How a Popular NYC Restaurant is Reimagining Cantonese American Food | NYT Cooking

That’s great! I liked how the 70 year old lady said work is like a form of entertainment. She looks youthful and has a sense of purpose.

Similarly, I’m glad the chef is embracing his roots and adding his own spin to his food.

They seem like cool people. Would love to visit their restaurant someday.

changing the narrative on cheap chinese food, let the new generation raise the bar and expectation for chinese food

Pleasantly surprised. Thought this video would be corny.

I can't bear ready to serve with bare hands without gloves

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Damn. I missed visiting you guys when I was in New York last month. Definitely gonna visit you guys next time and try the pineapple toast.

What a beautiful story

As a first-generation Cantonese-American born and raised in NYC, I love this. We need more Cantonese coverage in mainstream media. Mandarin is foreign to me but hearing people speak Cantonese and talk about Cantonese culture specifically is extremely comforting, even though my understanding of the language is horribly basic at best.

I doubt this guy speaks canto often.

Add a fresh scoop of ice cream on top of that bun. Yo good!

toisanese was the OG language of Ctown. It dies with me. Cantonese is too easy for me to speak. I learned mandarin to survive in LA. I still hate speak mando.

I worked near Chinatown nyc. I loved to see the people doing tai chi in the park. They even did tai chi under my work building.

Much success and health to all. May g-d bless you and your family always.

Your creations look rad awesome cool. Glad your dad helped you.

I'm proud of you.

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were some upscale restaurants in Chinatown nyc.

I understand you are creating different style Chinese foods, making it more fun.

Sick video

A must stop on my way into NYC

Definitely, jook sing. 😂 Hey little cousins, my dad was a chef at a Cantonese restaurant in NYC Chinatown back in the day.

Yooooooo! I love myself Canto food…. Its so interesting that across latinamerica most historic and hybridized chinese food is cantonese (because of historical reasons), and so different from Mandarin-american food.

nah this aint it , wanna be eddie huang try hard

Good to see Ling, the barber, is still doing well

Their story is like a love letter to Chinatown ❤️

I bet these guys shit on China for "destroying the culture" and they are doing basic stuff.

I think that type of cuisine can only be sold to the westerners as it were. Cantonese cuisine has remained what it is because it's simple, fast, cheap, and good. I don't need a new fusion of something else that cost me more money that would taste the same but interpreted differently. Like a pineapple bun I could just buy from a bakery. I don't need it to be a square. A pineapple bun just needs to taste like a pineapple bun .

The people in those rice noodle truck have the right idea, simple, fast, good, cheap. It costs "nothing" to make those rice noodles and the margins are so much more than what these guys are doing where they have to buy the bread before they actually just add a topping to it.

i love this so much

It's American Cantonese food. You live in America. you are an American born Chinese.

So interesting! I love how they are preserving the culture

Square pineapple bao... That's weird... Also, using pre-made bread loaf to make pineapple bao is blasphemy.

Love this video. I was born in Hong Kong came to America at 5. I feel chinatown has change in SF. I am glad they are fixing chinatown.

also chinese american (born in hong kong) and grew up in brooklyn. i was able to eat at potluck club recently and absolutely loved it. everything was a 10/10 and will def be going back

this place looks amazing. i've eaten a lot of canto food. i've lived in hong kong and currently like in vancouver and i have never had anything like these dishes.

maau chasui bao is best

Very proud and thankful to you guys, our ancestors went thru a lot to make a name in this country, please don’t let it die.

I grew up in HK and I moved to San Francisco when I was 31. Now I have two kids who are half Chinese. I speak Chinese to them and hoping them to learn more than a language. Watching this video makes me so emotional - I have lots of respect to these fellas! They were not even born in HK and they have full dedication to their roots.

Canto is king

I know these kids … they’re a generation younger than me . Trust me boys your parents are proud of you. Heck me and a lot of people in from Chinatown is proud of you. Thank you for keeping the culture alive.

I was raised in Aberdeen, HK till I was 9 hearing Cantonese state side makes me smile. 🎊

traveling back in time to my old CT

This was super inspiring! Loved hearing their story and the struggles of keeping your heritage and culture alive in the US in a way that honors both the past and the present combination of all those identities <3

KUDOS to Cory + Zhan.
Just because many of us are professionals (assimulated into American Society), doesn't mean we should
forget/cast off our roots, the struggles of our parents + those that came before us. Chinatown/s defines
(both good + bad) the Chinese-American Experience.(Cantonese-American for Manhattan's Chinatown).
I know Zhan + Cory will succeed because they know what is most important + are diligent, good guys.

Come to palm Beach, Florida! Not one good Chinese restaurant anywhere!🥴

pay your ~20-30 year old chefs proper wages and hourly rates with benefits and pensions if you want the next generation to actually carry your culinary and cultural. because nobody sane and with options will do this work for minimum wage

有意思！

I'm 64 and a 1.5 generation (mom born in US) Cantonese American. Spent time in Boston, Manhattan, and San Francisco Chinatowns, and I'm really proud of you 2 brothers. Keep working hard and making that great food. You 2 are on a good path.

This is so amazing! I want to try their food. I'm glad I live in NYC.

真好，兩兄弟一齊做野， 你地D 菜餚好有創意，我以前都無諗到可以再咁整