I like that Amy is unapologetic about the killing of the chicken. Where do people think our food comes from? The chicken was healthy, well looked after and had freedom to roam its whole life. And then they didn't just cook the 'best' bits, but used every part, blood, innards, everything except the feathers. This is what responsible animal husbandry and food consumption looks like. I really enjoyed this video.
Diana is awesome!!! And it's really amazing how you randomly dropped by a restaurant in Italy and ended up with a wonderful friend (and another wonderful trip to Chengdu) out of it! Noemi's chicken catching skill deserves some recognition here. LOL
I love how the local people take pride in their fermentation-we just don't understand sometimes how the same sauce but from a different locale can be so different but in addition to their secret prep they also have different environmental factors that effects their microbes- yum
Wow, what a wonderful day! Noemi is a great addition to your crew - she was NOT going to let a chicken get the better of her! and it was wonderful to see Diana and her mother again, such warm ladies!
@@jrwkd6114Emma is referring to garlic leaves. If you get some garlic, half bury them in soil, they will eventually grow into something similar grass blades but in the size of a chive. They taste garlicky, with a nice grassy texture.
Diana's farm to table knowledge is incredible and enlightening ; a truly gracious and warm person ! @16:43 That mahjong table is next level ! Something one might see in a James Bond 007 movie ! Well Amy - you continue to wow us !!
What a truly amazing loaded episode, one of my favourite so far this year. Diana can definitely give Peter a run for his money as your capable food guide! :D
What a beautiful and serendipitous encounter! You never know what amazing experiences life will throw at you in you just get out there and embrace everything.
I'm from Chengdu but haven't been able to go home in years. My mouth was watering in jealousy the entire episode haha. Thanks for sharing the amazing foods of my hometown with the world
I'm from Chongqing and in Lisbon and I tried always not to watch this kind of vids but never managed to do so hahaha. Just seeing that huuuuge bowl of 豆瓣 just made me laugh out like a dummy huh huh.
18:28 omg yes!! This is one of the many cultural shocks I experienced when I moved to china for my exchange year, my chinese host mother often served these small tomatoes like a dessert, just a bunch of them all cut to small pieces and covered with sugar (similar to how we serve strawberries with sugar in italy as a dessert). I had no idea "sweet" tomatoes tasted so nice! It was a very interesting food discovery 😄
I think this is one is my favourite of all your video's (apart from the ones with Peter). It was such a joy to watch you all trying such delicious food, I really wish I was with you. I want to visit that place that makes the sauces, it was so interesting. Thanks Amy, you are the best!
@@schmidcl77 Whether you eat meat or not, animals keep on eating animals, that's nature, can't change that. Do you recommend not kill mice and rats because they are intelligent animals with love and empathy?
@@Anonymous------ yes I recommend not killing animals without life important need. In this video was beside satisfying the tastebuds no need to end the life of this chicken.
Been watching you for years, this is one of the best vids to date! Really love the vibe. I esp love the part where y'all went to Pi Du and got to taste some of the most iconic flavours of China in the process of fermentation.
Tomato is actually a type of fruit as there is seeds inside , same as apple , oranges etc. Where vegetables doesn’t have seeds inside. However , in history american categorised tomato as vegetables to impose higher the import tax and since then tomato got more and more recognised as vegetables.
I really love watching your food adventures, this one just hit my heart. I'm from Sichuan, spent 4 years in Pixian(college stuff), now I'm in the US, havn't been back for 4 years. I miss my hometown so much especially the food. It feels so happy as well as homesick watching this video.
I think there has been a misunderstanding here. Amy, I know you asked if you should dip the bread into the sauce, but they thought you asked if the breads are going to fall into the pot, they kept saying: "no no the bread will stick to the side, this is how they do it, it won't fall".
Hi Amy, I think the corn bread can be dipped in, just not straight into the wok，rather scooping up the juice into a bowl then dipping in. During that conversation, you were asking whether it can be 沾著吃，yet the question was mistaken as whether the bread would fall into the wok, and they answered, 不會掉下去，no, ‘it was designed this way, won’t fall’⋯⋯
Chengdu is a vibrant city, and it is also a city of delicious food. When you arrive in Chengdu, you will feel like you have entered a city of delicious food.
