Food is the most important thing for the people, and I think food documentaries are the best and most interesting among Chinese documentaries. Not one.

Since the early days of documentaries, I have loved food-searching documentaries. And I have watched a lot of excellent food documentaries. Today I will recommend some good food documentaries to you.

1. The Taste of Lao Guang

As a "Lao Guang", if I want to recommend Chinese food documentaries, the first one to recommend is definitely this one, The Taste of Lao Guang.

Shaomai, shrimp dumplings, barbecued pork buns, shrimp porridge, crab porridge, and Tingzi porridge. Guangdong’s food has a very strong regional flavor.

When I was in college, many classmates from other provinces asked me: Hey, I heard that you Cantonese eat nothing but four-legged tables and airplanes flying in the sky? ~

At that time, I only knew a little about the food in my hometown, so I could only pass it by haha, but after seeing the taste of Lao Guang. I just remembered. We not only have corresponding foods for major festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Even for many different small festivals, we also have corresponding food.

Although a long time has passed and we have grown up, these foods are still accompanying us silently.

2. Explore Shunde

Eat in Guangzhou and taste in Fengcheng. Shunde, one of the "World Culinary Capitals" certified by UNESCO, is a must-visit place for us Cantonese people in our lives. It is a place worth visiting simply for eating.

This is a short documentary, 150 minutes long, recording the food stories of more than 30 local people.

We Guangdong people all know that Shunde people especially like to eat fish, and no fish can leave Shunde. The different delicacies are also very fresh to us.

3. "A Bite of China" Season 2

Compared with the first season, the second season of "A Bite of China" has less delicious food. But most of them describe our food from a humanistic perspective.

This season, the bond between food and life is even more obvious. It allows us to better understand the food and the stories behind it. Although its overall rating is not as high as the first season. But I personally feel it's underrated. The humanities and emotions it contains are our daily experience of food.

It's like the title of each episode. Seasons - footsteps - heartfelt stories - secret places - daily routine - encounters - three meals. What’s more important is to show us our ordinary people’s pursuit of food.

It's very simple

4. A string of life

My wife is from Yueyang, and her hometown is the famous "BBQ City" in the south. This city is dotted with barbecue stalls of all sizes. As a Cantonese, I rarely eat barbecue or anything like that since I was a child. Because it will "get angry". It has always kept us away.

But after watching this documentary, I realized how colorful the world of barbecue is. This also opened the door to a new world for me. Over the years, I have followed this documentary through various "famous barbecue cities". From Northeastern to Yunnan barbecue, each has its own characteristics. Each has its own taste.

If you are a barbecue fan, don’t miss it.