Umami is a Japanese word, and we called it 鲜(xian) in Chinese。It's a taste from some kinds of amino acid which can be found in vegetables , seafoods, or meat protein. The umami from vegetables is different from the one from seafoods or meat. Chinese usually use the chicken soup to cook. This is the way to add the chicken umami to dishes. Japanese use the seafood soup called だし（dashi). I haven't write something in English for ten years. Wish you can read it.Thank you for the vedio.
Anything but MSG. Too much of anything is bad for us. But believe me, MSG is worse than salt and sugar. I am 62 and have a few friends and relatives are food lovers got a stroke in their 50s and 60s. Because they ate at restaurants way too often. Oily food has something to do with that but MSG is definitely another factor.
@@benthekeeshond545 Restaurant food is tends to be really high in sodium, fat and sugar. MSG contains sodium which eating too much can increase the risk of a stroke, but it contains less sodium than salt. If MSG contributes to the risk of stroke, it is most likely due to the S, sodium, paired together with a diet already high in salt. Even if you don't eat at a many restaurants, tons of processed foods contain MSGs.
@@benthekeeshond545 MSG is naturally present in so many foods and there is no modern science that supports the idea that it is bad for your body. Pseudo-science from the 1960s coupled with xenophobia of chinese immigrants is what made the idea that MSG is bad for you wide spread. Google some recent science articles and you'll realize that MSG isn't any worse than salt. Of course, too much of anything and our bodies can't take it but MSG isn't the devil that many people seem to believe.
@@benthekeeshond545Actually, lots of Chinese restaurants do not allow their chief to use MSG now. Because many Chinese people think if chief MSG add in the food, it will have a weird umami flavor
UMAMI described in Chinese should be : 鲜 Like Chris said : it's the 5th taste other then sweet , sour , bitter, and spicy! In Chinese cooking five words 酸，甜，苦，辣，鲜 ！In Guangdong 鲜actually become the most important flavor out of the five! And yes, that's what mom said! 😁
Loved the umami animation you added those few times, so cute! As a fellow Cantonese Chinese American I'm so glad you got a taste of Cantonese flavors and enjoyed it!
I am Cantonese from Shenzhen and now I have been living in the US for more than 20 years. I love Cantonese home cooked meals, just like what this girl cooks at home. Steamed fish with ginger and scallions on top, stirred fried fresh leafy greens either with garlic or fomented tofu as seasoning, pork chops with black bean sauce, homemade Cantonese style soup...
Bitter melon soup, stir-fried sweet potato leaves, steamed fish, and black-bean pork ribs: these dishes are literally my day-to-day food in sz! very authentic and Cantonese!!! LOVE how Steph just threw around the "umami" concept here and there LOL and LOVE how you explored its meaning (and msg too!). Hope you're enjoying your trip and can't wait to see some more!!! BTW, the fish-murdering scene just crapped me up!!!! LOL
Haha this is so cool, I just found your channel randomly, iv never seen such a cool video about shenzhen, I'm Israelie and I moved to shekou 11 years ago, hope you enjoy the beauty of shenzhen
Omfg I love you soooo much more now. Chinese cooking Demystified is what got me so interested in China in the first place! They’re the reason I bought my first carbon steel wok.
Your content is so so inspiring for Chinese language learners like me. After watching your previous videos, I've decided to move to Beijing to study in Tsinghua Uni next month. Thanks!! I hope I can meet you in person :)
Takes me right back to the markets in Tuen Mun in New Territories. So shocked to see fish that had been cut in half down the spine and to prove it's still fresh you can see the heart ❤ still beating. So long ago and yet I still remember that vividly. Another fun foodie vid, great collab. Yeah I like Chinese food, it's simple and uncomplicated but tasty. Thanks Aimz! See ya next vid! 😃
Oh I just LOVE Chinese supermarkets! There is always something new to discover. A couple of years ago I've been checking out one of the boggest supermarkets I've ever seen in China. The 欧亚卖场！
Yummy, I can smell the delicious dishes😁... if you get the chance, you need to try stir fried bitter gourd with egg, black bean and chopped ginger, is delish! Can't wait to see your next video! 😀🇨🇦
Those are bitter gourds or karela as they are called in north India/Pakistan. Never had bitter gourd soup, but my mum makes a mean curry with bitter gourd, lamb, golden onions and tomato. The bitterness has to be perfectly balanced with sweetness from onions and tomato tartness. Absolutely divine. Some people also cook it with jaggery or unrefined sugar from sugar cane. Never had that kind.
