Mei from Turning Red Makes Congee | Cooking with Pixar | Pixar

For the young people out there. This dish has some history with Disney. This is the same breakfast that Mulan ate in the movie.

Why did she suddenly switch to Mandarin when Mei and her family are shown to be Cantonese speakers? As someone who grew up speaking Cantonese, that representation in the movie was such a special thing for me to see. Why not continue it?

Turning red was such a great film and the music was INCREDIBLE! I wish 4 town was real because those two songs weren’t enough 😅💜

Minor nitpick with the recipe- depending on how much you're cooking, congee should take an hour or more for the rice grains to break apart and become silky smooth. I can clearly see the grains are still intact, making it more of a broken rice texture. So either reduce your amount of rice or cook your congee longer.

I’ve always wanted to learn how to make this! But doesn’t Mei’s family speak Cantonese in the film? The Chinese phrases in this video are all in Mandarin - these are two very different dialects and are spoken by different cultures (although there are many people who speak both, that’s not shown in the film so it would be strange to assume). China is vast and not a monolith. This is sort of like someone making a video about American apple pie, but with British phrases thrown in.

It looks great. Seeing Mei in a 2D style looks really cool and wholesome too. Makes me wonder what the characters would look like if the movie was animated in 2D

Sauté those mushrooms first as you want cooked mushrooms here. Also add dry scallop to the rice porridge before boiling as that handles the entire salt thing without adding real salt. Now only a few will do as dry scallops are pretty salty as it is. Soak those scallops in water for about an hour before you make this as they just need a little hydration. And they are pretty much going to break up during the cooking so it’s not too bad. Do not overcook the eggs as you want a runny yolk but cooked white. You want to mix it all together when you break into the egg. You can add soy if you like but it’s more garish here as it can overwhelm this dish if you’re not careful. This dish is primarily a breakfast or if you’re sick type thing never more than that. It’s really designed for getting calories in you so you can move on with the day. You can replace the chicken with pork, minced beef, and fish depending on your preference. Never a vegetable in here unless it’s pickled in the traditional way. A little green onion on top or cilantro and you’re done. The key here is get most of the rice nice and soft but leaving chewy bits as texture also never already cooked rice and more liquid than you think as rice is a thirsty plant to make soup you need to flood the rice over the normal two cups per cup of rice. You want it soupy yet somewhat firm. As a Chinese person that does this exact soup a lot you just know if it’s a bit off or something.

As a Cantonese speaker i really appreciated the Traditional Chinese words in the movie instead of the simplified one in this one as well as the mandarin. Statistically, there are just as much Cantonese speakers in the world as mandarin speakers. I’m offended.

hey, hey, hey... that is Suzie Yeung as a narrator. 😍 btw is this Bubur Ayam (Chicken Porridge) in Indonesia.

THIS IS TOO ADORABLE FOR WORDS 🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍 That dish looks so good 🤤😋

This reminds me of what Mushu prepared for Mulan!!

Turning Red was an absolutely beautiful and meaningful movie, a real thanks the whole Pixar family! 🥺😁💟

Mei must really love eating that dish!! It does sound pretty good!

The cooking sequence in Turning Red is pretty much like the ASMR of visualization.

"You get porridge and it's happy to see you!" -mushu

this is sooo cute AAAA

This is the exact same dish that Mulan ate

Can they also do a video of the dish that Jin made? I'd love to learn and eat that stir fry dish (or whatever is it called) ~♡😋

"Look you get porridge! And it's happy to see you." - Mushu

Man, Turning red is so cool! They have recipes and they show mei’s note book also!