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The fifth floor.

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This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC

journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Faranak Amidi.

Here on the fifth floor we want to get to know our multilingual reporters who are truly living the stories they cover a little bit better and that's why

sometimes we get so close that we end up in their kitchen. So I'm making soy sauce chicken today. It's one of my absolute favorite childhood

dishes from Singapore. And we are starting this episode with Shaina Oppenheimer in her kitchen in Israel.

My mom makes it for me because her mom used to make it for her.

And it's just this kind of slow cooked chicken with

dark soy sauce, some nice star anise, caramelized sugar and lots and lots and lots of

ginger. So yeah this ginger I went to three different stores to find it today it's

not really the quality I would like it, but it's a lot better

than nothing and actually like two months ago I think you couldn't find ginger anywhere like I would spend hours like

walking around my neighborhood I live in Yafa which is an old port city by the

sea it's been hours just walking around looking for

ginger. No one had it and you would ask everyone like, oh do you have ginger and

they would just say hoothein, which is hoothes in Hebrew. I guess the ginger shipments got held up. So actually this dish, what makes it so special is you use this very dark thick gooey soy sauce to be honest it looks like Madison

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