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American food reality television series
Yan Can Cook
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Genre
| Cooking show
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Starring
| Martin Yan
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Country of origin
| Canada
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Original language
| English
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No.
of episodes
| 3500+
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Executive producer
| Gayle Yamada
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Producer
| Mark Tocher
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Release
| 1982
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1982
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?
present
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- Martin Yan ? Quick & Easy
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Yan Can Cook
is a Chinese oriented
cooking show
starring
Chef
Martin Yan
that featured recipes for stir fried foods and an assortment of various other
traditional
Chinese
meals
and
cooking
techniques. The series first aired in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (CFAC-TV) in 1978 and later in
San Francisco
,
California
,
United States
in 1982 on PBS (KQED).
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[2]
Yan also wrote several
cookbooks
which serve as companions to these various television series.
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Presentation style
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Chef Yan's style of presentation was infused with (and today continues to feature) humor; during this program's original run he became known for his main catchphrase, "If Yan can cook, so can you, zai jian (goodbye in
Mandarin Chinese
)/zoi gin(goodbye in
Cantonese
)!", with which he signed off on each show. He used a second catchphrase, "Something fishy here! [
sic
]", used whenever he cooked seafood.
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One of his other trademarks was to chop food frantically with a sharp cleaver while grinning towards the camera. This show is shot on stage.
References
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