Just discovered this series and WOW! As an Asian-American guy growing up in the Bay Area, I watched your show regularly on KQED growing up. Thank you for continuing to make inspirational content forty years on!
Just found out about Yan about 20 minutes ago. I go looking through his videos and see this - I randomly click on it. The very first scene, my jaw drops as I know exactly where he is. I've had many late nights at New Woey Loy Goey, getting warmed up from a hot cup of tea and soup when escaping the cold wind. I had no idea he lives in SF! I hope to one day run into him at a restaurant and buy his next meal. 谢谢叔叔!
Hey Henry, so it took you 40 years to find out about me, finally. Better late than never. Woey loy Goey was one of my old hangouts. Maybe we had met in one of those cold nights when you came in for a coup of hot tea or soup. Look for me next time.
You where my childhood as well as Fu Pei-mei I learned how to cook my chinese side dishes because of these 2 cooking shows Question ever get a chance to meet the legendary Fu Pei-mei in real life back in the day?
Mr. Yan, I watched your show growing up and loved it. You always bring me so much joy and happiness watching your passion for food and cooking not to mention the best knife skills in the world! Modern technology is so amazing that I can finally say to you thank you sir!
Martin, I’m so sorry that you are not familiar with the old Woey Loy Guey. They had a roast pork with gravy over rice and a side of cabbage. We old timers miss it so much. Yummy. Thank you.
Mr. Yan, Martin, so good running across this today 10-2-23, I used to watch you in the 80's? watched you for 3 days close up at Cal-Expo I so hope you are still thriving and alive, such entertaining demonstrations, cut-put, multi-knife skills and more. And great recipes and instruction always, thank you sir I was in my twenties then, my 60's now, success and long life ...
Thank you Chef Yan! I tried New Woey Loy Goey yesterday and the food was very good. Your series is introducing me to places I would have never known about.
I love Szechuan dishes! Luckily I live near 2 Chinatowns, Manhattan and Flushing, NY. I believe the Manhattan one is more Cantonese and Flushing is Mandarin. I could be wrong but I can’t tell the difference. I would love to cook my own Szechuan dishes. 😋😋
What irritates me is the owner clearly has been in the USA making a living outside communist China for decades he decided to leave instead of help China which we respect but why on earth he cannot speak 1 single word of english. Mr yan on the other hand is a national treasure.
If you’re in a chinese restaurant English ain’t valid. Besides who the hell says just because you come to America you have to speak English. Dumb as hell.
He did say "right now" lmao. Not completely illiterate in English. Maybe he just prefers speaking in his mother tongue when he's in the company of people from his same hometown?
