Three Chinese Stocks - Simple Home-style, Cantonese Superior, and Shandong Consommé | Chinese Cooking Demystified

A video that should've been put out a long time ago :) Stocks are a building block in cooking, and Chinese cuisine's no different. We wanted to teach you three different stocks that could perhaps be thought of as differing 'grades': a basic home-style stock using scraps (Maotang), a fancier Cantonese sort (Shangtang), and lastly a really cool clarified soup from Shandong (Diaotang).

Now, I know that perhaps depending on your definition of 'stock', these could perhaps be better thought of as broths as they contain meat in addition to bones. We chose to translate it as 'stock' mostly because of how they're used, and also because many people think of broths as something that's seasoned.

Detailed written recipe over here on /r/cooking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/8jkymp/recipes_an_introduction_to_making_chinese_stocks/

Outro Music: "Add And" by Broke For Free
https://soundcloud.com/broke-for-free

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