China’s sweetest city DEFEATED me… did NOT expect this.
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Welcome to Wuxi, home to China's sweetest cuisine, and as it turns out, my end boss.... The food is delicious, don't get me wrong, it's just super, super, sweet.
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As someone who grew up in Wuxi, i'd like to say thank you Amy for visiting my city and introducing it to your audience.
One thing I'd like to clarify is that, while we have many sweet meat dishes, the amount you ate today was way above an average person's daily intake. Many of the dishes are meant to be shared and also paired with rice and lots of vegetables. There are also many Wuxi dishes that are not sweet at all.
Also It's good that you skipped the crispy eel dish... its sweetness is on another level and even many locals can't handle it :)
I can't eat rice with that sweet meet and shit
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@@tianchudang6242 Nobody can eat rice with shit. Be nice, be respectful. This is people's daily food. Plus, nobody eats "meet". If you want to pose as "cool speaking English", distinguish "meet" and "meat", or people think "your" American or something.
@@user-it2wi4tz2u 身为无常人(无锡+常州)，我也爱。 🤣(我知道应该是叫常锡)
yes boss you got me. I just hate that sweetness and ppl overdefending themselves😂@@maxyang7919
if you ever wondered why hot tea is popular in china, it's to balance out extreme flavors whether it be spicy, salty, oily, or in this case sweet lol ;)
this! also great for digestion
hot tea is popular everywhere in the world
Lol, no. Hot tea has been popular in china for literally thousands of years. Long before there was overly spicy and sweet foods. Some of the tea trees are older then the actual first importation of chillis into china. Tea is deeply embedded into chinas culture for waaaaaaaaaaay longer.
@@georgwalt7978 missing the forest looking at a tree love. Or not, who knows
NOTHING beats tea with sweets or beer and alcy with super savory or spicy
Lots of high-tech company owners are trying to make the true meatless meat, yet it still tastes like cardboard. Chinese has a long history of Buddhist culture. For thousands of years, Chinese have been making super tasty meatless meats with only gluten, tofu, mushrooms and spices. They taste so real, you won't believe you're eating vegetarian meat.
Most people who buy those crappy/processed plant based products ( fake Italian sausages for example) aren’t vegan
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I have to say the meatless substitute I’ve liked the most from the big companies is the ground beef. Other than that, not a fan. I am yet to try seitan or anything of the like, but anything with mushrooms I’m down for 🤤
How can you eat so much and not be 100 kilos? 😂
I was in Tokyo at a vegetarian restaurant…I think everything was made from tofu. Somehow they simulated chicken and beef and other meats…. I could not get over it, still can’t. Have no idea what the restaurant name was.
Wow! The city Wuxi is really beautiful! I want to explore more of China besides my mom's village now. Thank you Amy for these lovely videos and everything too! I am learning so much!!
Lots of beautiful cities in China are those small towns and villages. If you are a little fed up with big cities vibe like me, these places are very enjoyable. Just be careful with food, do review research, just in case.
The spicy sour soup you ate at the first 酸辣汤 is very popular in the US at Chinese American restaurants. It is, of course, served in slightly westernized for local tastes. It's known here as hot and sour soup in the restaurants.
I always go there just for soup and a big spring roll
the indo chinese variant is called manchow
I am so glad you went to Wuxi. I'm actually adopted from there and hope to one day visit again.
i always thought the hot spices would defeat you eventually, but not this sweet sugar stuff 🙂Greetings to Derk...
Yeah this was definitely unexpected 😂😂😂
Wuxi has just the right amount of sweetness for me.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Who knew sugar and sweet would defeat her so easily. I was massively surprised I gotta say.
LOL, i am from wuxi and currently studying in Canada, i miss all the sweetness back home. The yu lan bing is my favourite food! i could eat 8 of them for breakfast and the xiao long bao miss it so much. i also find the ribs in restaurant is way sweetier than home cook style. You should stayed longer and visit the Lakes! hopo u had fun!
Ooh Wuxi looks gorgeous! I love the reaction from the taxi driver 😂 for some reason this is the first long format video I’ve watched from you! I love your presentation style and how you edit and film! I’m hooked! Catch me commenting on earlier videos while I watch! 😂😂
Yay! Thank you!