There used to be a weekend market across from my place in Lanxi as a kid - there was always a guy that would sit in one of the alleys of the market near the entrance, so I'd always have to walk by him, with two crates both with live frogs. He would pick up a frog, skin it with a knife, and throw it into the bucket with the other skinned ones, and they would just writhe and squirm all over each other in one big bloody pulsing mass of flesh. If you wanted some he would pick a few out and throw em in a bag for you. It always curbed my appetite a little, having to walk by him to get to the other vendors.
I remember when I got back from China I went in to a little shop that run by a Korean and bought some preserved tofu. The look on the girl cashier was priceless - you do know what that is was her question.
It is the flavor of the protein (actually, the amino acids). Humans typically can sense the taste of two amino acids: aspartate and glutamate. MSG is basically sodium glutamate.
Hahah “Sweet potato leaves don’t taste like sweet potato” You are sooo cute! Sweet potato leaves is one of my favourite vegetables (especially my grandma cooked)😆
Bitter gourd / melon aren't really that bitter, maybe similar to a garden grown green pepper. They are available at some supermarkets here in the States and is good for balancing blood sugar levels naturally
Yeah now that you mentioned it, my mom used a lot of dried shrimp in her cooking, I guess Cantonese and regions nearby really did use a lot of dried seafood
I equate umami as meaty taste. For instance, if you cook a pot of vegetable soup and season it with only salt, it still tastes blend. If you put in a tiny amount of msg, it instantly tastes better.
"I've avoided those century eggs for years." Apparently not long enough. Also umami is 鲜. The left part is 鱼 which means fish and the right part is 羊 which means lamb (or goat).
That is what I miss about Chinese markets. You can smell everything you might purchase. Markets in the US and other countries have everything wrapped in plastic so there are no smells at all. We go to a local Chinese market and even there, most items have no smell, altho smells from the fish dept would definitely raise warning flags for me. Keep up the great videos, Amy.
WoW Meilin wholesale market which next to my home! So long time didn't back to Shenzhen due to the epidemic, good to see the neighborhood on RUclips 👍🏻
Sensational the supermarket. And the food afterwards = lovely. In this video you have set a new record. Never heard so much "oh, oh, oh, oh ..." from you🤣. I love your videos. Greetings Alex🙋🏻♂️
I remember going to market with my parents as a kid and the seller would help you kill and prepare a live chicken that you chose in front of your face. That was definitely bloody and kinda cruel for a kid to watch. But later I would be enjoying the dish on dinner table. So yah that’s how unique Chinese market is, especially for those who only get to shop from grocery stores. You can’t bargain at grocery stores or ask the seller to give you an onion for free.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Yeah it was definitely super confronting seeing the fish killed in front of me, but that’s just the reality of things!!
I think the "fish maw" was perhaps jellyfish? I've heard they do eat jellyfish in Guangdong, and she said that it was gelatinous, and the "flotation device" of the fish.
