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Join chef and restaurateur Kylie Kwong on a personal and inspirational odyssey as she returns to the land of her ancestors. Kylie confronts the vast contrasts of China as she journeys to ten cities and provinces, from bustling mega-metropolises of Hong Kong and Beijing to the forgotten dirt villages of Guangdong. Beginning with her ancestral village in Toishan, Kylie ventures further to touch each compass point of China, engaging with local communities, buying ingredients from the market, learning regional cooking skills and preparing family meals. Along the way, she meets and cooks with an array of locals and samples a range of wonderful regional meals and tastes from the haute cuisine of glamorous Shanghai restaurants to simple bowls of noodles and pickles at the wooden stalls of Lhasa, and the altogether different and intense spicy heat of traditional Sichuan dishes. Kylie brings her own unique flair for fusing the traditional with the modern by combining some of her favourite creations with whatever ingredients are available. From cooking with fisherman to colourful encounters with flamboyant street vendors Kylie conjures up her very own culinary travelogue spiced with adventure.
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Kylie returns to her great grandfather's ancestral home in Toishan village, Guangdong province. This is the south of China, the region of plenty, and roots for many of the Chinese of Australia, Canada and USA.
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Kylie continues her search for culinary traditions in the familiar surroundings of Hong Kong. As she works her way through flying fish and urinating shrimps, Kylie wonders if there is such a thing as typical Hong Kong food. She finds the answer in a speakeasy.
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I just started watching an episode and turned it off in disgust as my fellow Aussie Kylie was promoting a dish using shark fin and turtle. Shame on you Kylie - this is the last time I watch any show featuring you.
I totally agree with all of the people who say that Kylie is using the same sauces, my bf who is Australian watched the dvd with me and through the third episode we realized that Kylie cannot seem to open her mind to different flavors. I come from half Chinese and Half Vietnamese and I know the flavors of the two nations, I would like to suggest Kylie use more lemongrass, curries, cummin, cinnamon, fish sauce, black bean paste, coconut cream, coconut juice, lemon zest or juice, basil, mint, chives and all other fresh herbs that both Chinese and Vietnamese people use. I can tell you, she is not very well knowledged in the Chinese dishes if that is all she could cook. Another BIG BIG thing I would like to mention is that she is not health conscious at all, the pork fat: she bought a piece of pork based on how much fat there was on it, the more the better! Also the CUPS and I mean CUPS of oil she uses (the healthy amount would be 20ml or 1 tablespoon), the 3-4 tablespoons of brown sugar she adds to everything, the amount of salt. All of the things she adds into her dish could make it 900calories PER serving, saturated fats, insulin spiking sugars and hypertension causing salts if you can any health problems to start with. I recommend that Kyle measures out her oils, salts, sugars properly, telling the audience how much of eat thing she is using, not just pouring it in like its calorie-risk free additions.
Just watched My China on BBC and USED to be a huge fan until I heard Kylie Kwong add Turtle meat to the stock. I am totally disgusted and will never watch another of her episodes. BBC need to really be more humane when choosing so called chefs'. We in South Africa really dislike people like this as we protect our turtles to the end. My recipe books just went in the bin and I have taken to facebook and twitter to pass the word on. Shame on you girl. Lynn J
The documentary makes me remember to my someone's cooking, the age, the village, the small old kitchen, the smell, and the sound of steel spoon hitting the wok and we were on the same table eating something that not fancy but warming my heart. Love this memories..
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Hi Kylie Mam you are simply GREAT.
I so.....totally agree with Johnny. Kylie is a disgrace to the Chinese people (that is, if one considers her one). Her patronising attitude to the locals in China, makes it very difficult to watch. There was one episode where she took over a street vendor's stall, did a dish and shoved it in the faces of the onlookers, uttering some non-words, and basically forcing them to taste the dish using the same pair of chop-sticks all round! One would have expected someone involved in the food business to have a better sense of hygiene!
Kylie Kwang's recipes and the way she cooks represent a fusion of western and a bit of Chinese cooking. She's definitely not making authentic chinese dishes. She is not a chef in chinese cuisine. She doesn't even use the chinese cleaver.
Why was she even on Masterchef?? Couldn't the producers get a more authentic Chinese cook to teach Australia's top amateur cooks how to prepare REAL chinese cuisine? Her 'stir-fried eggplant' contained more shallots/coriander than eggplants.
