This popular Chinese restaurant dessert is a wonderful contrast of textures and flavors. Tender, fluffy fried sweet potatoes are coated in a crunchy caramel shell that shatters when you bite into it.
Juicy, flavorful julienne vegetables are soaked in a rich sauce and rolled in thin layers of bean curd skin to create a light vegetarian dish for the Lunar New Year.
Every style of Asian cuisine has a unique and delicious noodle dish, and Chef Jet Tila whips up two of his absolute favorites. He brings back his family's Pad Thai recipe from 1972, which includes tofu, chicken and shrimp. Next up, Jet gets that gold-standard Chinese restaurant flavor by using country-specific ingredients to make a silky gravy for his Hong Kong-Style Chow Mein with crispy noodles, chicken and vegetables.
This trip, Guy's steppin' into some family kitchens. In Vancouver, British Columbia, the Chinese joint hand-pulling noodles and using ages-old family recipes for dishes like beef rolls. In Virginia Beach, Va., the whole gang's chipping in to crank out coastal classics like barbecued fish tacos. And in Brooklyn, N.Y., a team of brothers kick traditional bar food up a notch with their homemade brandade with escabeche and a unique Cuban sandwich.
Guy Fieri does takeout in Triple-D style, combining great restaurant food with cooking at home. Four DDD alums send ingredients for their most-dynamite recipes then join Guy and his son, Hunter, via video chat to cook up all that flavor. The menu includes a Chinese-Mexican mix from Phoenix, Florida alligator fritters, a creole meatloaf straight from a California beach and chicken wings from one of Guy's favorite hometown spots.
Molly Yeh is making some of her favorite Chinese-inspired recipes, including some passed down from her dad's family. He's flying in with Molly's Aunt Lucy to visit her and baby Bernie, so Molly makes them her grandma's sweet and sour Tepong Pork with Fried Rice that's easy and addictive. Her Sauteed Spinach with Sweet Black Garlic is a side dish that's loaded with flavor, and for dessert, they'll love her Chocolate-Stuffed Sesame Balls.