(Joyful music) (audience applause) - Hi, welcome to Yan Can Cook!

I've been telling everybody for the past 240 years, if Yan can cook, so can you.

Today I'm adding so can kids.

When I was kid, I loved to cook.

Instead of a bicycle, I wanted one of these from my mother.

(audience laughing) It's a helmet for my bicycle.

This is definitely the most wonderful, most beautiful and the most mature audience I have in the past 200 years on my television career.

Look at how beautiful, give yourself a big hand!

(audience applause) The first thing I wanna do is something that I learn when I was eight years old.

That was five years ago.

(audience laughing) I learned what my mother called wonton soup.

Everybody should do it because you can use it just like a Chinese ravioli, okay.

Here, what I have, is all these ingredients.

I have some ground pork, or you can use ground beef.

You can have some water chestnut, let me show you the water chestnut.

Okay, water chestnut, ground beef or ground pork, I put it over here.

Actually, you should not put in on the cutting board, you should put it in a bowl, like this.

Okay?

Or if you have a lot of energy go ha!

(audience laughing) And then, also, I have some green onion, okay.

And also have some white pepper and sesame seed oil because you gotta season this.

In the meantime, I will have to cut this up.

(clanks) I am too you young to use this.

(audience laughing) I use this!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

(tapping) (audience laughing) Isn't that exciting.

And then, you put them all together and then you put this down, you transfer it like this, okay?

And then, if you want, you can even use one of these to chop your water chestnut.

All you have to do is go like this while you are watching Sesame Street.

(audience laughing) Look at this, look at how easy, you go like this, like this.

(chopping) (audience applause) In the meantime, oh this is perfect, I'm gonna put this over here and mix it up with a tiny bit of sesame seed oil and white pepper, because you have to marinate this, okay?

Put them all together, and then, the important thing is, you can also use a tiny bit of soy sauce.

Look at this, soy sauce and a tiny, tiny bit of egg white, you see, make it easier.

Move it around with a chopstick or with a spoon.

When I was growing up my mom taught me how to use a fork and spoon.

I did not learn how to use chopstick when I was 12 years old.

That was...

Seven years ago.

(audience laughing) Look at this.

Okay, put them all together, set it aside.

Then, the next thing I wanna show you is, we're gonna heat up some water or broth, and I wanna show you how to fold the wonton.

Folding wonton is a great experience, okay?

Whenever you hold this, take enough out, the rest you should wrap it up, because this way it will dry it out, so wrap it up and you keep it.

I have this here for the past 200 years.

And then, this is how you do it, you use a little spoon, everybody should learn how to do this, put a spoon, put it right here, okay?

I will show you.

Egg white, and you fold it like th.. Look at this, you see this?

Fold this into a triangle, like this, okay, everybody look.

And then you use a tiny bit of egg white or water, you put it right over here at the corner.

You twist this, now you have wonton.

You see?

This is wonton.

This is two-ton.

This is three-ton.

Four-ton.

We have four-tons here.

(audience laughing) Now, make sure this is hot, and then you put the wonton, particularly when you make wonton soup, you put the wonton right over here.

Wonton is wonderful in soup.

You put it over here, let it cook for a little while, use a little slotted spoon, pick it out when it's done.

And then, when it's done, it will look like this, look at this!

Not like this, looks like this!

Very nice, because you can cook this ahead of time.

Look at how beautiful.

And then, you get ready a bowl to make wonton soup.

This is gonna be the bowl.

When this is done, it takes about two minutes or so, then you scoop out the one that's already cooked, keep it in water, then you put two, two-ton, three-ton, four-ton, five-ton.

It depends on how hungry you are.

I am very hungry, are you hungry today?

- [Audience] Yeah!

- Oh, look at this, we have six-tons.

I'm gonna remove this and put it aside.

And then, scoop some of this broth, chicken broth, right in here.

We'll make wonton soup.

Now, aside from that, you also want to put a tiny, tiny bit.

I want to remove these first.

I want to show you, you also want to put in a tiny, tiny bit of green onion and a tiny bit of soy sauce.

Look at this, how beautiful.

Now I want to show you something that you have never seen.

Let me remove these.

This weighs one ton.

Giant wonton, look at this.

(audience applause) Since we have a show for the kids only, so let's play a music video.

Just kidding.

Let's look at something with a message.

Some people look in to a crystal ball.

Me, I tell fortune the old fashioned way, I look at these fortune cookies.

Let me see.

This one is so lousy, you can have it.

The great thing about this, if you don't like what you see, you can always have a second chance.

Let's see what I have in this one.

This one is even worse.

Let me pick up this one, hopefully we have a better fortune.