Do you mean her OILY Stir Fried Eggplant? Did you see how oily the dish was? Just oil and nothing else than oil with chilli. YUCK!!!!
as an australian with chinese heritage i am toally ashamed by her show. I could only bear to watch one episode and that was enough. In shanghai she basically hijacked a food stall and patronised the owner by shoving money down his pocket and proceeded to take over his stall so she could cook up something. I was embarrassed by her lack of cultural sensitivity. Compared to Luke Nguyen's Vietnam this is one awfully trite series and awkward to watch. If Kylie's idea of China is people whom she could patronise and shove out of the way to show her superiority then i am utterly insulted
I'd have to agree with all the comments about Kylie's disrespectful, arrogant and patronising attitude towards the locals. I watched the episode where she took over the street vendor's wok. Without an ounce respect and a tonne of arrogance all she shouted was "Me, me, me!" and shoved cash in his pocket. When she offered her dish to the locals it went about the same way. I wouldn't disagree with anyone saying she is a "beautful" person but in this show she was downright disrespectful. And as a Chinese-Australian I know the importance of respect in all Asian cultures. She couldn't even make the effort to learn a few simple phrases in the local vernacular. Here rudeness made me cringe so much that I stopped watching after 10 minutes. Sorry, Kylie... but I'll be sticking to Luke Nguyen's Vietnam, which by the way is fantastic (you could take some tips from him).
Sorry she disappointed you but everyone else seemed to love her show including me!!!! Don't disrespect people like that keep your patronising thoughts to yourself and i STRONGLY disagree!!!! I personally know Kylie and she happens to be a beautiful, down to earth cook and i am truly inspired by her work. Maybe you should think about the important things in life and then re assess her hard work.
hahaha thats what i use for my basic ingredients - soy, sugar, wine (sometimes vinegar) and i don normally watch Kylie cook...i watch my mother cook and she's overseas in asia cooking for a cantonese family (my family)
its like how tomatoes are for the italians, spices for the indians, salt for the africans, etc, etc, etc,
theres always gonna be a better cook out there... =)
my granny used to make this "drunken chicken" dish...yeap soy, sugar and rice wine..but add it together with other wonderful ingredients ie. young ginger, chicken, water and you'll have a dish to die for!
if u dont watch kylie then how come you say things here huh?!
so why comment here to bluff?!
i am an avid cook and this book was a lovely travel journal but nothing more. travelled a great deal of China and it was a let down. to be fair, not everyone who is good on TV can write a comprehensive cook book on regional cooking. ladies like Mahur Jaffrey or Claudia Roden are hard acts to follow.
great to watch ms kwong travelling around and showing different regional authentic chines ecuisine. i would prefer if the episode is strtched for about an hour, and update the recipies on the net
I just went out to get the dvd set for my brother's xmas present and he is a damn good cook. He will most likely throw it back at me!!! So what do I do now??? Use them as coasters?? I opened it up and watched a couple of episodes..There was nothing other food shows have not covered in terms of what the locals eat and the sights BUT I cant get over the peasant dishes Kylie came up with!!!! I wonder what would happen if one day they stopped producing Shaoshing wine Kylie?
Agree with you absolutely! Plus
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Well if you only know how to cook everything with the same method, don't call yourself a cook. And please this does not represent Chinese cooking, I am Chinese and we don't cook like that.
It is not just the sauces that make the flavour. The sauces that were used are a base. The meat, the chillies, the herbs and other small ingredients are what make each dish unique. Have you ever been there and eaten the food first hand. It is like nothing that you will ever eat here.
I happen to live in China for a few years, absolutely agree with you guys, her cooking is so boring, it doesn't even wake my appetite when I watch it 8))
hi kilye kwong u cook well but with same sauces and same ingredients try to cook with some different things
http://www.radiorealestate.com.au/chinese_whispers.pdf Is a link to "Chinese Whispers" - a scan with info about Kylie Kwong, and includes the "Dongpo Pork" recipe! It is slightly different than the one on TV (or she could have done the prep before without saying so) -- but it gives you the ingredients, etc and an idea of how to do it!
What's interesting, though, is how those seemingly 'same ingredients' are used to generate so many different dishes, which, in my opinion, are different from one another. Don't get too fixated on the 'sauces'. If Chinese cooking is that simple and boring, everybody can do it, no?
I would suggest you look past the ingredience, sugar. soy etc and see what she is really showing you. It is called My China, there is much more going on than what Kylie does. Look at what she is showing you. I doubt wether you would be able to see the things she is able to bring you because of the Chinese rule even if you went there yourself. Picky picky picky
Wilson and Claudia, I couldn't agree with you more. My husband and I have watched just three episodes of My China and we are embarrassed to hear the same four ingredients (sugar, soy, vinegar, wine) and the same four reasons (caramelise, balance, colour, depth of flavour) over and over again. The book is hundreds of pages of the same old, same old. For a "Chinese chef" who can't or won't even say 'hello' or 'thank you' in her native tongue, I find it hard to see anything useful or unique in her cooking.
That's strange, I have a native Chinese friend who has lived almost all her life in China and recommended Kylie's recipes because they were closer to real Chinese cooking than other western made Chinese recipe books.
