I’m ethnically Slovak and steamed buns look like dumplings to me, and our mom makes a dozen different types of dumplings, and they are all close to my heart.
I’m a german that lived in China for some years and knows the slavic kitchen pretty well and let me tell you, some come really close! Especially I’m northern China, there’s one filled with pork and cabbage and it’s absolutely amazing. Very slavic/bohemian tasting, but from the other end of the world!
Here in Poland we also eat congee when we're sick. It's usually made of overcooked rice and some grated carrot so it's easy to digest. I'm from northeastern Poland so I'm not sure about the rest of the country but it should be quite common especially among older people.
I was born in Guangdong (the south of china) and I finally visit some northern parts of china this year. I was culturally shocked! The breakfast is sooooooooooo different from the south. North is quick and simple. They have bread, egg, and soy milk while the south is noodles, rice, buns, dimsum. I love breakfast and it was heart breaking to not have a flavorful clean(ish)-feeling diverse food.
I just came back from China: 1. Everyone wanted to take pictures with the tall (5' 10) afro wearing lady. 2. Breakfast was my favorite meal of the day. It was a hotel breakfast and usually consisted of soup, steamed veggies, steamed buns (a favorite), rice and sweet potatoes. After that, I was set until dinner. 3. I was surprised to like the steamed bread, 1000 year old eggs, and dried tiny shrimp on everything!
You should definitely try adding the 1000-year-old eggs and the dried tiny shrimp into boiling congee. My family do this all the time, and it makes the congee super tasty. AFAIK we don't usually have steamed veggies or rice during breakfast, and sweet potatoes are usually seen as a staple during lunch/dinner or an afternoon snack, and only hotels serve these during breakfast.
Fun fact: In Thailand, my parents eat the millenium eggs all the time, but I was discouraged from eating it and will never eat it, because They're called ไข่เยี้ยวม้า in Thai and the literal translation is Egg piss horse, or rearranged correctly into english: Horse piss egg. *FOR 14 YEARS I BELIEVED THAT A HORSE HAD TO TAKE A PISS INTO THE EGG TO GIVE IT THAT DISTINCT COLOUR* I avoided it at all costs but I still don't like preserved foods so I generally avoid it.
I bought a steamer just because I discovered frozen rice buns. Pork is by far the most popular but I've also had beef and chicken that were outstanding. I've learned to use the steamer for other things too like tamales and it's def way more healthy and almost as convienant as a microwave
Little-known fact: those youtiao deep-fried oil sticks are reportedly the ancestors of Portuguese / Spanish / Latin American churros. Portuguese sailors brought back the recipe/technique from China, and then cinnamon and sugar got added, and the Spanish introduced the star-shaped extrusion die rather than hand-pulling them like the Chinese. Then in Latin America they started adding optional fillings like fruit, chocolate, or dulce de leche. serpentza, thanks for the informative video!
Agreed, I just LOVE the taste of steamed buns in the morning. If you understand a little Chinese you will get why that is so funny. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@karimsonglin8841 I used to hate bao zi as a kid, but that's mainly because my mom told me the english translation for bao zi was dumplings so I always thought of it as the bad version of dumplings.
As a Native American Indian Woman...the dough fried resembles “Fry Bread” my grandmother made it taste similar to donuts! Dangerous if you like that... The lady with the hat...”You speak damn good Chinese” ..I have to be honest..I’d love to see Mongolia 🇲🇳 as in exactly where Ghangis Khan came from. God Bless your travels and adventures! 🙇🏻♀️🙏🏽🔑💕🕊🤺💪🏾
That deep fried oil stick is the same they make in some Italian regions such as Tuscany and Liguria called "panzanella", " panzerotto", "sgabei". They cut in half and fill it with cooked or cured ham, cheese and similar.
Free Tibet though not the hateful racism I really do support the democratic freedom in Japan, I hope the people of mainland China and Hong Kong get their freedom of speech
Invisible Lead Soup I'm curious why they went from south to North. They've left central China in control of the Hun. Now they're open for an attack from both North and south. Poor conquering skills if you ask me.
Because in the north we have neighbors Mongolia, Russia and North Korea, they were, are and will be mad! They were/are the most dangerous in the world!
Steamed buns with various meat fillings certainly MY favourite Chinese breakfast. As a Westerner too and married to a lady from HK, they certainly suit my palate. In fact, since I've been married to her, some weird & wonderful aromas regularly waft from our kitchen in the UK now!! Soya milk in China MUCH BETTER than the highly diluted versions here in UK. Another GREAT vid man - well done!!
Fun and useful facts: Oil sticks taste better when they are dipped in soybean milk which is a classical way to eat; Bao Zi (steamed bun) is the nick name of Chinese President Xi Jingping given by Chinese netizens in order to make fun of him after news reported his casual visit to a Bao zi restautant in Beijing to show off his approachability;
Being racist doesn't mean you treat people bad or publicly disrespect them, it's just the thought that your ideas and culture are better than theirs. People act like if you have a little racism in you you're automatically hitler....
congee is all about what you add to it dude. Add that powdered salty fish to it and some other things and it gets awesome in a hurry. (I"m super white btw)
agree. He doesn't seem to really understand. People don't eat you tiao alone. it's great with congee with all kinds of flavor or for northern chinese they eat with salty soya milk. he shouldn't be doing this video until he fully understand the local foods.
blarg you have a good point but also on another hand a popular youtuber has the power and responsibilities to introduce the right information to his/her followers.
Awesome video, you guys look like you're having a lot of fun. I'm also a huge fan of Chinese breakfast food. I love the jian bing guo zi (煎饼果子) with a you tiao (油条) in the middle. Tasty stuff, I like to refer to it as a Chinese breakfast burrito.
I live in Shanghai. You can find them pretty much anywhere you see small food shops, shortly after the sun comes up until about 9am. Enjoy your time in Shanghai, it's a great city.
You rule. You and your mates are an inspiration. Granted, I’m commenting on an old video, and I’m aware that you are on to new adventures. But I am astounded at the lengths you have gone and the experiences that you have had. It is great. I’ve said before, and I will say it again, I am so happy to have found your channel to see what you do. You and your friends, partners, etc, are all blessed and wonderful people. Keep it up. & Thank you.
Cee I wouldn't say the content itself is negative, it's not! It's rather the titles, probably to attract attention better. He definitely achieves that.
You're supposed to eat oil sticks WITH congee... try it next time! Dip your 油條 into your 粥 and neither would be as bland any more. "When people get sick they love eating congee. It's like China's version of chicken soup" - actually China has the one of the best (jinseng) chicken soups around... we definitely drunk that when sick as well! Congee Chicken soup comparison doesn't really work for me. :P
3:55 GREAT SCOTT!!! I'm Portuguese and we too have CANJA (rice chicken soup quite similar to that CANJI porridge) here in Portugal! Every single family here is told that eating canja is very healthy specially in the cold winter days or when someone is felling ill. We don't eat it for breakfast, but we eat it a lot at dinner and sometimes at lunch, you bet! I guess that might have been imported from the Portuguese back then from the discovery era (probably when the Chinese borrowed Macao to the Portuguese, around the 1500's). This was great to see!
in chinese culture, to be polite/humble you usually refuse any compliments someone gives you or at least downplay the compliment. its a respect/humility thing in Chinese culture
Badboy DCX When the guy who was eating breakfast in Beijing talked about breakfast (the filled buns specifically) he said "beware the pork filled ones, i have ruined many pairs of trousers due to these", I first thought he meant that they had given him the shits lol
I don't like American oatmeal really, I can handle it with cinnamon, apple, and sugar in it, but that's the only way I even consider eating it, even then I don't like the texture, I remember as a kid getting plain oatmeal too bleh!
