like most families in this farming co-op, they grow their own crops in the front yard. offering to share some of their food with us, they tell me this is a typical lunch. it s got a kick to it. it s strong. duck eggs, bean paste, and rice wrapped in lettuce with garlic and spices. simple, healthy, delicious. a lot of people in the outside world think that people in north korea still are starving. how is the food supply now? i ask about a time most north koreans didn t have enough to eat. the north kore famine of the late 1990s hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of north koreans died of starvation. translator: we ate tree bark after going up to the mountain for food and wondered just how long we ll have to do this. but it s not a problem now compared to that.
this is a family that has been selected for us. like most families in this farming co-op, they grow their own crops in the front yard. offering to share some of their food with us, they tell me this is a typical lunch. it s got a kick to it. it s strong. duck eggs, bean paste, and rice wrapped in lettuce with garlic and spices. simple, healthy, delicious. a lot of people in the outside world think that people in north korea still are starving. how is the food supply now? i ask about a time most north koreans didn t have enough to eat. the north korean famine of the late 1990s. hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of north koreans died of starvation. translator: we ate tree bark after going up to the mountain for food and wondered just how long we ll have to do this. but it s not a problem now
family s home. this is a family that has been selected for us. like most families in this farming co-op, they grow their own crops in the front yard. offering to share some of their food with us, they tell me this is a typical lunch. it s got a kick to it. it s strong. duck eggs, bean paste, and rice wrapped in lettuce with garlic and spices. simple, healthy, delicious. a lot of people in the outside world think that people in north korea still are starving. how is the food supply now? i ask about a time most north koreans didn t have enough to eat. the north korean famine of the late 1990s. hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of north koreans died of starvation. translator: we ate tree bark
it s all tingling. anthony: yeah. eric: like that. right? anthony: there s a scientific name for the process, for what happens. is the biological agent that causes confusion in your nervous system. causes tingling. go: confusion. anthony: confusion. yeah. eric: it s what i feel right now, yeah. [ anthony laughs ] eric: i m totally confused, i ll tell you that. go: oh, mapo dofu. anthony: oh, my favorite. eric: that one i have the feeling is the killer. anthony: look at that, man. that is some goodness right there. for me, the apex of sichuan food, my absolute favorite, improbably enough, is a tofu dish. this tofu dish. the legendary mapo dofu. or pock mark granny tofu. ground pork or beef, cubes of bean curd, in a rich, deeply nuanced, fiery but intensely satisfying sauce of chili oil, bean paste, garlic shoots, ground sichuan peppercorns, and msg. this dish, done right, has got it all. oh, that s so good. it s a perfect balance of stuff going on in here. i just
i wish you the best. so now we re being taken to a family s home. this is a family that has been selected for us. like most families in this farming co-op, they grow their own crops in the front yard. offering to share some of their food with us, they tell me this is a typical lunch. it s got a kick to it. it s strong. duck eggs, bean paste, and rice wrapped in lettuce with garlic and spices. simple, healthy, delicious. a lot of people in the outside world think that people in north korea still are starving. how is the food supply now? i ask about a time most north koreans didn t have enough to eat. the north korean famine of the late 1990s. hundreds of thousands, possibly