Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Season 13

Two unique Chinatowns of North America are the focus of this deep dive into Chinese cultural heritage   First I go to Vancouver for a culinary tour of this century’s old community.    At a local tea shop, I learn to make tea smoked tofu I sample Dim Sum at a shop owned by an opera singing second generation Chinese local.   Then Chinatown tour guide, Judy Lam Maxwell, shows me a Chinese dumpling mashup filled with Korean Bulgogi.   Back at home, Wok Queen Grace Young describes her efforts to preserve New York’s Chinatown as she and I make meat candy – a melt in your mouth BBQ Pork that is the perfect ingredient for Grace’s Yangchow fried rice.