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I grew up and was raised in Northern China, everything is different. We don't drink soup or eat rice that often. Instead we eat BBQ a lot, which is one of northern Chinese favorite food.
I think northern Chinese food is a lot closer to western food....different tastes and seasoning to western preparation, but still a lot of beef, pork, wheat products (noodles etc.) - less rice and less fish than southern chinese food. Its a lot heartier. I grew up in the west and have had some good authentic southern chinese food but I want to try more northern dishes!!!
I Like Bichons AHAHAHAHA OMG SAVAGE! That is kind of funny though we eat fish probably basically every single meal multiple meals but we use flavors so it doesn't taste like fish yeah very confusing I don't like a fishy taste at all and I used to live in Hawaii and a lot of the fish there did not taste fishy so that's the kind of fish I like
I dated a girl from Fuzhou area and the first time she made me dinner it was like this. She was nervous if I would like it but it was honestly some of the best food I have ever eaten.
This is really fabulous because it is very intimate and real! Something else that is wonderful is getting the translation on what the locals are saying. In most cooking, travel shows, you never get to hear what the people are saying and it makes them seem dumb in a way, because they are silent and don't say anything. I loved hearing how the lady was worried about you filming her killing the fish. It shows how much we are alike, and not so different. It is also marvelous to see what you really eat and how you cook it. Love it!
All of these people commenting on the fish, obviously have never been fishing. Where do they think the food in a market or grocery store comes from? Great video. Always interesting to watch how someone else from another culture does things.
i have been fishing and I kill the fish instantly. One hit in the neck and then you stab threw his heart. That's an instant death. Not hitting him to unconsciousness and leaving him alive.
@@accelerationgate5089 when the fishhead gets banged they die immediatly if you do it hard enough, one hit and the fish is dead, it's pretty painless since it's so fast
Death reflex. I raise meat birds, and they do twitch even without their heads. You know the expression "running like a chicken with its head cut off?" Yeah, that's where it comes from.
That was more of 50s-70s thing back when people still associated China with the Great Leap Forward and the massive famine that occurred. I'd be surprised if anybody tells kids today that there are people starving in China.
YES WASH UR RICE! I’m Haitian and my step dad is Swedish and he doesn’t wash his rice, talkin bout “U don’t need to wash I because it boils at a high temperature”. Umm no...wash ur rice ppl
animeloverforever fan I am from Ireland. As rice is not our native food, most natives here don't know that you are supposed to wash the rice. I learned rice washing from Indian migrant woman.
Well actually rice washing depends on the culture. Rice culture is very important here in Spain, many regions grow rice and almost nobody washes it so as not to take off starch for texture in most rice dishes. I think nearby countries like Italy do the same.
Finally a GREAT video. Please, more authentic Chinese home cooking videos. It seams when you watch western dudes in China, all they do is eat in restaurants (boring), but this is great. Looking forward to learning how to prepare hot, spicy sour soup, dumplings, hand made noodles and red bean dessert :-)
John Solitude have you ever checked out thewoksoflife.com? I have made some pretty authentic meals from their site including things I thought I’d never eat.
this is not authentic chinese home cooking, she dont even know the basic chinese cooking also, I have visited many chinese friends house nowhere I saw anybody cooking this way, after finish cooking put salt and soya sauce..
Keep in mind though that China is a HUGE country and what is normal in one part is uncommon in another. If you head towards Xinjiang, you see lots of yak-related dishes, but you don't see those at all outside special restaurants when you're on the east coast.
Sudip Mitra China has so many cultures and ways to cook. That's why I requested this video. Even though my wife is from Hunan, and has her way of cooking, other areas cook different foods and cook differently.
Great video from beginning to the end. It is really cool to see the family bond. Your daughter is a doll. It reminds me of my daughter when she was small. Hang in there and I hope things are going well off camera as well as on camera.
I gotta give Vivi a hand for doing this. Not everyone would be brave enough to do this unless they were a pro chief. It's good to see just an average person cooking an average meal. It's more educational that way.
One parrot fish is wild and from the Ocean.(the one from the market).. the other orange parrot fish (in the aquarium) is from the Cichlid family and lives in fresh water. I believe it was cross bred in Taiwan. Two very different fish.