This was a really really good episode! 👍 👍 So much packed into itZ I love it when she gets local restauranteurs to show her around. Really informative and giving us access to places off the beaten track. Thanks, Amy!
I am so elated you tried the firewood chicken! I had this last time I was in Sichuan and I have been speaking very highly of it since then! I remember seeing your Dongbei video about the iron pot stew and I remember pointing out the similarities to my parents! Love how your videos are showing how people from different places have more in common than we think!
At 19′40″ of the video, the Chinese subtitle used the phrase "因缘际会," which is truly excellent! The translation is very accurate and particularly poetic!
Thank you Blondie for broadcasting our beautiful Chengdu, China. Downtown Chengdu becomes too commercialized and modern. You went to the right place and I can still feel the old style Chengdu living from our videos :) which is a much slower work-life pace with plenty of delicious and organic food. Enjoy!
I loved playing mahjong as a kid. It's like gin rummy with dragons and prevailing winds. I never learned Chinese so we played with the tiles with the numbers on the top right corner. I remember watching my grandmother play for money!
You are spot on Amy! 栀子花 is in the jasmine flower family :) There's also another one that gets sold on the street in Sichuan, which looks like long slender white blossoms, they are called 缅桂花
I was so surprised about Chinese chives not being used outside of China. My favorite local Chinese café growing up do the BEST pork and chive dumplings that I'd order every Saturday.
You need to bring with you disposable aprons... I got that idea from a restaurant in Taiwan that provides everyone a very thin disposable aprons to every patron.
The way the lady cut the noodles form a hump of dough reminds me of what the Germans call "spätzle". When home made it is also cut by hand from dough or pressed through a sieve. Ask your German boy friend.
I like that Amy is unapologetic about the killing of the chicken. Where do people think our food comes from? The chicken was healthy, well looked after and had freedom to roam its whole life. And then they didn't just cook the 'best' bits, but used every part, blood, innards, everything except the feathers. This is what responsible animal husbandry and food consumption looks like. I really enjoyed this video.
Even the feathers, can also make "Jian Zi" for play😄
exactly.....
my australian cousins came and saw grandma slaughter chickens for new year feast and they became vegan straightaway lolol. true story
Guess what, you can be apologetic and still eat it.
@@DaisukiMF that
Hey guys, noemi here! 50k likes and I'll fight another chicken 🎉
Diana is awesome!!! And it's really amazing how you randomly dropped by a restaurant in Italy and ended up with a wonderful friend (and another wonderful trip to Chengdu) out of it! Noemi's chicken catching skill deserves some recognition here. LOL
I'll visit 老成都 this sunday evening! after Guns'n'Roses concert 😀😀
I love how the local people take pride in their fermentation-we just don't understand sometimes how the same sauce but from a different locale can be so different but in addition to their secret prep they also have different environmental factors that effects their microbes- yum
Wow, what a wonderful day! Noemi is a great addition to your crew - she was NOT going to let a chicken get the better of her! and it was wonderful to see Diana and her mother again, such warm ladies!
This is so cool, meeting someone in Rome then touring Chengdu together
Lol i love how Diana was trying to haggle a deal as a true native, even on camera. Love it!
Yay! I’m going to China in a week and your vids are getting me so pumped
Ahhh have the best time in China!
欢迎你访问中国
如果有需要我很乐意成为你的中国的免费导游
@@BlondieinChinathanks to the Chinese government
welcome
I was so pleased to be introduced to Chinese Garlic Chives - I now have them growing in my year as an edible edging plant - they are AMAZING!
Chinese chives have unique effects. In Chinese medicine, chives can increase physical health and make people more motivated。
@@jrwkd6114Emma is referring to garlic leaves. If you get some garlic, half bury them in soil, they will eventually grow into something similar grass blades but in the size of a chive. They taste garlicky, with a nice grassy texture.