Congee is what people eat when they are sick, seniors eat it, and babies who have a few teeth are given this. Chinese mom's don't buy canned baby food mainly because in china jarred baby food isn't popular.
Congee in Hainan was called xi fan. The plain white watery rice is just a base and you never ate it without adding something to it like the preserved vegetables or small salty fish which were also shown in your video. It improves the taste immensely. It is an acquired taste as most unfamiliar foods are. And as some people here have commented, the equivalent food in the West would be oatmeal porridge to which things like brown sugar and fruit is often added to improve the taste.
You should put sugar into soy milk, it will change everything. I love soy milk but then I move to USA and I can't have anymore. Even I come from Vietnam, where they also drink soy milk a lot but at first I also hate it, until I put sugar in. But then when you used to it, put less sugar. It'll be better for your health and you can taste the soy milk taste.
I hate soy milk with added sugar or fructose, and I've never been to Asia. I've always liked plain soy milk, though. I've even tried making it myself but I haven't still mastered it. So far it isn't worth it since soy milk is rather cheap, but soy milk without added sugar/fructose is becoming harder to find so perhaps I'll eventually have to make it myself. The main issue is that removing the hulls/skins in cool water is a chord and if you do in hot water the paste is much harder to filter later, once it's cooked.
You find lots of soy milk here in Germany. In fact, there are many other milk alternatives as well. Great for people with lactose intolerance! I have no problem with lactose, but still I love chocolate flavoured soy milk, pudding, etc. Up to now I could never drink plain soy milk, but now I'll just try adding some sugar. I bet that's part of what makes the chocolate flavoured variety so good. I'm like you in that I miss soy milk sorely when I visit the U.S. It may be in some specialty shops somewhere, but I haven't found any yet.
whaat? I love all types of zhou and youtiao, the 'bland' is easily offset with a bit of pickled veggies or preserved egg or chili peppers.. And while some of these might be found throughout China, there are definitely drastic differences in breakfast options from city to city. Though I'm always gonna stand by BJ, what about SH's 糍饭团, 生煎, 条头糕, 冷馄饨? And don't get me started on Quanzhou.... The breakfasts there are almost enough to pry me away from this dusty hutong life, lol.
you are the one love your life, like to see new things, try new things, find what you like and enjoy them. That guy in video is just miserable and unsatisfied for everything somehow. His videos are very depressing. need to unsubscribe
Great video Winston. I went over to Mark's Channel. Very odd that he has nice quality videos there, plus produced an awesome documentary, but only has like 3000 subscribers. Congrats to you btw for nearing 700,000 subs! That is awesome work.
You didn't cover my favorite breakfast. Beef noodles, soup noodles, Yonton basically small dumplings. I'm never a fan of all the breakfast you mentioned in this video. They are all too tasteless
Haha so true!! I'm waiting for him to talk about Chang fen but turned out that westerners are more into those baozi-like food such as Xiao Long Bao, Sheng Jian Bao and things like that.
Yeah I was also waiting fo my favorit breakfast I can´t get over not being able to have here back home - la mian!!! I swear I trid everything to replace it but it´s just impossible to do yourself
When I was working on a Chinese vessel, all I ever got was fried eggs, very oily (so, very slippery) which I had to eat with chopsticks. There were no forks on the ship. After a few weeks I might've sold my soul for those buns, if they were offered to me!
haha so many salty people in chat just because of someone's opinion. Get over yourselves and realize people have different tastes. It doesn't mean someone is criticizing you.
Ha, actually I disagree with a lot of what you say about various foods. It's true that I still can't stand that soybean milk, but I think youtiao are OK (though I don't like youbing), and I really like the porridge in china (so much nicer than the one back home! My favourite is the standard corn one, or the vegetable porridge - I agree with the Chinese where they say that it just sorts your stomach out when you don't know what to eat. I don't really like baozi other than the odd rou one (the vegetable ones never seem to taste nice, unlike jiaozi). I'm surprised you said the average Chinese hotel doesn't have tea at breakfast - everywhere seems to have tea (but I'll take your word for it, haha)! Jianbing is the best in my opinion :)
Funny tangent here. I was on a business trip in Fuzhou (capital of Fujian province, where a measurable fraction of the world tea supply is grown), and due to hotel chain rewards I stayed at the Intercontinental. The tea they had in the room was utter garbage. Nor did they seem to care much about tea in the hotel restaurant. Shangri-La did much better.
I am so glad I have access to all this food and so much more. You learn the similarity that way. Injera, appam, kisrah and crumpets are all similar. Empanadas, baked bao, samosas, samsa, handheld pies and turnovers are similar. Porridge, lapas, conjee, bubur sagoo, kanji are similar. Roti, bread, flour tortilla, pixxa dough, langos and hundreds of other breads. and yumm: yiotiao, donuts, pooris, baturas, sopapilla, chalupas, fry bread! Now I just need to decide what I want for lunch...
@@cooliipie As a Chinese [person]* He was fine; just missing syntax. If you don't say the "person" in "Chinese person," it's kinda like saying, "我是美国," instead of, "我是美国人."
In Washington State-the west side at least, we have a lot of coffee drinkers in Seattle, Bellevue, etc. of course, but not I. Other than coffee, we have a fair amount of salmon, other fish, berries esp. in the summer, apples, chocolates, lots of Asian influences-rice dishes, top ramen, stir fry, etc. On the east side, its all about the potatoes/bread/beef/bacon/butter/milk, etc. Farm country. Eggs, bacon, ham, hash browns, all that "artery clogging" stuff. 😁😁😁 Many Seattlites are yuppie, hippy freaks, etc., sure. Quite the opposite in Eastern Washington (conservative Christian, etc.)...
You can of course. I just don't think he mentioned it. Many Chinese people actually just drink a cup of tea in the morning to clear their system before going to work or the gym. Then they eat a more hearty brunch instead. The way I look at it, three meals a day is pretty optional. In theory breakfast and dinner should be pretty light.
some drink tea when they thirsty,which means anytime,and others drink tea as a relax,not in meal time,but sit down in a special table and use special tea set,drink,eat and chat...
Fried dough is the most awesome breakfast invention ever! I miss fried dough and fresh real soy milk available everywhere, including pretty good versions in fast food restaurants. Millet congee is really good when made right. Jianbing - to die for.
he mentioned it in a video.....i think its the intro vid on his channel? smth about his father owning an animal sactuary type place with lots of snakes/reptiles (serpents), and the ZA part is the code for South Africa, where he's from :)
@@SS-tt8le, Rick: Thanks, y'all! I'd always been curious about that too. I never would've gotten the "ZA" bit, since it only makes sense in Afrikaans (to me, "ZA" in an African context immediately suggests "Zaire", which of course is in Central, not South Africa). I'm embarrassed how long it took me to recognize his South African accent, but his is a lot lighter than, say, Sharlto Copley's. 😁 And some South African accents are confusingly similar to Australian or English ones, to an American ear, at least. I just learned about all the horrible stuff that's happened to Winston in the past 11 months; wonder if he'll start putting out reptile videos on the channel now that he can't do content made in China anymore. 😞
BTW, I'm not the only one sometimes confused by Winston's South African accent; a gem from early on in this video from UA-cam's auto-captions (punctuation added): "Juanita Peggy. Java Highway. It's a tiny, gnarly, gnarly gender book we saw. So anyway..." 😄
Just watching this the first time. His name sounds like a snake. I think he's cunning. Nothing good to say about chinese people. Where he comes from? South Africa. That figures.
This video reminds of my first year coming to Australia, me and my friends spend every weekend morning exploring different cafes across Melbourne for brunch. Totally fell in love with avocado toast
In mexico we have tamales or torta de tamal "tamal sandwich", or tacos de canasta, or pancita "spicy beef broth", not a big fan, I like egg & bacon or waffles, but the guy with that crispy egg sandwich gave me the munchies 😞 now I'm hungry
@@telloarevalo7341 pretty much everywhere, they sell those things on a tricycle like food trucks but they go greener, they scream Tamales! with a megaphone...the stuff you watch overhere just wow !
Those bread sticks in Malaysia we dip in coffee and other things. I only ever have mine as a snack by itslef or with Black coffee. we call it Cakoi (Charkway). I love them. congee is delivious, especially the sweet ones mixed with loads of condensed milk.
The most pretty western girls especially the ones from America will choose Japan or secondarily Korea as a long-term settlement among far-east countries.. so those nice gentle (sisi) guys. Only the bravest western dudes choose to live in China ---- A deep-reforming, rapid growing, fast transforming incoming next superpower!
In Hungary 🇭🇺 we have that fried dough, we call it Lángos. It is just dough flattened in a circle shape and fried. then you can rub just garlic all over it and eat. or another favorite way people eat it is with sour cream and shredded cheese on top of it. so good.
The oily sticks are available in South East Asia too but they should not be eaten straight. Normally you put them in the rice soup (rice cooked in water for a very long time: it's rather creamy) in the morning, after having cut them into pieces: this is a very healthy and traditional breakfast!
Theres a resturaunt in Christchurch that has a cult status that does Youtiao and rice with vegetables, with a mystery sauce for $3.50. It's honestly the best shit ever. The guy that runs the place is Chinese, but you wouldn't tell if you just heard him speak, he has an immaculate kiwi accent, which is very rare for the majority of asians here in general that talk with american english accents, and rarely hang out with people that aren't also asian.
When you "discovered" how much better soy milk is by adding sugar. Who drinks it plain? As I remember, there are two types of soy milk during breakfast 1) sweetened, and 2) salted. Salted soy milk is when they add an egg in there and top it with scallions (the heat of the soy milk help cook the egg).
Ann Oynmous the oil stick with a kind of flat noodle or sweetened/unsweetened soy milk, the congee with basically anything from pickled vegetables, tea eggs, sausages or literally anything else. Chinese cuisine is based around one central thing like rice or congee and the other side dishes are only to accompany the main dish, which is usually pretty bland, but that is litterally the point of the other side dishes
I think it's meant as a warning to people who are only used to commercial "Chinese food" sold in Western countries, where everything on the menu is overly seasoned and covered in caramelized sugar.
I'm Taiwanese-American and I don't really like 油条 either. It's just a puffy, bland stick of oily dough that is really only delicious when dipped in fresh hot soy milk. I prefer to leave it out and just get extra rice congee and soy milk instead.
Whenever I was in China I bypassed all the yanks going for sausage and egg and grabbed Chinese steamed buns, noodles and conji for breakfast. Lovely stuff. My local Chinese take away were from Hong Kong and I once told them of my times there. They used to make me off menu steamed dumplings every order from then on....one of my favourite foods ever!
a well fried 'you diao" has very little oil as it is rested aside to drip off excess oil. It is best to dunk in soya milk (dou jiang), coffee or any personal favarite. The one you get here are too oily.
if you in Malaysia this video will be at least 1 hour long. For breakfast alone, we got: 1) Dim Sum 2) Bah Kut Teh 3) All Kind of noodles 4) Chee cheong fun (Chang Fen) 5) Hainanese Coffee + Steam Bun / Roasted Bun 6) Nasi Lemak 7) Roti Canai 8) Kuih Muih (variety types of cake) and so on.... (Singaporean going to steal this comment)
Bloody hell, you Malaysians are always accusing Singaporeans of something. However, all the things you mentioned and you forgot Chee kueh (How could you?) Is also found in Singapore.
I personally tend to have broccoli/cauliflower/green beans, maybe some salad, also pasture raised eggs or cashews/almonds/peanuts, or chicken with garlic for breakfast. All the protein foods not too much. MAYBE a handful of berries along with water, nuun juice or lemon/lime water. For lunch-very similar kind of deal-celery/carrots/cucumber, chicken or nuts, and some water. For dinner-lots of cooked greens, sauerkraut, etc., and a bit of protein-beef, chicken, salmon, etc. Water or nuun juice/lemon/lime water, etc. Lots of starches and veggies in the traditional Chinese diet...
in a big city you will have access to anything you have in a western county from Starbucks to dominoes. But the majority of Chinese are still quite poor and their diet habits were built around a centuries of old time subsistence farming followed by half a century of brutal communism featuring catastrophic famines. Europe and USA were booming in wealth and decadence from the 1950's (ever heard the term baby boomer?) which allowed all of the splendour that defined modern popular western culture and it's cities to take shape.
Oops, obviously u did not pay attention on what southen chinese eat on your previous trip. Southen-style breakfast ARE different for the north and diverse, such as vairous rice noodles in Guangxi, Hunan and Guizhou, and Cantonese morning dim-sums.
Mehaw... I am Scottish.. 'you mean 'black pudding' - fat, mostly oats and pork. It was eaten in the 19th century - hardly anyone eats it today. Kellogg's cornflakes or Granola, or whatever the corporate plastic food industry want to sell us.
Most Chinese are either laborers, farmers, or petty business owners thus need all the carbs that they can afford for a low paying, 10-12hr work day. Plus, it's China...lots of people, not rich & easy living like the U.S. Think before you comment, people....
It's kind of amazing and depressing to know that he once made innocent videos like this but now they're about "I literally might be killed by what I love."
Wow, I haven't had time to enjoy this channel since before COVID-19 (and the UA-cam algorithm hasn't suggested any serpentza, laowhy86, or ADVChina videos to me, which it used to do regularly...), and I had no idea how bad recent developments were. Thanks for the heads-up - got a lot of videos to add to my watch-list.
Nah, it's most likely that the people who sponsor his channel force him to make hardcore anti-china videos. In the past he was always quite objective about china, taking the good with the bad, and there was plenty of it, but now his channel is different and they're not even subtle about it lol
Hey Winston, I'm a High School student from Australia and I have been learning Chinese(Mandarin) for around two months. I'm having a bit of trouble learning Hanzi do you have any tips/methods on how I can learn it?
+ Daanonamas Maybe reading chinese books would help? Those children's books would be easier if needed. Don't worry too much because I am chinese and I'm still failing my IGCSE Chinese cos I cannot write most of them.
Well I live in China, and don't speak a bloody word. Every time someone speaks to me, I make a particular sound...kind of like "Arrrrggghhh"...but it a soft whimsical way, to give off the impression that I am thinking deeply about what they are saying. I also stare into the distance...until they go away. Works a treat, I can tell you.
I’m ethnically Slovak and steamed buns look like dumplings to me, and our mom makes a dozen different types of dumplings, and they are all close to my heart.
