The video didn’t show whether the MB crew used 3 cups with the first method, but it didn’t look like it. It would also be a lot faster if you weren’t heating the container from cold; the vendor wouldn’t make any money if every bag of popcorn took 10 minutes to make.
Chinese street food preparation is often fascinating, skillful and kind of gross when you think about it too much. For a more extreme example of all of these things:
