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023 Favorite China Foods Part 3 · bit of a Rambler

• 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,720 Hello, my name is Kai and I am a bit of a rambler. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,120 I like to travel, learn and tell stories. 3 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:14,840 So I closed out the last section of my favorite Chinese foods foods, part two, with something 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,440 I made, G&G hot stickers, and I would make hundreds of them at a time, have them in my 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,680 freezer, take out whenever I want to eat them. 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:29,480 And so in this, part three, my favorite Chinese foods foods foods, I want to talk about another 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:37,700 thing that I used to make all the time, beef jerky, and I made it in China, and then in 8 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:44,680 America, and most places I lived, I made jerky in some form or another because my recipe 9 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,880 is easy peasy. 10 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:53,640 Bunch of soy sauce, mix in brown sugar, a few spoonfuls at a time until you get a salty 11 00:00:53,640 --> 00:01:00,680 and sweet balance that you like, marinate the meat in it overnight, lay out the meat on 12 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:05,600 a cooling rack, put the cooling rack on top of a box fan. 13 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,680 Your beef jerky will be done in less than 24 hours, air-dried. 14 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,940 I don't like cooking it because I don't like the texture as much, it gets more break-up 15 00:01:14,940 --> 00:01:17,360 part like if you cook a steak. 16 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,680 It's not as satisfying a bite for me as air-dried beef jerky is. 17 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,480 You might know air-dried beef jerky is bill-tonged, that uses vinegar and a few spices usually, 18 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,360 so I'm just going to say air-dried beef jerky. 19 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:36,680 And I love air-dried beef jerky, it's fantastic, and I had my whole recipe down. 20 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,280 China doesn't make good beef jerky. 21 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,040 Pretty much full stop right there. 22 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,960 I've had not bad beef jerky in China before, but on the whole, they tend to add a lot of 23 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:56,800 sugar to the meat, and it's very highly processed stuff, and there's so much spices and sugar 24 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,040 on it that it doesn't even taste like you're eating meat. 25 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:08,280 It's very stringy, and I don't know, soft, it's coated in spices, so it usually doesn't 26 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,880 taste very good, or at least to my sensibilities. 27 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,400 YACC Jerky on the other hand. 28 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,960 YACC Jerky is the next favorite food in this Odyssey. 29 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:25,040 YACC Jerky might now be my favorite jerky. 30 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,520 I love my beef jerky. 31 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:35,640 I love Mike's jerky from Denver, Colorado, shout out, and I love YACC Jerky. 32 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:42,960 So in China, I don't know why, but for YACC Jerky, they don't coat it with spices, and they 33 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,800 don't throw a whole bunch of sugar on it. 34 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:53,240 There is original flavor, which is just the air-dried YACC Jerky, and then there is spicy 35 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,920 or a couple other flavors, but it's very simply made. 36 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,120 And they process a YACC? 37 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,280 Basically, they do exactly what I said. 38 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:08,600 They put them on racks, throw it on top of fan, you have jerky 24 hours later, maximum. 39 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,320 They do dehydrate there, so they'll use a little bit of heat. 40 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,480 And it's very low heat, and it's pretty much just air-dried YACC Jerky. 41 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:24,580 I love the spicy flavor, which is crazy spicy for most humans, and I love the original 42 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:25,580 flavor as well. 43 00:03:25,580 --> 00:03:30,000 So I'll get two bags each of those, whenever I'm in China. 44 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,720 It's a thicker meat than beef. 45 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:42,280 It's a tougher meat than beef, so you really have to work at it to get through the YAC. 46 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:49,960 And the muscles are just so dense, but when you are eating it, the flavor, even the unflavored 47 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:57,320 stuff, the flavor of YACC meat is so strong and comes through so well as a jerky. 48 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:58,640 I like most jerky meats. 49 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:05,440 I think the meat usually tastes better jerky, but YACC comes through the best. 50 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:10,920 It tastes amazing with just the concentrated flavor of the meat itself. 51 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,680 It's a very strong bovine, tasty flavor. 52 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,000 Surprisingly more flavorful than beef. 53 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,480 If I could get YACC, I would be making my jerky from YACC rather than beef. 54 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:28,880 So there was a guy who would join the market outside my apartment building, really just around 55 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,240 the corner on the same block. 56 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,040 And they have all the vegetables and the meats and everything, everything. 57 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:40,320 And then one guy would drive up every few days or so and set up a stall that said YACC 58 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:41,320 jerky. 59 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:48,640 And he had a long sticks of YACC jerky, maybe a meter long, and you could order a half 60 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,600 kilogram or a kilogram, whatever you wanted. 61 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,640 And it was very tough stuff, but probably the best tasting YACC jerky I had. 62 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:02,080 And he used these large shears to cut off the amount that you said you wanted. 