How a 500-Year-Old Chinese ‘Bagel’ Helped Win a War
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This round bread might look like a bagel. It’s even got the trademark hole in the middle. But this is not a bagel. It’s guang-bing, and it’s got a heroic past. This is the story of how a humble little doughy treat helped China win a war 500 years ago. And that hole? There’s a story there, too.
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I grew up in this town (Fuan) and packed 10 of these things for long school hike....
Lol! It must be tasty!!
Aaa yes hiking with a bagel necklace. I can imagine that right now
Muhammad Roychan packing and creating a bread necklace are different you idiot, you squeaky grocery cart
哈哈，看着挺干，应该容易保存。
@@sharmintareque rude
Japanese pirate: *stealing*
Chinese soldier: "hey, what're you trying to do?" *munches off bread necklace*
LOL
Japanese pirate: hey that some nice bagel there
Chinese soldier: thanks *munches bread* *shoots Japanese pirate*
IDK why this made me laugh
Japanese Soldier: would be a shame if someone stole that cheerio necklace
Imagine a Chinese soldier walking up to a wounded Japanese pirate while looking down on them and munching on bread.
Badass.
The ultimate power move.
And the bread crumbs fall down to the Japanese pirate's wound
Oh my my
You got me 😕
I’m just imagining a soldier eating his bagel necklace while fighting a Japanese soldier 😅
Pirate*
Incidentally that's how the Americans won WWII
Eating while shooting the gun is a pro move
@Caroline Nguyen lol
Minecraft pvp belike
Ok but can we just take a solid minute to appreciate how *smooth* these things are?!
I bet you can’t last half a second.
@@notoriousfly9260 what
Takes some precision to make bread crazy smooth like that. Well made tasty little breads.
Guangbing literarily translates to "smooth bread"
@@notoriousfly9260 ?
1:35 Who else wants a bread necklace? 😃
remind me of the pigeon meme..
Me
Me i want one pls
@@tomyny3676 yes
chinese warrior drip
That looks like the most perfect 'bagel' I have ever seen. Wish I could try one guang bing
Actually, don't really expect the taste would be "bagel-y" because it's vastly different. It's way chewier, crustier yet less rich than western bagel.
I mean... It's just a normal sweet and slightly salty bread.
And plus, it's hard bread because the way of how they bake it.
@@fajarsetiawan8665 Uhhh chewy?
Based on you name, you're Indonesian, right?
As Indonesian, you should know that this kind of baking method produce a hard bread.
Know about bakpia? Nopia? Etc. These stuffs are hard. Not soft bakery.
It's weird if you never know about bakpia or nopia and this kind of baking technique if you're Indonesian.
Edit: plus, just watch this video. It clearly not a soft bread. It's hard bread. Crispy outside and hard inside. Not spongy.
@@DBT1007 mmm, do you really know what chewy means?
@@DBT1007 yes, is a bit chewy
We have those in flores island, if you go to Labuan bajo you should try it, but careful if you don't eat pork, some bagel(kompiang) have pork inside
It’s more like the first Chinese MRE.
It’s time consuming to cook rice in the field and it’s hard to travel with them. The Japanese pirates were constantly on the move so in order to keep up with them the Chinese army made the guang-bing in advance and carried them with strings.
Yeah that's what I just thought!! I was about the comment the same thing mentioning how similar this concept is to a modern day MRE used by militia. But then I saw ur comment while scrolling down through the comments.😊
@@icodestuff6241
Qi JiGuang famously defended the coast of “south” China, it’s in the video. 0:44
Guangbin is also considered a southeastern Chinese cuisine, because of Qi JiGuang’s campaign down there.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Jiguang
Fyi, the original version is a bit harder, so it will stay for longer
Oh i thought they could also use it as weapon, like boomerang
@@dddila no, it's not a baguette
@@mosengteroosss5485 baguette are swords and Guangbing is a throwable weapon
@@timecrashv5wu709 😀
@@mosengteroosss5485 its more of a chakram
You say Chinese bagel, I say European Guangbing
i remembered when the chinese bagel ended war, it was amazing.
