What should you look for when you select dates for your soup?

Why is it important to skim off the foam when your soup is boiling?

What should chicken soup look like after three hours of cooking?

How that you've finished making your chicken soup, how can you enjoy it?

Not a Common Day: It all starts with a simple greeting on a beautiful morning... Learn the vocabulary of a very basic introduction in this video.

On their first date, Tim asks Nini about her family background and life.

Nini learns that Tim is a music composer and Tim shares a song he created with her.

We learn about the past and present of Fujian Fuken music, a Chinese music company that makes and distributes mix tapes, put on shows, etc.

Why doesn't China have a film rating system similar to the United States or other countries?

What kind of magic trick can you do with an orange, a pen, a scarf, and some paper? Watch and learn how to perform this mystifying magic trick - all while learning Chinese!

Is that a meat slicer? Looks like this magic trick may be a bit risky! Watch this video and learn how this dangerous magic trick is done.

In this video, watch and then learn how to perform not one, but two magic tricks involving a disappearing coin. Both are easy to learn and will amaze your friends.

What happens when a Chinese film director meets a foreign actor (David Moser of the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies and the author of "Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard")? Watch and learn how hard it is to play a role in a Chinese film.

What does "Cai Mi" get? Watch and find out who will get the money in the end.

In this comedy sketch, two actors argue over who has the lead role.

In this comedy sketch, two actors argue over who has the lead role.

In this comedy sketch, two actors argue over who has the lead role.

In this comedy sketch, two actors argue over who has the lead role.

In this comedy sketch, two actors argue over who has the lead role.

This classic comedy sketch from the 1986 New Year's Eve Gala features a wily, unlicensed lamb skewer vendor trying to get out of paying a fine.

The skit continues with the lamb skewer hawker pretending to be a Uyghur- the ethnic minority associated with his culinary product- to fool the inspector. The only problem is, he knows nothing about his fake homeland, the far western region of Xinjiang.

The enterprising but fraudulent lamb skewer vendor keeps up his charade, pretending not to know enough Mandarin to understand the inspector when he requests to see the man's business license.

The rogue lamb skewer hawker's act is starting to wear thin with an increasingly frustrated inspector. Luckily, he's saved when his dodgy meat comes to the rescue.

The wily vendor has duped the inspector for long enough now. His act is beginning to fall apart and his luck is running out.