hey henley hey what are we doing
lions head meatballs crazy
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hi i'm clarissa and this is hanley this
series is all about teaching hanley how
to cook
last time he made a solid tomato and egg
dish
today we're making a shanghainese
meatball that requires a bit of deep
frying
and a lot of dicing they're called lions
head meatballs because they kind of look
like a chinese lion
and they require a lot of skill to make
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i'm not excited because i heard this
one's gonna be complicated
i got him to buy ground pork ginger
scallions
napa cabbage eggs sugar bread crumbs
shaoxing wine soy sauce oyster sauce
corn starch
and vegetable oil okay we need to peel
the water chestnuts first
because you got freaking fresh water
chestnuts this whole bag is already in
the water
but now i'm like actually cutting the
net so it's like
so it embraces its natural habitat so
the reason why we soaked it
so it's easier to peel this one's gonna
be hard okay that's pretty good
all right okay now you're gonna dice it
super finely yeah so don't be so
precious with the skinning man just chop
off four sides and then you think i'm
trying to be
precious with my skinning mario you
think i'm trying to be careful not to
hurt the
chestnut i think so man i'm a grown-ass
man now
you only cut one and a half chestnuts
and you're a grown-ass man
how many people can't say that they have
cut chestnuts before mario have you
have you ever cut chestnuts before
exactly bruh
you ain't even a man yet goddamn your
baby boy
man people just gotta stop hating on me
you got a lot of haters in the comments
man they hate on me not knowing how to
like coke
there's nothing wrong with not knowing
how to coke that's what i'm learning
y'all know how to speak cantonese bro
yeah i don't see you all learn that
and mandarin you're trilingual that's
true
technically i speak a little french too
come on to the parish mapella henley hey
mesiboku
now cut a little bit of slice of the
ginger you know how like
there you have a big-ass meal and then
everything tastes amazing
and then you bite this tiniest piece of
ginger
and it kills even make it tinier yeah
baby a little ginger okay take one
scallion
you know you can fold it just fold it
it'll be faster
see why chinese are why chinese are good
at math
this is literally why please the by this
time you're watching this video
why chinese are good at math it's
already online so check that
out product placement all right
there's so much more you can do
we want to put 450 grams of pork in the
thing
so one packet is about like a hundred
and fifty kilo
zero point zero point one hundred and
fifty uh kilowatt kilogram
my mac squash paddy's a gun my math
yeah it's basically once 107 150 gram
for each packet so maybe like four
packets okay put it you only need three
dude if they're 150.
i only need 3a all right i mean can i do
four
because they're 150 grams each right
well they're technically over 150
they're like 170
but yeah hell no only three
wow
okay crack an egg inside yo i learned
this one new trick chloe so you'll be so
proud pete
just peep you ready
that was hard i didn't even look at the
egg man
any shells uh nope
damn no shells double check for
the scale bruh mario no shells
no [ __ ]
okay um we're gonna put in a teaspoon of
sugar
get a get a little um like a little
spoon
one hand crack egg is crazy y'all you're
sure you don't want me to do it again
no you only need one egg okay
one spoonful of that
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okay we're gonna do five spoons of the
bread crumbs
one maybe just four two
three stanley you can just do it without
me counting
um we're gonna do three big spoons of
the wine
the shaoxing wine yo that's too much
though i feel like
okay that's good okay now two
tablespoons soy sauce
yeah okay two tablespoons
oyster sauce something funny about this
oyster sauce man this look
it looks a little too now add a bit of
pepper
pepperoni how does this
work is that coke man always make out
just way too complicated
got him okay now a
half a spoon of cornstarch half a spoon
of
the pepper this is the
struggle when you see people with the
cornstarch
how does normal cooking show make sure
that the table is clean
how look at this look at this it's
impossible how's the texture if it's too
dry
we're gonna add a bit of water um
it looks it looks pretty wet you want me
to crack another egg
no the egg yolk is stuck to one of them
i think they
have some type of connection make sure
it's all even
yeah okay so first slice two actually
four pieces of ginger and put that in
the bowl
you love ginger and then uh
take two scallions and cut them like
into two inch
slices two inch slices all right
all right i know how long it's one inch
one inch is about that two inches this
yeah sure all right
gotcha okay now
in the cup we're gonna put in half a
spoon of sugar
two spoons of wine two spoons of oyster
sauce
two oh
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[ __ ] ice drop oyster to the chestnuts
a dash of sesame oil okay that's good
and then fill that cup halfway with
water it doesn't matter if it's cooking
water or
red it doesn't matter you're gonna cook
it actually you might as well just fill
that pot up like with oil
huh
mario don't look shocked
this is oil
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all right i mean it's four it should be
able to cover one uh leave it on the
stove for now don't turn it on shake the
meatballs make them into meatballs
shave make them look like meatballs i
see i see i see eye
do i touch them yeah touch it use your
hands and shape a meatball
it's really wet though that's fine all
right
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maybe we need to add a little bit more
bread crumbs then if it's too wet
so i should be doing something like this
yeah
let's see handling don't just drop it
like
that all right put it gently on the
plate gently
there you go that's
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this is when we can be creative peep
this is the meatball for me
right so i poke a little hole in the
middle and
for this meatball stuffing i put mario's
meatball in it
handling okay wash your hands and while
we're waiting for the oil let's peel
like four pieces of the naba cabbage and
wash it
you can add the meatballs in
each meatball should only fry for about
two minutes and then you take it out
two minutes all right i'm gonna check my
phone
two minutes i'm gonna do it for the gram
whoa all right man
oh it looks so good damn
son damn
what the [ __ ]
let's go easy man didn't even need to
try
okay now what you're gonna do is take
some of that oil just like
three spoonfuls and put it in the pan
and heat up the pan
oh heat up the panty and when it's hot
you're gonna add in the ginger and the
scallions
man i'm fanboying off these meatballs
man cause they look crazy bruh
okay and then add the sauce in but don't
add all of it maybe add
like 70 of it 70
of it
okay i add the cabbage in now
okay and then add the meatballs on top
do i put it on top of the cabbage
yeah is it getting liquid the meatballs
no they're solid okay and then pour the
rest of the sauce over
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the way for the grand man come on man
impressing myself
boomerang all right plating
careful the meatballs are likely to
yeah oh the napa cabbage looks great the
cabbage look
like cabbage for shelf i don't know
about grape
but look like cabbage just for sure
yeah look at that the way i'm plating it
is
you already know boy have some like you
know
aesthetic in mind it's pretty good
hanley i'm really proud of you
thank you
is it cooked thoroughly
yep i just realized i may have had lying
here when i was a kid
because it tastes like that you know
what i'm trying to say
childhood memory accomplished bruh
i'm gonna take a bite
it's juicy
henley are you proud i am proud yo i
feel like you needed to have
more chestnut though would you do this
again at home
uh nope too much work
and we need like almost a full bottle of
olive oil veggie oil
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