Amy is a true gastronome (美食家). You get the trick really quick. In Wuxi, people always order some red/dark and some white. Wuxi food follows a simple rule: all red dishes are sweet and all white dishes are umami.
Wuxi ribs is a very intense dish and meant to be eaten with rice and other light vegetables. It's not meant to be eaten on its own otherwise you will find it to be too intense.
I love ypur interactions with locals, people seem so friendly.
Too sweet, that’s such a surprise! Lol….. Can’t wait to see you and Jasmine getting together again!
Subscriber since almost 2 years ! Nice job Blondie ! Very interesting, entertaining and informative channel 😊 👍
Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸
Amy is the best Aussie UA-camr in China...there is another American female UA-camr (Katherine's Journey to the East) who travels around China on bike and she made a video when she rode bike in a rural town in Xinjiang near the border chatting with local Uyghur elderly who criticized Biden's China policies. There was another wellknown Canadian UA-camr the Food Ranger who had been to a lot of places in China trying all kinds of local foods.
I live in Changzhou which is a short 10 minute train ride from Wuxi. I was just there 2 weeks ago...now I must go back and try some of these dishes. Thanks for sharing!!
Is that where they threw the donkey into that tiger enclosure?
@@dirkdiggler4136 I believe it is
@@rihardsrozans6920 dude you gotta listen to Shane Gillis tell the story.
Actually 青笋qingsun is not bamboo shoot but Celtuce or “stem lettuce,” “asparagus lettuce“
I have to say having eaten some sweet dishes, especially the Japanese diet, can be unbearably sweet at times. But the ribs Amy ate today still look pretty shocking, the brain naturally resists consuming a diet with so much sugar hahaha
You must eat the pork ribs with rice, then you will find out, it's a good combination
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@@lohfookiong9984 Not very good for your liver and your blood, though. If you brain tells you it's too sweet, it's because it becomes bad for your health. However if the rice fills you enough that you limit your meat intake greatly, then I kind of agree with you. But I'd rather have the choice of the degree of sweetness like you can sometimes choose how hot or how well done meat is cooked. It would be much better.
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Interesting video, Amy! I will definitely visit Wuxi and try the local food there next time I visit China.
Wasn't having the best of days, but your videos help make it much better :)
aww! I hope you’re doing ok ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ sending hugs
@@BlondieinChina Thank you ☺
and the sweetest people. 🤣 i maybe biased, my mom's from Wuxi. Did you happen to check out the big Buddhist scenic area at Lingshan? It's a pretty cool fairly new (a little over a decade old) congregation of many different sects of Buddhism and a massive prayer and conference hall for monks. There's a few stupas, a mini Potala Palace, a giant bronze Buddha statue, a nine-dragon fountain, a lot of lotus motifs everywhere, ... i want to go back with my new camera again just to take photos. oh, and i hope you got to try Taihu Sanbai (太湖三白 3 white foods of Lake Tai. White fish, Silver fish, and White shrimp) on a floating restaurant along the lake. It's typically not prepared in a sweet way(some are actually quite salty) so it would've helped you balance out from all the sweet foods you had.
oh yea, speaking of gluten, people who don't believe there's variety in Chinese vegetarian food really needs to visit this region between Nanjing and Shanghai. we have literally hundreds of dishes created by and for our Buddhist monks and nuns, as well as imitation meat dishes for non-vegetarian pilgrims/visitors for many centuries before Impossible Meat or Beyond Meat.
btw, that "green bamboo shoot" is not bamboo at all. it's called celtuce or stem lettuce, and it's just cut up stalks without the skin or leaves. i love it. it's really refreshing.
Happy to see you visit wuxi, really brings back a lot of nostalgic feeling as i was there many times during my work trip, definitely nice streets to have a walk, food was great and the people was very nice, remember that i had a great time visiting the 3 kingdom city
Good morning! It's 6 AM and a bubbly Aussie You! Makes a Good start of the day 😃 Greetz from The Netherlands..
