Eating like a local! 🍜 A day of eating vegan around Shanghai
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2023
- Life is easier if you know a local! My new friend Rex takes me out to some authentic Shanghainese restaurants. He helps me navigate the city and find authentic vegan and gluten free foods I can eat and love!
I hope you enjoy our day of eating!
xoxo
Melissa
Check out Rex on UA-cam: @heyreeex
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Chinese people are really warm, even if you are meeting them for the first time, their smile and warmth will not be unfamiliar to you.
I agree. ❤️
I am only vegetarian. However, I always recommend temple restaurants for vegan travellers in China. They have very reasonablly priced and well made vegan Chinese food, and they have very authentic local flavor. In Beijing, I know Lama temple has one in the Hutong across the street from the temple entrace. In Shanghai, I have been to the one behind the most famour temple in the city center (you know the name, it just escaped my toung.) I think there is one in Tanjin, and the temple even sells their prepackaged vegan food in supermarkets. I am sure many temples around China have restaurants like that. I highly recommend those, and part of your spending will go to the donation.
Vegetable dish in Temple never make money. It’s the Buddhist donated. At least in Beijing like that
I have a few temples on my list here. I want to do a video about that soon too.
@@melissa_renee can wait to watch it!
It's so good to have a local showing you around!😄REX is super nice!
He really is. I was very lucky to have him guide me.
Nice to see you gone native, mingling with the local, and expanding your horizon and mine too.
Thank you & Rex for a great video, which was interesting at the same time relaxing to watch. 😊
He was so kind to offer his time. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Rex was such a great tour guide!! I loved this so much 😀
Thanks Lauren! He really is so nice!
Finally you have some local friends, enjoy the life, cheers!
wow that breakfast is really very shanghai!
Yes! Very!! and so good.
WOAHHHH i've been waiting for the video!!! More vegan options! that tiramisu looks so yummy :p
Oh I'm so glad! I hope you enjoyed it. I'm no food vlogger haha!
Some elderly people in China believe in Buddhism. They choose to eat only vegetarian food for a period of time, including not accepting animal oil. Many temples also provide vegetarian food to pilgrims. In addition, when you go to a restaurant, you can say that you are a vegetarian and cannot eat animal oil. Generally, Chinese people believe that animal oil contains other aromatic substances besides fat, so they will add animal oil when stir-frying vegetarian dishes to make the taste more layered, but you can mention that you are a vegetarian, which is not a problem for the chef.
Nothing like enjoying your food. Its boundless. ❤❤
I am a Shanghainese too , and I love VanGogh with his great arts , there are a lots of nice landscap can be found inside the city of Shanghai , maybe its rather small , but really nice looking , that's why I always paint the color on my canvas
Loved this video, it was so interesting to see the breakfast and Rex seems like such a kind person! Makes me so happy to see so many vegan options, I didn’t think it would be possible but it looks like more and more people are creating a demand for it 🙌🏽
Come visit Sam!! We will eat at ALLL the vegan places. haha!
My favorite foods i used to eat all the time during my childhood. Enjoying them 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
They are delicious!! ❤️
Wow, that killer street breakfast... I grew up with... Yum!
So lucky!! It is delicious.
this was such a brilliant video 👏🏻 having a local showing you around, especially surrounding food (it can be really daunting) is so helpful to being able to settle in a bit more … what a lovely guy Rex is and thank you to you both for showing us too 🤗 it will help me when I can finally get over there 👍🏻
So glad it helps. Yeah I wish I had videos like this before I came too.
Glad you enjoyed everything! The video literally makes me hungry again😋Let's explore more next time!
Yes absolutely!! I want to explore more.
The police in China have no guns, only non-lethal stun guns and pepper spray, and the police cannot abuse guns. There are only 3 countries in Asia that ban guns, one is China, one is Singapore, and the other is Maldives.
Everyone enters China will become a food vlogger🤣
No way. Not me. Haha
well, as a local shanghainese, and Cantonese grandparents (they moved to shanghai in 1930's), actually people in guangdong， hongkong and macau, like sweet soy milk too. they also put some ginger in it.
Oooo ginger! That would be so good. I didn't like the smokey flavor. I wonder if they all have that.
The smoky flavor is from the high heat of wood fire that caused burnt bottom. Many modern breakfast eateries use electric cooker that eliminates the burnt smell. You can also buy machines that will extract soybean juice and cook to drinkable soy milk (soy milk cannot be drank raw) without the burnt smell.
What a great theme and loved this video! I think the first dish that looked like soft tofu is what people in the north call 'tofu brain,' in case I didn't catch the name. The flavor sure comes from the gravy that can vary. In the past, I have had this dish with mushroom and tigerlily gravy and it was delicious. Sesame balls are great! Some vendors do put more sweet bean paste in them. I see you didn't try the You Tiao, which looks like a fried cruller, and it goes with the soy milk. You may like it.:)
Thank you so much for watching! And yes the cruller looks so good but I'm also gluten free so I wasn't able to eat that. Unless it's made of rice and then that would work!
Maybe another episode for the local food market. Many different types of green vegetables only can be found in China.
