What is Real Chinese Food?

so in this video we're talking about the difference between eating at restaurants in the countryside or rural China versus in the cities now the nice thing about these rural restaurants is that you can actually wait let me do that again now there's a massive difference between eating in these two places because number one if you go to the cities you can actually find quite high and an expensive food is that you can actually go back into the kitchens and take a look most of them will allow you now for instance we ate in a place yesterday and the kitchen was actually very nice it was very well organized and it was much cleaner than what you usually see because you get to see some pretty nightmarish conditions in these kitchens out here in the rural Countryside of uh China number two you're not seeing what's being cooked in the kitchens or being prepared you basically open a menu you choose what you want to eat and you have variation from all over China anyway thing is you can go and take a look and decide for yourself if it's the place you want to eat in there is a drawback to eating out here and that is that well number one you normally don't have menus and if you do have menus there'll be no pictures and it will only be in Chinese so you're kind of forced to learn some Chinese will go into the kitchen and actually point at what you want now if you come to one of these kind of places like where we are now in the middle of uh random jangi Province getting run over by ebikes you don't really have that much of a choice you're going to eat their local food what this is the jelly deta so they say it's um I don't remember number two all the ingredients are going to come from the wet market nearby which we just walked through actually and number three you can actually go back to the kitchen and see everything being prepared so it's quite a special experience and it's also a really good way to get sick something has to be said about the freshness of the the ingredients we've just been through this wet Market you can see them killing the animals right here and of course all the fresh vegetables for sale these are the vegetables and meat that are being used to cook in these rural restaurants however just because they're freshh doesn't mean they're safe you have to understand that a lot of Chinese soil is polluted and a lot of the vegetables being grown are actually tainted so you know although it looks nice and fresh you should also be cautious of this and of course the animals that are raised here are raised in filthy conditions and fed sort of all sorts of weird garbage and chemicals and stuff so you have to be careful of that as well but you know it's something you should try now unfortunately out here in the rural sticks there is nobody watching yeah nice very nice very nice okay there is nobody checking the hygiene and you know you don't have like a an FDA or something that goes and checks the kitchens and gives them a score and says yes this is safe lovely yes you see and you have people spitting and Hawking everywhere let's just say it is dirty in fact to say that it's uh filthy is not an understatement here in rural China people don't wash their hands they spit everywhere there's animal blood and stuff on the streets here it's basically just it's not pleasant for people who are used to hygienic conditions let's say that and you can never guarantee that what you're eating is clean or doesn't have bacteria and that's why a lot of the people I know who come here to China get food poisoning especially if they go eat street food or go to these rural areas to eat food you know I myself have only ever had one problem with food poisoning and it was recently and strangely enough it wasn't from eating Chinese food it was from eating bad Western food so come to China but be prepared have some kind of medicine with you that can help you treat diarrhea because there is no such thing as Food hygiene in these rural areas now you come to these Countryside places and we talk about food safety and you should probably bring medicine in case you have diarrhea food poisoning but you can also get these conditions and illnesses from city restaurants as well even in first year cities now that is due to a very very special Chinese characteristic and that is the concern for making money over safety now the chefs in some of these restaurants in the first TI cities don't really care about food standard safety either the food regulation system is usually bought you buy your tag you put it on the wall you get a happy face and then people think your restaurant's clean when in fact it's probably not now it's not ill-intentioned here in the countryside people actually are trying to you know show you a good experience and delicious food and things like that hello hello okay you man bye-bye is this that they're used to that kind of food quality whereas your Western body may not be anyway I want to sum this up with the fact that I've had some of the best times in China in these kind of rural areas the people are super nice sometimes you don't have to pay for meals cuz people will invite you to their house to eat you get to try a bunch of really really cool things and you can actually see some of China retained um you know that was kind of destroyed in some of the bigger cities yeah you fun swimmer yeahhuh yeah okay okay yeah they got some really nice stuff and what's really good is you can actually see it right here T PE I don't know how to it's okay no problem no problem we'll try it