Selena Gomez's Nana's Dumplings Soup with Chicken Wontons are a disaster now! ｜ Selena + Restaurant

Doing such a bad job. I already forgot. I don't know if it's right and then she does something like that Raquel, what are you doing? I was just um checking my phone. I'm sorry. Geez Louise Oh my god, I'm Shirley. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Amazing. Hey Shirley, I'm Raquel. Oh hi! Today I'm taking Raquel to meet the dumpling queen herself chef Shirley Chung at her restaurant Miss Chi Cafe in Culver City The popularity of Shirley's food comes from her creativity infusing American comfort Classics with the traditional cuisine and techniques of her Chinese roots So one thing that I did want to try if it's okay with you. Yeah, try to smoke something Sounds great. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. What is that? So this is my smoker chamber Okay, so you have to fill this a little bit of wood chip first Just a little bit as my base. Okay, and then this is strawberry Yeah, and then like sprinkle a lot but you want to cover the whole entire Chamber with loose tea leaf. All right Now we're going to a smoker now. Okay, I'll stand back and watch you guys. Sorry. I'm just following you. Okay, make a turn Look at that, baby Yeah, we've never seen that before Okay, have a 30 minute time-out All right, we're gonna do biscuits next, right? Okay It's been a minute So two cups of flour, okay Great one teaspoon of baking powder And then we're going to do half block of this butter You have to grate it cold create the butter and then one teaspoon of sugar This is sugar right here. No, that's salt I'm a little bit light right now. It is very very light We shall take out one chicken to make the one time filling and we let the other cook Okay, so tea infuse more flavors, right? I'm gonna do this Extra big chicken, too. So Our chicken is poached. Okay, we're gonna shred a little bit. Oh, I'm so hungry How many are we feeding? So I have two more girlfriends coming fine when you're working in the kitchen Does anyone ever do like a little dance? Are you saying you have any like kitchen tricks the more tiring them? I say I'll be like So tired, let's go One two, three four, okay Like I like my like See, I just got energy doing that Okay, let's massage the butter. May I help you season? Sure. Thank you Yeah So like that nice. Okay, so we're gonna fold up tea smoked chicken one time. This is one turn wrapper They're really thin. So you probably have to be like careful. Make sure you really separate them and then a scoop of Filling take the egg wash Brush the edge Like a triangle. Okay, that's really important to push all the air out And bring the two together Okay one time it's so cute so we normally is a teamwork Our dumping team is a mother and daughter Cute one person lay out the wrapper one person do the feeling then you fold teamwork Raquel you join the dumping fun dumplings always a party That means you Raquel, yes, we call yeah, it's a party. It's a party. Mm-hmm You have to help oh, okay paint. Sorry guys hate This will be fun. So are you ready for like a little teeny little bit of a challenge? Are you leaving? I feel like Selena got this. So she's comfortable She's a pro and I'm gonna come back in 10 minutes, we'll call for you if we have an emergency Holy moly, I'm doing such a bad job. I already forgot. I don't know if that's right And then she does something like Raquel what are you doing? I was just done checking my phone. Sorry. Jeez Louise. Oh And it won't stick oh, that's why She does the egg thing is your friend Look at the original Dang it. That's not what I wanted and then she did like a thing. It looks like a ravioli What the heck am I doing? Just really want to make chef Shirley proud. Yeah. Thanks Hey, you did it I did it I just made it up making up my own shapes. Oh Moment of truth, they're not good. I'm sorry. Let me see They're cute. They're special. But also this is annual Lotte Italian style. Oh This is ravioli You know what one time is a Chinese ravioli, there you go Maybe you can help me. Yes. Okay. Now you want to bring them together like this not like this Yes, and then pinch the little two hands together Yep Awesome, okay. I joined the fun. I'll speed this up. It's gonna be so yummy teamwork makes the dream work They look incredible do that you really do we should go check out our chicken bro. Take two Smokey So delicious, I'm going to handle the hot broth. Yeah. Yeah You can cheer you up. Yeah, what's your dance for I have no dance I Fractured my foot Cause follow me, right? Here we go following behind We have to represent I'm so happy you're handling I'm gonna make it even more yummy. Can you hand me the evaporated milk, please? Yes, of course Yeah, how much do you think we should put in there? Well, if it's Nana's probably like that much Okay, let's do that And I see if we like it Now it is starting to taste like me Really good, right? I think it's my guy. I like it. I like it. Awesome. I like it. Love it One pot cooking so carrots in there first. Yeah, and then all the dumplings Go together. Yeah, love it. So this is gonna cook for six minutes Okay, I'm just gonna place it down here I'm Selena. Hi, I'm Kate. Hi Kate My really good industry friends, oh no talk about gold powers So I think it'd be perfect to taste our food together, right? Okay, so I come from Texas and we have this dish that my Nana makes called chicken and dumplings so I asked chef if we could create my own version but with her style and then we Attempted that so hopefully it tastes good. It all smells and looks great. Okay What is this on top, oh, that's a biscuit croutons, okay Selena made the dough biscuit dough and then we fried it for the very first time. Yeah Like I'm just taking the broth like it's really smoky just right off the bat. It's good, right? It's really good There's so much depth in the like dumpling itself. Oh my This is I mean, I'm winner. This is a winner. I think this We made this come to life and Nana Nana, that's Nana. I would love for someone to bring me this when I'm sick. It just tastes like Comforting. Yeah, miss. She is all about sort of combining those comfort food flavors while also Respecting your like roots and I can tell that from you based off of your backstory and Obviously you have a hand in this as well. I don't know what you do The morale is high I can taste the morale. Thank you. Thank you. It's the love I'm here for the love the love I can taste the love. Thank you for the love. So when I put it on a menu you all coming back Yeah, now if this is gonna go on the menu, what would you call it a tribute to Nana right a tribute to Nana in Mandarin Chinese My father's eyes grandma is my night So cute so it's my nice dumpling. Yeah I'll have the night night. It's work