Unfortunately this one don't even have a fortune.

I am looking for a fortune here.

Oh, this one is absolutely wonderful, it's great, unfortunately I can't tell you on television.

Look at this.

I'm holding all my destiny in my ow..

I'm sharing with you all my good fortune in this wheel of fortune.

Let me see and look at this giant fortune cookie and see what we have here.

Wow!

It must have a important message in..

This one says you now have to rush back to the studio.

Goodbye!

(audience applause) Now, I make a couple of friends down in the fortune cookie factory.

Will you please welcome Lilly and Emily!

(audience applause) - We got you this from the fortune cookie factory.

- Fortune cookie factory, let me see what kind of fortune I have here.

Wow!

What is this?

This is not a fortune inside.

Let me put it over here so everybody else can see.

Let me see what my fortune is.

It is not a fortune, it is a bill for the 435 fortune cookie I broke when I was there.

Unbelievable!

(audience laughing) It cost me 1245 dollars.

It absolutely cost me a fortune, maybe that's the reason why they call them fortune cookies.

(audience laughing) Now, let's come over here, we're gonna do something exciting, okay?

Here, what we're gonna do, we're gonna do wonderful, golden chicken drumettes, right?

Here, we have 12 to 14 drumettes here.

You tried this before at home?

You told me both, Lilly and Emily, you told me you like this.

So I decided, we get all this ready f..

Here we have drumettes already marinated, and I am going to coat it with flour.

Why I'm coating with this, you're gonna put it in egg white, beat up the egg white, okay?

Here, I have about one cup of chopped walnut, and also I have a cup of wheat germ, and also have some of these breadcrumb, okay?

Also cornflake, this is cornflake, this is wheat germ.

If you miss breakfast, this is just as nutritious.

Okay, put it over here.

- Shall I mix it up?

Should I mix this up?

- Yeah, why don't you go ahead and..

Here, the marinade.

I marinade the chicken with three table spoon of s.. and also four teaspoon of garlic, and also, we also marinade it with about one teaspoon, go ahead, because we have a lot.

You both like this, and also everybody in the audience like.

I'm questioning everybody like it.

Anybody like it, raise your hand please?

See, everybody.

Good, we have enough, because we have 245 here.

We'll put it over here.

Also, I'm marinating with a tiny bit of pepper and green onion.

I marinate it for about two hours, and then we'll do this and put it over there.

You can put them a little bit apart, so you don't have to get stuck so much.

Then, put a tiny bit more.

So we have five of these, besides we have been cooking all day long.

Now, put it over here.

Egg white, slightly beat it up a little bit, okay?

And then, coat it with all this wonderful nutritious stuff.

And then, after that you have to bake it in your oven for approximately 25 minutes.

Now, if you are too short, if you are not tall enough to get an oven, make sure you ask your mom, or your daddy, or your grandma, or your granddaddy, or your uncle, or your aunt to open the oven for you.

You stuck it in.

Why don't we, Lilly, why don't you do me a favor, let's put this over there, and see what we have over there.

In the meantime, Lilly, give me a hand, we're gonna just put this at the back, okay?

Let's put this over here.

And then, now, everybody knows, let's, how are we doing over there, Lilly?

Lilly, look at this!

Let's come over.

Very, very careful!

Look at how beautiful this is.

This-- (audience applause) Lilly, please take these and put it over there.

Let's put this over here.

So this way everybody, it's hot, hot, hot!

Put it over there, the most important thing is, cooking is so much fun, but make sure you share it with your parent.

That way, they don't feel left out.

So don't do it by yourself.

You make sure you tell your parents what you're gonna do, what you like to do.

Let's put them all together, let's put them all together, put one more.

And then, we will show everybody how beautiful.

Look at this, isn't that beautiful.

(audience applause) And then, we will come over here, we'll show everybody another one of your favorites.

Let's come over here, so everybody can do it.

Now what are we gonna do here?

We're gonna do a glaze sesame meatballs, okay?

Now here, what we have here is some ground pork, we have one pound of ground pork and about two tablespoons of hoisin sauce, some corn starch, and also green onion, and if you have green onion you can chop up some.

This is ginger, have one tablespoon of ginger, one teaspoon of this orange peel, okay?

And also, we have some water chestnut already ground up.

If you don't have water chestnut, you can use some some jicama.

Have you ever heard of a jicama?

Me neither.

(audience laughs) So don't worry.

And then we put the meatball ingredient here and here, and then you can help me to put these two tablespoons of hoisin sauce and all these ingredients, put it in for me.

Okay, and I'm gonna mix it up.

Yeah, put it in.

Put the hoisin sauce, this is hoisi.. this is two tablespoons of hoisin sauce that I put in.