Love watching your channel as always! Looking forward to seeing Jasmine and your food adventures!❤❤❤
omg you finally visit Wuxi!! I grew up with gluten meatballs, sweet pork ribs and sweet xiaolongbao. Blondie you make me homesick so bad :)
"Sweet view for a sweet meal" well said! Definitely not as sweet, but those Wuxi ribs you had are similar the Guava-glazed baby back ribs that I make! The guava ribs are the result of a Chinese-Cuban fusion! Chinese laborers came to Cuba to work on the sugarcane fields in the late 1850s, and as a result, their cooking combined with what they had available in Cuba! The Chinese were unfortunately treated harshly in Cuba, so severe that the imperial Chinese government even sent investigators in 1873 to look into what was happening. After Chinese labor trade was prohibited, the last ship carrying Chinese laborers arrived in 1874. They intermarried with the Cubans, and Havana once had the largest Chinatown in Latin America!
I know you're of course Australian, but with how you said it's like drinking maple syrup...are you sure you're not Canadian? 😂Fun fact: Canada actually has a strategic maple syrup reserve! This is a collective effort by Québec maple producers as an ambitious and effective way to manage their markets. The facility is operated by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers which represents 77 percent of the global maple syrup supply. The reserve is made up of three warehouses. With a combined capacity of 133 million pounds (216,000 barrels), the three warehouses can hold the equivalent of 53 Olympic-sized swimming pools of maple syrup.
Amy definitely masteredthe spirit of Chinese cuisine-捞饭, gravy over rice. ❤❤❤
yessss new blondie video to watch while eating dinner on the couch.
I guess Wuxi has the best dentist among other cities 😂😂😂
Quite opposite to your experience, Amy, as someone who grew up in Fuzhou, another place where the local cuisines are sweet, I felt like I was in heaven when I visited Wuxi on a university holiday. My uni is in Nanjing, where the cuisines are influenced by Anhui, i.e., more on the salty side. A friend from Xiamen and I bought several boxes of the braised pork ribs for our dormmates, but we ended up eating 2 on our train back...🤣Yum!!!
Oh my! Thanks for this neat adventure!
That looks amazing tbf 😋 Food here in China is amazing 👌❤️
You are the best, thanks for taking us around in China. I love those sweet food hahaha
everything looked so amazing I wonder how the sweetness compares to the American palate being also pretty sweet
wow Blondie!! so fun to visit yet another unique city, thanks for taking us along on another culinary extreme!!...and taking (a sweet) one for the team yikes!!
I like this style of editing - like how at 2:18 “Let’s go in for a bite” whilst she’s going in for the bite, as opposed to showing her saying the words on camera. It’s clean.
Hot and sour soup was my FAVORITE growing up! Really hits the spot in fall and winter months
I think I'll love it there 😂. As a filipino, we add sugar to our stew dishes and just love sweet treats in general.
filipinos are fat from all the sugar in everything and the obsession with rice and more rice...?
Wuxi is among the richest cities in China, I have Chinese friends here that tell me that American food was easier to adapto than food from the Yangtze delta.
Thanks for the video! This is where I’m from! I’m gonna share this video with my friends so they know a little about my cultural background!
Me being a Wuxi born Sydney sider watching Sydney born Amy eating in my hometown Wuxi😂 To me, nothing beats Wuxi style Xiao Long Bao in terms of food, not even wagyu and lobster😊
That soup looked amazing!
Jasmine!!! She is always sooo beautiful! So happy you two met up
Wuxi; how interesting because my friend who in 1980 offered me a job in Hong Kong working for her family (I believe) came from Wuxi. She rarely told anyone where she was from (idk why, this was before home computers and Google 😂) and I had always envisioned it spelt Wooshee. She was the first person to introduce me to rock sugar and when I would host our dinner-of-the-month (always at my place as I was the only one single) she would make me add rock sugar to my homemade spicy chicken wing sauce. Huh, I wish I could find her, I've been searching for her and for her children on social media for ages now.
Amy, I like the occasional sweet but I'd be physically ill if I ate so much sweet food. I bet if the sweetness was dialed back, you'd have taken one for the team 😂
I honestly would love to try the Wuxi cuisine; I need to get this intense desire to visit China turned into a reality. However my hurdle is money; my Son promised to take me to Japan and though I really want to go, China has always been my #1 destination to visit. After my Father came back from business in rural China in the 70's (lots of destinations, all hydroelectric related) he just said to me "go, you won't regret it."
