I can't believe you took a meat pie to the Forbidden City just for a size comparison with the doornails! I so appreciate the committment, but hope the meat pie was still as yummy afterward. Also I've done a guided tour there twice and was never told about the 81 doornail history. Thanks for the amazing history lesson!!
Me: Oh Amy is gonna talk about the 门钉肉饼, I hope she covers the origin of its name! Me at 1:16: Yes she did it! Me: Oh Amy is talking about the doornails in the Forbidden City, I hope she calls out that there are 9x9=81 of them! Me at 2:17: Yes she did it!! Me: Oh Amy says that 9 is the supreme number in the Chinese culture, I hope she talks about other stuff in the Forbidden City with 9 in a row. Me at 3:30: Yes she did it!!! She even mentioned that the only exception - 太和殿 - has 10 仙人走兽s instead of 9! Fun fact, their original practical purpose is to cover the protruding nails on the ridge. Also the 10th figure is a monkey while all others are different mythological quadrupeds. Even as a life-long Beijinger and a Ming/Qing architecture enthusiast, I find Amy's videos so satisfying to watch!
Love this commentary!!! Absolutely thrilled I could satisfy even a Beijinger and Ming/Qing architecture enthusiast! Thanks for the fact about the purpose for the nails on the ridge - gonna do some more reading up on it now!
I was riveted to Amy's historical presentation and how she seamlessly tied the relevance to the meat pies. Also , appreciated how she made us feel that she was " talking to us on location" rather than narrating after the fact . Can't wait for Amy to share her next adventure !
So here I am. Watching an Australian trying authentic Chinese food that I myself as a Chinese have never tried or even heard of. Anyway, love your decription about the meat pie and the history behind it!
Most people, Chinese included who don't live in the country truly do not realize how DIVERSE China is. Of China's 55 ethnic minorities, 52 have their own spoken languages and can not understand each other's languages without learning them. This is what the rest of the world perceives as ONE language (Chinese). With regional cuisines that are nothing like that of a neighboring region. And thousands of ultra regional dishes that are specific to one village.
I'm Texan who loves good meat and I had a vegan dinner this evening. Watching this was a massive mistake. I'm not drooling, I'm crying! But I loved the cultural and architectural fun facts! Keep them up!!
Amy is the key person to binge watch her videos to make the ultimate China travel bucket list! This is definitely one I'll add to my post-pandemic China travels one day!
I'm from Beijing and lived there for 20 years but I've always been super 宅, and didn't know much about the history and food culture. I'm learning so much from you about my own city 😆😍
Loved the little history lesson lol, it was very interesting and your way of presenting is so engaging I could easily have listened to you talk about the symbolism for much longer! These pies look sooo good even for someone that doesn't usually go in for meat pies. Your videos always fill me with food envy, keep it up Blondie!!
Chinese take these things for granted, and often don't appreciate their heritage as much. It's a lesson. Or else their children will become like Gordon Chang and Vicky Xu.
@@Zerpentsa6598 excuse me? How does taking things for granted have to do with our race?? 🙄 can we just appreciate every culture and also this good food?
"Foaming at the bit" like foaming at the mouth+ chomping at the bit?🤣 my mom does this thing where she also inadvertently smashes 2 idioms together, and this totally reminded me of that
These look great! I love pan fried baozi, so I will definitely have to give these a try the next time I'm able to visit Beijing. Thanks for the tip about the 2 min wait before digging in. I'm totally the type that would have burned myself, lol.
2014 i visited the forbidden city for first time... it is so empty!!! Nothing to look at! Why? Because all the treasures were looted by the British and now on display in London....the collection is mind blowing!! And it makes me sad that most Beijing locals will never see their own countries treasures... the British only left behind rusty broken swords.....
I can't wait to go back to Beijing for these meat pies! Never knew about the door nails signifying the importance of the person living there. Very cool.
I love that you always do research on things you talk about, shows your professionalism and enthusiasm in this business. And your smile and cheerful voice make everything more interesting. Our whole family watch your update every week. Thank you!
As a native born and raised in Beijing, I'm learning so much from you! Thank you so much for showing my hometown, I'm happy and homesick at the same time lol!
