Ask Steph: Does anyone still eat ancient Chinese food?

Ok, our 500k subscriber Q&A! Thank you all so much for watching and cooking these recipes... it's been an awesome four years. This is the first of two Q&A videos we have planned - second being with Steph's Dad, Dawei. In this video we answer some question like:

0:00 - Introduction
1:02 - Non-native Chinese Ingredients
6:40 - Ancient Chinese Food today?
9:03 - What's your favorite cuisine?
12:41 - Miao & Guizhou minority cuisines
16:54 - Influence of Non-Han Food on Chinese Food
21:40 - Cantonese History and Identity
29:03 - Vietnamese Food in China?
33:19 - Dianxi Xiaoge
33:33 - Gutter Oil
34:48 - Durian
35:14 - MSG
36:04 - Best VPN for China?
37:34 - "Original Flavor" in Cantonese Food
41:04 - Hotpot Restaurants
42:20 - French Food
42:54 - Japanese Food
43:30 - Sichuanese Food
44:32 - Tomato & Egg
44:57 - Doing Youtube with your Husband
45:45 - Favorite not-Chinese dishes?
46:45 - Dying Food Cultures in Hong Kong and Elsewhere
48:22 - Do you actually like organ?
50:41 - Who is Chris?

As promised, an edited audio-only version. It's a lot smoother:

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I now realize that 70% of what makes people on podcasts sound so smart happens in the cut ;) 10 whole minutes of 'umm' and such! Crazy. Definitely download that one if you're planning on listening to this instead of watching it.

Forgot to add the Patreon credits in this video, sorry guys. Huge thank you to everyone supporting on on Patreon - link here if you'd like:

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