63 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:10,080 And I would get bags of that stuff, sometimes two kilograms, and just go to town. 64 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,320 I love beef jerky, and then I found out I love YACC jerky more. 65 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:21,160 So I just get a bunch of YACC jerky, get a bunch of beer, go play the Witcher 3 in my 66 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:28,720 room, eating and drinking and having a great snack time or watch a movie or just hang out, 67 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,880 whatever I was doing with a huge bag of snack jerky by my side. 68 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:40,040 And it was eating that YACC jerky that made me realize, oh, I can make this very good 69 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,880 and very simple. 70 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,800 And that's how I got down to two ingredient jerky that I like more than any other jerky 71 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,960 in the world, except for shout out Mike jerky and Denver. 72 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,720 And I kind of became friends with the guy. 73 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,880 I'm sure he was happy that I was buying all of this jerky almost daily. 74 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:58,880 But that's it. 75 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,560 This is a pretty simple, favorite food. 76 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:02,920 It tastes amazing. 77 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,800 It's just one great tasting, great texture. 78 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:06,800 I love jerky. 79 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,000 It was fantastic. 80 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,320 The guy was cool. 81 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:10,800 It was great. 82 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,960 I actually was eating so much so fast that it was eating into my money. 83 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,640 I probably spent the most on YACC jerky because it's a little more expensive than other. 84 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,240 Actually, it's a lot more expensive than other meats. 85 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,720 So I actually got the shares that he used to chop up the YACC jerky. 86 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:34,200 And when I got at home, I would chop it into even smaller pieces so that I had more pieces 87 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,200 to eat. 88 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,840 So I would spend like 20 minutes chopping up all these pieces of jerky, eating a piece and 89 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:44,440 chopping them all up until I had this huge bag of mini pieces. 90 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:45,880 And boy, is it good? 91 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,200 I love YACC jerky. 92 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:52,760 If you get a chance, if you see someone selling it, get YACC jerky while you're in China. 93 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,880 If you like jerky, that is the stuff. 94 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:03,040 So let's move on back to food that they make in restaurants that I never made myself. 95 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Rojamo. 96 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,080 It's another sandwich, but not donkey meat. 97 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,480 This one is marinated pork meat. 98 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,280 It has, it's a lot like pulled pork. 99 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,680 So it's basically, yeah, you can think of it as like Chinese pulled pork in a steamed and 100 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,840 then grilled bun. 101 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:26,720 And they throw in a bunch of sauces and some vegetables if you want or you can just get 102 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:27,720 the meat inside. 103 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,160 I like to get some onions and stuff. 104 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,520 And it's like the perfect sandwich. 105 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,440 There's enough meat to bread ratio. 106 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,520 The bread itself is not too thick. 107 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:43,120 It's soft on the inside, but the crust is a little thicker and chewier on the outside. 108 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,120 And they grill the meat, put that inside the sandwich and then grill the bread on both 109 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,120 sides. 110 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,880 They'll put on some jalapenos and onions, like I said. 111 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,000 And then you just get in this little bag and it's a great little sandwich. 112 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,720 When I tried it the first time, I was blown away and I couldn't believe that it was so 113 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,360 simple and still tasted so good. 114 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,600 And I found out it was from the city of Xi'an. 115 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:11,120 And later I went to Xi'an mostly because of that sandwich. 116 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,720 I wanted to try that sandwich where it was from. 117 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,160 That's also the city that has all of the terracotta warriors and those were cool too, but a 118 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,520 whole bunch of them were on display in another country while I was there. 119 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,960 They were like being lense to England or something. 120 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,120 And I was like cool terracotta warriors. 121 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:33,540 And then I just walked up and down the streets finding different rojamoa places that I could 122 00:08:33,540 --> 00:08:37,600 try rojamoa meat between bread. 123 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:45,920 So it really is like the prototypical Chinese sandwich because the word for it is rojamoa 124 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,120 meat between bread, which is kind of interesting. 125 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,800 And it does taste different in Xi'an. 126 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,880 Just like Guinness tastes different in Ireland, rojamoa has a much stronger... 127 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,760 I don't know what kind of spice, but I don't want to say tangy, but I'll say it because 128 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:03,760 whatever. 129 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,560 It has a stronger tang. 130 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:12,480 There's some unknown spice to me that is stronger in all of the Xi'an rojamoa and they 131 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,960 like spicier rojamoa, spicier sandwiches. 132 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,320 So there's green and red pepper mixed in and they'll also put on chili pastes and oils 133 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,480 and other things. 