Just wanted to say that I've binge watched about 50 of your videos in the last couple of weeks and your channel is so good!! I traveled to China (from Australia) just before covid and you've inspired me to want to go back and see more!
Hi Marlee! That makes me so happy to hear you've been enjoying my videos and it's made you want to come back to China one day :) hopefully meet you in person one day here!
I always wanted to visit the Forbidden City (故宮紫禁城) at Beijing in the future, since it has a majestic feeling and most Chinese royal themed shows are based on this place, as well as learning its royal history.🌟 Moreover, oh my goodness, the meat pie looks divine, that both the texture of the meat and the crispness from the pastry are fabulous.💕
I am 27 years old and i have never try something from 100 years back time. You are sitting in a table with a 100 years old dish.isn’t it a wonderful thing to eat and experience it and at same time sharing with us 😊
Memories!! I lived right across that shop until January of this year and I loved their door nail pies!! Absolutely delicious. Now, I can just watch you eat them 😉
I absolutely enjoyed the little architectural/historical side story of your video! It was such a pleasure to know those little details! I hope you produce more videos like this!!
OMG! Such a mouthwatering rou bing indeed! :)) Also, the effort of going to the Forbidden City is such outstanding! Thank you for your effort to show it to us, Amy! We really appreciate your video! :)
Excellent video! Thanks for the history tidbits and the food introduction with feed back. It drives me batty when people do videos of them eating foods, but not telling us what it was or any description. I think your parents would've loved eating these meat pies! Guess they don't make a veggie one since you didn't mention it. Keep eating at the different places, love to watch your videos!
very informative, precise explanation and high quality bilingual subtitles. love the quality of this video and I think you really promote the cultural communication between China and the Western world in an entertaining way. Glad to find your bilibili account as well. double subscribed!
Thanks Amy for this high quality video！I really like the way you introduced the doornail meat pie with the hidden history & story behind it👍👍👍👍👍 Amy 棒棒哒🎉🎉 永远支持你！
This exact restaurant was in the center of some controversies involving several famous Beijing food vlogers, they were accused of getting paid for revealing the restaurant and the food and saying good things about them when they are not, and they denied the accusations about they were paid also denied the food for their “undercover” review were special prepared by the restaurant
Nice lesson on the doors.....I love chinese hystoric dramas (the best: Story of the Yanxy Palace) In the 18th century Qing period there was an italian priest, a Gesuit one: Giuseppe Castiglione who painted the emperors and high officials and women of the mid eighteenth century period. Possibly the likeness of the Emperor you posted is one of his paintings.
Amy would make a great Chinese tour guide. Interesting Sinology lesson. Btw, that aerial shot at 9:26 makes the meat pies look like McDonald's McMuffins, lol.
My one question was how did she manage to not eat that second pie until she had taken it to a door of the Forbidden Palace to show the similarities between the pie and door nails? Immense willpower I think.
hahahahah! Truth is, I ate both pies at the store (couldn't stop at one), then ordered 2 more to take away! Had myself a nice little (and oily) picnic at the Forbidden City
Amy! I have an idea for you - when your boyfriend finally comes to Beijing, you guys should do a professional photo shoot with the traditional chinese costumes (like the couples in your video)! Would love to see it 😬
oh man, i love super oily lamb xianbing but had no idea this existed. it looks AMAZING! please keep going with the food exploration while many of us are still stuck unable to travel.
Amy just reminds me another host that works for ICS (International Channel Shanghai) called Heidi. I ve been watching her program "you are the chef" when i was teen and that program go on Air always after my dinner time which made me hungry again. Amy just gave me the same vibe, ugh those memories. Hope you enjoy your time in china!
Rumours I heard is FC is closed at 6pm/7pm and Soldiers march to make sure no one is around FC..why? Because it is super haunted, every night crying is heard from one of the wells...history says one of the concubines were rolled up in a carpet and put down a well... 🤔
Food safety has been a concern for many decades in China. The majority of food problems lies within poisonous foods deliberately contaminated by producers for higher profits
Our family eats it with vinegar (when by itself) or with xiaomi (millet) porridge, as you can see in the video. Very hearty stuff, will tide you over the winter.