I’m a german that lived in China for some years and knows the slavic kitchen pretty well and let me tell you, some come really close!
Especially I’m northern China, there’s one filled with pork and cabbage and it’s absolutely amazing.
Very slavic/bohemian tasting, but from the other end of the world!
Yours are better
Make sure she writes down all her recipees.
Our grandma didn't pass anything on. Best food to ever exist.
Here in switzerland, we eat mountains and bank secrets for breakfast.
I would have taken you more seriously if you included cough drops
@@puttputt524 hold up
Lmao
haha u vergiss nid no paar luxus uhre als sauce
Mmmm, gold bars.
Here in Australia we eat koalas and snakes with vegemite
Disgusting. Vegemite is gross
Samuel Hyde Ding Dong you are *WRONG* . Vegemite is a God send.
delicious
And ride kangaroos to school and work?
Lol!!! Auzzies are funny as hell
Here in Poland we also eat congee when we're sick. It's usually made of overcooked rice and some grated carrot so it's easy to digest. I'm from northeastern Poland so I'm not sure about the rest of the country but it should be quite common especially among older people.
I was born in Guangdong (the south of china) and I finally visit some northern parts of china this year. I was culturally shocked! The breakfast is sooooooooooo different from the south. North is quick and simple. They have bread, egg, and soy milk while the south is noodles, rice, buns, dimsum. I love breakfast and it was heart breaking to not have a flavorful clean(ish)-feeling diverse food.
South is mostly ChangFen and JianBing.
I just came back from China:
1. Everyone wanted to take pictures with the tall (5' 10) afro wearing lady.
2. Breakfast was my favorite meal of the day. It was a hotel breakfast and usually consisted of soup, steamed veggies, steamed buns (a favorite), rice and sweet potatoes. After that, I was set until dinner.
3. I was surprised to like the steamed bread, 1000 year old eggs, and dried tiny shrimp on everything!
You should definitely try adding the 1000-year-old eggs and the dried tiny shrimp into boiling congee. My family do this all the time, and it makes the congee super tasty.
AFAIK we don't usually have steamed veggies or rice during breakfast, and sweet potatoes are usually seen as a staple during lunch/dinner or an afternoon snack, and only hotels serve these during breakfast.
@@zhuofanzhang9974 wow, interesting!
Hands down, you know how to eat
SoulfulVeg that’s to be honest it’s just the world becoming digital devil 👿 😂😂
Fun fact: In Thailand, my parents eat the millenium eggs all the time, but I was discouraged from eating it and will never eat it, because They're called ไข่เยี้ยวม้า in Thai and the literal translation is Egg piss horse, or rearranged correctly into english: Horse piss egg. *FOR 14 YEARS I BELIEVED THAT A HORSE HAD TO TAKE A PISS INTO THE EGG TO GIVE IT THAT DISTINCT COLOUR* I avoided it at all costs but I still don't like preserved foods so I generally avoid it.
I bought a steamer just because I discovered frozen rice buns. Pork is by far the most popular but I've also had beef and chicken that were outstanding. I've learned to use the steamer for other things too like tamales and it's def way more healthy and almost as convienant as a microwave
Here in Russia, we drink Vodka for breakfast.
krokodil for lunch?
ale4621 real Chinese have baijiu with breakfast.
coffee with some vodka eh?
In Germany we drink beer and eat Weißwürste
Machen wir halt in echt aber ich hasse süßen Senf
ale4621 lol
Little-known fact: those youtiao deep-fried oil sticks are reportedly the ancestors of Portuguese / Spanish / Latin American churros. Portuguese sailors brought back the recipe/technique from China, and then cinnamon and sugar got added, and the Spanish introduced the star-shaped extrusion die rather than hand-pulling them like the Chinese. Then in Latin America they started adding optional fillings like fruit, chocolate, or dulce de leche. serpentza, thanks for the informative video!
I´m Spanish, i was watching the video and I was thinking... wow that looks similar to churros...
Thanks!
probarbly the wonton is the father of ravioli. @Johnny Lee
OK this explains why I always see churros of all things in the assortment of dim sum at 99 Ranch.
i can't stand them. i moved here from california and every time i see one i take offence lol
Pizza also came from China.
Here in Amsterdam, we eat marihuana for breakfast
Most definitly with a block of cheese. Nothing like a great breakfast
Tasty red district I see
Rrarr Raar do you mean weed?
Lol.
the only thing the dutch have ever done was claim New Amsterdam (Manhattan) and lose it
Steamed buns are one of the most awesome foods ever
Agreed, I just LOVE the taste of steamed buns in the morning. If you understand a little Chinese you will get why that is so funny. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kung Fu panda's favorite food.
I hate Bao Zi personally as a Chinese. I like Chang Fen though, which you can find in lots of HK dim sim restaurants.
Agreed.
@@karimsonglin8841 I used to hate bao zi as a kid, but that's mainly because my mom told me the english translation for bao zi was dumplings so I always thought of it as the bad version of dumplings.
As a Native American Indian Woman...the dough fried resembles “Fry Bread” my grandmother made it taste similar to donuts! Dangerous if you like that...
The lady with the hat...”You speak damn good Chinese” ..I have to be honest..I’d love to see Mongolia 🇲🇳 as in exactly where Ghangis Khan came from. God Bless your travels and adventures! 🙇🏻♀️🙏🏽🔑💕🕊🤺💪🏾
Bannock & Fry bread are sooo damn good.
Maori in New Zealand also eat 'fry bread'! Amazing coincidence!
Here in Antarctica being a Antarctican we eat whiskey and bacon for breakfast
Edward Sanchez I thought you eat snow cones?.
In the North Pole us elves import your penguins and deep fry them in polar bear fat. It's the only thing we eat.
ooooooof
:) And destroying your liver in the process. XD
That deep fried oil stick is the same they make in some Italian regions such as Tuscany and Liguria called "panzanella", " panzerotto", "sgabei". They cut in half and fill it with cooked or cured ham, cheese and similar.
Serbians have it as well. It's called "mekike" and it usually goes with cheese
It's called donut in America 😁
Is not that similar, I'm born here in Italy and my parents are Chinese, they're two different things
As a chinese, I find this entertaining. Keep up the good work
I don't know if you're a good person or not but sorry that guy just randomly insulted you. Keep faith in the good things though.
As a Chinese, be ashamed
Free Tibet though not the hateful racism I really do support the democratic freedom in Japan, I hope the people of mainland China and Hong Kong get their freedom of speech
@@doge3979 Agreed
Great to know you have access ✌️
Love your videos and really appreciate your perspective, looking forward to the next one!
Clashes with military are inevitable if you try to conquer northern China.
Pretty valid point actually, lol
Invisible Lead Soup I'm curious why they went from south to North. They've left central China in control of the Hun. Now they're open for an attack from both North and south. Poor conquering skills if you ask me.
Because in the north we have neighbors Mongolia, Russia and North Korea, they were, are and will be mad! They were/are the most dangerous in the world!
Tao Wang haha, true. that is why our ancestor built the great wall in the north.
It wouldn't even surprise me if this title was really the reason for that.
Steamed buns with various meat fillings certainly MY favourite Chinese breakfast.
As a Westerner too and married to a lady from HK, they certainly suit my palate.
In fact, since I've been married to her, some weird & wonderful aromas regularly waft from our kitchen in the UK now!!
Soya milk in China MUCH BETTER than the highly diluted versions here in UK.
Another GREAT vid man - well done!!