134 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:28,080 So the sandwiches are much more flavorful in Xi'an than you'll usually get if you get 135 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:34,560 the Xi'an sandwich in Beijing or Chengdu or Ningbo or Huijian, wherever you go. 136 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:37,960 It does seem like the Xi'an rojamoa are the best. 137 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:43,160 That said, every single time I found a rojamoa place in another city I was ecstatic and it's 138 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,160 still tasted great. 139 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:53,400 It was just usually more salty, soy, forward than many different strong flavors delivering 140 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,360 a really powerful punch like I got in Xi'an. 141 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,840 And that is important actually because I would go to many rojamoa places in other cities 142 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,360 and sometimes the rojamoa person would be from Xi'an because that's their regional food. 143 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,200 So if you're opening up in a foreign city you should make the food. 144 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:16,440 Your region is famous for it's an easier way to get into the local food scene. 145 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:22,440 And I made friends with this old grandma grandpa couple and they were shocked of course that 146 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,800 I spoke Mandarin and shocked that I've been traveling and shocked that I loved rojamoa. 147 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:35,000 Shocked that I loved spicy rojamoa especially and they would give me extra and I was explaining 148 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,400 to them how much I like the Xi'an rojamoa specifically because of that extra flavor 149 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,880 they have and they were like that's right ours are the best. 150 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:49,040 So if you know where the food that is your favorite is from and then you meet someone 151 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:55,080 from that province you tell them you know what I love pijio kaya or I love jatchuan or 152 00:10:55,080 --> 00:11:01,480 I love jianbing that's coming up or rojamoa they're very excited to talk about their food 153 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:02,480 with you. 154 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:09,000 Food is such a huge part of Chinese culture that even if they've never cooked before they're 155 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,080 very proud of the dishes that are from their provinces or associated with their provinces. 156 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,960 So the more you love a food learn a little more about it because it can help you during 157 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:25,480 your journey make friends and importantly connect to this country that you're traveling 158 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,240 in that is giving you so much. 159 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,520 Learning about the food you love is a great way to make connections. 160 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:38,320 Which brings me to one of the first foods that ever made me connections with Chinese people. 161 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:44,080 I could not speak anything at this point I had the six words three colors three numbers 162 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:50,720 one two three and I had eaten seven eleven sushi for breakfast for a couple days and I was 163 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,880 just trying to figure out what I could order. 164 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:59,800 I knew the seahorse jidan mian but I was still eating breakfast at this point so I tried 165 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,080 to walk around in the morning and see what breakfast foods there were because I had seen 166 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:09,760 people at street side stalls and other people walking around holding food munching into it 167 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,720 but I don't know how to say anything and I didn't know what anything was but something 168 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:23,000 that caught my eye was what looked like a very thin omelet in a package and people were 169 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,400 just holding with their hands and biting into it and there was a crunch and I figured 170 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,160 I would like that. 171 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,720 So I found an old man selling the omelet sandwich at his breakfast stand he set up that morning 172 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,000 with people waiting in front and I stood in line. 173 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,480 I got more and more nervous as each person you know spoke in Mandarin. 174 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:48,320 Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah 175 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:53,360 and every person talked like totally normal of course because that's their language and 176 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:59,160 I just kept getting more nervous creeping up one customer at a time because I knew he would 177 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,520 ask me and I would have to answer all these questions that I didn't know how to answer because 178 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:10,520 I didn't know how to answer anything at the time and then I got there and I said E because 179 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:15,600 I don't think I even know how to say EGA which is how you say I want one thing you can't 180 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:21,360 just say one you have to add a measure word like GHA which means thing and I didn't think 181 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:28,560 I even know how to say that so I just said one and he was like see any I got a bit more 182 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:41,440 and I said E just said one again like Gem being A-B-Yah and I was like EEE and he's like YAH 183 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:49,480 LA-YAH I said YAHL because I remembered that YAHL meant I want and what he was saying I 184 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:56,200 think was YAHL B-YAHL which means do you want so I just said YAHL because whatever it is 185 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:01,120 just put it on next time I do this I'll have context but for now I'm just gonna get everything. 