>:(
Hahaha kinda like how Chinese people describe ravioli as small dumplings and Europeans describe dumplings as big raviolis
bjorg rasmussen I say your a racist
bjorg rasmussen i say youre racist (2)
No wonder why it won a war, that bagel looks so good
I want one really badly
same
But not as superar than a New York bagel!
@@lucianagarcia9315 Taste is subjective really. So what you're saying is not valid
I see you a lot
I used to see these sold in my hometown when I was a kid, and my dad loved to tell the same story 😂. I’m surprised to see this featured here, since it’s very regional and old fashioned. I’m not sure if kids nowadays even had this. Thanks for sharing this. Brings me back to my childhood
What's your channel name?
1:13 when my friends be acting up
LMFAO
@@justinxplayz2863 but is n word not English
@@justinxplayz2863 no
@@justinxplayz2863 china not japan
Finally someone noticed that he said the n word XD
@@justinxplayz2863 lol he did not said the n word but a similar word to the n word and also that comment i make was meant to be a joke notice the "XD" there
“General, how will we ever defeat these pirates?”
*B R E A D N E C K L A C E*
A little more clarity in the story would be great. The Wakou or Wokou, literally Japanese pirate, were a group of pirates comprised of multi-ethnicity from Japan, Korea, South East Asia but mostly, Chinese. Earlier Wokou were mainly poor Japanese islanders who took advantage of Mongol invasion to raid poorly defended coastline. These pirates were poor people turning to banditry to survive then thrived. Their end didn't come just from the Ming's success against them, but also from the Japanese lords subjugating their bases from their islands, eliminating their hideouts.
Their encounter was also the opposite. Fearing the Ming main force, the Wokou were evading their pursuit by looking out for cooking fire at night and continue raiding. They were recorded to have the advantage of bringing salted rice balls with them for mobility. The Chinese responded by adopting military ration, these Guangbing, so their soldiers can avoid lighting fire for cooking and carry ration with them.
Fake history. The main enemy of Ming was Mongolians not Japanese.
We call them Kompia or Kompyang here in Indonesia. Why ? Because it originates from Hokkien-speaking Fuzhou and most of our ethnic Chinese originates from that particular region. So we are more familiar with their Hokkien name (Kong Pia) instead of their Mandarin name (Guang Bing)
Pretty sure kong pia is in foochow
@@frodgyofgingersnap9277 yes. I already said it before.
@@Natadangsa i mean the word kong pia originated on foochow not hokkien
@@frodgyofgingersnap9277 I meant the language. Foochow is the city
@@Natadangsa amd yheres also a dialect called foochow
thanks to the person who still makes guang bing. hopes guang bing continues forever
I love bagels, never heard this history before. Thank you!
I went to that place and buy it on the way to the airport from China to Boston. And then my family drive a 1 hour way home to Maine. And I bring 70 Bagles to my school to my team. I even got graded for that because I talk about what are these for.
Is your family originally from Fuzhou? I see your name is spelled in Vietnamese.
"Oh no...."
"What is it Captain?"
"They've unleashed their secret weapon.."
*Chinese Bakery: Grand Opening*
I just love how the owner explain his bagels❤
Btw on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year in 15xx, Japanese Pirates invaded Town of Fuan and slaughtered every single person within the city wall. To this day, every year, the second day of Chinese New Year, people of Fuan stayed at home and paid respects to the dead,
@ThatOneAsianBroChick China had one if the biggest pirate fleets
ThatOneAsianBroChick I'm Japanese. I don't see myself disrespecting any other culture.
Please, if *you're* going to disrespect *my* country, my culture, tell me a reason why you would think that all of us would suddenly stand up for any disgusting act.