Hey blondie, here is another ancient concept of “Umani” The concept for that 5th taste is from my understanding and belief Chinese ancient culture toward food. In Chinese character the 5th taste is described as “鲜” . Just as any other language， this word contains 2 individual components to combine to become a new vocabulary which are 鱼 and 羊, fish and lamb. Here you go, the whole point for the special taste came from the flavor of combination of fish and lamb. So, if you really want to understand the concept and the actual flavor you will need to dig out what the ancient people believed because they created it. As a result I suggest you to put a piece of fish and a piece of lamb (better with bones) into a cooker to boil them, then taste it. It’s better than what the MSG can give you. Ta
@@BlondieinChina Scientists has found the fifth receptor for the umami flavor in human taste buds. Confirming this is the fifth flavor as sweetness, sour, bitterness, and saltiness. It's indeed hard to describe as but basically is what you get from proteins. Common sources of umami flavor include animal proteins, seaweed, tomatoes, soybeans, and so many more. Also for the info spiciness is not a flavor, it's actually a form of pain.
i love the Chinese markets! Cant wait to get back to stock up with good fresh stuff for the yacht! Maybe I should invite you two to come do a cooking show on the yacht while we cruise the islands!??
The market looks pretty clean. Btw, I'm a Chinese & I nvr knew that century egg is preserved with alkaline - I really thought that it's preserved with horse urine. Thank you Amy for another informative, fun & interesting vid! Looking forward to another new one ;-)
i have been into these similar but small markets and some things are difficult to define and understand. This is really informative lol. I noticed that Chinese still use salted method of preserving food a lot.
Pi Dan the century egg has nothing to do with urine. It's commonly consumed in the form of Pi Dan lean pork porridge. But actually there is special kind of egg soaked with virgin boy's urine which is mystifyingly considered to be a kind of medicine back in the old days which is rarely seen nowadays.
This Chinese gal's English is just amazing! Damn she knows quite a lot high-level words....It seems she used to stay in an English-speaking country for quite some time.
Wow my 2 favorite channel. The things they sell in the market are so similar with a vietnamese one with sweet potato leaves, bitter gourd or dried shrimp!!!
I used to work in a Chinese takeout and when they cooked for each other, they would stuffed the bitter melon with ground pork and steamed them. Another dish that I recall was steamed scrambled eggs with lobster roe. Of course these dishes were only for the cooks. They didn't think it would appeal to Western or the American taste.
I’m from Thailand and thais here we called century eggs like ‘ไข่เยี่ยวม้า’ actually it means the horse’s urine but we don’t put the egg in the urine by the way haha
@@BlondieinChina You are like the ultimate tour guide in China taking me to different places which I have never been to lol. Suppose one day you wanna spend some time in Savannah, Georgia. Let's hang~ Shitty Chinese food though.
One of the few veggies I don't like. I heard that they are very good for our hearts and effective in lowering blood sugar, blood pressure, and will also help prevent cancer. I know that they are good healthy food but that shit thing is utterly bitter.
Very wrong. The bitter taste of bitter gourds comes from alkaloids which are proven nephrotoxic (harmful to kidneys). Bitterness as a universally unpleasant taste has its evolutionary utility to warn individual creatures of toxicity. Cantonese people use many strange ingredients to cook and quite a lot of them are harmful. Guangdong has one of the highest kidney failure prevalence in the world and it is due to Cantonese people's extensive use of uncultivated herbal ingredients.
you can not taste the msg to get umami taste . umami is the taste that enhance the original flavor. example if you add tomato to chicken soup , chicken soup become more tasty . a lot of taste enhancer that we used in kitchen has natural MSG or imami taste. tomato, anchovies , dried sea weeds, dried mushroom etc
Umami is the noun version of that word. Adj. should be umai(woo-ma-ee). The word per se is from Japanese and it actually means tasty, but since it came to the west it describes the taste of mostly seafood, and specifically kelp. MSG is a Japanese invention just to save people’s effort from extracting the flavour from kelp soup. In terms of safety, I believe you can trust Japanese products as much as how those Japanese people trust german technology.
Amy, you couldn't even put a link to the Chinese Cooking Demystified channel or webpage in the description box? What kind of collaboration and friendship is this?
Blondie, I wish i am in China, otherwise I would invite you for my home town dishes. And my home town is in Da Peng which you already visited. We mainly have seafood and local veggies. Your friends are really nice!
