“Big Plate Chicken” Stew: Bringing Authentic Xinjiang Food to London

Bai Yanting and Li Jihua moved from Xinjiang, China to the U.K. to support their son’s studies. Who knew they would end up serving food from their hometown in the heart of London’s Chinatown?

Shop address: 49 Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR England

This is the sixth episode of our latest “Mean Street Gourmet” series about mom-and-pop stores across the Chinese diaspora. In the next episode, we visit a bakery in London that sells special pineapple buns stuffed with sweet shredded coconut.

0:00 What is “big plate chicken”?
01:51 Making spicy chicken stew
03:17 Starting over in London
04:26 Pinning hopes on their son

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Producer: Yoyo Chow
Videographer: César del Giudice, Anand Singh
Editor: César del Giudice, Cliff Man
Animation: Stella Yoo
Mastering: César del Giudice

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