In North China, fish is often fried with oil before further cooking. We don't often have soup, and we have less types of soup, especailly in average household. Vegetables are cooked in a similar way. Meat is, in fact, very common. And whether it is beef, lamb or pork, Chinese people always make sure they are fully cooked. Many Chinese people are too proud of their cuisines and a little narrow-minded that they of laugh at foreigners eating "raw meat". They have their reasons to be proud. As one of them, I know it. But I hope they would one day learn to try something different and appreciate it.
Jabberwockie did you not see the cuts in it?HOW IS IT GOING TO BE ALIVE WITH NO GUTS? Its nerves were just having a reaction to something(which is common in some dead animals AND people too)Some people are so stupid smh
the nominees are; the kitchen fish!; two thumbs up for such an Alive performance in a home made video! the dead aquarium fish!; Great performance as a supportive character!
German Kitchen is not far away from that. We are also huge Soup and Stew People. I have a frozen chicken that I will make a soup of soon and I am gonna discard most of it, just cherry picking some nice looking meat from the chest and thighs. Fried Potatoes (Bratkartoffeln) are usually made with leftover cooked potatoes from the day before, so it is quite similar to the fried rice thing Vivi mentioned.
Chinese cooking uses cooking wine a lot. It helps to decrease the smell of fish, smell and taste of the blood, etc... Also, when you stir-fry the egg, adding a little bit of cooking wine helps it to get fluffy as the wine evaporates during the process.
5:45 actually what you're washing off are the starches. For most long grain rice like jasmine or basmati, you wanna give it a good long rinse because doing that will give it a much fluffier end result, which makes it easier to fry afterwards. ;)
@@Bamiyanbigasf that's typical??? Chinese people got some good ass kitchens only thing in my kitchen is a microwave an oven and a 20$ ricecooker I got off amazon
I'm not a vegan, just a person with a conscience, so I was shook too. I doubt that fish enjoyed being cut open while still alive. Enlightened cultures have humanely killed animals before butchering them for millennia. It's common decency.
Earth, to start with, it was clearly alive when flopping around. Second, bashing a head until something is dead is not a humane way to kill something. There are actually methods that have been codified as humane, and you can look them up.
Wow cutest kid ever. Never realized how typically Chinese my family's meals are. Both my parents have been here in Canada for 40+ years, but even the way the food is prepared (down to the rice washing) is the same...
I think it's sad that North Americans have become so separated from the source of our food that we don't realize that it usually starts out in contact with dirt.
It's funny because in the market Vivi was acting humble by saying she's not a chef, she's just an average housewife and then we saw another side of her when she said SAVAGE
Great video, informative and entertaining. I especially liked the Explanation about the differences between Chinese and Japanese soy sauce. I try to make my food as authentic to original sources as I can. 🥰👏👏
Really good video. It’s so interesting to see genuine cultural food being prepared by people indigenous to a culture. Also: the “baby test” gets all my “awwwwws”.
1. You wash the rice more to remove the starch than to clean it; makes for fluffier rice 2. My family eats whatever is in the soup (my parents are from guandong) 3. Most of the nutrients ARE in the soup
Her English is so much better, just watched older videos before this, very nice improvement, very good now. Best part 6:35 :D So lucky to have markets like that, even in Europe it's all kind of going away or is crazy expensive, everyone shopping in the bigger chain markets because of lower costs but quality is worse. Vegetables prices are nuts.
Guangdong and Canton, best rice dishes and seafood while Hunan has chicken nailed and Sezchuan for stir-fries. Northern provinces for noodles and BBQ, though with Mushu pork and beef ribs alike being a favorite atop chow mein with hot oil and scallions. Chinese food is great, both the American kind from the el cheapo buffets and the real deal, especially when done right even though it can't really be done wrong. :)
I really enjoy listening to Vivi talk. I especially love to hear her say "usually" and "actually" :) she's too sweet... it's amazing to me how different authentic chinese food is compared to what we call chinese food in the u.s.
Yes, usually it's frowned upon to eat the meat from the soup. As all nutrition and tase is gone. But I also eat it, a little bit of chilli oil and soy sauce, goes down a treat 👍
The HD Channel - Vlogs, Reviews & Stuff. Are you saying all proteins in the meat has gone to the soup? Then what's the remaining meat made of? It's still physically there.