@@tipinwings No nothing to do with actual garlic or garlic leaves, it is a type of chive with the name "garlic" chive. Similar but different.
你要是学会割韭菜，你就会一年四季源源不断得到韭菜。
chives and egg pancake is the best.
Diana's farm to table knowledge is incredible and enlightening ; a truly gracious and warm person !
@16:43 That mahjong table is next level ! Something one might see in a James Bond 007 movie !
Well Amy - you continue to wow us !!
It is fun to watch you make friends with everyone you meet and incorporate them into your videos so naturally, spontaneously and effortlessly.
Diana is such a lovely person.
What a truly amazing loaded episode, one of my favourite so far this year. Diana can definitely give Peter a run for his money as your capable food guide! :D
What a beautiful and serendipitous encounter! You never know what amazing experiences life will throw at you in you just get out there and embrace everything.
I'm from Chengdu but haven't been able to go home in years. My mouth was watering in jealousy the entire episode haha. Thanks for sharing the amazing foods of my hometown with the world
I'm from Chongqing and in Lisbon and I tried always not to watch this kind of vids but never managed to do so hahaha. Just seeing that huuuuge bowl of 豆瓣 just made me laugh out like a dummy huh huh.
What an entertaining episode! The part with the “hunt” for the chicken had me rolling on the floor laughing. Thank you!
As a Chengdu local living in US this episodes put some smile on my face, everything was so familiar
回来吧 归来哟 那离家的孩子！回来吧 归来哟～我在吃四川的泡菜哟。安逸的板 泡豇豆伴熟油海椒再加点点麻油一点味精 太安逸了清口水直流。想吃不嘛？还有烧白和红烧肉 红烧肉是用黄豆烧的加了点点泡海椒 又糯又软又爽口，这个番茄园子汤也安逸😘😘 明天约朋友去吃串串晚上去户外烧烤🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
so cool how serendipity works!! diana is so knowledgeable and loved her in this vid
18:28 omg yes!! This is one of the many cultural shocks I experienced when I moved to china for my exchange year, my chinese host mother often served these small tomatoes like a dessert, just a bunch of them all cut to small pieces and covered with sugar (similar to how we serve strawberries with sugar in italy as a dessert). I had no idea "sweet" tomatoes tasted so nice! It was a very interesting food discovery 😄
I think this is one is my favourite of all your video's (apart from the ones with Peter). It was such a joy to watch you all trying such delicious food, I really wish I was with you. I want to visit that place that makes the sauces, it was so interesting. Thanks Amy, you are the best!
Definitely one of the most wholesome videos!
What a lovely video. I love how a chance meeting resulting in something so much richer. A local is the best travel guide.
this young woman just makes me smile, and I love seeing what her taste buds get up to!
You have the charm to make friends with people no matter where on earth you go.
I did this in north Africa, I think everyone should do this at least once to learn about where our food comes from! Hello from China 👋😊
but not too far, otherwise you will stop to eat most of this products if u visited the slaughterhouses where the meat comes from.
Nature designed some certain animals to be eaten by other animals, this is how ecosystem works.
@@Anonymous------ why nature gave us empathy thinking then 🤷♂️.
@@schmidcl77
Whether you eat meat or not, animals keep on eating animals, that's nature, can't change that. Do you recommend not kill mice and rats because they are intelligent animals with love and empathy?
@@Anonymous------ yes I recommend not killing animals without life important need. In this video was beside satisfying the tastebuds no need to end the life of this chicken.
Absolutely great video Amy. It's like a Postgraduate Class for Blondie in China. Diana was a great find in Italy. Fabulous!!
亲手捉鸡并且吃它就和了解调味料从哪来一样重要。无论动物还是植物，在成为能量循环之前都是生命，至少要对这些食物有一定了解，尊重，并且不浪费地做成美食并且享用。
Been watching you for years, this is one of the best vids to date! Really love the vibe. I esp love the part where y'all went to Pi Du and got to taste some of the most iconic flavours of China in the process of fermentation.
