🤤 Dad's JUICY Wontons (雲吞)!

Today we're making

Cantonese Style Wontons!

My name is Randy

And we are the Laus

We're on a mission to celebrate

And pass down our Chinese heritage

One meal at a time.

After 50 amazing years as a Chinese chef

My dad's finally retired

And he's here to teach you all of his secrets

To make the perfect Wontons.

A dish he's made thousands of times

Hello, my friends!

The dish that we're going to introduce today

Is Cantonese Style Wonton.

This wonton is mainly made using pork

With a little shrimp and green onion.

If you've never had wontons, it's basically a juicy

Chewy ball of minced meat folded into a thin sheet of dough.

Wontons are a quintessential Chinese dish

With a ton of variations on folding techniques and fillings

Throughout the different regions of China.

In Cantonese, it's pronounced wàhn tān

Which roughly translates to "swallowing a cloud".

They're a staple of Cantonese culture

And in places like Guangzhou and Hong Kong

It's almost impossible to NOT run into a restaurant or food stall

That sells a cheap, heartwarming bowl of wontons or wonton noodle soup.

Wontons are like a warm hug in your mouth

And they'll always remind me of my childhood.

Growing up, my parents almost always served me

A hot bowl of wonton noodle soup for breakfast before school.

This recipe will always be near and dear to my heart

And I hope my kids get to experience the same warmth and love

That I felt eating this all the time.

Let's cut the green onions first.

Then, we'll cut the pork.

The pork we're using is pork shoulder.

We'll slice the pork first.