Slo Mo Yes the meat is still physically there, but any nutritional value has gone into the soup. Hence the reason, why most Chinese people won't eat the "left overs"
How do you know when the fish is done? When it's eyes are popping out lol that was funny 😂 Awesome video! Super authentic and really cool to watch 😄 Keep up the great content 👍🏼
Great fun video. Thanks for a peek into Chinese culture. She's totally right about the broth. I make bone broth all the time. Put the bones in a crock pot, cover with water, add a tablespoon of cider vinegar and cook on low for 3 days. That little bit of cider vinegar draws all the nutrients out of the bones. I do beef bones (gotta be grass-fed) and chicken bones. When you do chicken bones they come out very flexible like rubber because all the calcium and collagen has been leached out into the broth. Bone broth is one of the healthiest things you can drink.
This is more than an average chinese home cook meal. I am from Hong Kong and so is my wife. Watching this I realise I've got a raw deal. C-Milk you are lucky man. Vivi is a terrific cook with a bubly personaility. She should start her cooking channel.
Specifically the person who didn't want to be on camera, Gordon may be hell in the kitchen but I've never seen him toss a fish in a bag and beat it to death
Viv is such a sweet lady and entertaining not just the cooking that story about your mom 😂 so funny the different cultures can be funny brought together.
Hello from California! I'm a new subscriber! Loved this video, very insightful. Had no idea that the Chinese added rice vinegar to their rice and that's why it tastes so good, I would ask my Chinese coworkers about how they prepared their rice and NO ONE mentioned this! So Thank you Vivi and hubs. Please make more cooking videos❤🇺🇸
A friend steamed fish a lot (freshly caught trout and things from local rivers and lakes), using a bamboo steamer, but he always steamed the fish outside the house because it would make the kitchen reek of fish.
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Loved this episode of Vivi cooking! =D
I want Viv as my personal chef lolz.
Why do Chinese eat with their mouth's open. I noticed your wife doing it. Is it a cultural thing?
laowhy86 make that chinese music vid review a series by genre instead of just one vid
Yo bro feel like putting out less and less videos bro. Serpentza also :(.
Don't worry guys, all the fish fillets from our American supermarkets come from fishies that have generously killed themselves for us.
A moment of silence for their sacrifice.
the fishes ar elike I would rather die fresh and delicious than going straight into the freezer
Now I'm imagining a bunch of fish lining up to jump off of a building lol.
I’m not American but I would rather it be killed just before it is cooked because it is more fresh that way
Mass suicide 🤣
I grew up and was raised in Northern China, everything is different. We don't drink soup or eat rice that often. Instead we eat BBQ a lot, which is one of northern Chinese favorite food.
I think northern Chinese food is a lot closer to western food....different tastes and seasoning to western preparation, but still a lot of beef, pork, wheat products (noodles etc.) - less rice and less fish than southern chinese food. Its a lot heartier. I grew up in the west and have had some good authentic southern chinese food but I want to try more northern dishes!!!
I lived in boading in hebei and people eat rice in every meal a long with things like potato noodles, and meats. That’s how it was at school at least
@@cristiangranados9385 the difference are indeed become smaller everyday
China ki maa ki chut
oh wow, I had no idea, haha. That's cool to know though. thanks
"Today's steamed rice is tomorrow's fried rice."
LOL, today's Lǎo huǒ tāng is tomorrow's amazing dinner.
Spoken like a true asian
Just asian thing😁
"Savage" Oh my, I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣 your wife is amazing ! She's the type of housewife I wish I was !
3:57 “we use alcohol to get rid of the fishyness ”
*me when I’m dating guys*
oh no
ewwwwwww xD
not in that way yall ^^^
I Like Bichons AHAHAHAHA OMG SAVAGE! That is kind of funny though we eat fish probably basically every single meal multiple meals but we use flavors so it doesn't taste like fish yeah very confusing I don't like a fishy taste at all and I used to live in Hawaii and a lot of the fish there did not taste fishy so that's the kind of fish I like
I don’t get it lol
"Is it normal to have blood all over your kitchen in China?"
"Yeah."