Fun and useful facts:
Oil sticks taste better when they are dipped in soybean milk which is a classical way to eat;
Bao Zi (steamed bun) is the nick name of Chinese President Xi Jingping given by Chinese netizens in order to make fun of him after news reported his casual visit to a Bao zi restautant in Beijing to show off his approachability;
Sheldon Li lol i dip them into century egg & salted pork congee they taste 👍🏻
Sheldon Li Sheldon Li we call xiumin of exo baoxi... isnt it a fun fact too...😂😂😂😂😂
Sheldon Li 这破事还值得为老外们好好介绍一番，呵呵。
Lol politicians really are the same worldwide- lying scumbags wherever you go
Sheldon Li You do realize Soy Milk is the reason Asian men have become so feminine right?
people say this lad is racist, i don't buy it. i've met racists, and they don't act like this around the people they purportedly hate!
keep on trucking my dude
Everything is racist nowadays. There is no reason to take offense at anyone calling you a racist. Just let them whine like a broken record.
I'm more racist against other white people these days...
HEINOUS_ANUS Who cares if he is or not racism is natural in animals. Just ignore people who are
Being racist doesn't mean you treat people bad or publicly disrespect them, it's just the thought that your ideas and culture are better than theirs. People act like if you have a little racism in you you're automatically hitler....
U are eating Chinese breakfast wrong, the cold vegetables goes with the congee. U can add anything to the porridge to suit ur taste.
gatekeeping chinese breakfast nice
yeah what about eating the fish and rice part of a sushi separately don gatekeep food pal@@PHLYLM
congee is all about what you add to it dude. Add that powdered salty fish to it and some other things and it gets awesome in a hurry. (I"m super white btw)
agree. He doesn't seem to really understand. People don't eat you tiao alone. it's great with congee with all kinds of flavor or for northern chinese they eat with salty soya milk. he shouldn't be doing this video until he fully understand the local foods.
Respectfully disagree. He should definitely make these videos and we can gently nudge him in the right direction.
blarg you have a good point but also on another hand a popular youtuber has the power and responsibilities to introduce the right information to his/her followers.
It's an opinion piece, there's no such thing as the right information. There is just his opinion of how he has experienced it.
blarg I can respect that. Thx 🙏
Awesome video, you guys look like you're having a lot of fun. I'm also a huge fan of Chinese breakfast food. I love the jian bing guo zi (煎饼果子) with a you tiao (油条) in the middle. Tasty stuff, I like to refer to it as a Chinese breakfast burrito.
oh i saw some jian bing guo zi being sold here in my country, should I try some?
Hey! Do you live in Shanghai? Where can I find this sort of breakfast food? I'm going there for 3 days in August!
Everywhere. Every street corner you can find bland everything... from oil sticks to steamed rice bread. Bleh for me but enjoy.
I live in Shanghai. You can find them pretty much anywhere you see small food shops, shortly after the sun comes up until about 9am. Enjoy your time in Shanghai, it's a great city.
JEFFREY ANG 洪 不对啊，苏州附近的口味都是偏甜偏淡的
You rule. You and your mates are an inspiration. Granted, I’m commenting on an old video, and I’m aware that you are on to new adventures. But I am astounded at the lengths you have gone and the experiences that you have had. It is great. I’ve said before, and I will say it again, I am so happy to have found your channel to see what you do. You and your friends, partners, etc, are all blessed and wonderful people. Keep it up. & Thank you.
It's so nice to have more positive video titles like this 👍
TBLT.de Shame Winstons extremely pessimistic about 90% of everything.
Cee I wouldn't say the content itself is negative, it's not!
It's rather the titles, probably to attract attention better. He definitely achieves that.
That is simply not true.
TBLT.de Sometime criticism is good. However how you put it is very important, always leave rooms for digestion.
How do most of his titles even have connotation? He doesn't click bait, his titles usually just have to do with the topic of the video O_o
You're supposed to eat oil sticks WITH congee... try it next time! Dip your 油條 into your 粥 and neither would be as bland any more.
"When people get sick they love eating congee. It's like China's version of chicken soup" - actually China has the one of the best (jinseng) chicken soups around... we definitely drunk that when sick as well! Congee Chicken soup comparison doesn't really work for me. :P
3:55 GREAT SCOTT!!! I'm Portuguese and we too have CANJA (rice chicken soup quite similar to that CANJI porridge) here in Portugal!
Every single family here is told that eating canja is very healthy specially in the cold winter days or when someone is felling ill. We don't eat it for breakfast, but we eat it a lot at dinner and sometimes at lunch, you bet!
I guess that might have been imported from the Portuguese back then from the discovery era (probably when the Chinese borrowed Macao to the Portuguese, around the 1500's).
This was great to see!
It is a derivative of the Tamil word 'kanji' that was since changed by the Portugese and came full circle to be known as Zhou/Congee.
I like how he played it off nah i cant speak Chinese what are you taking about 😂
As i heard it's a mark of respect
In many languages actually
Badboy DCX lol
in chinese culture, to be polite/humble you usually refuse any compliments someone gives you or at least downplay the compliment. its a respect/humility thing in Chinese culture
Badboy DCX When the guy who was eating breakfast in Beijing talked about breakfast (the filled buns specifically) he said "beware the pork filled ones, i have ruined many pairs of trousers due to these", I first thought he meant that they had given him the shits lol
Haha congee is like the American oatmeal. You add whatever nonsense you want
I don't like American oatmeal really, I can handle it with cinnamon, apple, and sugar in it, but that's the only way I even consider eating it, even then I don't like the texture, I remember as a kid getting plain oatmeal too bleh!
Congee is what people eat when they are sick, seniors eat it, and babies who have a few teeth are given this. Chinese mom's don't buy canned baby food mainly because in china jarred baby food isn't popular.
BellRain Chan They also eat it as breakfast.
Congee in Hainan was called xi fan. The plain white watery rice is just a base and you never ate it without adding something to it like the preserved vegetables or small salty fish which were also shown in your video. It improves the taste immensely. It is an acquired taste as most unfamiliar foods are. And as some people here have commented, the equivalent food in the West would be oatmeal porridge to which things like brown sugar and fruit is often added to improve the taste.
@BellRain Chan you are so out of touch.
i always eat my "oil sticks" (chinese donut) with my porridge :)
I dont really eat it as breakfast but instead with hot and sour soup or dumpling soup and peanut butter noodles ^^
You should put sugar into soy milk, it will change everything.
I love soy milk but then I move to USA and I can't have anymore.
Even I come from Vietnam, where they also drink soy milk a lot but at first I also hate it, until I put sugar in. But then when you used to it, put less sugar. It'll be better for your health and you can taste the soy milk taste.
I hate soy milk with added sugar or fructose, and I've never been to Asia. I've always liked plain soy milk, though. I've even tried making it myself but I haven't still mastered it. So far it isn't worth it since soy milk is rather cheap, but soy milk without added sugar/fructose is becoming harder to find so perhaps I'll eventually have to make it myself. The main issue is that removing the hulls/skins in cool water is a chord and if you do in hot water the paste is much harder to filter later, once it's cooked.
I love unsweetened soy milk as well.
You find lots of soy milk here in Germany. In fact, there are many other milk alternatives as well. Great for people with lactose intolerance! I have no problem with lactose, but still I love chocolate flavoured soy milk, pudding, etc. Up to now I could never drink plain soy milk, but now I'll just try adding some sugar. I bet that's part of what makes the chocolate flavoured variety so good. I'm like you in that I miss soy milk sorely when I visit the U.S. It may be in some specialty shops somewhere, but I haven't found any yet.