G'day mate ! While I am your faithful fan - aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi for sure, but I also want to see more of your videos meeting up with other vloggers especially Oli Barret, Jason Lightfoot, Thomas 阿福, Gweilo60, HazzaChina Vlogs, etc. Fair Dinkum mate !!!
I can not vouch for the authenticity of American Chinese food, but it is the number two ethnic food by popularity in the USA. Just behind Italian food.
Just to add to the door nail history, the reason why they put door nails in is that when/if the city or building came under seige. The flaming arrows that were to used to burn the wooden doors down would hopefully bounce off the shiny circular door nails and fall harmlessly to the ground. They were essentially a defense mechanism against seige.
Welcome to China! There have lots of delicious food in China, and I'm a girl who comes from Hangzhou Fuyang, my hometown is so beautiful and also have lots of traditional local food, hope you can come to Fuyang to try my hometown's food or come to my channel look them first😉
I'm so surprised as well that chopsticks + opening up the pastry is the normal way to eat a meat pie in China! I'm also from Australia so this was quite interesting
that is an interesting history tidbit of the beijing doornail meat pie, i love it when u explain food history, makes one appreciate how the food ws invented, keep it up girl... ithink ur dad esp will love this meat pie, i hope to see ur mum n dad in china going on food expeditions with u n ur boyfriend...staysafe my dear...
Amy,hi,luckily can see you here,why? i'm here because of having to break the firewall of China,so😂... on the one hand thanks for sharing Chinese things , for as Chinese guy, on the onther hand,i could follow you to learn more ENGLISH OF daily life....
I’m def not gonna be that knowledgeable in terms of food scene in northern China 🤣 You are gonna be the one teaching me about northern food while I could be the one teaching you about Cantonese food 😂
Nine （九） in Chinese pronounce similar to long（久）, they share same pinyin JIU， just the tone is a little bit different, so number nine becomes a symbol of forever(long enough). the emperors commonly use this symbol to represent themselves for the wish of their dynasty will exist forever. 81 is just 9X9, which means long X long, even longer.
Though nine 九 may sound like 久 （long) which most people may interpret it as longevity in a superstitious way but in very old wisdom it does has a cosmological significance to it. Check out the luoshu diagram or the magic square as commonly known in the west will give you some idea.
I can't believe you took a meat pie to the Forbidden City just for a size comparison with the doornails! I so appreciate the committment, but hope the meat pie was still as yummy afterward. Also I've done a guided tour there twice and was never told about the 81 doornail history. Thanks for the amazing history lesson!!
I hav a question not about doornail.. why everything in Austiralia needs ketchup?
Once again you’ve opened the door to another wonderful snippet of Beijing culture.
Once again you’ve nailed it! :D
hahaha loving that pun!!
I agree, you nailed this one.
@@BlondieinChina pardon the bun!
Me: Oh Amy is gonna talk about the 门钉肉饼, I hope she covers the origin of its name!
Me at 1:16: Yes she did it!
Me: Oh Amy is talking about the doornails in the Forbidden City, I hope she calls out that there are 9x9=81 of them!
Me at 2:17: Yes she did it!!
Me: Oh Amy says that 9 is the supreme number in the Chinese culture, I hope she talks about other stuff in the Forbidden City with 9 in a row.
Me at 3:30: Yes she did it!!! She even mentioned that the only exception - 太和殿 - has 10 仙人走兽s instead of 9!
Fun fact, their original practical purpose is to cover the protruding nails on the ridge. Also the 10th figure is a monkey while all others are different mythological quadrupeds.
Even as a life-long Beijinger and a Ming/Qing architecture enthusiast, I find Amy's videos so satisfying to watch!
Love this commentary!!! Absolutely thrilled I could satisfy even a Beijinger and Ming/Qing architecture enthusiast! Thanks for the fact about the purpose for the nails on the ridge - gonna do some more reading up on it now!
agreed
@@BlondieinChina Watching this episode is like an emotional roller coaster except it only goes up! I'm "stoked" XD. Keep it up Amy! 🙌
Yeah, it is so educational on that. Well done Amy.