*no hesitation*
Bryant Moop Lol gross I dont wanna eat fr a kitchen that has blood thank god I dont eat Chinese food
I guess you only eat processed food then. Where do you think your meat comes from?!
shh! be quiet!..
Brigitte McLean Lol pretty sure he thinks animals bleed rainbows.
Bryant Moop I mean... What about when you buy raw steak mate... Or other meats... Youre gonna get blood in the kitchen. No matter where you live.
I dated a girl from Fuzhou area and the first time she made me dinner it was like this. She was nervous if I would like it but it was honestly some of the best food I have ever eaten.
Food made with love always tastes amazing.
And then you fucked
Guy: "Why you got to be so violent?"
Girl: "That's how we cook"
😂😂😂
0:37 ,,you can see they are alive‘‘ *fish swims upside down*
That's the fish you avoid. In the supermarket, you're not given that option, they're all dead.
Maybe bored. xD
Nah, just suffers from Hydro-Dyslexia.
That one is just.. special
Dank
This is really fabulous because it is very intimate and real! Something else that is wonderful is getting the translation on what the locals are saying. In most cooking, travel shows, you never get to hear what the people are saying and it makes them seem dumb in a way, because they are silent and don't say anything. I loved hearing how the lady was worried about you filming her killing the fish. It shows how much we are alike, and not so different. It is also marvelous to see what you really eat and how you cook it. Love it!
1 fish was harmed in the making of this video.
Truth
If I was a fish, out of all the fish in the sea, I would have been *that* fish thats how unlucky I am.
Truth
DUSaggin Rest in pieces, fishy.
Demands peta to take immediate action.
All of these people commenting on the fish, obviously have never been fishing. Where do they think the food in a market or grocery store comes from? Great video. Always interesting to watch how someone else from another culture does things.
i have been fishing and I kill the fish instantly. One hit in the neck and then you stab threw his heart. That's an instant death. Not hitting him to unconsciousness and leaving him alive.
@@accelerationgate5089 when the fishhead gets banged they die immediatly if you do it hard enough, one hit and the fish is dead, it's pretty painless since it's so fast
not always
Wait... the fish don’t grow in a tree?
I don’t exist For tax and insurance purposes where did they let it suffer?
"the eyes popped out so it's done" - I will remember that cooking tip
Would have been a great Halloween episode. ... But in China that's everyday. O_O
Between Vivi saying "I'm a savage!" and Olivia running back for more "feesh", I think this is too much adorable for me to handle.
OMG.....your daughter is so adorable such a lovely family overall.
What did u mean by "overall" lmao!
@@themerovingian4252 FUCK YOU BRO! That's a sright up bitch ass comment.
lol "overall". What does that even mean :p
"It's already dead"
*fish keeps flapping around*
Muscle contractions. All dead things do it.
@@jhgfd-sh9du you know, those westerners haven’t seen any fresh food.
@@presidentjiang6762 Arrogant and egotistical, learn to be humble or life will make you humble.
@@Andy-jw9ke thank you for your advice
Death reflex. I raise meat birds, and they do twitch even without their heads. You know the expression "running like a chicken with its head cut off?" Yeah, that's where it comes from.
What a REAL Chinese Home Cooked Meal in China Looks Like: *FISH JUMPS FOR ITS LIFE*
yeah but still very yummy.
an straight to the dinner plate.
xDD
When that moment happend i bursted out laughing
"They are more alive and it's cheaper" Fish doing the backstroke.
Buys a fish, kills it, it jumps off counter, gets blood all over the kitchen: typical Tuesday.
lol
It's because she put it on a metal plate with the exposed metal rim. It causes the muscles to react, use a non metallic plate and that doesn't happen.
She didnt wash the fish.
I think you were born without the ability to be funny.
yeah well they are not so soft as many europeans and US people are...
Mom: "Finish your plate sweetie people are starving in China"
China: "Lol throw that meat out just drink the broth"
well, as a northern Chinese we don't do that
That was more of 50s-70s thing back when people still associated China with the Great Leap Forward and the massive famine that occurred. I'd be surprised if anybody tells kids today that there are people starving in China.