And now I'll stop yakking. I do tend to go on and on.
Another banger, Amy. The walking streets were postcard perfect. 🥹
Great stuff looks like you were near mission impossible three spot?... Keep up the amazing work kind regards...
I think a lot of westerners have this view that Chinese are these "inhuman" sort of people who live in inhuman dystopian conditions (at least, more dystopian than the rest of the world). Wuxi looks like a town you could find anywhere on earth, and a nice place to visit. Glad you decided to share.
After eating lots of spicy cuisines, having the sweetest cuisines in Wuxi can balance your taste buds, Miss Amy.
Besides deers that I have seen them in Nara, Japan, the Wuxi ribs looks familiar with the ones (sweet and sour ribs) in Hong Kong, my family and I like it.
Sweet meat is one of my personal nightmares.
Nice to see my hometown! I grew up in Xiao Lou Xiang but it was nothing like what it was 20+ years ago
I've just come back from a couple of days in Wuxi, having never heard of it 2 weeks prior. You're correct, even the xiaoling bao are sweet though not super sweet. I could see you how you overload on the sweetness if you went for the 'wrong' dishes.
As someone who grow up in Wuxi, I was so excited seeing this video! As expected, it is too sweet for most people including myself.
Wuxi is my hometown and it rocks! Glad you visited there. As far as I know, every Wuxier loves and is proud of their food. Funny thing is, while Amy is saying Wuxi food is too sweet, our desserts are much less sweet than Australian desserts.
I think you're supposed to eat those meat with rice Amy... here in Indonesia we also have a region that specialized in making sweet food. We eat them with load of rice and many non-sweet side dish to balance the flavor 😅
This video definitely convinced me to plan a travel to Wuxi. I love sweet food, and my 15 years living in the US have pushed my sweetness tolerance up to a new level. Now, even the Oreo in China tastes bitter in my mouth. (Yes, they reduced the sugar level outside the US.)
Wuxi, try me with all your sweetest dishes.😎
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I remember first hearing of Wuxi from her video in Australia on the restaurant, Nanjing Dumpling, whose manager stated that such city was the origin place of the soup dumpling! So cool that she's there!
Wuxi sounds like my kind of place…lots of good walking and sweetness everywhere.
looks beautiful. the view yep
Wow I've just realised you're in Wuxi, I'm about 30 minutes from there, I go there every week as the food is fantastic 😋❤️
My mom adds a sweet touch to her Qingsun as well. I believe the owner reduced the sugar in that dish just for you. I've followed Blondie since the start of the pandemic, and now you are finally getting to visit my hometown. Yeah..
I have GOT to try this 😍😅
Those hot soup dumplings are always blue crab or dungeoness in America which are so much better as they are caught all year round while hairy crab just isn’t on our radar. We get stone crab too. Most Chinese here don’t really care for hairy crab because it’s just too small and not fatty enough. Plus the fact they can’t be here helps.
Go to Yulin in Guangxi province in the 2nd half of June, you will enjoy the most delicious food in the world.
Yes, but next week will be even sweeter with Jasmine making an appearance!
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Could you tell US why you chosen Asian Foods and not Australia foods??
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Glad to see you visited my hometown. Some Wuxi dishes are too sweet even for locals😅. But Wuxi does offer many savory and delicious food doesn’t have sugar in it.
Spicy is the way to go, but very brave of you to try the sweet food!
Wuxi and Jiangsu cuisine in general is on the sweet side (in the sugary/syrupy sense). I visited a bunch of cities in that province 2-3 years ago and concluded that it's too sweet for me!
I'm from that region. Can't have any spicy food but has a huge tolerance in sweet food.
I'm from northern China and I thought Cantonese dim sum was sweet! I can't imagine what this must be like! In my family we never mix sweet and savory, except in 酱 dishes (like for pork feet and chicken) for which the caramelized sugar is part of the flavoring and coloring, but the soy sauce and star anise in those make it such that the sweetness isn't too obvious.
I found pretty much the same when I lived in Shanghai. Just too sweet for me!
Watching your video always make me hungry.
