Ancient Nian Gao | Lunar New Year Cake

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@KetchupwithMaxandJose 3 года назад

Important question, nyan cat or nian gao? 🤔

@sheenachristina2385 3 года назад

Nian gao. We eat similar cakes in the Philippines- stick so all the good luck sticks to you, and your Family sticks together. ❤️ That cat song...although does stick in your head. 😂

@Paganbeliever 3 года назад

Nian cat?

@OptimusWombat 3 года назад

What's "nyan cat"? Is that something different, or the same thing as nian gao but transliterated from a different dialect?

@buffalo5knives809 3 года назад

nyan mao or nian gao? or maybe nian gou...

@sheenachristina2385 3 года назад

@@OptimusWombat Nyan cat was a meme and song.

@robertoeverton6473 3 года назад

"im a pig, as is my chinese zodiac sign" already dropped a like

@Mark723 3 года назад

Better a pig than a boar...

@finolacat8355 3 года назад

@@Mark723 I saw what you did! ;p

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 thank you

@1337billybob 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory Such a young and vibrant 25! Obviously meant year of the pig in 1995 and not 1983 (looks in mirror of my year of the pig birth year) Yeah... 95 not 83.

@Boom12 3 года назад

@@Mark723 nice one!

@TheProjectNightfall 3 года назад

Hugely respect that you got one successful take of saying 'Zixu' and just cut that audio in every time. Thats big brain thinking babeyyy

@catbeara 3 года назад

Work smarter not harder 🙌

@noliverk 3 года назад

Max is obviously a man of efficacy.

@Serjo777 3 года назад

Dude what? That was super weird sounding and obvious xD

@alexgade4512 3 года назад

@@Serjo777 i mean...better than people tearing him to shreds for daring to mispronounce a language he doesn't speak.

@austenhead5303 3 года назад

It was SO distracting. I'd rather he just mispronounce it.

@katiehughes3173 3 года назад

"If the people are starving, dig around the city walls" is my new "there's always money in the banana stand".

@garrettrector3953 3 года назад

Instructions unclear burned down banana stand lol

@suzannax 3 года назад

Classic😅

@cj-seejay-cj-seejay 3 года назад

EXACTLY my thought hahaha

@ailinires 3 года назад

I mean it's one banana, what could it cost? 10 dls

@seesritual8990 2 года назад

Might be a dumb question, but what is the meaning of these sayings?

@caseyrogers573 3 года назад

As a linguist, I must say I’m always impressed with your pronunciation of words from different languages. Even if it’s not 100% native, it really shows dedication to your content. Love the channel!

@jules32391 3 года назад

I came here to say this! I’m also a linguist so I really appreciate that Max takes time to learn pronunciation for non-English names and words. As a voice actor, he probably has some training in phonetics/ipa but learning a tonal language and all of those extra affricates as an English speaker is not easy!

@caseyrogers573 3 года назад

@@jules32391 I’m not actively working in the field currently, so I justify my education solely through RU-vid comments now lol

@jules32391 3 года назад

@@caseyrogers573 I do work in the field..... just not as the “spectrogram in a lab” cool kind....so same 🤣

@sunshinesue4131 2 года назад

I agree!

@hereiampercylover 2 года назад

@@jules32391 he's a voice actor?

@TradeGaugeLay 3 года назад

Taiwanese here. The uncooked sticky rice cake is literally as hard as a brick. But when you slice it (around a half inch) & deep fry it with batter, it just become a sweet, al dente starchy goodness with a golden crispy crust. So hard to describe. IT IS SOOOOOO GOOD. Good pronunciation Good research Thumbs up

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Thank you!

@lappn99 3 года назад

That sounds amazing

@allthatsheiz 3 года назад

Sounds like EXTRA dirty food porn. STOP YOUR FOOLISH TEMPTATIONS ! 😋😁😄

@feralbluee 3 года назад

mmm - sounds so much better than the steamed cake. this i would try :) i do hope they have it somewhere in China Town (NYC) (that is, if i get the nerve to venture out in a Hazmat suit :) maybe next year. . 🐼

@matthewcline8580 3 года назад

@@feralbluee They probably do have these in Chinatown, since they're really quite popular here in China. I think the type that Cliff was talking about often comes in large round blocks, kind of like cheese. You can slice the blocks up real thin, like half a centimeter. coat them in egg batter and fry them. Delicious.

@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 3 года назад

I'm from southern china, our sticky rice cakes are round and flavored with brown sugar. They are made by steaming, but when we eat, we cut them into slices and pan fry them, this way they form a thin crust but stay hot and sticky in the inside.

@user-oq1tr7ys5i 3 года назад

Thats sounds good.

@daveandgena3166 3 года назад

Oh, my!

@jeremychoo934 3 года назад

Sandwich the 年糕 in-between two slices of taro or sweet potato, dip in tempura batter and fry. That’s how it’s eaten in Singapore.

@user-oq1tr7ys5i 3 года назад

@@jeremychoo934 thats sounds even better!