186 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:18,880 YAH JAL TAMA YAHL YAH JAL TAMA YAHL YAH L-D-O-E-D-O-A YAHL I just kept saying YAHL to everything he asked me but I was already sort 187 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:27,480 of entranced because as soon as he asked me the first question he had cracked an egg on a rotating sort 188 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:38,480 of CREEP circular hot plate so it's basically this large heated iron circle that he turns around with 189 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:44,720 a pedal on the ground and while it's turning around in a circle he cracks an egg on it and then uses a 190 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:53,000 type of elongated wooden spatula that can cover half the surface of the circle like the radius of 191 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,400 the circle and he holds it over the egg so it smears the egg in a very thin layer across the entire 192 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:05,280 circle which is still going around and then you have that very very thin layer of egg so while 193 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:10,480 that's cooking and he's asking me these questions one by one and I'm enthusiastically saying YAHL 194 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:20,800 he sprinkles Shiantai which is Chopped cilantro and JAL TIE the Chopped Chives and then some spices which I 195 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:28,120 wanted and some MSG which I wanted and then some Lajiao spicy oil which I wanted and he throws all that 196 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:34,960 on there plus a sprinkling of dark sesame seeds I think they're black sesame seeds and then he takes 197 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:44,080 piece of fried bean curd which is just like a very thin layer of tofu like and millimeter thick fried 198 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:51,760 in oil so it's just basically crunch just crunch as a food and puts that in the middle folds this egg 199 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:58,560 omelet on top of it cuts it in half fold it again slaps the crunchy part again fold it again and 200 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:06,800 then fold it up so it becomes this pocket folded eight times or something so you don't have one sand 201 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:13,840 which with you know bread on the outside and the good stuff in the middle this is a good 16 layers 202 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:24,800 of spice oil chili pepper the cilantro geo-tie the chives and you can get as much or as little of 203 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:31,840 all of that as you want and you can leave out ingredients or add more if you want to and boy when I 204 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:37,440 bit through that eight layers of crunch and egg and everything or however many layers it was when 205 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:46,480 I tried it the first time I was blown away by the flavor it's so much flavor but it's still so simple 206 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:54,400 because it's really just egg a few herbs some chili oil and then crunch it's like a crunchy 207 00:16:54,400 --> 00:17:03,840 savory omelet baklava but it is the perfect breakfast snack and that was all I ate for breakfast 208 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,040 basically until I stopped eating breakfast which was maybe a year and a half later but if I was getting 209 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:17,840 breakfast I got jam-bing every time jam means fried and being is like bread so I guess it's like pancake 210 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:23,600 but calling it a Chinese pancake is absurd jam-bing is a completely different food 211 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:29,280 there's so much going into it there's no fluffy bread just a very thin layer of batter before he 212 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:35,600 cracks the egg on that there's just the egg which for me I like way more there's so much more 213 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:41,280 flavor in something like an egg with some oil and chili oil and all that good spices on it 214 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:47,440 and then just the flavorless crunch which just adds a great texture to the whole thing and because 215 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:55,200 it's folded like that every single spice and every single texture is in every single bite now this is 216 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:01,040 really interesting because if you had a sandwich and the sandwich guy was lazy let's say you got a 217 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:06,480 philly cheesesteak and he throws the peppers on one side and the onions on another side then you're 218 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,600 gonna have a few good bites but mostly you're gonna have too much pepper in one bite and not enough 219 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,400 onion or too much onion one bite nine enough pepper or if they throw on the sauce you know lazy and 220 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,880 crappy then you're all gonna have really good sauce bites and they're gonna have dry bites without any 221 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,960 sauce same with the cheese what if they put the cheese in the wrong place okay so what's really 222 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:34,480 interesting about this is that this huge crape thing this crape rotating iron circle is pretty wide 223 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:43,200 like at least a couple feet wide sometimes one meter wide and they have to fold it see one two three 224 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:50,640 four five six seven at least seven times all of those spices all of the sauce every ingredient is 225 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:57,840 getting folded on itself to a smaller area until you have this small crispy omelette folded down to 226 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:04,000 about the size of your hands but because it's folded down every single flavor and texture is in 227 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:09,200 every single bite because it's just by being folded statistically wherever he threw all those 228 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:15,680 spices and everything which they try to get mostly evenly distributed when it's unfolded ends up 229 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:23,360 perfectly distributed on average randomly throughout this crispy hand omelette this dn bin so 230 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:29,840 everybody has the egg in the seeds in the chili oil and the crunch and the herbs in every single bite 231 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:38,560 and again it tastes amazing I couldn't believe how good it tastes I was that after I ate that that 232 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:43,360 morning the most exciting thing I thought about all day was I'm going to eat that again for breakfast 233 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:53,200 tomorrow I'm so psyched to eat that again it was really the most exciting thing four weeks maybe I couldn't 234 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:58,960 stop myself I well I could have but there was no way I was good why would I I went out there in the 235 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:05,760 next day and this time I said yeah and I now knew I now knew the word for chili oil lodge and that 236 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:14,480 was boy their chili oil is so good and so I said y'all lodge y'all lodge y'all see my lodge y'all ma 237 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:20,080 and I was like y'all lodge y'all because I didn't know what he asked me so he put more lodge y'all on it 238 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:27,200 for me and I was so and it tasted even better than what I had already accepted as a perfect breakfast 239 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:33,040 that every other country was doing wrong and that became my guy I went there every day and sometimes 240 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:39,360 he would talk to the other people in line if they were like oh jiege lao ah hui shu zhong huan ma which is 241 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:46,000 the foreigner can speak Chinese and he's like ah jiege lao ah i'm a tian lai ta ha si huan tian being 242 