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Umami is a Japanese word, and we called it 鲜(xian) in Chinese。It's a taste from some kinds of amino acid which can be found in vegetables , seafoods, or meat protein. The umami from vegetables is different from the one from seafoods or meat. Chinese usually use the chicken soup to cook. This is the way to add the chicken umami to dishes. Japanese use the seafood soup called だし（dashi). I haven't write something in English for ten years. Wish you can read it.Thank you for the vedio.
I didn’t know this crossover existed!!! Chinese cooking demystified is amazing
Your positivity is infectious, need more genuine people like you as a window to the world for China.
Two of my favorite RUclipsrs in one video, lucky :)
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This is awesome! I love Chinese Cooking Demystified! Two great channels that brings China closer to us! Thank you very much! Greetings from Argentina.
Anything but MSG. Too much of anything is bad for us. But believe me, MSG is worse than salt and sugar. I am 62 and have a few friends and relatives are food lovers got a stroke in their 50s and 60s. Because they ate at restaurants way too often. Oily food has something to do with that but MSG is definitely another factor.
@@benthekeeshond545 Everything in their right amount.
@@benthekeeshond545 Restaurant food is tends to be really high in sodium, fat and sugar. MSG contains sodium which eating too much can increase the risk of a stroke, but it contains less sodium than salt. If MSG contributes to the risk of stroke, it is most likely due to the S, sodium, paired together with a diet already high in salt. Even if you don't eat at a many restaurants, tons of processed foods contain MSGs.
@@benthekeeshond545 MSG is naturally present in so many foods and there is no modern science that supports the idea that it is bad for your body. Pseudo-science from the 1960s coupled with xenophobia of chinese immigrants is what made the idea that MSG is bad for you wide spread. Google some recent science articles and you'll realize that MSG isn't any worse than salt. Of course, too much of anything and our bodies can't take it but MSG isn't the devil that many people seem to believe.
@@benthekeeshond545Actually, lots of Chinese restaurants do not allow their chief to use MSG now. Because many Chinese people think if chief MSG add in the food, it will have a weird umami flavor
这特邀嘉宾英语真好，词汇量巨大！！！学习了。
刘硕洋 Chinese food marketing?
词汇量真的没得说，职业英语很多人都会，但这些生活上的词汇，尤其是食物的词汇还真是难倒不少人。尤其是中餐的词汇。。。
确实，感觉英语功力及其深厚。
一边看一边拿小本本记下来这些我背完要你命3000都没学到的词
这嘉宾是美加口音。 可能是留学回去的
UMAMI described in Chinese should be : 鲜 Like Chris said : it's the 5th taste other then sweet , sour , bitter, and spicy! In Chinese cooking five words 酸，甜，苦，辣，鲜 ！In Guangdong 鲜actually become the most important flavor out of the five! And yes, that's what mom said! 😁
Loved the umami animation you added those few times, so cute! As a fellow Cantonese Chinese American I'm so glad you got a taste of Cantonese flavors and enjoyed it!
Alvin Kuang thanks Alvin!!
I am Cantonese from Shenzhen and now I have been living in the US for more than 20 years. I love Cantonese home cooked meals, just like what this girl cooks at home. Steamed fish with ginger and scallions on top, stirred fried fresh leafy greens either with garlic or fomented tofu as seasoning, pork chops with black bean sauce, homemade Cantonese style soup...
I just realized that I‘ve found a great channel for learning English. Clear pronunciation, great content!
this lady's english is very very good! very like her accent!
Bitter melon soup, stir-fried sweet potato leaves, steamed fish, and black-bean pork ribs: these dishes are literally my day-to-day food in sz! very authentic and Cantonese!!! LOVE how Steph just threw around the "umami" concept here and there LOL and LOVE how you explored its meaning (and msg too!). Hope you're enjoying your trip and can't wait to see some more!!!
BTW, the fish-murdering scene just crapped me up!!!! LOL
Haha this is so cool, I just found your channel randomly, iv never seen such a cool video about shenzhen, I'm Israelie and I moved to shekou 11 years ago, hope you enjoy the beauty of shenzhen
Omfg I love you soooo much more now. Chinese cooking Demystified is what got me so interested in China in the first place! They’re the reason I bought my first carbon steel wok.