@Boom12 3 года назад

Brown sugar sounds so good with nian gao. Super good stuff!

@Vexxa_ 3 года назад

"And Rat 'conveniently' forgot". my first chinese teacher taught us that Rat rode on Cat's back to cross the river and drowned Cat. im just now learning about the nice version where Rat is just rude and not a murderer, and i like this version a lot more. the vietnamese zodiac has a cat, though - it replaces the rabbit. nice job on the pronunciation, too!

@vilena5308 3 года назад

Oh wow, never heard that version. That's a pretty big difference. Nice to hear cat got its place somewhere!

@rosemali3022 3 года назад

What year is cat on the 90s?

@orelalaith 3 года назад

@@rosemali3022 same as the rabbit, 1976. If you're born in jan or feb, you may be a dragon b/c its using a lunar calendar & New Years shifts around on the gregorian calendar.

@AstarionWifey 3 года назад

Wait no we do have the rabbit and cat in the Vietnamese one

@kouusa 3 года назад

Being a cat makes me happier then being a rabbit. Thanks! : )

@jamestown8398 3 года назад

"Ugly people don't deserve justice." - Prince of Wu

@L0rdOfThePies 3 года назад

Kuzco energy

@fradoncrack5509 3 года назад

Nicki Minaj energy

@zaarkhananal7165 2 года назад

@@L0rdOfThePies Lolololol, so true. That really does sound like something he'd say.

@ddd8828 4 месяца назад

Funnily enough. it was common Greek philosophy sentiment that beauty and morality were linked! Plato and Aristotle, for example, both believed that if you were beautiful, then it was one metric judging that you were a good person, and vice versa.

@RangerMan-yv7rl 4 месяца назад

@@ddd8828so many beautiful woman n hansem men are so bad natured and arrogant! If by "ugly" is meant the character n conduct then True

@spoondancer2230 3 года назад

Dang, imagine having a fiance so supportive of you and your hobby they make a youtube channel interviewing you about it.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

It’s pretty awesome

@t.o.4251 3 года назад

Never even seen Jose and yet I still have couple envy.

@Firegen1 3 года назад

Its adorable channel too. Really friendly atmosphere @ketchupwithmax

@emilygeorge7326 3 года назад

Jose is goals.

@sammibedford986 3 года назад

I was just about to comment on that, it's so sweet :D

@agimagi2158 3 года назад

"His appearance matches exactly what I detest most in a man." This is going to be my new standard reply whenever my parents ask why I don't date this and that guy! 😂

@patty17294 3 года назад

LOL

@shawnsisler3743 3 года назад

Mood

@mortisCZ 3 года назад

Good for you. :-D

@mplwy 3 года назад

😂

@francescaicaza5148 3 года назад

It sounds like a Facebook tag group

@Hallows4 Год назад

The red shirt was a nice touch (symbol of good luck/prosperity for the new year).

@andrewwebb917 Месяц назад

His pokemon in the background is tauros, one named after the zodiac

@tiffanytzeng2874 3 года назад

Oh man if you loved the nian gao pun, you're gonna love all the other food puns we've got for lunar new years 😂 Some of the classics are fish for the saying "nian nian you yü" ("every year gain wealth" where "yü" sounds like both "wealth" and "fish") and fa gao (a steamed puffy cake; "fa" meaning "growing" and "gao" meaning both "higher" and "cake", like with the nian gao)!

@caitlinpostle 3 года назад

That's awesome :D

@Teverell 3 года назад

I think... I think I just understood one of obscure references/jokes in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. 'And the New Year was a great big fish'. (Which apparently is some kind of pun in the original Borogravian.)

@kariak55 3 года назад

@@Teverell oh snap, i love monstrous regiment, and that would make sense. Sir Terry was such a smart dude. His breadth of knowledge was huge, and i wouldn’t be surprised if he knew about that pun, or pune, as some would call it 😄

@omegabet3912 3 года назад

Max: It's so sticky.. This is not a chopsticks food. Me, Chinese, sitting at my desk, chomping on some nian gao with a fork: lmao yeah

@RaymondHng 3 года назад

It's one week later. Are you still chewing?

@omegabet3912 3 года назад

@@RaymondHng No but I think some of it got stuck between my teeth

@RaymondHng 3 года назад

@@omegabet3912 My mother makes that soup dish with the glutinous rice balls with a bit of rock sugar inside. I'm not too fond of those because they taste like raw gummy rice flour dough. At the end of lunch, any leftover scraps of food are tossed into the food waste disposal. So a few of those rice balls ended up in the disposal. After ten seconds of grinding, most of the waste food went out the drain. but those damn rice balls stayed INTACT!

@SoulcatcherLucario 3 года назад

@@RaymondHng YIKES THAT'S A MOOD

@rosemali3022 3 года назад

How did you learn chopsticks? For me it was literally self defense.