Kirby I think he ment back in the days not nowadays
@@marlenagee427 still disrespectful
@@stahppls2293 yeag
Imagine being a Japanese soilder and seeing a bunch of soldiers with bread necklaces run towards you 😭💀
I thought the title meant “Letting a bagel sit for 500 years can save ur life”
Thx for 100 likes
LMAO
😭
Me too bruh
Lead...??
Let the bagel sit
The bagel effect
Omg
Pov: you keep watching it over and over because of how smooth the bagel looks.
The mystery of the hole in the middle of a donut / bagel has been solved.
"Wait, what the hell? Is that a literal.. uhm. 'Bagel' necklace?"
"Yes."
I just want to say congratulations on the documentary, its fantastic.
1:13
"he said it!"
“it’s shiny it round it has a hole in the middle” best way to explain
“General, we’re out of ammo”
“It’s time..., take out the bagels”
Huang has such an awesome personality
He sounds like he’s speaking on a radio
At my place Sarawak, they are known as kompyang. But with meat. I had eat some at Sarikei where my mother taking me to the a restaurant. But my own hometown, Sri Aman, wasn't have any of these. Only at Sibu and Sarikei have them but I recommend any of you to try both regional kompyang.
Interesting. Somewhat similar to traditional bagels minus the boiling. Is there any evidence which suggests the european bagel descended from this similar to pasta?
Bagels aren't European. They're Jewish. Your name sounds very Jewish, so I'm surprised you don't know that...
@@jonahs92 where do you think European Jewish names came from? Does my full last name Rosenzweig sound Israeli or middle eastern to you? They're german. Check yourself.
@@sydrose13 I'm well aware. But Jews aren't European. Many Jews were forced to live in Europe for several millennia. They aren't, and have never been, European. They're Middle Easterners. Hence, bagels are a Middle Eastern food.
@@jonahs92 go make Europe great again somewhere else
@@sydrose13 Hey genius, I'm Jewish. Half Mizrachi and half Ashkenazi, in fact. And Israeli, too. I'm not some kind of European white supremacist.
Nobody:
Seriously nobody:
Me: *who thinks that they would throw the bread at the enemies in the war*
They kinda look like doughnuts 🍩
Flat ones with a tiny hole...
@@blueberrychclate5109 the more you think about it the more it sounds really, REALLY wrong
@@manperson5315 I also noticed!
Without frosting
They look so smooth and shiny, I thought they were glazed in carmel.
I recommended this bread to my friend who really likes bread for some reason
Me to
that bagel hit the spot
"An army marches on its stomach"
( Napoleon Bonaparte - France).
Soviet soldiers dropped everything when they found out that Finnish soldiers were having sausage stew during the winter war.
Same guy who lost almost all his soldiers to the russian winter and supply shortages...
The power of military logistics. Infinite supply chain infinite war/seige.
Atleast we know that the shop is never gonna close down since alot of people buy this bread and the legend can continue.
Bread necklace? The way to truly get this bread
Imagine the ancient bagel sandwich: A century egg between two halves of a 500 year old guang-bing
Guang-bing: exists
NYC and Montreal: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary
I’m literally drooling after seeing this 100 times
0:13 grandpa sound is like near to the micro phone
“Bagel” -Sun Tzu art of war
if you are wearing headphones the sound design is POG CHAMP
Literally the most smoothest bread ever
“Wisdom is better than strength.”
~Ecclesiastes 9:16
I know now ;)
my dumbass clicked on it as a time stamp
NABSTERZ same
@@newcatwhodis8555 yup me too
@@NABSTERZ same 😂
My guy with the hickies at the end though 😂
Who can resist the charms of a master baker?
Considering this is China, that could very likely be some kind of skin rash or subdermal infection/inflammation....
I need its skincare routine
I actually never tried this before and I go back to Chia to see my grandparents every
1:13
1:13 what did he even say lol
1:13💀
Bruh
A peace offering can end a war - water, food and energy.
