I was Shocked at what I Found in this Chinese Wet Market | 我被我在中国菜市场找到的东西惊呆了！
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- A video in Xiamen, a coastal city along the southern coast. I visited the most popular wet market in the city as well as a couple of other cool places. Come along with me!
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用脚步丈量中国, 用真实的经历感受这个国家, 用镜头记录中国, 感谢你
你说的真好啊！
I've lived so close to Xiamen for so long, but I've never been there! It is on my to-do list after quarantine
How long is your "places to-go-to" bucket list, mate?
You are back again in China?
Welcome back to China Hazza!
Try Gulangyu island and jinmen island when you are there on Xiamen island, two different history and architecture designs, yet so similar culture.
Btw, love your channel, from Australia.
我是台灣閩南人
因工作關係在廈門的會展中心附近住了兩年，廈門很漂亮，整體上已超越台北。
在廈門期間，生活上也會使用閩南語（台語），腔調不同，但溝通沒問題。
值得一提的是，當時也往返泉州安溪數次。我的媽呀.....閩南語安溪腔根本與台灣說的閩南語相似度有80%以上。
其實也沒什麼好奇怪，台灣的閩南人本來就全都是福建泉州漳州後代。
Hi Oli, I do want to hear news about your dad! May God bless him!
Thanks for your concern. Another update is coming very soon
Me too.
@@BarrettYT Long time no see LEE
Yea, i miss him too.
Every way you go in China your camera speaks loud than words. its show clean and peaceful surrounding. China is really beautiful, and the people are friendly, with civilize attitude. No places on earth like China with a 1.4 billion population. Hooray China.
I won’t miss Barrett’s video of living in China. The more I watch the more I want to visit China. I want to go after COVID.
to me its like going the butchers really, but everything is fresh and still alive well mostly lol.. fish head tbh im not found of it, doesnt look appertising and i think ive tried the cheek and someone tough guy ate the eye ball.. i was like yeh , not great, but chinese is all about not wasting anything, you see cultures that kill the food also respect the animal or food. that sounds crazy to someone who gets it packaged, but thats the part people are missing out, if you have to do the killing or see it, then you learn to respect its life and be grateful and thankful for it, cuase tbh its sad animals do understand and feel.. but they taste to damn good lol.. eventually one day i will quit meat but long way away yet..
i mean if people dont realise burgers sausages chicken nuggets all the stuff people love in teh west, are made from these heads eyes balls and bits people dont want to eat, so youre eating it anyway. chinese are very no nonsense so our thought or their thought is more like grow some balls ffs. its what i always was told when i as a kid scared to try something.. and tbh now ill try anything other than worms, bugs or anything slimey like that,,, spiders, cats and dogs is a defo no.... and rats or bats.. what makes it rediculous about the virus lie, is chinese are very well aware which stuff is lets say dirty,,, stuff like rats and bats, bugs ect pests, most wont touch them, they carry diseases.. if they were really poor 40 years ago maybe had no choice then maybe but it wouldnt be a choice .. i mean people in china are scared to eat meat from alot of the street vendors which are now kinda illegal, cause they worry it could be rat meat.. chinese is a food culture very aware of whats good and not. but wastefulness not in the sense of left overs at restaurants but when an animal is killed respect it and use it if it can be used.. and textures tastes everything has different textures, is like french gourmet chefs, theyll use all kind of strange stuff for the texture and effects. Chinese is a VEry VEry food orientated culture..
im glad olli kinda understands more now hes been there , cause i dont live in china but ive been around chinese family where we ate stuff like crabs lobsters, that had to be butchered, i mean its only really last 20 years or so this stuffs more mainstream in the west.. like 12 year old kids can gut and prepare a fish in china.. id love to see one of my mates even try without screaming hahahhaha. from a western perspective of it being cruel or looking unclean.. to chinese point of view its like very pompous and weak slightly ignorant too... like you can tell alot about a person by what they eat, and what they are willing to try... those that stick to one dish and never try anything, i garauntee you they are very selfish and ignornat people.... its psychologically proven with people with eating disorders..
lets not judge each other aye and learn to understand one another.