I was riveted to Amy's historical presentation and how she seamlessly tied the relevance to the meat pies. Also , appreciated how she made us feel that she was " talking to us on location" rather than narrating after the fact . Can't wait for Amy to share her next adventure !
Not sure if the "rivet" pun was intentional, but if it was, I applaud you.
hahaha... So agree with you! Can't wait for Amy to share her next adventure!
So here I am. Watching an Australian trying authentic Chinese food that I myself as a Chinese have never tried or even heard of. Anyway, love your decription about the meat pie and the history behind it!
Most people, Chinese included who don't live in the country truly do not realize how DIVERSE China is. Of China's 55 ethnic minorities, 52 have their own spoken languages and can not understand each other's languages without learning them. This is what the rest of the world perceives as ONE language (Chinese). With regional cuisines that are nothing like that of a neighboring region. And thousands of ultra regional dishes that are specific to one village.
@@violetviolet888 56haha
@@zhz243 minorities means少数民族 so 55 is the right number
The most cheerful girl, and the most interesting story teller
个人理解“北京是美食的荒漠”应该不是说北京没好吃的，而是很难形成极具特色的美食。这跟北京的地位有关，历史上多是人文交汇之地，各地美食交汇改良成为当地美食，但是细一看又跟某个很像。就像物种进化一样，相对封闭的环境容易产生或保存住极具特色的东西。
历史上北京虽然人员交汇，带来各地的特色美食，但已经靠近农耕文明的边界了，美食的基础是物产丰富，这是北京不具备的～市井美食只能是让底层劳动人民快速解决温饱的廉价内脏杂碎加重盐调味的食物～我北京生北京长大从来没去吃过卤煮炒肝儿…但老去牛街吃羊杂，尿酸高了之后也戒了…
I'm Texan who loves good meat and I had a vegan dinner this evening. Watching this was a massive mistake. I'm not drooling, I'm crying!
But I loved the cultural and architectural fun facts! Keep them up!!
Amy is the key person to binge watch her videos to make the ultimate China travel bucket list! This is definitely one I'll add to my post-pandemic China travels one day!
I'm from Beijing and lived there for 20 years but I've always been super 宅, and didn't know much about the history and food culture. I'm learning so much from you about my own city 😆😍
Oooooh would love to try some of these. You all know how I love a meat pie. Blondie can I get these in Sydney or are they unique to Beijing?
sorry dad, these babies can only be found in Beijing! First place I'll take you when you can come back to China one day!
John: drooling... here's another Chinese idiom "drawing a pie to ease the hunger" 『畫餅充飢』
@@BlondieinChina ❤️Love you
also missing these meat pies after watching Amys video here in Sydney 😐 will probably try to make them...
She did a really great job to talk about the culture and history of Forbidden city. More of these videos needed.
Loved the little history lesson lol, it was very interesting and your way of presenting is so engaging I could easily have listened to you talk about the symbolism for much longer! These pies look sooo good even for someone that doesn't usually go in for meat pies. Your videos always fill me with food envy, keep it up Blondie!!
As a Chinese, it’s so interesting to hear foreigners talk about Chinese food and history
Chinese take these things for granted, and often don't appreciate their heritage as much. It's a lesson. Or else their children will become like Gordon Chang and Vicky Xu.
@@Zerpentsa6598 Ewwwww you take that back!
@@Zerpentsa6598 gordon chang isnt even chinese he is half scottish
@@Zerpentsa6598 excuse me? How does taking things for granted have to do with our race?? 🙄 can we just appreciate every culture and also this good food?
That meat pie looks so heavenly 🤤 Amy, your dad would be so jealous of you right now.
Yep! 😂
I bookmarked this shop. Definitely would love to try it when I can visit Beijing. Hopefully soon really.
"Foaming at the bit" like foaming at the mouth+ chomping at the bit?🤣 my mom does this thing where she also inadvertently smashes 2 idioms together, and this totally reminded me of that
These look great! I love pan fried baozi, so I will definitely have to give these a try the next time I'm able to visit Beijing. Thanks for the tip about the 2 min wait before digging in. I'm totally the type that would have burned myself, lol.