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,200 tachr may tian tchredo and which is like oh he loves he comes here every day for this breakfast he's 243 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:58,240 a ton of them and you know everyone in line is like smiling and nodding and I'm just eagerly chanting 244 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:04,080 y'all y'all because like no he's gonna ask me like give me the whatever he says I still can't 245 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,720 understand most of the questions he's asking me oh pautai is another one that some of them do 246 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:14,160 so you can also get pickled onions and pickled vegetable sprinkled on it so you get a little 247 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:20,720 you know fermented vinegar vegetable kick in there kind of like him chi spread throughout boy 248 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:27,840 that adds a good taste unless it's the sweet pautai and then you don't want it but everything else is 249 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:33,840 just so good and it was a really fun ritual for me every morning for months and months and it did 250 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:40,640 become routine eventually but I never liked the jian being any less sometimes I would get jian 251 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:46,480 being twice in a day and a couple times I actually got it three times in a day which is crazy 252 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:53,280 but after a day I was like oh three was too many I think I'm sick and then a day later I'd be like 253 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:59,520 okay so I'll get one for the morning though I eight hundreds of those and whenever I went to a new city 254 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:04,720 in the morning that was the first thing I searched for a jian being because I just loved them now you 255 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,120 can get them during lunch and dinner also so when I switched to one meal a day I could still get 256 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:16,160 jian being which was a legitimate concern for me but I found out that as long as you look around 257 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:21,440 there are people making the lunch and breakfast foods all day you just have to know where they are 258 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:30,400 but when you go to China to visit if you like any good normal human eat breakfast look around 259 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:37,200 there will be an old man standing in front of a big metal circle sweeping a spatula around making 260 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:43,680 what looks like a giant omelette on it then he has a stack of bubbly crispy something next to it 261 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:50,400 that's the jian being go get it say yow yow yow a bunch of times until he gives you everything 262 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,960 folded up and gives it to you oh and it costs nothing you know it's less than a dollar when I got to 263 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:00,960 China it was like 50 cents for one or something and I think when I went back it was closer to a dollar 264 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:07,040 but still less than a dollar that's a decade 11 years later maybe I don't know much later 265 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:14,800 but it's such a great breakfast food you must try it if you have the opportunity I can't think of a 266 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:21,360 breakfast food that I enjoy more right off the top of my head like oh yeah that's definitely 267 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:29,040 better than a jian being I can't think of something with so many different flavors so much great texture 268 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:35,520 variability so that you can put whatever you want inside it convenience and ease to eat you can 269 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:41,840 hold it in your hands and there's a little wrapper around it it's just the best of every breakfast world 270 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:49,280 you know I guess French toast is really good but I'm more of a savory guy so this jian being just takes 271 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:56,240 the cake for my favorite breakfast food I think overall wow I haven't had a jian being like a year 272 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:05,680 now these episodes might make me return to China to be perfectly honest that might actually happen 273 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:11,840 now that I'm thinking about all of these foods oh my god I can get the yature okay sorry guys 274 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:19,200 let's get back on track Kai okay since we're talking about the jian being this one singular 275 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:27,200 exquisite meal this perfect food item in my mind I want to go for my other one which is 276 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:35,440 gondyendo jiao and that's like dry fried beans basically dry fried green beans they also have 277 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:41,280 gondyans agido which is like string beans but the green bean ones are better because they're less 278 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:49,520 liquid inside so when they fry they really fry to a crunchy chewable texture instead of popping 279 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:54,960 with the bean liquid inside they also call them different things sometimes they'll say one or 280 00:24:54,960 --> 00:25:01,360 the other but anyway the one I became familiar with first is gondyendo jiao and this is another 281 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:11,200 very simple dish that is delicious so it is green beans ground pork chopped chili pepper 282 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:19,280 peppers and the Sichuan peppercorn the ma the numbing spice that I love and they must put some sort 283 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:26,320 of starch or corn flour into the ground beef because it doesn't clump together like if you 284 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:33,520 cook the sausage patty or something it's all discrete one kernel of ground beef like 285 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:42,000 one by two centimeters of ground beef and there are hundreds of these little pieces of ground beef 286 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:51,840 or ground pork more usually mixed in with the beans and they fry this all up and then throw the 287 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,280 chili peppers and the Sichuan peppercorns in fry it for the same amount of time put it on a plate 288 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:03,280 done and they're using oil to fry it in a pan and they might fry the beans first to remove extra 289 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:10,160 moisture so that when they fry everything together the beans get really crispy crunchy and still 290 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:15,680 have enough moisture inside to taste like a vegetable and be a satisfying crunch so when they're done 291 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,640 of course there's like soy sauce and other sauces added in but just a little bit all at the end 292 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:29,840 you have this perfect flavor and perfect texture