One of the hottest food vloggers (video bloggers) in China right now, 24-year-old Chengdu native Ms Yeah (aka Xiao Ye) has a whopping four million fans on Weibo and two million subscribers on YouTube. There’s not really anyone else doing anything similar – Ms Yeah is the master of using common office equipment, such as water dispensers, electric kettles, flower pots and even a computer’s CPU to cook meals that very often turn out to be mouth-watering feasts, shared and finished quickly by the entire office.
作為目前國內最火的美食視頻博主之一,24歲的成都妹子小野有400萬微博粉絲和200萬YouTube粉絲。還沒有人能夠做出類似的事情 —— 小野擅長用辦公室里的常見設備(如:飲水機、電熱水壺、花盆甚至是電腦的中央處理器)來做飯,這些菜色令人垂涎,很快就被全辦公室的人瓜分完了。
Ms Yeah likes to introduce local dishes in her videos, especially the spicy Sichuan style with which she’s most familiar. In one popular episode, "Chengdu chuan chuan xiang", she cooks skewers, which usually require a large, hot surface, in an electric kettle. In another, "Tofu Feast", she makes tofu custard from raw soybeans, served in bowls with chopped peppers, chilli oil and peanuts – a traditional breakfast or snack in Sichuan cuisine. Besides these, she’s also cooked crawfish in a popcorn popper, steamed buns with a garment steamer and made mooncakes from scratch with a few simple supplies at her office desk.
小野喜歡在視頻中介紹地方特色美食,尤其是她最為熟悉的川菜。在一段熱門視頻“成都串串香”中,她用電熱水壺來煮肉串(通常這需要一個很大的加熱臺面)。而在另一段“豆腐宴”的視頻中,她用生大豆做出了豆腐腦,并放入碗中與辣椒碎、辣椒油和花生拌在一起 —— 這是一道傳統(tǒng)川味早餐或小吃。除此之外,她還用爆米花機做小龍蝦,用掛燙機做饅頭,以及用辦公桌上的幾個小物件從零開始做出了月餅。
Ms Yeah studied video editing and directing in university. Her first video, published in early 2017, was inspired by one of her male colleagues, whom she discovered shirtless in the office using an electric iron. That gave her a strange idea to use the iron to grill beef – and it worked.
小野在上大學期間學習了視頻剪輯以及導演的相關知識。她在2017年初發(fā)布的第一段視頻便是受到一位男同事的啟發(fā):當時他正打著赤膊,在辦公室里用電熨斗。這令小野產生了一個奇怪的想法,用熨斗來烤肥牛 —— 而且還成功了。
Each video takes about four days to produce, including brainstorming, scripting, purchasing ingredients and shooting. Ms Yeah never speaks in the videos, but it accentuates her deadpan-humour style. Now we can’t help wondering about China’s famous "office chef" – what will she cook next and how will she do it?
每段視頻的制作周期約為4天:包括集體討論、撰寫腳本、購買材料以及拍攝制作。小野從未在視頻中說過話,但這也彰顯了其冷幽默的風格?,F在我們已經迫不及待地想知道中國的“辦公室大廚”接下來要做些什么菜,她又會怎么做呢?