I totally agree with Johnny how even westerners when visiting China would try to learn some simple phrases in Chinese.
I saw a snip of her episode in Shanghai. Did you see how she pulled faces and maked negative comments on the smelly deep fried tofu? I thought chefs are open minded to tasting everything, even just a tiny bit? Well, obviously not Kylie!
I am so glad that you folks feel the same! Kylie should be ashamed of using the moniker "my China" as her version of China is so unrealistic of what China is really like! Furthermore, her mannerisms when visiting China is disgraceful and downright disrespectful as she does not even take the trouble to learn a few basic Chinese phrases. I remember one episode of her walking down the street and saying " how are you doing" to a local Chinese pedestrian in the middle of China! Is this just pure arrogance on her part or downright stupidity? Kylie Kwong is an absolute disgrace to the Chinese, even westerners when visiting China try to learn some simple phrases in Chinese, much less when you are doing a prestigious travel and living show on the Discovery channel! Please, Discovery Channel executives, cancel her show immediately!
To add on she should at least learn the basic chinese such as: hello (ni hao) and thank you (xie xie) and yummy (hao chi) in the market place or eating with her chinese guests.♥
i agree with u BIG TIME!!! lol :) my mom cooked the lions head meatballs for me using the same ingredients and it tasted so DAMN sweet and my mom remarked on the amount of sugar and chinese wine that Kylie put in and actually all her cooking taste similar. Kylie shud have different sauces for different dishes so they don't taste the same (sweeeet! with no character. ☺) ♥
give her a break! she is like 5th or so generation Australian!
hahah that's not the only ingredients the italian's use! It's Kylie's lack of imagination that does it. Chinese cooking is not at all just vinegar, b. sugar, wine and soy.
I just want to know if Claudia and Wilson eat italian food - garlic, tomatoes, wine! What you say about Kylie relates to many cultures of cooking, but as we all know, vary one or two ingredients, change the meat and the season and it's a new flavour all over again. And ar the end of the day, lets face it, we cook the same things over and again, because we know and love them, and try new things just to expand our recipe base.
re the pork recipe, I still have it on dvd record. Think it's called Dongpo pork. I agree. Looked divine on tv. Will review recording, and post vague recipe for the converts. Give me time though, 3 kids, school hols and wiorking husband!
hello j028 i also bought the pork would appreciate the recipe haljoin7@bigpond.com i am the first time on this side thank you inga
I totally agree with claudia's comment. I used to be fan of Kylie but after seeing 7 episodes of My China I am completely disappointed. Kylie cooks with the same sauces and says the same thing for every dish. This is what she usually says "Let's start with some chinese cooking then I'm going to add some brown sugar and then balance it with some light soy sauce, and then I'm going to add some dark soy to give the dish some colour. I will also add some vinegar...." Basically she's making Chinese cooking look like it will all taste the same. I'd much rather see how the other chefs in China do what they do the authentic way and not Kylie's non-authentic version.
Well said! That is what I woudl have also said word for word. Same sauces and same method and same words said over and over. I would have also like to see the other chefs cook their authentic version as well. Some of this may be seen in the older series "Martin Yan's China" where almost all the same places were visited by Kylie - really copying almost exactly, except rather than admire and showcase the chinese cooking like Martin Yan did, it is almost like Kylie pushed (or bribed) the locals aside and "hijacked" their kitchen to cook her own version, which had the same sauce in almost every dish. Very disappointing.
I'd also like to know the pork belly and potatoes recipe - I didn't bother to write it down because I thought I'd find it online - went straight out and bought some organic pork belly and now don't know what to do with it!! Help!
Any body seen the episode where she prepares a pork dish with potatoes in it... she did her own version because the chefs would not reveal the original recipe... I like to try Kylie's version but can't remember the name of the dish or the correct ingredients
i believe it was dongpo pork
k all she cooks with is soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine and vinegar im sure there are other things out there to use it makes it look like she just makes the same thing over and over again
"chicken braised with soy sauce and shoa hsing wine" looks and is a delightful meal. possibly other meats can be used and i will try them in my kitchen. i like kylie as she is light hearted and fun to watch as she is cooking. i agree with her about the stinky tofo, does not matter how much you disguise it, its still foul. well done K.K.
i did the "Pomegranate and Orange Salad " last night with cevapcici sausage and a well done mash potato ! it was a great salad simple fresh and new to my guest ! i also used some pink grapefruit as well as the orange !
I have been looking for a good cevapcici recipe. Can you post it?
my idol is kylie. i lov ethe way she tells about receipes n all.....she is simply great...my greatest wish is to meet her one day n learn everything from her about cooking.....
Delightful to watch, I likeds that way the goose was cooked, think that may be adapted to duck. Would love the method. Thanks