Peanut Oil -- As chefs from Paris to Guangzhou know, peanuts yield one of the world's great oils, especially for frying. Peanut oil burns only at high temperature -- around 500 degrees -- it doesn't pick up odors and tastes as readily as other oils, and thus can be strained and used again. It must be nice to be in a store and have the shelves full at reasonable prices. Thank you Alex & the iChongqing Team for taking us along shopping today! 🙂
@@Reporterfy I like the enthusiasm you show making us feel that you enjoy making these videos with the iChonqging Team as much as we do watching them! Well done!
Food prices here in the US have gone through the roof! Some items have increased a lot more than others. For example, three days ago I saw that Aldi has doubled the prices of their fruit juices! I have mainly shopped at Aldi the last decade or so because they tend to have the best prices in food, but even they have increased their prices by 20% or more just within the last year.
Your video is very interesting and very informative regarding cost of living in China. You also made your video fun and enjoyable. Keep up the good work Alex!
The purchasing power of the US dollar is stronger in China and other countries outside the US. You can get more for your buck in other countries than you do in the mainland
Considering the CEIC resource of disposable Income per Capita: Urban: Chongqing data was reported at 40,006.215 RMB in 2020. I.e. around $5970 a year, then everything you see from a local Sam’s club could be not just expensive but not possible for general public, all of the items shown are western items that fits for people from EU or N. America. Most local people buy them for curiosity not daily supplies. The local people will go to a typical Chinese grocery store chain, a wet market or mostly online e grocer, which is much cheaper. Plus more importantly, all service charges are way cheaper than that of the western world, not just goods.
No empty shelves in Orange county, CA. At the beginning of the pandemic there was a toilet paper shortage 🤷🏽♂️ I know why TP? I think I have the answer, people are full of 💩💩
China of 1.4 billion people is a huge, huge market for the world. Why would US or other western countries talk about decoupling and exiting huge China's market? It's a win win situation, you sell your products to China and China sells its own to others. Increased trade means increased prosperity for all. Instead of animosity and heightened tensions, why not friendship and win-win cooperation between countries?
Lol, this is hilariously bad, those prices are the same or more expensive than the USA and any Costco, Sam's Club or Walmart is just as well stocked, what a joke! What sort of low effort propaganda is this?
I am not seeing any food shortages living in the west like what you shown in your video. Come to any Costco or Trader Joe and you will never see this. Maybe if you are shopping in some low income area in some tiny bodega you would see empty shelves. The thing about China, you never know about food quality and safety, you never mention this. Here in the west, we try to avoid any food made in China in fear of cancer causing ingredients.
@Niki L, you’re bought into your American propaganda. Chinese people are way healthier than Americans and have less cancer rate than America. There’s a reason for that, Chinese foods are safer and healthier than American foods, which are full of hormones and cancer-causing preservatives. I watched a documentary about the unhealthiness of American foods and it says that American foods are actually one of the most unhealthiest foods in the world, if not the most unhealthy in the world. American food producers actually lobbied their politicians to downgrade what is acceptable for human consumptions so that they could make more money and cut as much corners as possible to maximize profits. I even watched one documentary that takes people back to the 1960’s when some Democratic politicians wanted to ban sodium nitrate because it was found to cause cancer in mice and other animals when they were fed with foods laced with it, but the Republicans and some of the Corporate Democrats refused to ban it because they were beng bribed by processed meat producers. You know, all of the top American brands? Any brands you could think of they have lobbied against any rules to make foods sold in America safer so I’m not going to name brands since they are all guilty of it. That documentary went on to reveal that meats sold in America were soaked in ammonia to kill off bacteria and dangerous pathogens and that while sodium nitrate was banned in most other countries because of its cancer-causing properties, but not the US. So, there goes your “high American standards” for foods. BTW, sodium nitrate is still being used in just about all processed meats being sold in the USA today. Corporate interests always win out in America, something the Chinese government would never allow it to happen.
Peanut Oil -- As chefs from Paris to Guangzhou know, peanuts yield one of the world's great oils, especially for frying. Peanut oil burns only at high temperature -- around 500 degrees -- it doesn't pick up odors and tastes as readily as other oils, and thus can be strained and used again. It must be nice to be in a store and have the shelves full at reasonable prices. Thank you Alex & the iChongqing Team for taking us along shopping today! 🙂
Your very welcome Ken I appreciate the support.
