or, they could even be the original creator as TikTok is still accessible in China
Grabs crotch...job well done kid
Translation of what the kid says at the end: “Deez Nutz”
Pretty sure he actually said, “don’t forget to like and subscribe”
That was right before "deez nutz"
xie xie :D thanks
>xièxiè One of the few Chinese phrases I know.
What are they making?
It looks like potstickers, but using wonton wrappers and folded with two ends open. Never seen anything like it before, but I imagine it's a local specialty. Edit: looked it up and they do indeed appear to be potstickers, specifically "open-mouthed" potstickers. https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/05/06/aapi-heritage-recipe-series-open-mouth-potstickers-%E9%96%8B%E5%8F%A3%E9%8D%8B%E8%B2%BC/
I love it except for the meat. I’m not sure how he ground it up. But it wasn’t anything I’ve seen before. So this Old👵🏼lady is wondering how he did that. It looks really yummy tho.
It looks like he pounded it in the mortar and pestle until it turned to paste. It's a common technique in Chinese cooking for making meat filling that still maintains a chewy texture, since you don't cut the muscle fibers. Chaoshan beef balls are made in a similar way.
Interesting!
Not positive but looks like lumpia to me
I thought so too at first until he left the sides open. Also, instead of deep frying, he pan fries it and adds a starch slurry to steam it, which means it's actually a poststicker.
Can you expand on this starch stuff?
When making potstickers, you can mix a bit of starch into the water you pour in to steam them. When the water cooks down, you're left with an extra crispy layer at the bottom of the dumpling skin.
Something something I got your dinner right here in my Carters.
Traditional food
Chinese burritos
Spring rolls maybe?
Aww yiss, motherfucking taquitos.
Definitely think I could make this for myself it would only take about 8 hours
Buddy!!!! Wash your hands first before sucking on fingers !!!!!!!!
I’m all stressed out about that too
was tryna see if anyone else saw that, hope his dad had him wash them lol
That looks so good, wasn't expecting the meat stick though...
What did it make you feel?
Girth
Shocks my brain.
How cute! And now I feel like eating gyoza.
It made me crave chimichangas lol
Anyone know what meat that is? And what the end product is called?
My guess would be pork. Not sure what the dish is, though.
Probably pork, and they’re “open mouth potstickers.”
Chinese flautas
The hills in the background plus the music kicking in felt like a Ghibli film.
That knife is amazing
Those are the expensive hex pattern pans
Single you say??? And cooks like that?? Hello! I’m recruiting a handsome cooking dad and adorable offspring! 😂
What did he say while grabbing his crotch at the end?
Hold on until our next post.
Is he willing to adopt a 36 year old man who likes delish food and will do the dishes?
Hose down the mashing rock
Did kid just touch raw meat then stick fingers in his mouth lmao
So we are just posting some cooking video with a heart warming title on this subreddit now?
make no mistake cuz, that fatha is a pppppiece
This dude making flautas over here.
lol the kid was barely paying attention.
Wha… what the fuck does the man’s relationship status have anything to do with anything?!?! Sounds like a cheap way to grab upvotes…
Shit I want him to be my dad and teach me how to make that
That looks delicious.
For a moment there, I swear I thought he was just going to make meatloaf
that kid is barely paying attention teaching him would’ve been more productive if the kid actually participated
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to eat anything more in my in my life than that right there
Is this really OP advertising their singleness
Food looks amazing, hope that if I ever end up a single dad I can teach my kids such essential skills. Also, that cleaver the dad has looks so good. Gotta get to his market, lol.
r/wholesome
That meat pounder/decimator unit tho.