JUST AS I SAID..., SOMEONE HAS TO TOUGH IT OUT LIKE THIS.... Melissa! GEEEEEEE!
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His love, grace and blessings always upon the AVG!
Yup it’s a hard job. 😄
rice cracker..... and the sesame ball thing is just like a mochi, someone more native than me can add if it is actually a mochi? there are smaller thicker sesame balls? i cant remember now
Hello different video that was really well done.
Dress wearing hype!
Thanks for making me hungry today.
He said a teaspoon of sugar makes the difference as I hear Mary Poppins singing, "For a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."
hahaha! "in the most delightful way!"
Love to see more vegan content in Shanghai❤
Oh good!! Ok I’ll try to share more. Thanks for letting me know. 😀
@@melissa_renee thank you! My partner is vegan and will be coming to Shanghai, so I’m looking out for different vegan restaurants / places for shopping in Shanghai. Love to see your videos btw! Very relaxing☺️
SO happy for you! and thank you!!😍
Their social characteristics are very stable and rapid development, strong resistance to risks.
Rex is so lovely. Show me around pls😊
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I was shocked by the price in Shanghai.
My city is Nanchang and the vegetarian buffet here is 18yuan, all you can eat and there are many choices. Most of them are old people, monks and playing Buddhist songs. It gives me peace of mind. Maybe you should go to a vegetarian cafeteria once! When I was a child, I also went to the temple to eat vegetarian food, but I was not allowed to shout and make noise there. IMAO, it's a place where rules and regulations are more respected.
I have a few temples on my list to try! I am looking forward to it.
hi ! do you have any must try spots for a day out in shanghai? we have a 19h layover (5am to midnight) so we'll try and go into the city to see some bits, but not sure where to eat/what to try! thank u :)
Oh goodness...If I were you I would just hit up the biggest tourist spots. The Bund, Yu Gardens, Pearl tower. They are all off metro line 2 and you can get street food while at Yu Gardens. It's touristy but worth a visit. Especially on short time period.
@@melissa_renee lovely thank you ! Do you have any specific recs for vegan street food/how to navigate finding vegan things at markets?
I don't know if you noticed that there are very few fat people in China. Because the food here is mostly vegetarian. So being a vegetarian in China doesn't have to worry about food at all. You can eat a different vegetarian dish every day anywhere in China. And don't worry about not having enough
As a generality, yes, most people here are much thinner than their foreign counterparts. =)
As a Chinese. That's emmm not very true.
rex 有点帅 ❤❤
哇。 上海麻辣烫很贵哎
I’ll let home know 😉
Sugar+ soil milk is for southern part. Am I wrong?
You are right, salty soy milk is actually not common in southern China
I love this kind of vlog. 🥰🥰
And how much food cost 🤔.. 😂😂
I have another video that shows the food costs. 👍
@@melissa_renee Oh great..
Waiting for that video 🥰🥰
It's from a few months ago. It's the grocery one. =)
Aannnnnnd I just saw this after I left you the comment about vegan restaurants
Hey! Yeah and there is a mini app on WeChat that helps you find vegan restaurants too. Or just use Happy Cow app it has quite a few selections and it helps a ton. 🤗
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Most of Chinese people do are very kind and frenidly，but this guy doesnot look like a shanghaiese for me to be honest，there is a debate sweet or savory flavor based on silken tofu not on soy milk
do hope you have a nice living in Shanghai❤
I can assure you he is MOST definitely Shanghainese. =)
This man is nice.
Yes, very!
I don’t think there is a debate about if one should put salt instead of sugar in soy milk- you just put sugar in it every time…
The real debate is for the silken tofu (we call it tofu brains due to its texture). In the north people prefer spicy silken tofu- put hot peppers and hot sauce on the silken tofu; in the south, syrup/sugar is more preferred to be added on top of the tofu.
Gotcha. Thanks for sharing!
Come on Melissa, where's the super-animated Mark-Wiens-style food blogger expressions?
Haha… I am definitely not a food vlogger. 🤣
Well, even if your hair isn't too noticeably pink, you still have a pink bike helmet to keep your head pink
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there are plenty vegan food in china. just a lot ppl dun know about them or how to order them.
What do you mean? Lol
Ppl knows, just now that ppl prefer meat and seafood.
I always like a good vegetarian meal, China does the best with vegetables
We are learning!
Prohibition of guns is the premise. Prohibition of guns can make gangs and drug dealers lose their combat effectiveness, and then the police can deal a fatal blow to them.
Glad to see lots of ethical Vegan food there. Hope China will move to Vegan lifestyles along with the rest of the world asap. Bring on that animal friendly lab grown meat and cheese too, as adopting new technology seems to be more so accepted in asian countries🙂
It feels overwhelming sometimes with how much meat is consumed here. But I think the vegan movement is growing!!
@@melissa_renee I'm happy to hear that!
Chinese eat much more vegetable before, now they eat more meat.
Your husband must be a person with high status in some foeign company located in China, for example like a manager or CEO, otherwise there is no reason for you to stay such a depressed country. No youtube, No outside world connection, no smile on people's face, everybody is thinking about their money, their interest, this is what a real Chinese society likes.