@@gymnopedie4445 my mom is a boomer and still thinks czechoslovakia exists
Hey here can any one can be my Chinese cooking teacher
I don't know about other families or provinces but my family never ever does that... usually we have the soup with the prok/chicken/beef
YES WASH UR RICE! I’m Haitian and my step dad is Swedish and he doesn’t wash his rice, talkin bout “U don’t need to wash I because it boils at a high temperature”. Umm no...wash ur rice ppl
animeloverforever fan aleast he saved the water.
animeloverforever fan I am from Ireland. As rice is not our native food, most natives here don't know that you are supposed to wash the rice. I learned rice washing from Indian migrant woman.
I'm Swedish and everyone I know washes their rice.. it says so on the box as well haha
Well actually rice washing depends on the culture. Rice culture is very important here in Spain, many regions grow rice and almost nobody washes it so as not to take off starch for texture in most rice dishes. I think nearby countries like Italy do the same.
My turkish roommates ALWAYS washed the rice and got nervous when I told them I hadn't done the same.
Oh my gosh, your baby
Oh, yes... my babe.
Your baby is sooo sweet. :)
Chinese babies are always so freaking cuuuute
yes! melt melt melt!!
yeah! she's a cutie
Finally a GREAT video. Please, more authentic Chinese home cooking videos. It seams when you watch western dudes in China, all they do is eat in restaurants (boring), but this is great. Looking forward to learning how to prepare hot, spicy sour soup, dumplings, hand made noodles and red bean dessert :-)
John Solitude have you ever checked out thewoksoflife.com? I have made some pretty authentic meals from their site including things I thought I’d never eat.
Nice site Jerry. Thanks for the link, love Asian cooking.
this is not authentic chinese home cooking, she dont even know the basic chinese cooking also, I have visited many chinese friends house nowhere I saw anybody cooking this way, after finish cooking put salt and soya sauce..
Keep in mind though that China is a HUGE country and what is normal in one part is uncommon in another. If you head towards Xinjiang, you see lots of yak-related dishes, but you don't see those at all outside special restaurants when you're on the east coast.
Sudip Mitra China has so many cultures and ways to cook. That's why I requested this video. Even though my wife is from Hunan, and has her way of cooking, other areas cook different foods and cook differently.
"The eyes has popped out, so it's definitely cooked"
-Vivi 2017 (about the fish)
Great video from beginning to the end. It is really cool to see the family bond. Your daughter is a doll. It reminds me of my daughter when she was small. Hang in there and I hope things are going well off camera as well as on camera.
Lol the fish jumping.
Your kid is too cute.
I gotta give Vivi a hand for doing this. Not everyone would be brave enough to do this unless they were a pro chief. It's good to see just an average person cooking an average meal. It's more educational that way.
One parrot fish is wild and from the Ocean.(the one from the market).. the other orange parrot fish (in the aquarium) is from the Cichlid family and lives in fresh water. I believe it was cross bred in Taiwan.
Two very different fish.
In North China, fish is often fried with oil before further cooking. We don't often have soup, and we have less types of soup, especailly in average household. Vegetables are cooked in a similar way.
Meat is, in fact, very common. And whether it is beef, lamb or pork, Chinese people always make sure they are fully cooked. Many Chinese people are too proud of their cuisines and a little narrow-minded that they of laugh at foreigners eating "raw meat". They have their reasons to be proud. As one of them, I know it. But I hope they would one day learn to try something different and appreciate it.
"I'm just a normal chinese housewife, not a chef"...proceeds to cook circles around my expectations! bravo!!
heatherwanderer777. These are the basic cooking skills required for a Chinese house wife.
"Normally when people ask me who I am, I say, 'Just a housewife', but today, I'm an alchemist!... I mean, a chef..."
"It is already dead" *Holds it down as it flails*
Jabberwockie did you not see the cuts in it?HOW IS IT GOING TO BE ALIVE WITH NO GUTS? Its nerves were just having a reaction to something(which is common in some dead animals AND people too)Some people are so stupid smh
Lol, yup, that’s real life stuff..,
A commenter said it reacted to the metal plate,
Omae wa mo shindeiru
Nolan NANI?!
YOUR BABY IS SOOOO CUTE....no offence, that was the best part. Your video was really good. Thank you for putting it up.
I bet she'd make a fortune as a child star in China.