I'm vegan and still won't drink it. Rather almond milk or coconut milk
Are you crazy? This the USA. There's soy milk literally EVERYWHERE
whaat? I love all types of zhou and youtiao, the 'bland' is easily offset with a bit of pickled veggies or preserved egg or chili peppers.. And while some of these might be found throughout China, there are definitely drastic differences in breakfast options from city to city. Though I'm always gonna stand by BJ, what about SH's 糍饭团, 生煎, 条头糕, 冷馄饨? And don't get me started on Quanzhou.... The breakfasts there are almost enough to pry me away from this dusty hutong life, lol.
you are the one love your life, like to see new things, try new things, find what you like and enjoy them. That guy in video is just miserable and unsatisfied for everything somehow. His videos are very depressing. need to unsubscribe
@@sophiafu5767 he doesn’t seem to me that way, just frank sometimes. Sound like you’re projecting and describing yourself :{
Great video Winston. I went over to Mark's Channel. Very odd that he has nice quality videos there, plus produced an awesome documentary, but only has like 3000 subscribers. Congrats to you btw for nearing 700,000 subs! That is awesome work.
You didn't cover my favorite breakfast. Beef noodles, soup noodles, Yonton basically small dumplings. I'm never a fan of all the breakfast you mentioned in this video. They are all too tasteless
Haha so true!! I'm waiting for him to talk about Chang fen but turned out that westerners are more into those baozi-like food such as Xiao Long Bao, Sheng Jian Bao and things like that.
Yeah I was also waiting fo my favorit breakfast I can´t get over not being able to have here back home - la mian!!!
I swear I trid everything to replace it but it´s just impossible to do yourself
You would be my best friend in China.
But these food u mentioned are not everywhere in china
When I was working on a Chinese vessel, all I ever got was fried eggs, very oily (so, very slippery) which I had to eat with chopsticks. There were no forks on the ship. After a few weeks I might've sold my soul for those buns, if they were offered to me!
I had fried dough sticks and congee pretty often too when I was in Malaysia. Simple Chinese food items are popular in many countries.
haha so many salty people in chat just because of someone's opinion. Get over yourselves and realize people have different tastes. It doesn't mean someone is criticizing you.
Ha, actually I disagree with a lot of what you say about various foods. It's true that I still can't stand that soybean milk, but I think youtiao are OK (though I don't like youbing), and I really like the porridge in china (so much nicer than the one back home! My favourite is the standard corn one, or the vegetable porridge - I agree with the Chinese where they say that it just sorts your stomach out when you don't know what to eat. I don't really like baozi other than the odd rou one (the vegetable ones never seem to taste nice, unlike jiaozi). I'm surprised you said the average Chinese hotel doesn't have tea at breakfast - everywhere seems to have tea (but I'll take your word for it, haha)! Jianbing is the best in my opinion :)
Funny tangent here. I was on a business trip in Fuzhou (capital of Fujian province, where a measurable fraction of the world tea supply is grown), and due to hotel chain rewards I stayed at the Intercontinental. The tea they had in the room was utter garbage. Nor did they seem to care much about tea in the hotel restaurant. Shangri-La did much better.
luth13r well yeah U gotta go to a specialized store for it. Or private farm where it's grow then you will get the best leaves for tea
Just started watching your stuff serpentza. Really enjoy it! Cheers man!
It's like donut without sugar
No its crispy not soft like donuts.
doughnuts are deep fried so fresh doughnut should be crispy
It's like food but for people with no taste buds
@@Maverick_1926 it's delicious
I'd say it's more like a churro with no sugar
My first Chinese breakfast surprised me! I ended up eating watermelon because it was the only thing I liked the look of in the hotel restaurant
haha rancid the stuff they eat
sebseb1 umm learn to spell
sebseb1 wow as soon as I say something you act like the most literate person in the world
Kids these days
sebseb1 last I checked I’m half Chinese half french so I don’t know what your saying I’m Chinese you’ll get karma just wait it’s coming soon
sebseb1 pathetic
I am so glad I have access to all this food and so much more. You learn the similarity that way.
Injera, appam, kisrah and crumpets are all similar.
Empanadas, baked bao, samosas, samsa, handheld pies and turnovers are similar.
Porridge, lapas, conjee, bubur sagoo, kanji are similar.
Roti, bread, flour tortilla, pixxa dough, langos and hundreds of other breads.
and yumm: yiotiao, donuts, pooris, baturas, sopapilla, chalupas, fry bread!
Now I just need to decide what I want for lunch...
I cant imagine how you explaining to the swat team that you just want to explore china and show people how beautiful country it is
as a chinese, i find this entertaining
Being Chinese*
@@cooliipie As a Chinese [person]* He was fine; just missing syntax. If you don't say the "person" in "Chinese person," it's kinda like saying, "我是美国," instead of, "我是美国人."
@@fritzjackson4336 ta shi bu shi zhongguo ren
@@fritzjackson4336 人? Like アメリカ人です?
American man desu?
Man, Winston talking about everyday life in China hits different now. Not the CSpan channel that has turned into, together with Cmilk.
"new vid 42 seconds ago". when did google get it this accurate
bringsli1234 its been this accurate for a pretty long time at least a year
Here in Florida we eat deep fried gator. For real it’s tasty with tartar sauce, though it does taste a little swampy.
In Washington State-the west side at least, we have a lot of coffee drinkers in Seattle, Bellevue, etc. of course, but not I. Other than coffee, we have a fair amount of salmon, other fish, berries esp. in the summer, apples, chocolates, lots of Asian influences-rice dishes, top ramen, stir fry, etc.
On the east side, its all about the potatoes/bread/beef/bacon/butter/milk, etc. Farm country. Eggs, bacon, ham, hash browns, all that "artery clogging" stuff. 😁😁😁
Many Seattlites are yuppie, hippy freaks, etc., sure. Quite the opposite in Eastern Washington (conservative Christian, etc.)...
@@BenjaminGessel no
@@icegaming2862 No to what?
Jianbing is awesome. I had that pretty much every morning when I went to language school. The street vendors sold it and I really loved it.
No tea for breakfast in China?! What happened to "all the tea in China"?
You can of course. I just don't think he mentioned it. Many Chinese people actually just drink a cup of tea in the morning to clear their system before going to work or the gym. Then they eat a more hearty brunch instead. The way I look at it, three meals a day is pretty optional. In theory breakfast and dinner should be pretty light.
JamO in tea houses I will have ur tea in pots and tea sets along with the breakfast
they like to drink tea while relaxing,not a meal
Chinese tea is herbal tea ..not like black or red tea..it doesn't wake you up. It is very diluted.
some drink tea when they thirsty,which means anytime,and others drink tea as a relax,not in meal time,but sit down in a special table and use special tea set,drink,eat and chat...
Fried dough is the most awesome breakfast invention ever! I miss fried dough and fresh real soy milk available everywhere, including pretty good versions in fast food restaurants. Millet congee is really good when made right. Jianbing - to die for.
You mean "Friday is the most awesome weekday invention ever!" Watch your spelling!
Fried dough, also known as a doughnut.
Gameywoodchuck ! Doughnut dough is not that same as the dough used in Fried Dough...