@Sriram-ve4ge 3 года назад

When he pronounced "Qimin Yaoshu" and "Jia Sixie" I was like 👌😳

@michaelhutchison3715 3 года назад

He did it perfectly

@toresanderify 3 года назад

Yeah omg! I am amazed!

@codyofathens3397 3 года назад

I don't speak Chinese, but when he said it, I had to come to the comments to see if it was right!

@sowelu66 3 года назад

@@codyofathens3397 yeah, me, too, lol

@RegstarRogstar 3 года назад

Im mostly chinese and i cant move my mouth and tongue to make these sounds lmfao :')

@amyrogers8961 Год назад

I am impressed by your remembering to mention the help you get from other folks. Interpreters, historians, and other cooks, they all get kudos. Makes YOU look good, and very professional. Aside from the great presentation, of course. yeah!

@jameschesney9492 2 года назад

My girlfriend who’s Chinese really appreciates your accuracy with your Chinese pronunciations, and the in depth research. She loves your channel

@amanderps970 3 года назад

The rising panic/regret in Max's eyes as he realizes just how long he's gonna be chewing this one....Priceless.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 it was unexpected

@randomsandwichian 3 года назад

Imagine having to cook the modern version in all its sticky glory. You can almost taste the fork you ate it with 🤣🤣🤣

@tlaoltjenbruns9580 3 года назад

Were you expecting something closer to mochi, Max? Most non-Asian I've seen eat it for the first time have stated they expected a mochi-like texture (same main ingredient, after all), but nian gao is much much stickier due to the steaming process. Mochi is also generally ate at a much lower temperature than nian gao and dusted with cornflour, which helps significantly in cutting the stickiness. I personally prefer nian gao out of the two treats-- I prefer the warmer and simpler flavor palate, even if the chewing is a small exercise montage.

@IonIsFalling7217 3 года назад

I know, my fillings were crying 😂

@na195097 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory it was a very big bite for something so chewy

@Josh-gv4pt 3 года назад

The way he flawlessly switches between Latin and English (and apparently Chinese now) is very impressive lol

@jacoblabach4970 3 года назад

it is an overdub - he always cuts away from his face when he says the word. That said, most people wouldn't even bother to learn how to say it right - so

@Taolan8472 3 года назад

The magic of editing can make anyone appear to be polylingual, but it still requires significant effort do as well as Max does.

@jacobnisley6581 3 года назад

@@jacoblabach4970 I wondered who else was catching that. Good stuff though!

@papadong8100 3 года назад

Maybe Zixu was a more rotund man, when he was running away, he lost alot of weight hence the rapid aging thing, it was actually just loose skin.

@ninahigh2027 Год назад

I think that might do it

@riisana8177 Год назад

Also maybe his facial hair grew longer or he somehow cut it, but thats just another guess

@boletarianbread7349 3 года назад

Fun fact: the character for luck "fu, 福" often written on Chinese paper lanterns, is hung upside down at many homes and businesses at new year, so one can say "fu dao le 福倒了," meaning "luck got turned upside down" which sounds identical to "luck has arrived" or "fu dao le 福到了" (even tones are the same and you can see the characters look similar)

@RaymondHng 3 года назад

That _luck fu_ looks so much like something else.

@lyuktentiok 2 года назад

@@RaymondHng in Cantonese 福 is pronounced fuk so 🤔

@its_clean 2 года назад

Ok I'm ABC and my Mandarin is really crappy so I could be wrong- but aren't the tones actually different here? "Upside down" should be dao3, and "arrived" should be dao4, right?

@splashsong 2 года назад

@@its_clean there's two "dao" that are associated with upside down, dao3 which more closely translates to "fall down" and dao4 which is more accurately "reverse/upside down" so the one here should actually be dao4

@nephicus339 2 года назад

Interesting. Canadian here, and I would imagine 'Luck' written upside down would be inviting a lack of it. Like western superstition of the horseshoe over the doorway; hanging it right side up so it looks like a U catches the luck, while an upside down horseshoe suggests luck running out.

@LordMoebius 3 года назад

You're probably the only youtuber that bothers with researching pronunciation and I really appreciate that.

@janisuutarinen1715 3 года назад

So much this! It irks me as a non-american that whenever there's a word or name that's anything but English, most RU-vidrs just go "oh lol, I'm probably gonna butcher this pronunciation, soz guise!" Even if it's like German or French. Lazy.

@LordMoebius 3 года назад

@@janisuutarinen1715 even when they use English they still butcher words. I almost like they type more than they speak to people.

@celticlass8573 3 года назад

It definitely speaks to what a quality person Max is. It's actually a form of oppression that many people don't bother to learn how to say names from another culture, and just say "oh I can't pronounce that" when they didn't try, or even think they should try. You see it everyday, with people who feel they need to have a "western" name to go by when they move away from their home country, and often they will name their kids with "western" names.

@ems7623 3 года назад

He's one of the few to be sure. But, you know, i would say that when you find someone who does, it often is a sign that they do their research in general and are a rare trustworthy source of information.

