Chinese Soft Power and Media Discussion and Updates

vincent

vincent

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I miss the 咸豆腐花 in Shanghai. I like both salty and sweet types.
 
siegecrossbow

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LMFAO they actually sang Counting Stars. Here are the lyrics.
Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars
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They be promoting dedollarization in the One (People’s) Republic. Does that make them a national security risk now?
 
coolgod

coolgod

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I prefer 咸豆花 and 甜粽子. Does this make me a 咸党 or 甜党?
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SanWenYu how could you.

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I'm the exact opposite of you.

All jokes aside I think Chinese Cuisine is China's #1 soft power. I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim they hate Chinese food. XHS is teaching millions of Americans how to cook authentic Chinese food, very big W.

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On RedNote, Chinese Cooks Cheer On Americans Experimenting With New Cuisine​

‘Bury me with steamed eggs’: homestyle dish goes viral among Tiktokers flocking to Chinese app​

For Zaire Perry, a 24-year-old mother of three in Texas, making a legendary Chinese egg dish she had never heard of a few weeks ago was the beginning of an unexpected friendship.
Like a flood of Tiktokers in recent weeks, she had landed on the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, because of the threat that
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in the U.S. And as it has for many others, it opened for her a new world of cooking.
Even after President Trump signed an executive order
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, many Americans who came to RedNote for the ban are staying for the food, inspired to take a crack at Chinese recipes. There has been a particular frenzy around one humble, homestyle dish rarely served at Chinese restaurants in the U.S.: steamed egg custard, or jidan geng, which looks like flan but isn’t sweet.
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Perry was itching to start steaming eggs but was overwhelmed with the many recipes floating around on RedNote.
Then she connected with Hu Xiaoman, an administrator at a machinery maker in central China. Hu shared her family recipe and then applauded Perry’s first attempt as a huge success: silky but firm custard covered with a thin layer of sauce, topped off with scallions. Hu called her “a cooking genius.”
Hordes of Chinese users also clicked their approval on Perry’s post and on the steamed-egg experiments of other Americans. By Sunday, there were more than 41,000 posts with the hashtag #steamed_egg on RedNote, notching over 3.2 million views.
“Steamed eggs are really blowing up,” said Eshita Starr, a social influencer based in New York City, whose steamed-egg-custard tutorial on RedNote gained more than 46,000 likes.
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Hu, 35, said she was surprised to learn from Perry’s recipes that a lot of American dishes are served warm. “My impression of American foods was that they are mostly cold, such as bread slices or salads. Her food made me feel warm, the warmth of family,” Hu said.
Hu said she is now watching American shows recommended by Perry. Her favorite is “2 Broke Girls,” a show about two young women from completely different backgrounds bonding over financial struggles and building their cupcake business.
From Texas, Perry said, “Food is something that can transcend language, cultural barriers. I don’t even speak Chinese and she speaks very little English, and yet we’re bonding over recipes.”
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RedNote recently added a translation feature, and Hu and Perry have gone on to share child-rearing experiences and exchange photos of manicures and other aspects of their daily lives. Hu sent photos of a tree-lined street she walks down every day to her job. Perry shared how she ventured into a local Asian grocery store and bought baozi, or steamed buns.
The strained
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has cut into friendly interactions between Americans and Chinese people, despite both governments’ pledges to expand people-to-people exchanges. For one thing, even after China reopened after the pandemic, the number of
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is much lower than before Covid-19.
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