Steamed fish and steamed ribs are my favorite Cantonese food besides dim sum.
support you ! Love your vlogs about China. We love China.
“凉瓜黄豆汤”、“腐乳炒薯叶”、“清蒸鱼”、“豉汁排骨”。They are all very traditional Cantonese family dishes. I miss them so much. Hard to imagine here in the U.S.
awesome video. As a Chinese American living in Asia past decade, real Chinese food is amazing!
Umami is the flavor coming from certain types of amino acid, for simple cooking, you can add MSG or chicken powder to make the food taste "umami".
Since I accidentally watch AMY's video, I have kept watching in a row of 4 days !!!!!!!!!! Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Your content is so so inspiring for Chinese language learners like me. After watching your previous videos, I've decided to move to Beijing to study in Tsinghua Uni next month. Thanks!! I hope I can meet you in person :)
We are happy to help as well. If you want to get a head start and get some 1-1 instruction I can give you a free online trial class.
Oh yeah the lights at the meat places are to keep bugs out. They are selling outdoors after all!
Takes me right back to the markets in Tuen Mun in New Territories. So shocked to see fish that had been cut in half down the spine and to prove it's still fresh you can see the heart ❤ still beating. So long ago and yet I still remember that vividly. Another fun foodie vid, great collab. Yeah I like Chinese food, it's simple and uncomplicated but tasty. Thanks Aimz! See ya next vid! 😃
Oh I just LOVE Chinese supermarkets! There is always something new to discover. A couple of years ago I've been checking out one of the boggest supermarkets I've ever seen in China. The 欧亚卖场！
Changchun
欧亚卖场 is in 长春
Umami is from a Japanese word ‘旨み’ which means “鲜味” in Chinese.
Yummy, I can smell the delicious dishes😁... if you get the chance, you need to try stir fried bitter gourd with egg, black bean and chopped ginger, is delish! Can't wait to see your next video! 😀🇨🇦
Wow, her cooking skill is amazing. 😱 I can even smell it across my screen.
8:15 "I love cat butt" x)
Those are bitter gourds or karela as they are called in north India/Pakistan. Never had bitter gourd soup, but my mum makes a mean curry with bitter gourd, lamb, golden onions and tomato. The bitterness has to be perfectly balanced with sweetness from onions and tomato tartness. Absolutely divine. Some people also cook it with jaggery or unrefined sugar from sugar cane. Never had that kind.
Umami is “鲜”！
lunlunqq cool!!! Thanks!
鲜=鱼+羊。
Umami = fish + sheep
Isnt it xian, fresh?
D D fresh is 新鲜
fresh food usually get more umami, but umami isnt same as fresh,it is a kind of flavor
Love your channel! Its so inspiring to see you speak chinese and exploring China!
There used to be a weekend market across from my place in Lanxi as a kid - there was always a guy that would sit in one of the alleys of the market near the entrance, so I'd always have to walk by him, with two crates both with live frogs. He would pick up a frog, skin it with a knife, and throw it into the bucket with the other skinned ones, and they would just writhe and squirm all over each other in one big bloody pulsing mass of flesh. If you wanted some he would pick a few out and throw em in a bag for you. It always curbed my appetite a little, having to walk by him to get to the other vendors.
I remember when I got back from China I went in to a little shop that run by a Korean and bought some preserved tofu. The look on the girl cashier was priceless - you do know what that is was her question.
Amazing video, like it very much. Good to let the world knows our wonderful Chinese food.
Lol I love the edits, especially the umami part lol, had me dying
Taylor Swift hahahahaha yay! Thank you!!
Amy! I've been in your channel since you only had like 5000 subs!! It's really nice to see you grow until 64,000+ subs :)
The Chinese language actually long has had the word「鮮」as the equivalent to “umami”. Steph should know.