of crispy but just enough moisture to still taste 293 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,320 like you're chewing a vegetable green beans but there's a nice pleasant crunch to them now on the 294 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:41,120 outside with the flavor of the oil and the shoy you and all the good spices on top of the skin 295 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:48,800 of all of the green beans and then you have little bits of pork ground pork that have all that 296 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:56,160 flavor on every discrete kernel of ground pork that has been fried perfectly crunchy outside 297 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:03,440 meat on the inside with all of that flavor none of it is burnt it's all cooked fried perfectly 298 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:09,920 each little kernel of ground meat and then you have the roughly chopped chili peppers adding 299 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:16,080 this beautiful spice throughout the whole thing and there are the red chili peppers also fried 300 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:23,360 in that same oil and spice mix so the actual chili pepper skins even taste good only probably 301 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:31,280 shouldn't eat them and I usually only like nibble on a few of them to get more flavor from my favorite 302 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:37,520 dish and then of course my favorite spice the ma the Sichuan peppercorns and those are little 303 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:43,840 crunchy things and I will actually crunch those and eat them and get a wave of numbness through my 304 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:49,760 mouth in between picking out every single piece of ground meat that's the great thing I do now this is 305 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:56,560 great its vegetables and meat great flavor so I like to eat it normally and just enjoy the whole meal 306 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:03,600 without thinking about it and then after there's still a bed because the pieces of ground meat are so 307 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:11,440 small there's a bed of fried ground meat pieces left over on the plate and I just my shoulders 308 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:21,360 relax a lean back in the chair and piece by piece I pluck each bit of fried crispy savory meat from 309 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:27,840 the plate and enjoy all the meat on the plate piece by piece until there's not one single piece left 310 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:38,960 and then I am fully sated and content and just one with the world it's also a extremely salty dish 311 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:45,440 and I do like salt a lot so there's just it's yeah that's my favorite when I went back to China this 312 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,960 year that was like the number one thing I was looking for besides you know the other 12 things I 313 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:56,320 already mentioned which I was also searching for but the thing about gondi and doji out it's a very 314 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:04,880 delicate dish they have to cook it not too long not too short they have to precook a lot of the moisture 315 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:11,680 out of the doji out out of the green beans or you get a much less nice texture it's usually too soft 316 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:16,960 have to put enough peppercorn you got to make sure you also have the garlic and all this not too much 317 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:23,840 shoy so it's a huge dance of delicate flavors and spices and different provinces towns and even 318 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,520 people will call the dish a different thing gondi and doji out gondi and sigido so you might actually 319 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,640 get the wrong thing if you're not paying attention on you order and ask this is doji out not 320 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:42,240 sigido right although some restaurants say sigido about doji out and doji out about sigido they call 321 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:47,280 string beans green beans and green beans string beans so you really have to make sure you're getting 322 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:53,520 the right thing because names for dishes are very different across even towns not to mention provinces 323 00:29:53,520 --> 00:30:01,440 but man when I find the right one that's the place I go to from then on and when I visited 324 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,880 China this last time I had to go to at least six different restaurants and eat the gondi and doji out 325 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:14,880 which was always good but not what I was looking for not that perfect level above regular food 326 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:20,960 and then I found it and even though they allowed people to smoke inside which was illegal 327 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:25,840 and it was a very cramped restaurant all this stuff I put up with it because their gondi and doji out 328 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:34,320 was exactly what I was talking about perfect crispy savory not burnt pieces of discrete ground 329 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:41,440 pork perfectly pre-fried and then re-fried green beans so they got crunchy but still tasted like a 330 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:48,240 vegetable in abundance of red chopped chilies and Sichuan peppercorn liberally sprinkled in and 331 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:55,040 fried with everything and all of the other bits of little onion or garlic here and there just mixed in 332 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:02,240 and perfect perfect and I went there the entire time I was visiting China every 333 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:07,760 week at least I would go and then get another dish of it because I knew I was going to have it 334 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:13,440 like ten times once a week maybe twice a week while I was there and then I was not going to find 335 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:20,320 that again outside of China love that dish highly encourage you to try gondi and doji out 336 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:27,920 okay I want to move on to snacks because there are a lot of things considered snacks rather than meals 337 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:33,520 because they're very simply made and they're easier to eat you know they don't give you a huge 338 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:40,240 portion it's just like a snack and they're at a lot of the fares that Chinese towns have all the time 339 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:45,920 so you can go to them and there's stalls everywhere and there's these sausages that I kind of 340 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,720 liked but they usually balance too much sweet or the texture was too fatty or something there's 341 00:31:52,720 --> 00:32:00,960 like little dough balls that are fine but whatever and then I tried chodofu stinky tofu and I lived in 342 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:09,040 China almost continuously for over six years a very long time and on and off for eight years 343 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:19,520 