I love this cause i from the place where this was made the first time.
There are 2 types of this
Guang bing and seeweed guang bing so yum
Btw when i went to fuzhou i ate this everyday breakfast
1:38
Huang Yiling: ...Yao Yao Yao... hahahaha
He's speaking the language of the gods
imagine seeing everyone at the war eating the bagels
👌🏻
Why the holes are smaller than American onss?
I'm not seeing a single comment about the Bagle effect?
Everyone: haha bred go brrrrrrrrrrr
Me: ngl those bagels look a lot like the bagels at the supermarket
Everyone: talking about how bagels help this war
Me: how smooth is that bagel?
I love how great big story makes this kinda stuff so interesting. I've been in China for 2 years now and they have this kinda stuff & these kinda stories everywhere man. To me it sounds like a big heap of crap from some poor baker, but it's quite interesting in this video! ( we are talking about local lake ghosts because people drowned there etc.. )
people:bagel
people now:guang bing
me:D O N U T
me now:bagel
dude it kinda looks like the love child of a macaron a donut and then it's step dad was a bagel who tried to be relatable the bagel went to work comes home to his macaron wife and his step son now the macaron donut never associated with bagel but bagel tried and tried but he was still shunned by his step son
Tfw this makes sense to me?
@@dindabungalarasati9331 because it does
1:13
My mans got the n word pass 😂😂
Soldiers in 500 yrs ago: We Got BAGELS!!!! WUUUUUUUU
My dude looks so wholesome I love it
The outside of the bagel looked like a glazed donut.
i cant stop watching the videos, really interesting and fun too!
This Video's Animation and sound effects are priceless. Makes the video so much more enjoyable seeing bread necklace soldiers lmao.
When I first saw the title I thought the Chinese made bagels too hard that you could throw them as weapons.
Yes, I imagined a war scenario where Japanese pirates got bagels to their heads.
Wait. So what is the purpose of the hole in bagels? Did people string bagels as well?
After some research, people apparently used to string bagels for displaying purposes.
It looks so delicious! 😋
Beautiful storytelling
that bagel makes me soooo hungry right now
You're Chinese? How famous is this bread there?
The Phenom bruh
@@nax9515 they were just asking
@@RAMBO14001 he might not be Chinese, if he is, not every Chinese person lives in China.
The Phenom Chinese here, first time hearing about this, and I want to try one too!
Kompia 😬😬😬. Still my favourite food for tea time!!! With meat as filling of course!
I heard at Porong, in east Java, they use Ote-Ote (fritter) filled with oysters and seaweeds as a filling.
Imagine a Japanese person enjoying guang bing
"this bread, single handedly stopped us from stealing"
Me: Turns on caption expecting captions.
Captions: [ *SPEAKING FOREIGN* ]
Be honest, we all thought they were donuts at first.
Her: Its shiny its round it has a hole in it its a bagel
Me: i thought you were trying to make us guess it was a glazed donut? XD
He said the n word 1:13🤬
Finally! Someome who knows
@@GuyDetected7233 lol
Idk why but i watched almost all of this channel's videos..
Music starting at 1:43:
Waltz Op. 64 No. 1 “Minute Waltz” by Frederic Chopin
Legend
omg- i just noticed this was posted in my birthday lol
Throw the damn guang-bing in the enemy
Wow! Didn't know that guangbing can differ much in different region. I also have guangbing in my hometown but it's totally different.
Captions: speaking in foreign language
love this video
is it me or does the bagel look like a glazed donut
kids born in quarantine: wait thats illegal
think of something and it's likely that the Chinese have thought of it years before and no one knew
1:36 looks like the heavy medals in mulan
Yes
1:13 u wot
Love it keep on making it!
1:13 he said the n word
Aiden Griffith it means that in chinese
doesnt sound like the n word
Besdies that it means that
Can you little kids stfu. Chinese is a language on its own, not based off of English.
1:42 lol chopin minute waltz