Mississippi River water and a lonely egg: foodiechina888's chicken tenders
Viewers keep repeating the narrator's turns of phrase, and one wants to know whether the chicken in the title is a real tender at all.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 53,682 views a day, 5.9 times a normal first day on this channel (9,148).
EASY CHINESE CHICKEN TENDER RECIPE #recipe #cooking #chinesefood #chicken #meat #friedchicken
The chicken tenders went up on Tuesday, and by Wednesday morning they had passed 41,000 views. That is already more than four times what a foodiechina888 short usually gathers in its entire first day, with ten hours still to go.
The recipe sits on a familiar shelf for this channel: short, all-caps titles promising easy Chinese home cooking, posted several times a day. Tuesday also brought stir-fried chicken wings and another egg short. Neither came close to the tenders, and the wings, which shared most of their title, stayed near the channel's usual pace.
The comment section is where the personality shows. Several viewers single out the narrator's habit of saying the water comes from the Mississippi River, and one says she felt she had found a friend when he called a single egg lonely. Another viewer, playing along, suggests the Ganges would add more flavor.
The cooks in the audience have questions too. One swears by marinating chicken in cornstarch, which they say keeps it from drying out. It is close to velveting, the Chinese restaurant method of coating meat in a starchy marinade before it hits the heat. Someone else asks why the cilantro gets blanched. And one stickler points out that a true tender is the tenderloin strip under the breast, then asks how the recipe manages without one.
By Wednesday the channel had moved on to eggs again, the subject that carried its week at the start of the month, as we reported here.
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What viewers say
It tickles me every time I watch this channel recipes, especially with water from Mississippi river 😂
I also use words like "lonely" a lot when describing 1 item. So felt like I found a friend when he described "lonely egg".@Morgenmuffel79See it on YouTubeWater from the Mississippi River lol 😅
@Orco79See it on YouTubeGreat recipe! I use the cornstarch method all the time for marinating. And it cooks the chicken percectly everytime and never dries outt
@bloopereel33See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- foodiechina888
- Subscribers
- 2,350,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,158,193
- Channel views, pace per day
- 464,800 (on a normal day: 402,266)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 41,043 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 53,682
The numbers
A short that ran well past this channel's usual first day before its first day was even over.
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Cilantro is the leaf of a plant whose dried seeds are sold as a spice under a different name. What is it called?
Cilantro and coriander come from the same plant, Coriandrum sativum: in American usage the leaves are cilantro and the seeds are coriander.