I just love watching how you describe delish food with your special expression
2014 i visited the forbidden city for first time... it is so empty!!! Nothing to look at! Why? Because all the treasures were looted by the British and now on display in London....the collection is mind blowing!! And it makes me sad that most Beijing locals will never see their own countries treasures... the British only left behind rusty broken swords.....
I can't wait to go back to Beijing for these meat pies! Never knew about the door nails signifying the importance of the person living there. Very cool.
You helped me fix my Anorexia problem by watching all your videos. Thank you!
happy to see you are back here, and keep sending your lovely smile to the world during this kind of situation, greatful.
I love that you always do research on things you talk about, shows your professionalism and enthusiasm in this business. And your smile and cheerful voice make everything more interesting. Our whole family watch your update every week. Thank you!
Your comment made my day!!! Greetings to your lovely family, sending you hugs from Beijing!
Anything pan fried outside and meaty inside makes me drool! Envy! Envy!
You are the real ambassador of china😊, keep up the good work girl!
As a native born and raised in Beijing, I'm learning so much from you! Thank you so much for showing my hometown, I'm happy and homesick at the same time lol!
Beijing misses you!
Just wanted to say that I've binge watched about 50 of your videos in the last couple of weeks and your channel is so good!! I traveled to China (from Australia) just before covid and you've inspired me to want to go back and see more!
Hi Marlee! That makes me so happy to hear you've been enjoying my videos and it's made you want to come back to China one day :) hopefully meet you in person one day here!
If I was watching your channel for the first time, I would think you are a chinese history teacher
Hahahah! Maybe one day I will be!
I always wanted to visit the Forbidden City (故宮紫禁城) at Beijing in the future, since it has a majestic feeling and most Chinese royal themed shows are based on this place, as well as learning its royal history.🌟
Moreover, oh my goodness, the meat pie looks divine, that both the texture of the meat and the crispness from the pastry are fabulous.💕
I've been following your vids for a while now and the production quality is better than some documentaries i've seen on the discovery channel!
wow! biggest compliment I could receive. thank you!
I am 27 years old and i have never try something from 100 years back time.
You are sitting in a table with a 100 years old dish.isn’t it a wonderful thing to eat and experience it and at same time sharing with us 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Sabin!
Memories!! I lived right across that shop until January of this year and I loved their door nail pies!! Absolutely delicious. Now, I can just watch you eat them 😉
We just moved to Beijing--can you tell us the location?
I absolutely enjoyed the little architectural/historical side story of your video! It was such a pleasure to know those little details! I hope you produce more videos like this!!
OMG! Such a mouthwatering rou bing indeed! :)) Also, the effort of going to the Forbidden City is such outstanding! Thank you for your effort to show it to us, Amy! We really appreciate your video! :)
Excellent video! Thanks for the history tidbits and the food introduction with feed back. It drives me batty when people do videos of them eating foods, but not telling us what it was or any description. I think your parents would've loved eating these meat pies! Guess they don't make a veggie one since you didn't mention it.
Keep eating at the different places, love to watch your videos!
Unfortunately no veggie version on the menu, only the beef one :) Thanks for watching!
Wow, that looks delicious! And thanks for the tour and history regarding the Forbidden City. ♥️
very informative, precise explanation and high quality bilingual subtitles. love the quality of this video and I think you really promote the cultural communication between China and the Western world in an entertaining way. Glad to find your bilibili account as well. double subscribed!
I am coming to live in Beijing from Wednesday onwards and I am sooo looking forward to trying this pie. Jummie!!
Thanks Amy for this high quality video！I really like the way you introduced the doornail meat pie with the hidden history & story behind it👍👍👍👍👍 Amy 棒棒哒🎉🎉 永远支持你！
Love Amy's video. Not only just intro of foods, but also lots of stories of these foods.
Love how you combined the food adventure with the history tour!
I love your channel.... You know much more about Chinese food than most of Chinese..!!!