It is the flavor of the protein (actually, the amino acids). Humans typically can sense the taste of two amino acids: aspartate and glutamate. MSG is basically sodium glutamate.
Damian Rhea It can mean the Umami flavour and it also can just mean fresh.
I’m not sure but I think Chinese had this word and concept first. Just like whole lots of other things lol.
Yep~ that's the point! I also can't get it when people are using non-Chinese words for a Chinese originated concept.
Jason lu Like 围棋 Wei Qi vs. Go. xD
They usually don't put monosodium glutamate in their cooking. Only those with insufficient level can use monosodium glutamate for rescue
Century eggs, if done well, is very delicious.
never warmed to them myself. I didn't hate them but preferred to avoid them.
Haha, new thing, now we know westerners like it. I thought century egg is like a disgusting food and sticky to you ☺️
Hahah “Sweet potato leaves don’t taste like sweet potato” You are sooo cute! Sweet potato leaves is one of my favourite vegetables (especially my grandma cooked)😆
So close to everyday life. Love this video.
Bitter gourd / melon aren't really that bitter, maybe similar to a garden grown green pepper.
They are available at some supermarkets here in the States and is good for balancing blood sugar levels naturally
No. They're definitely bitter.
They contain plant insulin therefore the blood glucose levels drop.
As a Cantonese, I would say the three dishes are so common and typical dishes in Cantonese daily life.
Excellent video! Loved the explanations of all the ingredients.
Brian Petersen thanks Brian!!! Glad you liked it!!
AHHHH COLAB OF THE CENTURY THIS IS ICONIC
Leila Baniassad YAAAAYYYYY!!!!
Best way i always described Umami is basically something that is "juicy" but in a savory way
I shouldn't have watch this episode in midnight, I am feeling so hungury right now.
Great video, love food markets! 😁
Yeah now that you mentioned it, my mom used a lot of dried shrimp in her cooking, I guess Cantonese and regions nearby really did use a lot of dried seafood
I equate umami as meaty taste. For instance, if you cook a pot of vegetable soup and season it with only salt, it still tastes blend. If you put in a tiny amount of msg, it instantly tastes better.
"I've avoided those century eggs for years." Apparently not long enough. Also umami is 鲜. The left part is 鱼 which means fish and the right part is 羊 which means lamb (or goat).
Xiao Zhang thanks for the info! Still have so much to learn about Chinese food and cooking!
@@BlondieinChinabesides the basic taste, there are a lot of other flavours, like 麻，香，鲜
@@yuanshuodu748 香 pertains to "smell", but 麻 is indeed a "taste" sensation.
i heard the taste of msg is basically 7 parts salt 3 parts sugar
That is what I miss about Chinese markets. You can smell everything you might purchase. Markets in the US and other countries have everything wrapped in plastic so there are no smells at all. We go to a local Chinese market and even there, most items have no smell, altho smells from the fish dept would definitely raise warning flags for me. Keep up the great videos, Amy.
WoW Meilin wholesale market which next to my home! So long time didn't back to Shenzhen due to the epidemic, good to see the neighborhood on RUclips 👍🏻
Umami is a word from Japanese, I guess. But Chinese has the character "鲜” for this. It is said to be mainly from a certain kind of amino acid.
Umami=（~~）Miso ，in japanese 味噌、味素，chinese 味精、味素
Sensational the supermarket. And the food afterwards = lovely. In this video you have set a new record. Never heard so much "oh, oh, oh, oh ..." from you🤣.
I love your videos. Greetings Alex🙋🏻♂️
I remember going to market with my parents as a kid and the seller would help you kill and prepare a live chicken that you chose in front of your face. That was definitely bloody and kinda cruel for a kid to watch. But later I would be enjoying the dish on dinner table. So yah that’s how unique Chinese market is, especially for those who only get to shop from grocery stores. You can’t bargain at grocery stores or ask the seller to give you an onion for free.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Yeah it was definitely super confronting seeing the fish killed in front of me, but that’s just the reality of things!!