@hermenegildakociubinska6665 3 года назад

@@celticlass8573 As an immigrant whose name gets mispronounced by the locals all the time: calling that oppression is insulting to people who face actual oppression.

@wkang2758 3 года назад

Can't believe Max is hitting us with Chinese New Year content. Great pronunciation as usual. This video is getting me all hyped up for CNY. WOO

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Thank you 🙏

@tantibusdraws6165 3 года назад

“You can’t mold water unless your the Avatar” I really appreciated that reference. For that, you get a like from me.

@soanalaichnam344 3 года назад

But you only need to be a waterbender and not necessarily the avatar

@asmodiusjones9563 3 года назад

Yeah there are two tribes of people who can do it.

@NWolfsson 3 года назад

Let's hope José won't turn into the Moon.

@jordinagel1184 3 года назад

@@NWolfsson “my biggest patreon supporter and all around good buddy turned into the moon” “That’s rough buddy. Pass the salt, please?”

@nephicus339 2 года назад

Uncle Iroh is laughing in the spirit world.

@Nocturnimancer 3 года назад

Dude integrates the memes, food, and history so solidly.

@kevinevano4497 3 года назад

Y'know I'm a person of Chinese descent who have been living in Taiwan for the past few years but I never really bothered to find out the myths behind the Chinese New Year. So here's to you, white guy who taught me my people's history!

@fatchins9126 3 года назад

Chinese descent Living in Taiwan So a Chinese living in real China

@kevinevano4497 3 года назад

@@fatchins9126 well strictly ethnically speaking, yes. But I was born as a 5th generation Chinese...immigrant? And I grew up in an environment quite far removed from Chinese culture and tradition. So no, I don't consider myself fully Chinese in that respect. Most of what I know about Chinese history and culture I learned from movies and youtube videos lol.

@fatchins9126 3 года назад

@@kevinevano4497 well then

@rosemali3022 3 года назад

@@fatchins9126 I'm first generation and mixed. Not Taiwanese though, as I understand it that is in flux. I see it almost like Palestine. Not as many bombs but the same energy. And that has nothing to do with the/ your people. Governments aren't good and they go against the people constantly. (Byw workers should own the means of production, aka own what you produce).

@CrabSmokingACigarette 3 года назад

@@charlietian2074 It's not even bait tbh. Both sides regard Taiwan as rightful Chinese clay.

@AccentedCinema 3 года назад

Happy Chinese New Year! Kinda crazy how much I'm learning from this video, considering... I'm Chinese.

@travisstoll3582 3 года назад

I absolutely love your videos.

@whoareyou9218 3 года назад

啊。。。你好像被我关注了。。。

@Lakhshamana 3 года назад

Ayyy channel hybridization

@omegabet3912 3 года назад

WHOAH! Fancy seeing you here! Happy new year!!

@lukapichler3666 3 года назад

YOOOO ITS MAH BOI YANG ZHANG

@rocketsjudoka Год назад

A non sweet version of Nian Gao with just glutinous rice is also made and cut into thin pieces. These pieces are boiled and then stir fried like noodles and are eaten year round. The Nian Gao in this episode is also the precursor to the Japanese Mochi.

@georgecoulter1935 3 года назад

You have blossomed into a foodie anthropologist and tour guide. This is immensely entertaining and very educational. Jose and your eminence are putting Food Network and all those stuffy networks to shame. Great work guys...and I do mean work. Your research is astonishing. I thought I knew some stuff. You folks really go the extra 10 miles!!!! Thank You!

@shockingheaven 3 года назад

If you had asked me a year ago what I would be doing now, probably "watching a Disney prince cooking Nian gao and talking about history" would have never crossed my mind

@Dimitri88888888 3 года назад

Disney prince???

@secretalias2264 3 года назад

lol he does look like a disney prince doesn't he? Where are all the talking animals to help him cook 😹

@meepsicle83 3 года назад

IIRC Jose works for Disney

@guhhhhh9032 3 года назад

@@secretalias2264 The talking animals are what he is cooking

@Lakhshamana 3 года назад

@@secretalias2264 does the occasional Pokemon plushies count?

@MissJoaniB 3 года назад

I always appreciate when you say, "I tried this, according to the old recipe and... it didn't work out," because how many of us try to follow a recipe to the last period and the result didn't look like the pictures? Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

@eugene188 3 года назад

you're right on the wrapping with bamboo leaves. I feel like its something only old school grandmas can do.

@thirteenthandy 3 года назад

I was really confused for a minute when you introduced your fiance's channel and showed the thumbnail. "Oh my god, they look exactly the same!" Ohhhhh... never mind me...

@madisonrolig855 3 года назад

Tbh same tho 😳

@KABNeenan 3 года назад

"This is why I don't run." I felt that in my soul.

@sarahgray430 3 года назад

The Year of the Pig is a fortuitious year to be born in, because people born in the Year of the Pig are thought to be intelligent, clean, hard working, and good with money and have refined tastes especially in regards to food and wine...sounds like you, Max. Your fiancee is a fortunate man!