This exact restaurant was in the center of some controversies involving several famous Beijing food vlogers, they were accused of getting paid for revealing the restaurant and the food and saying good things about them when they are not, and they denied the accusations about they were paid also denied the food for their “undercover” review were special prepared by the restaurant
Perfectly detailed introduction thanks for sharing 🙏
My mouth is watering all right while I am watching you eat, yum.
Really make my mouth watering,look delicious. That’s what it mean door nail meat pie.
Nice lesson on the doors.....I love chinese hystoric dramas (the best: Story of the Yanxy Palace) In the 18th century Qing period there was an italian priest, a Gesuit one: Giuseppe Castiglione who painted the emperors and high officials and women of the mid eighteenth century period. Possibly the likeness of the Emperor you posted is one of his paintings.
Amy would make a great Chinese tour guide. Interesting Sinology lesson. Btw, that aerial shot at 9:26 makes the meat pies look like McDonald's McMuffins, lol.
LOOKS GORGEOUS
OMG, this looks amazing. the casing on it's own would do it for me. My mouth is actually watering!
it tasted even better than it looks!
Yay! Been waiting for the next upload :)
woo!!! thanks for watching!!!
My one question was how did she manage to not eat that second pie until she had taken it to a door of the Forbidden Palace to show the similarities between the pie and door nails? Immense willpower I think.
hahahahah! Truth is, I ate both pies at the store (couldn't stop at one), then ordered 2 more to take away! Had myself a nice little (and oily) picnic at the Forbidden City
@@BlondieinChina Ah the mystery is solved.
I love this one. I love our Australian meat pies but I also miss this one. Only one place I knew sold this but is no longer in business in Sydney.
Amy! I have an idea for you - when your boyfriend finally comes to Beijing, you guys should do a professional photo shoot with the traditional chinese costumes (like the couples in your video)! Would love to see it 😬
oh man, i love super oily lamb xianbing but had no idea this existed. it looks AMAZING! please keep going with the food exploration while many of us are still stuck unable to travel.
Looks really delicious
It is indeeeeeed
Why are you everywhere
@C W my account seems being stolen… And someone made such XX comments
@C W Thx for replying me to let me know my acct was stolen!
Amy just reminds me another host that works for ICS (International Channel Shanghai) called Heidi. I ve been watching her program "you are the chef" when i was teen and that program go on Air always after my dinner time which made me hungry again. Amy just gave me the same vibe, ugh those memories. Hope you enjoy your time in china!
Rumours I heard is FC is closed at 6pm/7pm and Soldiers march to make sure no one is around FC..why? Because it is super haunted, every night crying is heard from one of the wells...history says one of the concubines were rolled up in a carpet and put down a well... 🤔
Food safety has been a concern for many decades in China. The majority of food problems lies within poisonous foods deliberately contaminated by producers for higher profits
a twisted troll looking for baits
@@coolspace2786 滚! 😀
Amy is famous food blogger now. 😋😋😋
"Beijing is a food desert", that's basically when comparing to a lot of other places... it's relative, not absolute
Imagine the humble meat pie with such an interesting name and history. I figure the locals do not eat meat pie with ketchup?
Our family eats it with vinegar (when by itself) or with xiaomi (millet) porridge, as you can see in the video. Very hearty stuff, will tide you over the winter.
Ketchup is not a Chinese thing. Vinegar and soy sauce are some of the usual condiments.
Gosh... watching this in the late night.... makes me hungry...............
I'm so glad that a Caucasian like you do actually enjoy Chinese cuisine. And love your introduction to these lovely meat pies! ❤
No words to express myself after watching this. 😋🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
I really like your content. Watching your 9 mins video felt like watching it for 9 seconds only :(
Could someone bring this back to Adelaide? A Beijing meat pie shop is needed here.
G'day mate ! While I am your faithful fan - aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi for sure, but I also want to see more of your videos meeting up with other vloggers especially Oli Barret, Jason Lightfoot, Thomas 阿福, Gweilo60, HazzaChina Vlogs, etc. Fair Dinkum mate !!!
Not many caucasian enjoy asian foods and i can see you’re enjoying every bites. Nothing can go wrong with foods. International language. 😋😋
I can not vouch for the authenticity of American Chinese food, but it is the number two ethnic food by popularity in the USA. Just behind Italian food.