Vivi, "savage" 💖😂😂 I just died. I love you guys. You just provided a perfect end to an otherwise crappy day. Thank you for sharing your lives✌💖
lol you're in youtube comments telling people to get a life. Vivi "savage" was awesome!
"Savage!"
I gave this video a like as soon as she said that! Lol
P
She's so pretty and funny....she could have her own cooking show.
the nominees are;
the kitchen fish!; two thumbs up for such an Alive performance in a home made video!
the dead aquarium fish!; Great performance as a supportive character!
I'll have you know I screenshot that comment and I'm pondering about printing it out and gluing it on one of my notebooks.
lol, great!!! ;)
Aww, I thought he was just swimming upside-down. 😉
Lol! Hella clever! Hella funny!
hi hi! ;)
I loved how viv said “savage”, so cute.
The eyes pop out so its definitely cooked 😂😂😂😂😂
yeah it turns darker and darke...I like girls like she is :D
Fun video! And that ending is adorable, haha. :D
"Why are you so violent?"
"This is how we cook."
*_So True_*
The baby at the end was so cute!!! So cool that she's growing up to learn both languages too. ♥
Your daughter is crazy cute.
mixed gene means she would admire two regions of people
Androiid16 Sorry, I can't have anymore kids. So not really.
That part when Vivi said "Savage" cracked me up. lol
the daughter is SOO CUTE! she came back from seconds!!
You rinse the rice to get rid of the starch so the rice is fluffy when you cook it and not starchy amd glutenous
"Vivi's Chinese Kitchen" should be the name of her new cooking show - she did an awesome job, C-Milk! 😁👍🏽
domino kanin stop spreading lies you troll. xD
Omg "Savage!" LMAO that was epic!
German Kitchen is not far away from that. We are also huge Soup and Stew People. I have a frozen chicken that I will make a soup of soon and I am gonna discard most of it, just cherry picking some nice looking meat from the chest and thighs.
Fried Potatoes (Bratkartoffeln) are usually made with leftover cooked potatoes from the day before, so it is quite similar to the fried rice thing Vivi mentioned.
Chinese cooking uses cooking wine a lot. It helps to decrease the smell of fish, smell and taste of the blood, etc... Also, when you stir-fry the egg, adding a little bit of cooking wine helps it to get fluffy as the wine evaporates during the process.
Vivi must start her own "how to cook Chinese Meal" Channel.
I don't know how I got here but that meal looks AMAZING!
Peabrain same. I just ended up here randomly and now I am hungry...
me to.
You guys are the cutest. 10/10 best cooking show!
Thank you! What a precious child! What kind of ceramic bowl is being used for cooking over gas flame without cracking?
UA-cam's next big cooking show.
Babish wont know what's hit him.
Probably the fish hit him before being put in the steamer :P
I enjoy videos like this, keep it up! Good job. *baby eats food then runs away* lol
5:45 actually what you're washing off are the starches. For most long grain rice like jasmine or basmati, you wanna give it a good long rinse because doing that will give it a much fluffier end result, which makes it easier to fry afterwards. ;)
She deserves a bigger kitchen and more counter space to cook lol . You’re a lucky dude having a wife who cooks real food! Good video for sure. 👍
Bruh that’s the typical Asian kitchen experience lol
@@Bamiyanbigasf I know dumbass. You have anything else to say.
@@Bamiyanbigasf that's typical??? Chinese people got some good ass kitchens only thing in my kitchen is a microwave an oven and a 20$ ricecooker I got off amazon
The vegans are shook
As a vegan, i agree
LMAO accurate
I'm not a vegan, just a person with a conscience, so I was shook too. I doubt that fish enjoyed being cut open while still alive. Enlightened cultures have humanely killed animals before butchering them for millennia. It's common decency.
Ashley Young it's already since the time it got its head _bashed_ in _and then gutted_ way back at the market.
Earth, to start with, it was clearly alive when flopping around. Second, bashing a head until something is dead is not a humane way to kill something. There are actually methods that have been codified as humane, and you can look them up.
Wow cutest kid ever.
Never realized how typically Chinese my family's meals are. Both my parents have been here in Canada for 40+ years, but even the way the food is prepared (down to the rice washing) is the same...
because... that's how you do it literally everywhere else? In india, Persia, and Indonesia.