@dimsum81 3 года назад

I’m no farmer, but somehow I’m skeptical of “pig” and “clean” in the same sentence

@sarahgray430 3 года назад

@@dimsum81 pigs in their natural habitat are very clean, and will actually bathe if they have acess to water, because it helps them keep cool. Their reputation for being dirty comes from being kept in pens and forced to wallow in their own excrement...and like most omnivores (including humans) their poop stinks!

@koopakape 3 года назад

Your super-authentic pronounciations of Chinese words, names and terms was not only really cool but has me suddenly mulling over the idea of trying to learn the language myself. It's been vaguely on my brain for awhile but something about seeing a guy I like and respect on youtube going way out of his way to 'do it right' by the language instead of just the usual "apologies for butchering this" has made me all hyped up about the idea.

@etcetraetcetra3173 3 года назад

My Mom buy this cake every lunar year. We're not of Chinese. But Mom grew up in a neighbourhood with 50% Chinese people. So she likes to taste her childhood around this time of year.

@insilencea4599 3 года назад

My theory is that this was originally a treat for hyper kids to literally keep them quiet.😓🤣

@fedra76it 3 года назад

And if chewing it didn't do the trick, some cake was used to glue them to the chair

@Nova_Needle 3 года назад

That is brilliant! This tribal knowledge must be shouted to the masses! We can call them "Hush Cakes" :)

@conq1273 3 года назад

@@Nova_Needle Hush cakes? Is that why "let them eat cakes" was born? This is too deep! /J

@leademi1387 3 года назад

OMG The subtle incorporation of the drag queen Jujubee's face with the fruit was hilarious!

@zoinomiko 3 года назад

Thank god I"m not the only one who got that XD

@LeafyK 3 года назад

5:02 That's hilarious, I didn't notice until you pointed it out. Thanks!

@aerynertia6155 3 года назад

Love her! One of the top queens from RPDR, imo. Thanks for putting her face on here Max ❤

@platystrophia 3 года назад

I was THRILLED!

@zinzolin14 3 года назад

A staple for any Chinese household during the Lunar New Year holidays! My favorite are ones with coconut milk mixed in, the texture is softer and more "marshmallowey" so it's friendlier on the jaws 😋

@christaverduren690 4 месяца назад

"Together, Pigs and dragons will have a lot of fun. They're both very engaged and enjoy social situations. If you, like a Pig, are looking for a fun companion, a Dragon might be an excellent option."

@jeremychoo934 3 года назад

The struggle to make 年糕 is real which is why most people just buy it from the supermarket or order ahead from Chinese restaurants in the run up to the new year.

@marco_evertus 3 года назад

I have never had a homemade 年糕 in my life. 😂😭

@Angels-3xist 3 года назад

The amount of effort he puts in is astronomical. He might be a bit too humble about it.

@marco_evertus 3 года назад

@@Angels-3xist Most definitely, I spent a lot of time in China and currently living in Singapore and not many people make 年糕 from scratch, very few most of the older generation, because it's so time-consuming to make.

@marcheck3400 3 года назад

Ture. In fact Nian Gao is so notoriously finicky that even the professionals have superstitions around it, eg not speaking bad words while making it and not letting women on their period in the kitchen. Or the Nian Gao will turn out bad.

@absalomdraconis 3 года назад

@@marcheck3400 : Probably one of those things where humidity, air pressure, and moisture content of the rice all have an effect. Maybe even the starch and/or protein content of the rice, too.

@Katie-te9cj 3 года назад

I’m from Northern China, our Niangao is made with cooked red beans instead of dates or chestnut. This video made me miss my hometown. 👍

@WMDistraction 3 года назад

I live in China and am married to a Chinese woman. I do not understand red beans and probably never will. Why is it in everything?!

@ihatecabbage7270 3 года назад

The pandemic really made things hard, for all of us.....

@VWYL900802 3 года назад

@@WMDistraction red bean is like chocolate for chinese desserts. along with lotus paste. and there's a poem to go with it, basically describing it as a bean of longing. Red bean gets better as it gets stewed in the red bean soup, and the more broken down it is, the better (some people put dried orange peel to it, adds a little fragrance to it), but the thing is, red bean is definitely associated with romance in chinese culture, or a good sweet soup dessert, next to tangyuan, or the dumpling made in another previous episode in this channel. Tangyuan is associated with unity, while red bean is associated with longingness. Either way, brings a little sweetness to end a meal with friends.

