Today I will teach you how to make braised rare giant salamander

[Randy W]

from the SCMP. I've been to restaurants where they would "choke my chicken", drain its blood, and prepare it in full view of where I was sitting - it's not clear why this was a big deal.

 

Chinese cooking star kills and chops up rare giant salamander on camera to online fans’ horror

• His down-to-earth style, dubbed ‘hard-core food’, won chef Wang Gang millions of fans
• Video of him killing and cooking the endangered amphibian was too much for some

 

The video opens, like all of the 29-year-old chef’s videos, with his usual greeting: “Hi everybody, I'm Wang Gang. Today I will teach you how to make braised salamander.”

As always, Wang is dressed in his crisp, white chef’s jacket. In his left hand, he holds the struggling salamander up to the camera before knocking it out with the blunt end of his cleaver, slicing it open, washing it clean and chopping it to pieces.

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“I'm a chef, when a chef shares how he cooks, he can't just talk blankly into the camera and bring out the dish the next second,” he said. “That’s cheating. I have to show the entire process.”

 

 

 

. . . and ready for eating