Hello! Hi everyone, Wesley here. Today we’re diving back into our series dedicated to Chinese comfort food classics with a fun variation on two different dishes that we’ve actually done on this channel already, the first being the classic “mapo tofu” braised pork with tofu, and the second being a Chinese steamed egg dish known as “zheng dan” or literally, steamed egg. Now to be absolutely honest, I don’t think I have ever actually seen this particular combination of things in my 36 years of eating Chinese food, but conceptually it does seem to have solid foundation in Chinese cuisine. Zheng dan or steamed egg is literally as it’s described, a whisked egg seasoned lightly with shaoxing wine and white pepper, then gently steamed for a mildly savory quality.
From my experience, I’ve always remembered this steamed egg dish from my childhood as something that I ate whenever I was sick, because it’s incredibly bland, and carries the lowest possible risk of upsetting your stomach. Because. Well, it literally tastes like nothing. So! When I came across this particular iteration of zheng dan floating around the internet that combines the dish with a braised ground pork on top, I figured, this is gonna be way better, cause you know. It’s actually gonna taste like something. For our version today in particular we’ll be combining our egg with a crushed tofu. By incorporating this tofu into the egg, this means that the second half of our dish will literally just be our mapo tofu, but assembled in a wildly different manner, which I think is really fascinating. Hope you try it.
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0:00 Hello Hi Everyone!
1:59 Mise En Place (veggies)
2:43 Mise En Place (ground pork)
3:19 Mise En Place (sauce)
3:51 Mise En Place (tofu)
4:20 Mise En Place (eggs)
5:24 On The Stove (steam)
5:40 On The Stove (stir fry)
6:49 On The Stove (wok seasoning)
7:15 Let’s Eat!
8:45 Thanks For Watching!
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