I spent a total of 10 weeks (spread out over 3 different trips) in Suzhou between 2006 and 2010 and really quite enjoyed the local flavor profile of the cuisine in the Shanghai and Suzhou area. I visited Wuxi as well a few times during my trips (if this is Wuxi close to Suzhou that is) and remember quite liking the foods I had there. Not sure if I had super local dishes though or if I just didn't mind the sweetness. I was never in the city center however, I was in some restaurants in some large parks. I especially remember a place out by a lake, very pretty view there with a mountain in the background. Never really found Wuxi as cozy as Suzhou though
5:33, the walking... I could never 😂😂
I would guess the 青笋 also has some sugar added to it to boost the umami flavour (放点糖提鲜 they say)
Haha without watching the video I knew Amy was going to Wuxi. I lived in Shanghai before and we eat pretty sweet, but Wuxi's sweetness is another level
I am in Canada, but I was growing up in Wuxi China. When was young my favorite food was wuxi juicy dumpling, It had so much soup in it and so sweet, I am missing this kind of food so much, unfortunately in Canada no such sweet juicy dumplings 😂
Qingsun isn't bamboo shoots, it's actually lettuce stems
Please try meihuagao next time in Nanjing❤ Meihuagao is amazing to be honest
I have a sweet tooth so i actually loved all the food i ate in Wuxi! Their sweet and sour vegetarian bamboo soup noodles were sooooo good i still think about it sometimes LOL
I don't speak wu but I dreaded my time in Wuxi - 1 you couldn't see the sun through the smog. I ended up finding a "southeast" restaurant some might consider similar to szechuan in the states. Unfortunate it was a bit spicy for my coworkers (from wuxi).
I just been here last week, and yes their food are really sweet
Wuxi is so beautiful. I love the 900 years old small alleys with restaurants, shops and cafes.
Was there last week, definately too sweet for my tastebuds as well
The way you ate the meat stuffed gluten ball with rice is perfect 👍🏼
Can' wait for Jasmine!!!🤩
Was in Wuxi for college for a year and half. HATED it every minute of it
Pure joy cannot be faked!
Have you visited the US, Amy? I can't imagine anything sweeter than the foodstuff here. Although Wuxi might take me by surprise. Lol
usa arm hawai?? yes
my girl, you are glowing. wow
I wanted to focus but you’re becoming more and more beautiful 😍 and your skin is amazing.
As someone from Suzhou, I totally understand your frustration!🤣
The deer looks cute. Anyways great short tour of Wuxi.
The sweetest food ever tasted is definitely Gulab Jamun (Indian fried ball) with that sugar syrup below. My tongue literally went 🥴😛, like I need to wash it with clear water. Even their sweet snacks are on another level of sweetness. 3 bites is literally my limit, but it's actually so pretty, like it's got a layer of silver powder on it.
I lived in Suzhou and yes the food is too sweet for me, however there's some delicious foods such as 鲜肉月饼 and there was a delicious 烤鸭 I used to buy which was jiangsu/Suzhou style.
Definitely try the fresh meat mooncake, it's flaky, juicy goodness.
I also liked squirrel fish.
On pingjianglu 平江路 there's a delicious chicken feet shop but the last time I was in Suzhou was 2015 so don't know if the quality lasts.
Love your program. 👍👍
my grandparents are from wuxi but they moved to shanghai and ningbo so thats where i grew up. Went to wuxi once and had the 红烧肉 or 东坡肉 spat it out and nearly threw up it was like candy fatty pork 🤢
Here in Minnesota our “Chinese food” is known for being very different from the rest of the USA, mostly because it is absolutely FULL of sugar. The sweet ribs you ate at the beginning are definitely in every single buffet here.
Sweet meat is what I was raised on, so I love it- but people from out of state are definitely always surprised and not able to handle all of the sugar. 😅
I wonder if this region is where our MN Chinese buffets and resteraunts got their menus from? 😂
Omg......I'm drooling
Jasmine is coming back next week. Wahoo!
Your digest system is used to less sweet food. In US, the highest praise to Western sweet from Asian is “it’s not too sweet “ 😂
Good video mate
I used to live in Thailand (Ratchaburi) and I used to feel the same. The food there was just too sweet. But that area was big on coconut sugar ...
9:38 when u got camera with you recording, people tend to be extra nice.