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Travel with Rick Steves

553 Curry Nation; Young China

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Actress and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey explains why clichés about British food are out of date — thanks mainly to the influence from immigrants. And the founder of the Young China Global Group explains what he's discovered about China's millennials — and about how their expectations for the future are changing China, and the world.

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0:00.0

Pub food in Britain used to be just greasy and bland, but the people who moved in from the former colonies changed that.

0:07.0

Coming up, Madhoor Joffrey tells us how Indian favorites have now become comfort food in England.

0:13.0

They love it. It's become the food of the masses.

0:16.0

In China, an entire generation of single child families is remaking their society.

0:21.0

American Zach Dykewald has been getting acquainted with his peers in China and learning what they expect for themselves and their country.

0:29.0

The older generations in China, their experience of the world, their experience of the outside world is so different

0:36.7

than this younger generation in China that the important question you should be asking when

0:40.8

you meet someone in China is not where are you from which

0:43.4

city but rather when are you from.

0:46.9

From test monsters to tech innovators and a new wave of world travelers.

0:51.4

We'll get insights into young China in the hour ahead.

0:54.0

Stay with us, it's travel with Rick Steve's.

1:00.0

He went to China as a college student, became fluent in Mandarin, and came to experience a different

1:05.9

side of China than most Americans get to see.

1:09.1

Since then, Zach Dykewald has started a think tank, and now's written the book Young China to explain China's restless millennial generation to the rest of the world.

1:18.0

Zach joins us in just a bit on today's travel with Rick Steeves to share what he's been discovering in China.

1:25.0

If you have an Indian cookbook at home, there's a good chance Madhur Joffrey rote.

1:30.0

A few years ago, Madhur released a book and a TV special called Curry Nation to demonstrate how a good chicken

1:36.4

Tika Masala has become ingrained in the British palate.

1:40.3

It just might be replacing fish and chips as the country's favorite takeout.

1:45.0

Madhoor, thanks for joining us.

1:47.0

Well, thank you. Madhoor, when you think about the British love of Indian food,

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