Tomato is actually a type of fruit as there is seeds inside , same as apple , oranges etc. Where vegetables doesn’t have seeds inside. However , in history american categorised tomato as vegetables to impose higher the import tax and since then tomato got more and more recognised as vegetables.
You cannot believe my father's home town is in the video and I visit there so many times. Thanks Ammy. Right now I am in Sydney 😀
Nice job Blondie !Glad I discovered your channel last year 😊
Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸
Thanks for watching!!!
@@BlondieinChina You should do a video with ThomasAfu. He is German.
ha same here San Diego CA
I respect this channel cause the Author speaks the language!! Seriously!!
I really love watching your food adventures, this one just hit my heart. I'm from Sichuan, spent 4 years in Pixian(college stuff), now I'm in the US, havn't been back for 4 years. I miss my hometown so much especially the food. It feels so happy as well as homesick watching this video.
Thanks!
I think there has been a misunderstanding here. Amy, I know you asked if you should dip the bread into the sauce, but they thought you asked if the breads are going to fall into the pot, they kept saying: "no no the bread will stick to the side, this is how they do it, it won't fall".
I am so inspired to learn Mandarin every time I watch your videos!
Hi Amy, I think the corn bread can be dipped in, just not straight into the wok，rather scooping up the juice into a bowl then dipping in. During that conversation, you were asking whether it can be 沾著吃，yet the question was mistaken as whether the bread would fall into the wok, and they answered, 不會掉下去，no, ‘it was designed this way, won’t fall’⋯⋯
bingo！you can have it by any way you want。
That makes sense. I was wondering why bread would be served with a meal if it isn’t supposed to be dipped. It looked so good though.
You are right about that.
Chengdu is a vibrant city, and it is also a city of delicious food. When you arrive in Chengdu, you will feel like you have entered a city of delicious food.
That chicken feast, into some mahjong and then closing it off with bingfen seems like literal heaven.
That's really good place for making 豆瓣 in such grand bowls. I can already imagine the strong smell exploding from it! thanks for the good work
This was a really really good episode! 👍 👍 So much packed into itZ I love it when she gets local restauranteurs to show her around. Really informative and giving us access to places off the beaten track. Thanks, Amy!
Chilli oil dumplings was my dinner for weeks! Weeks!!!! I love it!!!
i was just watching your italy video and i had to check if you really got to meet diana again and you did!!! so exciting!
Welcome to Chengdu, Sichuan to taste delicious food，Dumplings are my favorite (especially the ones filled with chives)
I am so elated you tried the firewood chicken! I had this last time I was in Sichuan and I have been speaking very highly of it since then! I remember seeing your Dongbei video about the iron pot stew and I remember pointing out the similarities to my parents! Love how your videos are showing how people from different places have more in common than we think!
At 19′40″ of the video, the Chinese subtitle used the phrase "因缘际会," which is truly excellent! The translation is very accurate and particularly poetic!
Out of all the videos I've watched from your channel, this one is most definitely the coolest! ❤
this video shows a wonderful 缘分! Great people, great friendship, great video! Thanks a lot!
"so bloody good" how Aussie can you get ;) another amazing video willed with good food and good friends!
The background music used in the video traveling in Hebei. So nostalgic, thank you for making these videos along the way!
dear Amy, you are the food master!!!!
Wow so wonderful, that's friends are for. Make your life more meaningful and joy. Great job Amy!🙏🏻👍🏻😍
This is so cool! I am from Chengdu I love it there! Hope you have a great time there.
07:17 jasminey flower is gardenia.
12:28 "why do i look more like the chicken than the chicken itself 😂
'i bend i don't break' lmaoo noemi is a legend. 😭
Oh, I went to the same restaurant, Old Chengdu, when I was in Rome this April. Good day mate Amy.
The first ever UNESCO City of Gastronomy in all of Asia!
Of course it has the best food in the WORLD!
Hope to visit it again soon.
