Yan Can Cook

A stir-fry demonstration from Yan Can Cook, KQED, from 1982 Martin Yan learned his television craft in Canada, where his earlier show Yan Can ran to 250 daily editions from CFAC in Calgary, before moving to San Francisco's public station and renaming it. His cleaver work and stir-frying are fast, funny and genuinely instructive: watch how everything is cut before the wok goes on the heat. The show has passed 3,500 episodes, his sign-off, "If Yan can cook, so can you!", is a fair promise, and classic episodes stream on pbs.org and the PBS app.