Informative and entertaining. Thank you for making these vids. I've been watching your videos and I feel you're a friend already. Keep safe always. 😀
Does anyone know why Winston named his channel “serpentza”?
he mentioned it in a video.....i think its the intro vid on his channel? smth about his father owning an animal sactuary type place with lots of snakes/reptiles (serpents), and the ZA part is the code for South Africa, where he's from :)
@@SS-tt8le, Rick: Thanks, y'all! I'd always been curious about that too. I never would've gotten the "ZA" bit, since it only makes sense in Afrikaans (to me, "ZA" in an African context immediately suggests "Zaire", which of course is in Central, not South Africa). I'm embarrassed how long it took me to recognize his South African accent, but his is a lot lighter than, say, Sharlto Copley's. 😁 And some South African accents are confusingly similar to Australian or English ones, to an American ear, at least.
I just learned about all the horrible stuff that's happened to Winston in the past 11 months; wonder if he'll start putting out reptile videos on the channel now that he can't do content made in China anymore. 😞
BTW, I'm not the only one sometimes confused by Winston's South African accent; a gem from early on in this video from UA-cam's auto-captions (punctuation added): "Juanita Peggy. Java Highway. It's a tiny, gnarly, gnarly gender book we saw. So anyway..." 😄
I believe it's serpent with ZA which is the internet code for South Africa (like .uk, .com, .net) Not sure, but that's my guess.
Just watching this the first time. His name sounds like a snake. I think he's cunning. Nothing good to say about chinese people. Where he comes from? South Africa. That figures.
Here in France we eat croissants and drink wine for breakfast.
that's a fine breakfast
Here in Germany, we work when you are having breakfast :-)
Lair. You guys only have coffee and cigarettes in the morning. Lol
This video reminds of my first year coming to Australia, me and my friends spend every weekend morning exploring different cafes across Melbourne for brunch. Totally fell in love with avocado toast
In mexico we have tamales or torta de tamal "tamal sandwich", or tacos de canasta, or pancita "spicy beef broth", not a big fan, I like egg & bacon or waffles, but the guy with that crispy egg sandwich gave me the munchies 😞 now I'm hungry
Seas mamon
Chorizo and egg burritos mmmm
Cornholio costas aqui , in solamente perro con diablo ?
Lol what part of Mexico did you go..tamales for breakfast geez!!!!
@@telloarevalo7341 pretty much everywhere, they sell those things on a tricycle like food trucks but they go greener, they scream Tamales! with a megaphone...the stuff you watch overhere just wow !
Those bread sticks in Malaysia we dip in coffee and other things. I only ever have mine as a snack by itslef or with Black coffee. we call it Cakoi (Charkway). I love them. congee is delivious, especially the sweet ones mixed with loads of condensed milk.
Ya same i am also malaysian especially when you dip it in kaya, it taste better
@@iicustodianlaw I've not tried that. Thankfully I have two jars of Kaya in the fridge. Will definately try.
Love your videos! Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow, and all these years I was thinking the pickled vegetables/condiments went in the congee...
you add them if you want
they do.
they do
they do.
That Bowser guy's camera looks awesome!
+Edward Allen 5DMk3 for the win
The most pretty western girls especially the ones from America will choose Japan or secondarily Korea as a long-term settlement among far-east countries.. so those nice gentle (sisi) guys. Only the bravest western dudes choose to live in China ---- A deep-reforming, rapid growing, fast transforming incoming next superpower!
In Hungary 🇭🇺 we have that fried dough, we call it Lángos. It is just dough flattened in a circle shape and fried. then you can rub just garlic all over it and eat. or another favorite way people eat it is with sour cream and shredded cheese on top of it. so good.
"you know the quality of stuff he puts out... i really hope his channel can improve" hahaha, classic
Here in Switzerland we eat your money for breakfast.
Im Taiwan corn soup and pot stickers were the travelers breakfast.
Bonjour from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Chinese people in Canada call it Chinese Donut.
We have "you tiao" (oil fritters) in Singapore too. We call it "You Char Kway" (oil-fried ghost), there is a legend about it too.
the legendary deep fried "gwuy lao". though maybe its just a myth.
@@zkmoonea Please share. I need my horror story fix this morning. I need it more than coffee, as I eat my homemade French toast with sri racha sauce.
@@annabelgrace1267 stupid Grace family
The oily sticks are available in South East Asia too but they should not be eaten straight. Normally you put them in the rice soup (rice cooked in water for a very long time: it's rather creamy) in the morning, after having cut them into pieces: this is a very healthy and traditional breakfast!
You really live like a fugitive n thinice,good stuff mate, Cowboy from Aussie land!
I always find that polite chuckle you do whenever people praise you for speaking good Mandarin hilarious lol
as always so interesting to hear serpentza's views & experiences!
Theres a resturaunt in Christchurch that has a cult status that does Youtiao and rice with vegetables, with a mystery sauce for $3.50. It's honestly the best shit ever. The guy that runs the place is Chinese, but you wouldn't tell if you just heard him speak, he has an immaculate kiwi accent, which is very rare for the majority of asians here in general that talk with american english accents, and rarely hang out with people that aren't also asian.
3:55 I live in kerala a south indian state and we have similar thing, here we call it kanji - കഞ്ഞി
Every moment of this video is just so interesting ,I feel like I’m actually there,!,,Many heartfelt thanks fella,👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🇬🇧
When you "discovered" how much better soy milk is by adding sugar. Who drinks it plain? As I remember, there are two types of soy milk during breakfast 1) sweetened, and 2) salted. Salted soy milk is when they add an egg in there and top it with scallions (the heat of the soy milk help cook the egg).
I agree its like drinking coffee black, however I do enjoy drinking black coffee sometimes, same with soy milk.
salted soymilk? darn I really need some travelling ;P
James Stansbery Men shouldn't drink Soy Milk.
KnightofAntiquity soy in considerable amounts is ok(considerable means not 200 fucking liters of soy milk)
KnightofAntiquity source: ua-cam.com/video/v6RbEehw95M/v-deo.html
You keep saying that everything is bland but you're supposed to eat it with other foods...
Ann Oynmous the oil stick with a kind of flat noodle or sweetened/unsweetened soy milk, the congee with basically anything from pickled vegetables, tea eggs, sausages or literally anything else. Chinese cuisine is based around one central thing like rice or congee and the other side dishes are only to accompany the main dish, which is usually pretty bland, but that is litterally the point of the other side dishes
The tofu and fish at that buffet was meant to go with the congee.
I think it's meant as a warning to people who are only used to commercial "Chinese food" sold in Western countries, where everything on the menu is overly seasoned and covered in caramelized sugar.
I saw him eat that congee without soy sauce or fish/roasted chicken and I was just like whaaaat.
I personally like my congee bland. I know a lot of northerners do.
Brilliantly simple videos..thanks again
How could you do the 油条 dirty like that. Literally every westerner I've met in Beijing loves it. Expecially with that sweet milk stuff.
I'm Taiwanese-American and I don't really like 油条 either. It's just a puffy, bland stick of oily dough that is really only delicious when dipped in fresh hot soy milk. I prefer to leave it out and just get extra rice congee and soy milk instead.
Lowkey all of this looks extremely unappetizing except maybe the meat bun.
South African Cassy Neistat is my dad
Isn't that Elon Musk?
Interspect Ew
That was uncalled for. You take that back.
FUCK Casey Neistat
Casey isn't South African.. his wife Candice is though.