Put in some of those.

This is one tablespoon of dry cherry.

One to two tablespoon of dry cherry.

You see, you gotta work together.

Let's put it back over here, okay.

Also, put a tiny bit of ginger, yeah, put them all in, soy sauce, one tablespoon of soy sauce, and put in all of these ingredients.

Let's mix it in.

Let's mix it in, let's mix this in.

Sesame seed oil good, also put a tiny, tiny bit of corn starch.

Look at this, can you see that?

Now Emily, do you help your parents to cook at home?

- Yes.

- How often do you cook?

- A lot.

- She says she cook a lot.

I believe Emily.

How about you Lilly?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, how often?

- A lot.

- Yes, a lot.

How about you, a lot?

Now, the next thing I wanna show you is, we're gonna make the, we are going to make the meatball.

Now I'm quite sure you have done this many, many times, like many of the people here.

Let's move this around so everybody, let's go ahead and make the meatball.

After we make the meatball, we put over here, we can glaze these.

Go ahead and make the meatball, because we have a lot of hungry children over h.. Let's make the meatball.

In the meantime, I am going to, yeah, just use your hands to make the meatball, because that's the way to do it Okay, in the meantime, I'm gonna heat up this wok and this frying pan, because I'm going to glaze the meatball when it's done.

Here I have approximately three tablespoons of lemon juice and about two tablespoons of brown sugar.

Are you having fun or what?

- [Both] Yes.

- They are having fun.

Me too.

Working with Emily and Lilly making me feel like I am only eleven years old.

(audience laughs) And put it over here, then bring it to a boil.

This is wonderful.

How many of these meatballs do you think you can do and you can eat?

Now, if you are hungry, you can make gigantic meatball.

Emily, please pass my meatball.

This is my meatball.

I am so hungry, this is my meatball.

Look at this, I got big mouth.

(audience laughs) I'm gonna save it for myself.

When the meatballs ready, you both do a marvelous job.

When the meatballs done, we'll put over here.

Lilly is a little bit hungrier than Emily.

So Lilly have medium meatball, and Emily have little meatball, and I have gigantic meatball.

Now, safety rule, when you do it in kitchen, always turn the pot or the pan handle away from the counter, never go like this, because when you do that, just in case you walk around, you'll knock it off, so it can be dangerous.

Secondly, very important is, when you pick up a cooking utensil always make sure you feel it, it's not too hot, then you pick it up, because it can get very dangerous.

Lilly, what else do you remember about handling pots and pans?

- Pad.

- Always remember, this is a Lilly pad.

(audience laughs) Isn't that wonderful.

Let's put all the meatball here, and put all the meatball here, and when it's done, it will look really nice.

You see how wonderful it is?

In the last minute, when it's almost done, you know what you can do?

All you have to do is sprinkle, let's sprinkle a tiny bit of sesame seed.

Let's hold on to this, sprinkle a tiny bit of sesame seed here, look at this.

Sprinkle the sesame seed, this way, it gives that nice glazed meatball some character.

One thing about kids, they love to smile.

So let's take a look.

(uplifting music) Nothing is more precious than the faces of healthy and beautiful children.

Aren't they adorable?

I have an extended family in China, this is all my nieces and nephews.

Oh look, that's the same outfit I had when I was a little kid.

This one has TV personality, he's going to take over the Yan Can Cook show someday.

(audience applause) How do you like all my nieces and nephews?

Now you know where I get my smile.

Now, Lilly and Emily, you both told me that you love cookies.

I don't know whether you love sesame or almond or the cookies?

- [Both] Cookies.

Cookies, so we will make sesame or almond cookies with something even more exciting, we're gonna use some of this sparkle thing.

Now first of all, in this particular thing, we've gotta make the dough first for the cookie, okay?

Here, we're gonna put this out, this is a food processor, and we'll put the flour, all these ingredients, okay, sifted flour, put it over here.

We use about two cups of flour.

Ask your mom to do it, don't do it yourself, okay?

And then, sugar.

I use approximately, about two thirds of a cup of sugar.

You can use a little bit more if you want, because it will be a little bit sweeter.

And also, if you want you can also use a tiny bit of brown sugar.

And use a tiny bit of vegetable shortening.

Now before you add that, you should put this in first.

Put a tiny, tiny bit of baking soda.

I use approximately half a teaspoon of baking soda, and also use about three quarter teaspoon of baking powder, okay, put it in, mix them all up, nice and even, like this, okay.

Can you see that?

Now, and then you put one egg, and then put one egg-- - [Lilly] Why is it colored like that?

- Ah, because this is brown egg.

Sometimes you can buy white eggs, sometimes this is brown egg.