This is a very interesting video from you, keep going ! those chili oil dumplings make me drool literally to my keyboard ! wish I can eat those here
Thank you Blondie for broadcasting our beautiful Chengdu, China. Downtown Chengdu becomes too commercialized and modern. You went to the right place and I can still feel the old style Chengdu living from our videos :) which is a much slower work-life pace with plenty of delicious and organic food. Enjoy!
Thank you for sharing such an interesting day.
6:35 Wooooow 1.5 wontons per is actually unbelievable what skill!!
Thanks for the long video Amy! I loved this one
Just checked the flight Melbourne to Chengdu return AUD700. Very tempting especially after watching your video!
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17:29 the "I don't know what happened" just killed me😂
I loved playing mahjong as a kid. It's like gin rummy with dragons and prevailing winds. I never learned Chinese so we played with the tiles with the numbers on the top right corner. I remember watching my grandmother play for money!
Oh Amy after following you for about two years now I am going to Chengdu today like you! So happy to see this clip before I arrive!
So cool to see where doubanjiang is made!
Catching chicken was my favorite part.
only that in Sichuan, in the markets we locals go to, the spot of killing chicken is always with the WORST smell. really bad smell omg huh huh
You are spot on Amy! 栀子花 is in the jasmine flower family :) There's also another one that gets sold on the street in Sichuan, which looks like long slender white blossoms, they are called 缅桂花
Love the smell of Gardenia , especially when i can smell them on a summer night outside of my bedroom window
Love Chengdu! I went for a week 7 years ago and thought the food and place was so good! One of my fav places after Xi’an haha.
Amy I am now living around NYC and by watching your video I got crunched...
I was so surprised about Chinese chives not being used outside of China. My favorite local Chinese café growing up do the BEST pork and chive dumplings that I'd order every Saturday.
i was just in chengdu for the first time couple weeks ago. I find the chilli spices there to be more aromatic than super spicy.
This is the real local life in Chengdu!!!
My mouth was watery watching this ..just picked up a jar of Shanghai chilli oil and it’s amazing
I have been to this restaurant many times. Normally it’s my stop after my flight to Rome before hopping on a train to Naples.
Omg that mahjong table is awesome😮
If you noticed the Chinese character for vinegar is 醋 is 20 days wine
i laughed so hard when the mahjong came up, so typical chengdu life style, lol
Such a beautiful encounter
Mahjong table is out of this world!
I don't play it too, but I love that table.
Only in China.
diana explained exactly correct about fillings between dumpling and wonton in Szechuan or chongqing❤
14:12 OMG that looks so delicious.💯💯💯
Omg… that automatic mahjong table! Very impressive lol
I'm one of those crazies who've always loved to drink vinegar from the bottle 😋😂
Chili oil dumplings, it looks spicy and tasty.
Also, important to know where each food ingredient come from and how it’s made.
goin there to teach in sept. very excited.
I can't be the only one thinking "Rockie" when Amy said "catch our own chicken". 😂😂😂
The good news is finally from July 1st have Chengdu High speed train to HK already in West Kowloon station (Hong Kong) from Chengdu about 10 hours.
The food ranger and his wife is back and now in Chengdu as well.
12:28 19:50
I must say, it really is quite impressive how Amy manages to look more like a chicken than the chickens…
12:29 I laugh my head off! hahahahahahahha
welcome to chengdu. i live in chengdu now. here is a wonderful city
In the meanwhile I went to Rome and had lunch in 老成都. I'd like to be your guide for Turin if you come back in Italy!
You need to bring with you disposable aprons... I got that idea from a restaurant in Taiwan that provides everyone a very thin disposable aprons to every patron.
That's so cool, have fun!
Experiences by wondering around. Cheers.
Amy have you ever been to Ya An city,（near Chengdu),Come here and try the da da noodles .
Just came from a video of people pulling sewer oil out to be reused and in restaurants they reuse use second hand chilli oil.
I have IBS, it is my dream to eat like this. Sad part is I love Chinese food... I might once do thing and peace out with a bang, literally.
The way the lady cut the noodles form a hump of dough reminds me of what the Germans call "spätzle". When home made it is also cut by hand from dough or pressed through a sieve. Ask your German boy friend.