Really? Asian food is incredibly popular here in NZ.
Not true. Asian restaurants and takeaways are everywhere.
Amy said she was a chinese in her last life.
OMG it look so freaking good 🤤🤤🤤. Btw you're leveling up in your presentation skills, getting that TV show vibe not sure it's good or not 🤣
Just to add to the door nail history, the reason why they put door nails in is that when/if the city or building came under seige. The flaming arrows that were to used to burn the wooden doors down would hopefully bounce off the shiny circular door nails and fall harmlessly to the ground. They were essentially a defense mechanism against seige.
Already clicked ‘like’ before watching your video.keep up your great work Amy!
Thank you!!
I am salivating like crazy right now.
never try this door nail pie before in Beijing! I will try next time! so nice video!
Welcome to China! There have lots of delicious food in China, and I'm a girl who comes from Hangzhou Fuyang, my hometown is so beautiful and also have lots of traditional local food, hope you can come to Fuyang to try my hometown's food or come to my channel look them first😉
Would love to visit Fuyang one day :)
@@BlondieinChina 😀😀
That looks sooooo delicious!😄😄👍🏻😋😋👍🏻🤤🤤👍🏻
Omg, so impressed with your knowledge of the fobidden city 😃
Thanks for telling us the story of the chinese meat pies. Love to try them myself.. yummmm
It's freaking good.... haha! You've made my mouth watering Amy!
I'm so surprised as well that chopsticks + opening up the pastry is the normal way to eat a meat pie in China! I'm also from Australia so this was quite interesting
they don't end up with oily fingers, or burnt mouths
@@Woodland26 that is true haha 😂
I bet your dad gonna love this
有点像上海的生煎包。20多年前在海淀魏公村吃过北京胖姐肉饼，是薄薄的大饼中间有肉，再切成小块，配小米粥吃不错。
that is an interesting history tidbit of the beijing doornail meat pie, i love it when u explain food history, makes one appreciate how the food ws invented, keep it up girl... ithink ur dad esp will love this meat pie, i hope to see ur mum n dad in china going on food expeditions with u n ur boyfriend...staysafe my dear...
Thanks so much!!
your filming skills increased a lot!!!
LOL the dude at 7:52 is a real life meme.
Love the little snippets of info……interesting.❤️
Glad you enjoyed!
I realized that I ended up in Chinatown every time I watched one of your videos.
Don’t thank me for watching but thank YOU for making these fabulous videos!!! 加油！
🇺🇸 surprise they let you carry the pies to the emperor doors! Lol. Thx.
To be honest, so was I! Half expected them to be taken from me at security haha
love your vids keep up the great work! FL, usa
I can't believe the way the locals eat this pie. I will do the same as you, use my hands 🙌
Love your videos, you're such a gem
Amy,hi,luckily can see you here,why? i'm here because of having to break the firewall of China,so😂... on the one hand thanks for sharing Chinese things , for as Chinese guy, on the onther hand,i could follow you to learn more ENGLISH OF daily life....
I’m def not gonna be that knowledgeable in terms of food scene in northern China 🤣 You are gonna be the one teaching me about northern food while I could be the one teaching you about Cantonese food 😂
I'm envious
我去了北京好多次 从来不知道有这个小吃 好想吃哦！！😋
I love meat pies! I so want to try it!
Only thing I like about English food is meat pies and roast!
Tqvm 4 xtra in4.
Didn t know about the 9s n the 10s.
Nine （九） in Chinese pronounce similar to long（久）, they share same pinyin JIU， just the tone is a little bit different, so number nine becomes a symbol of forever(long enough). the emperors commonly use this symbol to represent themselves for the wish of their dynasty will exist forever. 81 is just 9X9, which means long X long, even longer.
Though nine 九 may sound like 久 （long) which most people may interpret it as longevity in a superstitious way but in very old wisdom it does has a cosmological significance to it. Check out the luoshu diagram or the magic square as commonly known in the west will give you some idea.
Do they come in different flavors meat pies? Like dog meat pie, pangolin meat pie, grasshopper pie, bat pies and other traditional wet market meats ?