Culinary China

Insight into the inventions of chopsticks, hotpot, vinegar, beancurd and noodles. Meet the protagonists of modern China who seek to preserve the legends and heritage of these inventions.

Viewers are taken into the world of the people whose lives are closely connected to the four most expensive and sought after foods on earth: birds' nests, abalone, shark’s fins and sea cucumber. Where previously only emperors and his royal family could lay their fingers on, these heavenly foods are now lapped up by anyone who can afford the exorbitant prize tags!