He's a jew
Michelle Pucca Someone didn't get the joke 😂
Whenever I was in China I bypassed all the yanks going for sausage and egg and grabbed Chinese steamed buns, noodles and conji for breakfast. Lovely stuff.
My local Chinese take away were from Hong Kong and I once told them of my times there. They used to make me off menu steamed dumplings every order from then on....one of my favourite foods ever!
a well fried 'you diao" has very little oil as it is rested aside to drip off excess oil. It is best to dunk in soya milk (dou jiang), coffee or any personal favarite. The one you get here are too oily.
再加个豆腐脑，一小碟咸菜=Perfect!
if you in Malaysia this video will be at least 1 hour long. For breakfast alone, we got:
1) Dim Sum
2) Bah Kut Teh
3) All Kind of noodles
4) Chee cheong fun (Chang Fen)
5) Hainanese Coffee + Steam Bun / Roasted Bun
6) Nasi Lemak
7) Roti Canai
8) Kuih Muih (variety types of cake)
and so on....
(Singaporean going to steal this comment)
Bloody hell, you Malaysians are always accusing Singaporeans of something. However, all the things you mentioned and you forgot Chee kueh (How could you?) Is also found in Singapore.
Jerry Teh pls warn the foreigners as well on one thing. Dun walk to a halal stall or restaurant asking for pork. They will pork the heck outta u
There's the kaya + butter roast bun. Best. Shit. Ever and when u add you tiao to Bah Kut Teh. Honest to god, it's so good
I personally tend to have broccoli/cauliflower/green beans, maybe some salad, also pasture raised eggs or cashews/almonds/peanuts, or chicken with garlic for breakfast. All the protein foods not too much. MAYBE a handful of berries along with water, nuun juice or lemon/lime water.
For lunch-very similar kind of deal-celery/carrots/cucumber, chicken or nuts, and some water.
For dinner-lots of cooked greens, sauerkraut, etc., and a bit of protein-beef, chicken, salmon, etc. Water or nuun juice/lemon/lime water, etc.
Lots of starches and veggies in the traditional Chinese diet...
I like how people are somehow offended at this breakfast.
.....really? ..... do you really?
The more and more i watch these clips and see what the food is like and what the culture is like , the more it puts me off this place. Yuk no thanks.
Sh Br bro is a dispotic communist country, what did you expect honestly?
in a big city you will have access to anything you have in a western county from Starbucks to dominoes. But the majority of Chinese are still quite poor and their diet habits were built around a centuries of old time subsistence farming followed by half a century of brutal communism featuring catastrophic famines. Europe and USA were booming in wealth and decadence from the 1950's (ever heard the term baby boomer?) which allowed all of the splendour that defined modern popular western culture and it's cities to take shape.
油条要蘸醋吃啊大兄弟~ 而且我从来只能吃半根，吃不了一整根。小时候的吃法是油条泡豆浆（甜豆浆），大概因为为我小时候实在爱吃糖。早餐种类太多了，主要看各家习惯吧... 我高中的时候住宿，食堂真的什么都有，得有十几种吧。包子（肉/菜），面（不同卤），烧卖，糍粑，蛋饼，蛋（白煮/茶叶），馄饨（小/大），粥（小米/大米），油条，蛋皮包肉（至今不知道叫什么名字），春卷...
BTW，粥，馒头 都没有味道 所以一定要跟小咸菜一起吃~ 我小时候最爱馒头+豆腐乳。另外，我早上起床都没什么胃口，除了要先喝一杯水之外，只能吃些不那么干，又比较轻便的食物，比如粥（那也是要就着别的一起吃的，fancy一点的时候我家会开火炒菜，但是大多数时候就是冷咸菜了~）。另外，我估计大多数人家里都有豆浆机哈哈，尤其长痘痘的人不能吃乳制品，豆浆就更重要了。starbucks不就可以选择coconut water或者soy milk. 至少在加拿大，大家对soy milk的接受度真的蛮高，据我观察 （那肯定还是没有almond milk受欢迎~）
This popped up in my feed and I was like why Chris Pratt is in China.
Omg I love those steamed pork buns!!! I could eat those all day they have those in Korea too!
Man, I love ur videos. Greetings from Brazil!
Oops, obviously u did not pay attention on what southen chinese eat on your previous trip. Southen-style breakfast ARE different for the north and diverse, such as vairous rice noodles in Guangxi, Hunan and Guizhou, and Cantonese morning dim-sums.
jianbing is excellent, highly recommend
油条，包子，豆浆，豆腐脑，白粥（可以搭配一些小咸菜）。这些是中餐的主要组成部分，在中国大多数地方都是这样。
How does Scottish breakfast work?
Whatya got?
Chips.
Mehaw... I am Scottish.. 'you mean 'black pudding' - fat, mostly oats and pork. It was eaten in the 19th century - hardly anyone eats it today. Kellogg's cornflakes or Granola, or whatever the corporate plastic food industry want to sell us.
A Scottish breakfast is Buckfast and Iru Bru, fucking racist lol
the51project pint of Guinness & haggis filled poached egg.
Black pudding is the shit. Idk how anyone can not love black pud
the51project *Thats easy Scotch Eggs u stooge*
That’s too be honest baozi is the best meal to fill up your stomach
They're so good if it wasn't for this pandemic, I'd go get some after watching this 😋
I usually expect there to be condiments available for mantou and congee, so that they're less bland.
Most Chinese are either laborers, farmers, or petty business owners thus need all the carbs that they can afford for a low paying, 10-12hr work day. Plus, it's China...lots of people, not rich & easy living like the U.S. Think before you comment, people....
you probably have some misunderstanding about China my friend...
The oil sticks are like churros
I was waiting for you to say “hot water” for a breakfast drink. I used to have a lot of Chinese breakfast customers and that’s all they ever wanted.
It's kind of amazing and depressing to know that he once made innocent videos like this but now they're about "I literally might be killed by what I love."
Wow, I haven't had time to enjoy this channel since before COVID-19 (and the UA-cam algorithm hasn't suggested any serpentza, laowhy86, or ADVChina videos to me, which it used to do regularly...), and I had no idea how bad recent developments were. Thanks for the heads-up - got a lot of videos to add to my watch-list.
Nah, it's most likely that the people who sponsor his channel force him to make hardcore anti-china videos. In the past he was always quite objective about china, taking the good with the bad, and there was plenty of it, but now his channel is different and they're not even subtle about it lol
Hey Winston, I'm a High School student from Australia and I have been learning Chinese(Mandarin) for around two months. I'm having a bit of trouble learning Hanzi do you have any tips/methods on how I can learn it?
Daanonamas I am native Chinese. Hanzi is too difficult for most of Mandarin learners. It takes time.
go to China.
learn to write first and then read.
我就放心了看到祖国这么流氓 Duhh
+ Daanonamas Maybe reading chinese books would help? Those children's books would be easier if needed. Don't worry too much because I am chinese and I'm still failing my IGCSE Chinese cos I cannot write most of them.
Your awesome Winston , your video's are as always amazing. China is a nice country and I love it a lot !
As a fluent Mandarin speaker, I feel slightly sceptical watching these translations...
Well I live in China, and don't speak a bloody word. Every time someone speaks to me, I make a particular sound...kind of like "Arrrrggghhh"...but it a soft whimsical way, to give off the impression that I am thinking deeply about what they are saying. I also stare into the distance...until they go away. Works a treat, I can tell you.
Yeah U would!!!!!!!!
Yeah U would