@@Reporterfy I like the enthusiasm you show making us feel that you enjoy making these videos with the iChonqging Team as much as we do watching them! Well done!
@@KenWiggerAnotherAncientGamer Thanks Ken for the support
@@iChongqing 🙂
First Alex
And Second as well
Food prices here in the US have gone through the roof! Some items have increased a lot more than others. For example, three days ago I saw that Aldi has doubled the prices of their fruit juices! I have mainly shopped at Aldi the last decade or so because they tend to have the best prices in food, but even they have increased their prices by 20% or more just within the last year.
Your video is very interesting and very informative regarding cost of living in China. You also made your video fun and enjoyable. Keep up the good work Alex!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Mr
Items in ChongQing are more expensive than in Singapore!
The bottom line and final conclusion..China's supply chain is perfectly intact and inflation minimal against US which is on the opposite...
Thanks Alex
What is the name of the mall?
The purchasing power of the US dollar is stronger in China and other countries outside the US. You can get more for your buck in other countries than you do in the mainland
Considering the CEIC resource of disposable Income per Capita: Urban: Chongqing data was reported at 40,006.215 RMB in 2020. I.e. around $5970 a year, then everything you see from a local Sam’s club could be not just expensive but not possible for general public, all of the items shown are western items that fits for people from EU or N. America. Most local people buy them for curiosity not daily supplies. The local people will go to a typical Chinese grocery store chain, a wet market or mostly online e grocer, which is much cheaper. Plus more importantly, all service charges are way cheaper than that of the western world, not just goods.
You are wrong, think again.
A logistics failure throughout the western nations. ... Cheers...
No empty shelves in Orange county, CA. At the beginning of the pandemic there was a toilet paper shortage 🤷🏽♂️ I know why TP? I think I have the answer, people are full of 💩💩
The price is about the same as that in a small US city. There is no empty shelf in a small US city as well.
Good to know
China of 1.4 billion people is a huge, huge market for the world.
Why would US or other western countries talk about decoupling and exiting huge China's market?
It's a win win situation, you sell your products to China and China sells its own to others. Increased trade means increased prosperity for all.
Instead of animosity and heightened tensions, why not friendship and win-win cooperation between countries?
Lol, this is hilariously bad, those prices are the same or more expensive than the USA and any Costco, Sam's Club or Walmart is just as well stocked, what a joke! What sort of low effort propaganda is this?
No beef !!! Don’t tell Australian about American beef in China. !!!!!!
I am not seeing any food shortages living in the west like what you shown in your video. Come to any Costco or Trader Joe and you will never see this. Maybe if you are shopping in some low income area in some tiny bodega you would see empty shelves. The thing about China, you never know about food quality and safety, you never mention this. Here in the west, we try to avoid any food made in China in fear of cancer causing ingredients.
If you watch our recent videos we do go into food quality.
@Niki L, you’re bought into your American propaganda. Chinese people are way healthier than Americans and have less cancer rate than America. There’s a reason for that, Chinese foods are safer and healthier than American foods, which are full of hormones and cancer-causing preservatives. I watched a documentary about the unhealthiness of American foods and it says that American foods are actually one of the most unhealthiest foods in the world, if not the most unhealthy in the world. American food producers actually lobbied their politicians to downgrade what is acceptable for human consumptions so that they could make more money and cut as much corners as possible to maximize profits.
I even watched one documentary that takes people back to the 1960’s when some Democratic politicians wanted to ban sodium nitrate because it was found to cause cancer in mice and other animals when they were fed with foods laced with it, but the Republicans and some of the Corporate Democrats refused to ban it because they were beng bribed by processed meat producers. You know, all of the top American brands? Any brands you could think of they have lobbied against any rules to make foods sold in America safer so I’m not going to name brands since they are all guilty of it.
That documentary went on to reveal that meats sold in America were soaked in ammonia to kill off bacteria and dangerous pathogens and that while sodium nitrate was banned in most other countries because of its cancer-causing properties, but not the US. So, there goes your “high American standards” for foods. BTW, sodium nitrate is still being used in just about all processed meats being sold in the USA today. Corporate interests always win out in America, something the Chinese government would never allow it to happen.