out it's like those prawn crackers but with um infused with oil it's not bad yeah the more you eat the better it gets it's super crispy it's like brown cracker yeah how we're going to go see if we can uh get inside the kitchen oh yeah go get some macro shots do it Winston it's a pretty nice kitchen you can smell LEL in your nose like the chili it's crazy it's very noisy yeah but it's nice in here it is this is one of those situations where we were talking about food standard quality right yeah and you you don't know in the cities but you come back here and they let you see and look at it it's it's perfect yeah I don't I don't feel bad about eating out of here I mean look there are flies and stuff yeah but that's that's life yeah honestly my kitchen is dirtier than this yeah I mean so it's not a it's just one of those things my first time to a native English speaker really nice I'm happy I'm happy to to be the first it's very nice to meet you that's me to if you guys are interested in seeing where we came head over to here I don't know if you guys will ever be this way but if you are come look they keep the fish in there yeah like cement area the last fish oh wow check this out this is really nice nice because you know this little restaurant over here they have their Garden right outside and all the vegetables that they're cooking as you can see come from their own garden I mean once again you don't know there's like a factory right there like right next to it so you don't know what's in the ground but at the same time it's lovely in fresh and it's right here so you know there's a lot of charm to this it's just always spoiled by that cement factory or whatever right brick brick kill what do we got G look look well I'm hungry let's go eat what is say yeah I think so let's go all in front is the wed B out out that's great yeah it's great it's much better so you you saw it yeah we know exactly so you see the I guess that's the son of the boss and he's very proud to say that you know see we planted it ourselves so you can see and you can believe and that just basically is what it's all about there's so many tricksters and so many frosters and so so much nonsense going on in China that they're proud to be able to show their guests hey hey look this is what you're going to eat you know you're going to get what you can see so Winston tell us about the food that we managed to stumble across just randomly actually it's actually very nice these are some pretty staple items that you can find in and around here well in and around China really I know they say it's Kia food or whatever but I've seen this everywhere in China um we got the bitter GD with it's kind of stuffed with pork and it's really quite delicious but it's an acquired taste because the gourd is actually really bitter you know due to its name something I really like is this kind of Chinese sausage which they slice up and Fry it's very fatty but very sweet as well it's kind of really cool with these green beans and uh Peas sorry whatever they are uh and it's absolutely delicious and then of course we've got the good old young do Fu which is uh tofu stuffed with meat as well so we got a really good selection of food here I'm actually pretty happy with this you know this is all pretty Foreigner friendly there's no weird like I don't know cow stomach you know intestinal blads or anything like that I saw that in the back I also did see some grubs but yeah we didn't order those this is a treat trust me you know I'm the bit of a food guy as some people say I'm a heavy eater but anyway when I go to these places honestly Winston doesn't have the same problem as I do I get sick super easily and I don't know what happened at some point in my life or my career in China I lost my ability to eat uh food basically outside I just get diarrhea and food poisoning all the time but when I go and see places like this is super super clean and everything's kind of Raisin by themselves and everything it's really really good and uh the food here is absolutely excellent uh as Winston was saying this is the bitter gourd but in in America we call this bitter melon and also it's incredibly bitter and I really do believe that it is an acquired taste cuz when I first came here I was shocked it was like eating battery acid or something I was like why is this so bitter and now I absolutely love it it's really really good this tofu here honestly I hate how Americans prepare tofu growing up sometimes my mom be like tonight we're going to eat healthy so I bought a brick of tofu she didn't put sausage in it and fry it up now this is how you want to do it it's not tasteless it's not runny it's super super kind of pillowy in the inside but in the outside has a bite to it and it's got a really really delicious piece of uh kind of salty pork sausage inside with a bunch of different spices as well awesome I love this kind of sausage because they're really really proud of it they'll basically hang it up and let the air dry and that sounds really gross and there's a bit of an off taste to it every time I have it but it's kind of awesome it kind of tastes really really good it's almost like how kimchi is also fermented really good stuff overall Heating in ryal China is fantastic are we about to stay awesome yes we're about to stay awesome so okay let's do this all [Music] right longer remember [Music] [Applause] [Music] remember 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Length: 13min 56sec (836 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 08 2017