and that food I did not eat until I believe my fifth year it was either my fourth or fifth year in 344 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:25,920 China and I think that's the longest of any food that I definitely knew was around that I just 345 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:31,600 didn't try I tried pretty much every food like I said gotta get that donkey deck next time I'm in 346 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:46,560 Beijing or any Lure Hoshia place but chodofu stinky tofu smells so gross that I didn't even try it 347 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:58,640 and I tried duck butthole pig intestine brain I tried everything and those three suck and we'll 348 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:06,000 talk about them in the Chinese foods that suck episode which I'll politely title something more civil 349 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:14,320 but this chodofu smells so abhorrent and you can smell it from half a block away it's astonishing 350 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:20,640 how potent the smell is even though most of these vendors are selling it outside in the open air 351 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:29,200 and there's just one pot of simmering sauce but it's just so stanky because it's a fermented mix of 352 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:38,640 spices and vinegar and whatever that I didn't even try it I I thought about it I'd think and then 353 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:45,280 when I got when I hit the periphery of the wafting scent half a block away I think you know what you 354 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:51,600 should just try it like and then but I'm still walking so I'm 10 steps closer I'm like yeah if 355 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:58,000 that's a smell you can probably try it's not gonna kill you 10 steps closer doesn't smell great 10 356 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:04,640 steps closer smells pretty bad and then it just is awful then you're like nope just smells like 357 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:10,400 fermented sewer and then you just try to breathe the last while you walk by it and while I'm walking 358 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:17,040 by it there are three people in line telling them what toppings they want on the stinky tofu that's 359 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,920 literally what it means chodofu chow means stinky and tofu is tofu it's just called stinky tofu 360 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:30,160 and I would say a lot by thinking you know what maybe one day brain doesn't smell like that duck 361 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:36,960 asshole doesn't smell as bad as that like maybe one day I'll try chodofu but not today 362 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:49,200 and then one day I did and it is delicious I love fermented foods I like the sour vinegary 363 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:59,360 taste with the spices inside and I love well fried foods so that the outside is crispy and the 364 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:06,000 inside still has moisture but a lower content so it's almost dried out that flavor gets stronger 365 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:12,880 than the outside is a bit crunchy but not too crunchy and not sought in an oil and so what 366 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:22,000 chodofu is is thin blocks of tofu maybe one inch by one inch or one and a half inch by one and a half 367 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:30,720 inch squares and about I don't know half a centimeter thick a quarter of an inch thick not very thick 368 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:40,400 pretty thin and they deep fry these to that texture I just detailed and then they throw that in a bowl 369 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:48,640 and then they put this sauce this super stinky sauce that's where the smell is coming from a bubbling 370 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:57,600 simmering culldron of green spices and fermented juice and that is ladled over all of the fried tofu 371 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:04,000 and then they ask what else you want on it and I love the dojiya which is actually sagido string beans 372 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:10,160 pickled string beans specifically chopped up into very little segments and that sprinkle on top 373 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:15,760 and you get the cilantro and the geo inside the chives that they put on everything and some sauces 374 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:21,360 and you can make it spicier whatever in spices if you want then they stab a skewer on the top of it 375 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:30,480 hand it to you you give them a buck and then use that skewer to eat piece by piece that bowl of stinky tofu 376 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:37,600 and okay so I have also tried durian and that's just straight up smells like hot trash to me 377 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:43,040 and when I tried it I was like this tastes mostly like trash I don't like this there's nothing here 378 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:50,480 for me and I don't eat durian and when I ask Chinese people about durian they're like yeah it 379 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:56,960 tastes like trash but I really like it and I'm I don't know there's nothing to like remove you from 380 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:04,480 the taste and smell of trash with durian whereas with stinky tofu there's another there's the fermented 381 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:12,880 flavor swimming through every other aspect of the dish fermentation the sour vinegary acid cutting 382 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:21,760 through all the strong flavors mixed with spicy and there's vegetables and the tofu itself is 383 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:32,160 innocuous it's such a rich flavor and the smell is stronger there's something in the smell that does 384 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:38,320 not translate to the taste that is left out of the taste I should say because the smell always 385 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:48,400 smells pretty stinky but the taste always tastes good it has all the complexity of the flavor of that 386 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:58,240 scent but the flavor doesn't have any of the offending scent all the bad parts of the smell are left 387 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:07,520 out of the soup flavor itself so instead you have this really interesting thick like if you poured out 388 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:15,120 the kimchi water afterwards except it's made into a thicker soup that's a great flavor so you can have 389 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:23,680 this great pickled vegetable soup flavor mixed with all the other spices on top of these crispy 390 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:30,080 bits of tofu it's an absolutely delicious meal and definitely one of the worst things you're 391 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:35,520 going to smell while you're walking around China because people like me love it and we keep eating it 392 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:41,920 so they keep cooking it but if you're like no way that something that smells that bad can taste good 393 