You can find this in most supermarkets this day.

And also, put, are you having fun?

(audience laughs) They said they are having fun.

And then, after that, we are going to do this-- - [Lilly] What about the brown sugar?

- Oh yeah!

Sorry about this, brown sugar, because this is what makes the almond cookie a little bit nice and golden brown.

Thank you for reminding me, this is wonderful.

And then, look at this.

Wow, unbelievable!

Make it into a dough.

It takes a few minutes, about one to two minutes until you've got a nice dough.

Look at this, isn't it wonderful?

Isn't it fun?

When it's ready, until you see the dough coming out lik.. like a little, big meatball coming out, can you see that?

This is ready, so we pause.

Try to, one more time, this is what you call pause.

How many of you at home ask your parents to make this kind of cookie, please raise your hand.

Oh, everybody.

We have some mature kids over there also raise their hand.

Okay, when it's done, you will get this out, and I want to show you, if you want the flavor, you can also add a tiny, tiny bit of almond extract, but you can also have vanilla extract.

See, now this is all wonderful and ready.

And since we have done some of these, and then we're gonna put some in, because we have 5500 kids in the studio, so we're gonna make a whole lot of cookies.

Please, Emily and Lilly, go for it.

Make some cookie!

Some small, some big, some medium, because somebody likes big cookies, some people like small cookies, somebodies like, less so.

We are gonna make cookie, isn't that fun.

Make small cookie.

How often do you make cookie at home?

- [Both] A lot.

- A lot, me too.

What is a lot?

Everyday?

Every hour?

- Every week.

- Every week!

How many of you here make cookies at h.. raise your hand one more time.

Oh, four, five or six people.

Now, put it over here, and then, let's put it over there, because we're gonna coat this.

Now, today we'll have sparkle, look at all this sparkle.

We have red, orange sparkle, green sparkle, what is this?

Emily what is this?

- [Emily] Sprinkles!

- Sprinkles.

We have sparkle, we have sprinkle, we have green sparkle, red sparkle, multicolored sprinkles.

- [Lilly] What's this?

What's this?

- Oh, this is black sesame seed.

How many of you have seen this?

This is sesame seed, have you ever seen this?

Look at this.

Sesame seed, this is black sesame seed.

Look at the color change.

This is regular sesame, when you put this in, it turns black.

This is the natural color, you do not dump this into ink and then turn it to black.

Now, let's make a little bit more.

And then, how many do we need?

Okay, after that, let's put some sparkle over there.

Let's dip this in the sparkle, okay?

Let's put over there, sparkle.

How many of you know, that you can make fortune cookie at home too?

How many of you know, that you can make fortune cookie at home?

Everybody.

How many of you know that you can make almond cookie, let me show you how easy to make almond cookie.

You have one cookie here, okay, and then you put this almond right on top, okay.

You can put it like this, if you don't like it, you can put it l.. or if you don't like it, you can make it like a little rabbit.

Wow, how cute!

(audience laughing) Rabbit cookie.

(audience applause) And then, put it over there, let's put it over there.

Let's do some sparkle, let's do some sparkle over there.

Let's go ahead and sprinkle some sparkle, or all we have to do is, yeah, look at this, all you have to do is just dip it in here, look at this, you see that?

Then this way, you can have a little sparkle like this when the cookie is done.

Now Emily, let's go over there and take these over there in the oven and let it bake for approximately 350 degrees for eight to nine minutes.

Let's put some more, put some of these with sesame seed, let's coat it, let's coat this.

Are you having fun Lilly and Emily?

- [Both] Yes.

- Good, they are having fun.

I am having fun, they are having fun, are you having fun?

(audience cheering) Oh good, we are all having fun.

Good, now, after this, also some of this you can put, you can put for a couple of those, just put almond.

Oh wonderful, because Emily has created something very new, look at this.

Emily has been so creative, have created something with not only sesame seed, but almond.

Emily, let's go over there and get the cookie.

I like fortune cookie so much that I brought enough for everybody in the studio.

So let's see what we have got.

Everybody look at your fortune and make sure to tell me all your fortune.

Everybody!

Then we are gonna, oh, let's get this, let's put it over here, let's put it over here.

Oh, let us look.

How does your fortune look?

Everybody have a good time.

This is the cookie we just make.

Lilly and Emily just make.

Thank you very much Lilly and Emily.

We had a lot of fun today, and I hope you do too.

So get your kids involved in the kitchen, share the fun of cooking with them.

Who knows, maybe one day they'll take over the Yan Can Cook show.

Meanwhile remember, if Yan can cook-- - [Group] So can you.

(audience applause) “Goodbye!” (##!)

(Joyful music)