@tokyomilmil 2 года назад

@@WMDistraction sorry to say that but you will wonder even more in Japan (and missed a lot of chances to try their traditional desert). They’re even more fanatic about red bean than the Chinese they basically have red bean flavors for every sweet dish possible. They even adapt western bread & invent the “red-bean bun” flavor 😂😂 It’s one of the most popular bread entry in Japan only *curry bun* & *fried-noodle bun” can ever rival it. And us Taiwanese adopt it as well we now almost have red-bean bun in every bread bakery possible 👍

@tokyomilmil 2 года назад

Taiwanese also have Nian Gao mostly in red bean kind (us obviously being majorly tied to Southern Chinese culture, though personally my grandparents are from the north who came with Chiang Kai Shek ), so I guess nowadays red bean is the staple flavor for general folks , ... dates or chestnut I thk I’ve seen their version somewhere, probably made by fancy restaurants or something, definitely at a higher price than red bean for sure 😂😂 Not too surprising people who’s capable of writing it down for Max to discover, is most definitely a noble or high ranked official in ancient time their version of Nian Gao is no doubt the up scale version ~

@Ebathora 3 года назад

PLS I love how sincerely you tried the pronunciations. The results were super impressive and the sentiment was so nice

@AleshaM30 3 года назад

I really appreciate how much effort Max puts into his pronunciations. Sometimes it's so hard a shift in gears it feels like an automated message. That's a compliment!

@bjaarki 3 года назад

It's crazy to me that this channel only started at the end of 2019, it feels like you were made to do this Max! Great video as always :)

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

One year anniversary is at the end of this month when I posted my first video :)

@sheenachristina2385 3 года назад

Your pronunciation is *chef’s kiss*

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Thank you 😊

@Cybornut 3 года назад

Better than a lot of people, to be honest lol

@CapitalG137 3 года назад

You mean xief's chizz?

@HangryinBrussels 3 года назад

Well... some of then he just got right once, and copy-pasted the soundbyte everywhere else... Lot's of love, no shade, but I see you lazy pig:)

@hekstoo5988 3 года назад

@@HangryinBrussels lol.. Is that why it sounds like when movies swap curse words with other words? 😂😂

@Ealsante 3 года назад

Deity of the Stove: *Chewing sounds* Jade Emperor: Well? What of the family you were watching? Deity of the Stove: *Gives up*

@justinwong1072 3 года назад

Niangao (and any form of glutinous rice cake) can be reheated perfectly well in a microwave.

@bleepbloop8081 3 года назад

5:03 One of the Jujubes is not like the others. It has Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent.

@sarajane3047 3 года назад

Yeaaaasssss I was looking for the person who commented about Miss Jujubee!!!!!💞😊

@Jm96RoCk 3 года назад

LMAO I CACKLED AT MISS JUJU IN THERE

@RaymondHng 3 года назад

And one of them can read you to filth.

@warpnweft2192 3 года назад

“I’ve never been blown like that”

@mariarocha7336 3 года назад

Yes! I legit LOL when I saw her! 🤣🤣 nice detail

@ohthenoises 3 года назад

“I’m a pig, and so is my zodiac sign” I couldn’t stop laughing for a good minute. I had to rewind to listen to what we were making xD

@ThinWhiteAxe Год назад

Yes that was one of his best openings ever🤣

@carolsaia7401 Год назад

I'm a Taurus, Year of the Ox.

@SpeedbirdTriple8 11 месяцев назад

The fact that you put Jujubee with the jujubes made my day

@pianoguy7793 4 месяца назад

I appreciate how knowledgeable Max is and can say "et cetera" absolutely correctly.

@TheAmateurEditor 3 года назад

Max and Jose picking out a wedding cake; wedding planner: here we have a lovely 3 tier cake Max: you know, wedding cakes originated (starts rattling off trivia) Jose: (to the planner) now you 've gone and done it!

@MsLeenite 3 года назад

Ha! Reminds me of the character of Detective Arthur Dietrich on the TV show Barney Miller. He was always dropping tidbits of arcane information into conversations, no matter what the subject. But Max is so much cuter.

3 года назад

Sheldon cooper vibes.

@MMallon425 3 года назад

That Simpsons "He's already dead!" cut is Emmy's-tier editing.

@harvestmoon_autumnsky 3 года назад

That was my favorite moment!

@IWatchedWhat 7 месяцев назад

Max, I love how you also do non European cooking history. And your do it so well.

@matina6878 3 года назад

The pan-fried method with the egg crust is really good for combating the stick factor! Also the thin slices really help! My family is from Southern China and it’s the way my mum has been making it for us every year :D

@chiot2875 3 года назад

“There are also appearances by our cats, Cersei and Jaime” for that, I’ll go sub right now

@animesoul167 3 года назад

I'm guessing the cats are fixed! Lol

@yubasheehan8552 3 года назад

I guessing that aren't and related

@thrandompug2254 3 года назад

Nothing makes me happier than listening to people put in the work to pronounce different languages correctly

@MrCamposmatt 3 года назад

Jujubee made an appearance I LOVE IT

@craigathonian 3 года назад

I really just can't get enough of you ! Your knowledge mixed with all kinds of humor...Umph, Genius ! ( That jujube queen photo slip in... hysterical ! ) Thanks for all the hard work you guys do 😀

@nat040496 3 года назад

I'm not Chinese nor do I know anything about how to speak it, but those Chinese pronunciations sounded extremely authentic.