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:52,240 enough to make up for it I recommend it I advise you to give it a shot because it's good tofu is good 394 00:38:52,240 --> 00:39:02,000 this fermented spiced vegetable soup is good the toppings are all tasty it's a great snack okay um 395 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,920 we have now talked about one two three four five six seven eight nine 396 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:14,800 fifteen of my favorite foods in China and I can't think of another one off the top of my head I'm sure 397 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:20,480 soon as I finish editing and producing this episode I will remember five more and then we're going 398 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,680 to have another episode for sure because I love talking about this food but I do want to throw in a 399 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:32,080 few honorable mentions um soup dumplings are great I know they're getting popular in the states I 400 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:39,120 like the jaya soup dumplings which is the fried ones so they fry these little boudsa after filling 401 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:47,840 them with soup boudsa is like the dumpling like a bun with a hollow part in the middle that soup is 402 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:53,920 filled inside that is a great food it's a pain in the butt to eat it's always too hot and burn your 403 00:39:53,920 --> 00:40:00,720 mouth but it is a tasty food and for a while I was like that's really that's almost as good as 404 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:07,120 everything else so that's almost there it's right about it's almost there then boudsa itself um 405 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:15,360 Chinese steamed buns so it's a piece of dough they put a beef or shiangu shiitake mushrooms or 406 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:20,880 something in the middle of it and then twist up the top and you have a little pretty pretty steamed 407 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:28,400 bun um I like the shiangu by its eye the cabbage shiitake mushroom ones those ones are a dang good 408 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:35,920 and that is actually above the um soup dumplings for me a good shiangu by its eye 409 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:45,280 it's just a simple steamed vegetables inside this simple steamed bun but the flavor is so satisfying 410 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:55,040 and light and delicious that it might be one of my other favorite foods especially I have such 411 00:40:55,040 --> 00:41:01,840 fond memories of eating it before I set out on these mountain hikes or after I got to the top of 412 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:10,240 mountain or when I was chilling at home you have this fluffy fluffy bread the boudsa are super fluffy 413 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:16,720 bread with great flavors inside just a little bit of oil on the vegetables when they fried them before 414 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:24,560 they chopped them up and put them in the boudsa it's a very light food but it also completely fills you 415 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:33,120 up tastes great is simple and you can eat it anytime they're always delicious I have a very fond 416 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,960 of memory of finding a good shiangu by its eye boudsa place the last time I visited China and I 417 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:45,920 bought three of them I bought one beer I walked over to a bench next to this huge river that runs 418 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:55,600 through fushon and I ate my boudsa and just thought this is as good as life gets as as living in the 419 00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:01,760 stream of consciousness that is humanity existing within this world that is about as one with the 420 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:09,440 world as I could have been at that point it was a glorious instance and with those two mentions I 421 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:14,880 will close this out eager to see you in the next one where I remember all of the things that I 422 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:22,240 didn't mention here and truly when I had discovered each of those foods if someone had asked me oh 423 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:27,680 why you really like that is that your favorite food I would honestly have answered them oh yes 424 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:34,400 definitely this dish of frog is my favorite Chinese food oh the pijou kaya the beer fried roast duck 425 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:41,280 yeah that is my favorite food oh the seahorse shirjidon this tomato egg noodle soup yeah that is my 426 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:47,680 favorite oh the jian jiao oh the yak jerky yes this is my favorite food in China I would have 427 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:53,840 believed it and mented when I said it if someone had asked me each time I discovered these new foods 428 00:42:53,840 --> 00:43:00,080 don't be in dogeo I still kind of defend that one I mean there are yeah so I know I said every single 429 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:09,440 food was my favorite food that is true they are all individually my single favorite food from China 430 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:17,360 I love Chinese food I'm excited to talk more about Chinese food when I remember my other single 431 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:24,080 only favorites it looks like China is opening up hostels by the way which I didn't realize but I've 432 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:29,760 been helping someone move to China recently and they've been looking up hostels and now there are a 433 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:36,640 whole bunch of hostels in the bigger cities so there are I'm seeing dozens of 434 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:45,600 no that's just about one dozen I'm seeing one dozen hostels priced between five and twelve dollars in 435 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:53,280 chung du right now that you could get tomorrow so that's 150 to you know 300 bucks a month 436 00:43:53,280 --> 00:44:01,040 to live in a hostel in chung du the flavor capital of the world chung ching is better but don't 437 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:07,360 tell the chung du people and you can try all of these foods there and many many more besides hang 438 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:12,880 out some really cool people save a whole bunch of money living in China make a whole bunch of money 439 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:18,320 if you want to teach the English while you're there one on one tutors make a hundred U.S. dollars 440 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:25,600 per hour and again most importantly eat all this food I was talking about boy talking about this 441 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:33,440 food I might bump into you in China I still haven't visited the entire country I still got 442 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:40,480 things to see there great excuse to go eat all that food I love so yeah maybe I'll see you there hope so 443 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:47,840 oh as always you can contact me at bit of a rambler at gmail.com hope to hear from you 444 00:44:47,840 --> 00:45:07,720 Thank you.