Tasting Treasures of China

[Dakki]

I just started on this documentary series from CCTV. It's somehow classified as a "travel documentary" (some kind of translation problem?), but the show instead focuses on one aspect of the Chinese kitchen per episode.

Episode list:

Fire Control

Knife Skills

Chilies

Tofu

Flour

Umami

Imperial Cuisine

Tableware

As I said, I've only barely started it but it looks pretty good. Production values aren't as good as on A Taste of China, but it looks professional enough. The subtitles on the version I got are just barely good enough to make out what the narrator is saying most of the time.

[liuzhou]

Alternatively called "Discovering Chinese Cuisine".

Yes. It was a cash-in on the success of the first series of "A Bite of China". There was a rash of them.

It is available on DVD with English narration. I have both the Chinese and English versions.

The English version is also on stream here.

Not bad, but the 'A Bite" set a very high standard. Series Two is just being broadcast on CCTV.

Edited February 6, 2014 by liuzhou (log)