@MNNski 3 года назад

5:10 "honestly, any date will work" Been telling myself that for years. Have yet to find one so I'm still single.

@joshogden3105 3 года назад

I’m also very impressed how close you were when pronouncing the sound lü, when I was learning Chinese that was easily one of the hardest sounds for us English speakers to make and we were speaking it every day, not just once for a RU-vid video 👏

@clockmaker9273 4 месяца назад

Just so you guys know, we still love to eat niangao today. Its super tasty, and i would definitely recommend it.

@jameslongstaff2762 3 года назад

I love how you not only do European recipes, but you also look at history of different cultures around the world. Maybe you should try Polynesian recipes from anthropologist records? I dunno

@kialee249 3 года назад

I would LOVE to see max cook in an imu but also I'd rather he find nesian recipes from actual islanders (which I'm sure is the approach hed take) and not biased western sources

@videosid100 3 года назад

OMG I almost spilled my coffee when I saw Jujubee's face

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣

@crypticmind03 3 года назад

This has become my new favorite RU-vid channel. A huge history buff and foodie 👌. Keep up the amazing work and look forward to new videos!

@seb612schuth 3 года назад

WAIT WAIT WAIT. Cersei and Jaime??? Those are incredible names for a couple of pets, good job! 1+ cookie from me

@qingxiangyee5675 3 года назад

Yep, he's totally not snitching after taking a bite of that.

@projectmicky1226 3 года назад

Must take too long to chew haha

@blacknote6945 3 года назад

Time to do some mafia shit with the 年糕 to silence that snitch forever jk don't snitch

@tiraXpyrrha 3 года назад

"All warfare is based... as well as this cake" - Sun Tzu

@dominicesquivel3901 3 года назад

Sun Tzu said that

@elennapointer701 3 года назад

@@dominicesquivel3901 And I reckon he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal!

@tissuepaper9962 3 года назад

"All warfare is based on confection."

@SetuwoKecik 3 года назад

Sorry tira, but TissuePaper version is better

@dominicesquivel3901 3 года назад

@@elennapointer701 Because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man could beat him in the ring of honor!

@gryffind0ll 3 года назад

i really appreciate you taking the time to pronounce the names with accuracy! u r awesome!

@HOusEoFsiERRa 3 года назад

My family does it dipped in egg and fried. Another way is we cut the rice cake up into smaller bite-sized pieces and stir-fry them with cut-up sausages, bacon and veggies. We usually eat it for breakfast.

@kimyongin1987 3 года назад

Chinese-Indonesian grandmothers watching Max struggles to wrap the rice cake: *laughing in Surabaya dialect* 😂😂😂

@Christy_Kuri 3 года назад

As a fellow Chindo, I can hear that 😂

@AD-lh3jk 3 года назад

Kinda sad I never knew them till I stumbled on them on CNY abroad. Either Jakarta is too focused on moon cakes or I’m just uninitiated since I’m not Chinese lol

@JH-qg8jv 3 года назад

Your content is a production. It is theatre. It is comedy. It is drama. It is what I need in my life!

@badweetabix 3 года назад

My compliments Max. As someone who studied Chinese, I can definitively say you nailed the pronunciation. As an aside, it is a common misunderstanding in Western cultures that the dragon is a popular or fortuitous symbol, but it is in fact the opposite. In Chinese myth, the dragon is a god-like being who jealously guards its status. In the eyes of the dragon, for a mere lowly human to associate or attach the symbol of the dragon to himself is to invite the ire of the dragon. More than one elderly Chinese have commented to me that Bruce Lee's untimely deaths was because his nickname was Little Dragon. BTW: I think it tastes better with dates rather than jujubes.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Thank you 🙏

@TheRealZenman 3 года назад

Love your channel. I have tried a range of these and have been so pleased with them all. Please keep going!

@A_Swarm_of_Koalas 3 года назад

I appreciate that you let us know when you fail. A lot of content creators only show their successes, but failures are just as important.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

It’s how we learn 😁

@mahna_mahna 3 года назад

Chef John's failures are some of his most hilarious videos.

@linden2080 3 года назад

I love how detailed your research is! Kept making mental notes of “I’ll google that later” only for them to be answered in the video! :)

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

That's such a great compliment! Thank you.

@grandmamma324 3 года назад

I love your shows! Great , fun information and you have have a wonderful talent for languages. Thank you. Happy anniversary! May you have many more wonderful of them. Love from an European grandma from Orange County CA.

@ClashBluelight 3 года назад

with how long it took you to chew just one bite of this stuff, i can totally believe several entire cakes shutting up a god for his entire meeting.