James um yeah greetings from LA California. Mexicans wash rice like that too. Dunno why. Never questioned my mom. It’s just how it’s done.
I think it's sad that North Americans have become so separated from the source of our food that we don't realize that it usually starts out in contact with dirt.
it washes off the excess starch on the outside of the grains
This video made me hungry! Your daughter is absolutely adorable. Thanks for posting videos, this is one of my favorite channels!
Kristina Johnson Your** did you not go to school? VERY simple, you're means you are. Your, means it belongs to you. Jeez people.
Tate Sanders simple typo. No need to be a jerk. Fixed it just for you :)
It's funny because in the market Vivi was acting humble by saying she's not a chef, she's just an average housewife and then we saw another side of her when she said SAVAGE
Great video, informative and entertaining. I especially liked the Explanation about the differences between Chinese and Japanese soy sauce. I try to make my food as authentic to original sources as I can. 🥰👏👏
Really good video. It’s so interesting to see genuine cultural food being prepared by people indigenous to a culture. Also: the “baby test” gets all my “awwwwws”.
I just love Vivi! Not only is she beautiful, but she’s got an awesome personality. “Savage”!! 😂 Too funny.
yes.!
Soup for life. lol. This was a good one.
"Taste like my mom!" So Vivi! We love you, Vivi!
Max Capone so in China they eat their own?
@@obriets Lol I believe she meant to say it tastes like how her mom used to make it.
obriets no. She must have stole that line from a porno vid.
Great video..."savage!"..hilarious!
Shouldn't this be in Vivienne's channel? I think so! I learned something with the alcohol and vinegar. Great video.
1. You wash the rice more to remove the starch than to clean it; makes for fluffier rice
2. My family eats whatever is in the soup (my parents are from guandong)
3. Most of the nutrients ARE in the soup
That's not right. Most nutrients are insoluble.
jingxuan.guokr.com/pick/60429/
钙 蛋白质什么的根本不溶于水的，不懂为什么广东人那么固执的认为汤才有营养。而且骨汤好喝是因为脂肪高，多喝根本不健康。
cachem11 Right sorry. If I thought about it a little, I would come to the same conclusion. The thought has been ingrained in me though
"Water needs to be holy"
*Honey can you get me the bible im cooking chinese food!*
I have to admit, I hit "like" when the fish hit the floor.
Awesome video, though. Way funnier than I imagine it was intended to be.
That was about the same moment I knew this would be good.... lmao.
I hit the like button the moment I saw the inkling shirt. SPLATOON GET?
same xD
Oddscribe I did the same
I thumbed down because I felt sorry for the fish. This is the only C-Milk vid I ever thumbed down though.
Her English is so much better, just watched older videos before this, very nice improvement, very good now. Best part 6:35 :D So lucky to have markets like that, even in Europe it's all kind of going away or is crazy expensive, everyone shopping in the bigger chain markets because of lower costs but quality is worse. Vegetables prices are nuts.
You're so lucky to have Vivi
"Made you kill the fish in the driveway"
I'm vegan and find this very interesting. But I can see other vegans scrolling by and then running out and down the street screaming! LMAO
I'm not from China but ive always washed my rice what's up with this guy😂😂
it's to clean and remove some of the starch
american here and i usually wash my rice too unless i am cooking something that requires the starch
Im hispanic and live in America i NEVER wash my rice.. but im going to start, from this day forward!
Cheli G yea you should because those machines they go through you don’t know what’s in them AND they could have never washed the rice
Suga spice and everything nice Lol You are indeed correct ! My dirty rice days are OVERRRR!!! Thankyou for this wisdom
Fried rice is our thing - Guangdong People. That was hilarious when you put that on the screen.
haha glad you picked up on that
Guangdong and Canton, best rice dishes and seafood while Hunan has chicken nailed and Sezchuan for stir-fries. Northern provinces for noodles and BBQ, though with Mushu pork and beef ribs alike being a favorite atop chow mein with hot oil and scallions. Chinese food is great, both the American kind from the el cheapo buffets and the real deal, especially when done right even though it can't really be done wrong. :)
I really enjoy listening to Vivi talk. I especially love to hear her say "usually" and "actually" :) she's too sweet... it's amazing to me how different authentic chinese food is compared to what we call chinese food in the u.s.
