A Thousand Ways of Beef Cooking

China Trends

What’s the first dish appears in your mind when asked to name a Chinese beef dish? Bet many people will say, beef and broccoli. But is it the authentic way of beef cooking in China?

In this episode, a specialist on Chinese food culture visits China Trends and shares his own experiences and research relating beef and the food culture.

Thomas DuBois
Professor of Humanities
Beijing Normal University, School of Chinese Language and Culture

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1. A Thousand Ways of Beef Cooking (00:00:00)

2. How to cook beef in different regions of China? (00:01:06)

3. Why ancient Chinese did NOT eat beef? (00:04:05)

4. Chinese ways or Western ways? (00:07:10)

5. Stood in line for McDonald’s??? (00:09:40)

6. The very FIRST coffee experience in China. (00:13:27)

7. What are we calling Chinese cuisine? And what does it mean to be authentic? (00:17:05)

8. A history book of Chinese food. (00:23:26)

9. Food in the future: Plant-based meat? Robot-made? (00:25:40)