@XTCyan 3 года назад

Legend also has it that Wu Zixu's last words before committing suicide were 'dig my eyes out and hang them by the city gates, as I want to be watching when we're invaded by the Yue'. So yeah, between that and the corpse whipping... Some character he is. And when that ultimately happened, King Fuchai of Wu committed suicide as well. Before dying, he covered his face with a white cloth as he was too embarrassed to face Wu Zixu in the afterlife. To this day, Wu Zixu is venerated in the land where the Kingdom of Wu used to stand (modern day Suzhou, which happens to be my hometown haha). One of the city gates is named after him (胥门).

@justindisbrow9921 3 года назад

Honestly im both embarassed for how long it took me to realize Max has a husband-to-be (ive watched this channel for the past two months and just subscribed to ketchup a week ago) and im also super excited for him and José (sorry if i spelt it wrong) are engaged! Congrats you two!

@philippkoch1258 3 года назад

Same with me 😂

@CJCJCJCJ 3 года назад

@@ladycrowley1413 idk, he always came off gay to me :P

@xPandamon 3 года назад

He never really mentioned it, surprised me too

@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 3 года назад

Lmao I'm both happy for the rep and happy that my gaydar was so good at picking it up so long ago lmao

@CJCJCJCJ 3 года назад

@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 yeah I guess I'm just finely tuned lol

@fortheloveofnoise9298 Год назад

We are pig brothers! Also, congratulations on being engaged, I am as well. It would be a shame if their are not some of these foods from antiquity at the wedding.

@1incutheta 3 года назад

"Snitches get... glutinous rice cake" should be something on your merch. :)

@ragingchaosgod 3 года назад

Fun fact: here in the Philippines, we call nian gao "tikoy" and it comes in a lot of flavors apart from sugar and molasses. I've seen strawberry, ube and pandan lately. We usually slice them into rectangles, coat them in egg and pan fry them. My personal favorite is wrapping slices in spring roll wrapper, fry them and drizzle condensed milk over it.

@Keeperoffyre 3 года назад

ube tikoy would be awesome! sadly, i doubt the fillings in my teeth would agree :D

@StanfordChiou 3 года назад

My mom is from the Philippines and she just dipped tikoy in egg. My dad is from Taiwan and he insists on adding flour to the egg 🤷🏻‍♂️

@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 3 года назад

@@Keeperoffyre Ube anything is awesome.

@jeffreym68 3 года назад

@@Keeperoffyre I'm intrigued by the pandan also.

@theaterofsouls 3 года назад

nah... gi gutom ko hahaha

@lexyesss 3 года назад

The cheery way you said "there was a coup, the king was assassinated..." Made me spit out my drink

@Cueball3331 2 месяца назад

Holy shout! My mom had a Bo Donaldson wax! ....I used to sing along to it when I was 3 YEARS OLD! I would bring up his and other obscure 60's 70's bands as I went mohawk punk in the 80s... And sung Don Ho and Franky Sinatra on stage. ...now I feel old

@thefattymcgee5801 2 года назад

You're channel combines two of my great loves in life. Thank you sir.

@dianaconcepcion1852 3 года назад

Did no one notice the jujube edit? LMAO My kind of humor!

@monkeykong6230 3 года назад

The poor guy who first made this stuff probably didn’t use oiled bamboo leaves. The guy had to buy a whole new kitchen.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣

@alanhyt79 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@matasa7463 3 года назад

Actually, we knew perfectly clear it was gonna be hella sticky when we first started eating sticky glutenous rice - that's why they figured out they could even do this sticky rice cake thing. Putting sticky rice dishes onto lightly oiled leaves is a common way to package and preserve them. It's easy to portion and transport too! Nowadays you see them in plastic wraps more, though some dishes will still have big leaves wrapping them, like zhongzi.

@ksbrook1430 3 года назад

LOVED your expressions as you chewed the nian gao.

@nata6025 2 года назад

I love how you always do great work with the pronunciations! I had it this year, my mum cut it into roughly fat finger slices and pan fried them without dipping it in egg. It's pretty delicious like that, i love the contrast between the crunchy exterior and the soft interior.

@jefferyrowland5579 3 года назад

Billy,Don’t be a hero, Avatar, Star Wars and Dick Tracy! The references are as thick as the cake!

@HangryinBrussels 3 года назад

Jujubee hiding in the dates sent me!

@epowell4211 3 года назад

I cracked up so hard at the Billy one lol

@SephardicHawaiian 3 года назад

I am the Year of the Boar too - a wood boar and my mom is a dragon. My late husband was a rabbit; my mom told me we were very compatible. She was right, we were together 28 yrs when he passed from cancer. My mom is Hawaiian and Chinese, so I grew up eating ngin gau - we just called it gau back home in Hawaiʻi. Gau is sold in every grocery store in Hawaiʻi during Chinese New Year. We line the mold with ti leaf and we only use jujubes and sesame seeds in our gau. My family are from Guangdong province and belong to the Hakka minority group. I still crave my grandfatherʻs sisterʻs gau from when I was a kid. Aunty Babeʻs gau was always sticky. She said we ate it "so the family sticks together in the New Year. " Kung Hee Fat Choy to you and Jose!