I just found your channel and I absolutely loving the contents, thank you for the good work
I think the "fish maw" was perhaps jellyfish? I've heard they do eat jellyfish in Guangdong, and she said that it was gelatinous, and the "flotation device" of the fish.
Jim Zorn no, it is a dried fish maw or swim bladder so called
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_bladder
1:37
WTF HE JUST SLAMMED THAT FISH
LOL ... thats how they kill the fish for you , im dead...
Hey blondie, here is another ancient concept of “Umani”
The concept for that 5th taste is from my understanding and belief Chinese ancient culture toward food. In Chinese character the 5th taste is described as “鲜” . Just as any other language， this word contains 2 individual components to combine to become a new vocabulary which are 鱼 and 羊, fish and lamb. Here you go, the whole point for the special taste came from the flavor of combination of fish and lamb.
So, if you really want to understand the concept and the actual flavor you will need to dig out what the ancient people believed because they created it. As a result I suggest you to put a piece of fish and a piece of lamb (better with bones) into a cooker to boil them, then taste it. It’s better than what the MSG can give you. Ta
james Xing thank you so much for sharing!!
@@BlondieinChina Scientists has found the fifth receptor for the umami flavor in human taste buds. Confirming this is the fifth flavor as sweetness, sour, bitterness, and saltiness. It's indeed hard to describe as but basically is what you get from proteins. Common sources of umami flavor include animal proteins, seaweed, tomatoes, soybeans, and so many more. Also for the info spiciness is not a flavor, it's actually a form of pain.
Very nice. I'm a Singaporean and my dad is Cantonese, and so I can relate to the video. :)
This Chinese girl has MASSIVE vocab, and SUPER fluent!
i love the Chinese markets! Cant wait to get back to stock up with good fresh stuff for the yacht! Maybe I should invite you two to come do a cooking show on the yacht while we cruise the islands!??
The market looks pretty clean. Btw, I'm a Chinese & I nvr knew that century egg is preserved with alkaline - I really thought that it's preserved with horse urine. Thank you Amy for another informative, fun & interesting vid! Looking forward to another new one ;-)
Edamame I’m so glad to hear it wasn’t just me that believed the horse urine urban legend!!! You made me feel better! Haha
Excellent episode!
Love your energy
In the egg buying part u are like a baby girl first going to the outside world and keeping asking her mother everything she saw😂😄😄 Love your vedios❤
Tiger road literally exactly what I was like!!! I probably said ‘what’s that’ like 50 times to Steph!!
i have been into these similar but small markets and some things are difficult to define and understand. This is really informative lol. I noticed that Chinese still use salted method of preserving food a lot.
妹子词汇量真的大 有的词都没听过
王浩懿 貌似也是英文方面的RUclipsr
这妹子词汇量真白
Nothing beats home cooking 🥘 🍳 . Yum yum 😋
Flying Banana the smells that came out of that kitchen were INCREDIBLE!!
Century eggs are one of my favourite on occasion things to eat, you should give it a try! (With congee)😂
Juliet Colletta or with tofu
with tofu and green onions 😀
In September 2019 I will be in China and will upload more videos on my channel. My 1st video will start from Kunming.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Pi Dan the century egg has nothing to do with urine. It's commonly consumed in the form of Pi Dan lean pork porridge.
But actually there is special kind of egg soaked with virgin boy's urine which is mystifyingly considered to be a kind of medicine back in the old days which is rarely seen nowadays.
This Chinese gal's English is just amazing! Damn she knows quite a lot high-level words....It seems she used to stay in an English-speaking country for quite some time.
Simon Yue Do you live in Boston? Are you my friend??
Love both of you guys!!
Happy New Year. You are a very lucky lady.
Liked before watching 👍😄
Sweet potato leave is very good for health!
You can soak the bitter gourd in hot water and squeeze it out to reduce the bitterness.
Wow my 2 favorite channel. The things they sell in the market are so similar with a vietnamese one with sweet potato leaves, bitter gourd or dried shrimp!!!