Yes, usually it's frowned upon to eat the meat from the soup. As all nutrition and tase is gone. But I also eat it, a little bit of chilli oil and soy sauce, goes down a treat 👍
The HD Channel - Vlogs, Reviews & Stuff. Are you saying all proteins in the meat has gone to the soup? Then what's the remaining meat made of? It's still physically there.
Slo Mo Yes the meat is still physically there, but any nutritional value has gone into the soup. Hence the reason, why most Chinese people won't eat the "left overs"
+The HD Channel - Vlogs, Reviews & Stuff
Sounds suspicious. Can I see the science behind this? :)
The HD Channel - Vlogs, Reviews & Stuff false. Most nutrients are insoluable
weird tho, my parents always told me to eat the stuff in the soup
How do you know when the fish is done?
When it's eyes are popping out lol that was funny 😂
Awesome video! Super authentic and really cool to watch 😄
Keep up the great content 👍🏼
That is funny why? It's disturbing. Imagine that being a cat or dog or human. Still funny?
It wasn't funny. The poor animal was suffering.
I am awaiting the Chinese startup company "Vivi's Prune Juice Company"
Great fun video. Thanks for a peek into Chinese culture. She's totally right about the broth. I make bone broth all the time. Put the bones in a crock pot, cover with water, add a tablespoon of cider vinegar and cook on low for 3 days. That little bit of cider vinegar draws all the nutrients out of the bones. I do beef bones (gotta be grass-fed) and chicken bones. When you do chicken bones they come out very flexible like rubber because all the calcium and collagen has been leached out into the broth. Bone broth is one of the healthiest things you can drink.
This might be my favorite video that you've done.
I have to agree.
This was a great video. I loved the family "home movie" vibe it had :)
Thank you Vivi for showing what a real Chinese meal is
I think this might be one of the best videos done on this channel.
I'm glad I'm not a fish.
nope, your human.
True, I am human, vegetarian and a Pisces.
Choose one you greedy fuck.
Calforrai - Sorry honey, I got three for one.
lol
"savage!" Haha love it, great video you two.
This is one of the BEST cooking videos right now!
She is Awesome!
This is more than an average chinese home cook meal. I am from Hong Kong and so is my wife. Watching this I realise I've got a raw deal. C-Milk you are lucky man. Vivi is a terrific cook with a bubly personaility. She should start her cooking channel.
Loved the video, Vivi I bet the food is amazing!
Gordon Ramsay gots some competition
Specifically the person who didn't want to be on camera, Gordon may be hell in the kitchen but I've never seen him toss a fish in a bag and beat it to death
Gordon is a fine chef, but he knows next to nothing about Chinese food compared to her.
Lol, my parents are from Guangdong and this is so accurate to what we eat for dinner!!
Viv is such a sweet lady and entertaining not just the cooking that story about your mom 😂 so funny the different cultures can be funny brought together.
Yea, basically that's a chinese dinner. Soup, meat, veggie, and of course rice. I mean how can you not have rice?! How are you going to fill up?!
It's ok to not eating rice if you get used to it. Many young girls never eat any rice/bread/noodles to stay skinny.
Northern chinese dont eat rice everyday.
Northwestern China it's a crapshoot on whether it'll be rice or noodles. Plus there are way more potatoes in the northwest.
Personally I agree with you Janice.
in my hometown where is in north west of china people mainly eat noodles instead of rice as their staple food
Hello from California! I'm a new subscriber! Loved this video, very insightful. Had no idea that the Chinese added rice vinegar to their rice and that's why it tastes so good, I would ask my Chinese coworkers about how they prepared their rice and NO ONE mentioned this! So Thank you Vivi and hubs. Please make more cooking videos❤🇺🇸
Thank you so much!
Hands down, your best video yet. Thank you both for sharing this. Just awesome.
A friend steamed fish a lot (freshly caught trout and things from local rivers and lakes), using a bamboo steamer, but he always steamed the fish outside the house because it would make the kitchen reek of fish.
Very interesting to watch.
6:19 *C-milk:* Is this normal to get/have blood all over your kitchen in China?
*Vivi:* Yeah... (face is priceless)
The baby test is my favorite thing