Feast or Famine | Ugly dumplings and mangled Chinese from a dim sum chef on YouTube – what gives, Epicurious?
- Epicurious YouTube channel’s video about dumpling making is a disaster, despite the best efforts of New York chef instructor King Phojanakong
- The dumpling skins are not rolled correctly, the wrappers are thick and uneven, and nowhere near enough filling is used. They look like amoeba
There was a blink-and-you-miss-it video on YouTube earlier this month. I’m not talking about the one Uncle Roger did with YouTuber Mike Chen of Strictly Dumpling, which the Malaysian comedian, whose real name is Nigel Ng, then denounced and quickly removed because Chinese internet users dislike Chen’s anti-Beijing stance.
The video featured King Phojanakong, who is in many other (and better) Epicurious videos.
Phojanakong has a restaurant, Kuma Inn, in New York, and is a chef instructor in the culinary arts at The Institute of Culinary Education, in New York.
I didn’t watch the entire video (it was more than 20 minutes) because it was seriously bad. At the beginning of it, Phojanakong shows packs of pre-made round and square dumpling wrappers but, unfortunately, decides to make his own. It was all downhill from there.