Vietnamese cooking learn a lot from Chinese foods specially from Cantonese foods.
Soo great to hear I made your top 2 favourite channels!!!! Made me so happy!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Know exactly how every dish tastes/smells like, I am homesick watching this video...
I used to work in a Chinese takeout and when they cooked for each other, they would stuffed the bitter melon with ground pork and steamed them. Another dish that I recall was steamed scrambled eggs with lobster roe. Of course these dishes were only for the cooks. They didn't think it would appeal to Western or the American taste.
Calvin Wongn eggs and fish roe !? That's are hella yummy
福田农贸市场，以前住在旁边小区的时候天天来这买东西，超方便
I’m from Thailand and thais here we called century eggs like ‘ไข่เยี่ยวม้า’ actually it means the horse’s urine but we don’t put the egg in the urine by the way haha
Did you see the legendary balcony?
i love the edits lmaooo
ENERGY IS ALWAYS THERE!
Quentin Wang MUST ALWAYS HAVE THE ENERGY!
@@BlondieinChina You are like the ultimate tour guide in China taking me to different places which I have never been to lol. Suppose one day you wanna spend some time in Savannah, Georgia. Let's hang~ Shitty Chinese food though.
Finally meet chris, the guy behind the voice, i love the channel, awesome cooking
I highly recommend century eggs, they're very tasty
hahahaha most people in other countries dislike it. 哈哈哈哈哈 but Chinese like it
The Bitter gourd Nutritional value is very high, with detoxification and anti-aging effect
One of the few veggies I don't like. I heard that they are very good for our hearts and effective in lowering blood sugar, blood pressure, and will also help prevent cancer. I know that they are good healthy food but that shit thing is utterly bitter.
@@benthekeeshond545 The Chinese can cook these.
Very wrong. The bitter taste of bitter gourds comes from alkaloids which are proven nephrotoxic (harmful to kidneys). Bitterness as a universally unpleasant taste has its evolutionary utility to warn individual creatures of toxicity. Cantonese people use many strange ingredients to cook and quite a lot of them are harmful. Guangdong has one of the highest kidney failure prevalence in the world and it is due to Cantonese people's extensive use of uncultivated herbal ingredients.
@@benthekeeshond545 Depends on the way you cook it
@@skunks7831 The place with the largest population in Guangdong has a very long history.
you can not taste the msg to get umami taste . umami is the taste that enhance the original flavor. example if you add tomato to chicken soup , chicken soup become more tasty . a lot of taste enhancer that we used in kitchen has natural MSG or imami taste. tomato, anchovies , dried sea weeds, dried mushroom etc
Sue speaks English so well!"Umami" learned!lol
your videos make me so happy :)
Umami is the noun version of that word. Adj. should be umai(woo-ma-ee). The word per se is from Japanese and it actually means tasty, but since it came to the west it describes the taste of mostly seafood, and specifically kelp. MSG is a Japanese invention just to save people’s effort from extracting the flavour from kelp soup. In terms of safety, I believe you can trust Japanese products as much as how those Japanese people trust german technology.
The word "UMAMI" is come from Japanese,in china we have one word to description called "鲜”
Amy, you couldn't even put a link to the Chinese Cooking Demystified channel or webpage in the description box? What kind of collaboration and friendship is this?
Blondie, I wish i am in China, otherwise I would invite you for my home town dishes. And my home town is in Da Peng which you already visited. We mainly have seafood and local veggies. Your friends are really nice!
I loved this video! I miss real Chinese food but it's so hard to get the recipes
Alessandro Ignacio Campos Galaz in that case, go follow ‘Chinese cooking demystified’!!! They teach you how to make Chinese dishes, they’re amazing
U r my favorite RUclipsr Amy!!!!!!!!! U r the cutest girl ever
Yishu Ciao thank you so much Yishu!!!! You’re so sweet!!! Thanks for your support ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Blondie in China u r very welcome Amy 😊