When you lived through hunger and famine you tend to not waste.
I didn't finish your comment, but i gave you a thumb up after i read the part you said about respecting the animal.
Respecting the animal by using every part was very much the belief in rural England, exactly as you said. I think that these days most of the parts rejected by humans go into pet food. Pigs ears & rolled up raw hide are on sale as dog chews.
In my childhood there were few urban house pets & no commercial pet food. Dogs & cats were common in the country & had "jobs" usually controlling vermin, They were fed scraps but were very healthy, rarely getting sick , lived to ripe old age when wormed regularly. Probably much healthier psychologically than cooped up indoors, getting bored.
The problem for us, is that the meat on sale is the more expensive cuts, rapidly becoming less affordable, & younger people don't know how to cook them now.
oh my god, man, you really understand us Chinese! as if you are just one of us. (although I also don't eat weird things such as organs or fish heads etc.)
@@jojochau5950 ive tried it once the cheek cause an uncle was saying its good, so i tried it, but ive enver seen it as a consistant thing ever.. my dad my mum nobody eats it, but ive asked them if theyve tried they said yes then explain it, and say its nice but nobody bothers to eat it.. ive seen like i say in my whole life eaten once, and fish is often cooked whole.. chinese dont really behead the fish, but most dont eat it.. i think it can be used for soup ect so you get the taste and its not wasted but, totally i dont eat it, but ive tried it in a restaurant when we all sat around and waiting chatting, and one uncle acts tough and tests us cause normally peopole wont try it.. so i did..
organs though are nothing, like liver kidney get that all in the west and tripe, i love tripe chinese cantonese style.. but British ate tripe..
also if you ever seen some traditional british dishes, ones a pie british are pastry pies pasties ect... its a fish pie, where its baked with like 10 fish heads poking out the pastry lol.. if anything that doesnt look appertising. i forget what its called.. but eat alot of it down south.
Very good video Oli! How’s is your dad doing? I miss him.
ya, wit hhis dad,, go herbal natural, avoid sugar,, even fruits, or acids,, eat organic veg can get alot in china, home grown wherre its not laced with pesticides.. and also.. canabis oil probably wont get thatin China but it works.. just do not go chemo , cancer everyone has, but it turns into cancer when somethings not right withing the body..
HIGH ALKALINE and lower the acids,, sugar especially white process sugar is extremly bad for acids, and dairies ect.
and as we know.. one thing LEE loves is sweet stuff.
Chinese vs Western food culture differences~ chicken breast meat is disliked by Chinese because it is chewy, sinewy and lack of texture as compare to wings whereby there is skin n fats, meat and chewy bones/tendons. Marinates r easily absorbed into the wings, that makes it more tasty.
Only certain types of fish, whereby the fish heads are a delicacy and the degree of “freshness” is very pertinent to the making of a fish head dish. There r 2 different ways of gourmet in making~ a deep fried head vs a steamed fish head. In the deep fried type gourmet, the delicate fish “bones” similarities is so tasty n crunchy as snacks~these are area around the mouth n side covering the gills, fins. Steamed fish head dish is “sauce” based type dish~ same as b4, the area around the fish mouth will have gelatinous fish fats. A combination of deep fried then simmered in sauce. Parts like fish “cheeks” is in fact the most tastiest meat because it is a “living” muscle as the fish breathe thru’ gills. This meat is tender n soft n almost “melt” in your mouth. Parts of meat along the fish body~fillet is like chicken breast meat to Chinese=muscular meat that is coarse meat and not desirable. Texture differences is very important to Chinese cooking.
You are right, chicken breast is very chewy and hard.. yesterday my Indian dad was like "bahhhh chicken breast is the worst part of all,just give me the legs"! 😂😂 The wings part is ❤️❤️ and also in india we have a seperate recipe to cook just a fish head.
@@thisnthat7760
It is also the same for Chinese; chicken drumsticks r the best.
For fish head curry; very simple- fresh fish head n fresh vegetables. Clean the fish head carefully( the trick is after cleaning, mildly coated the fish head with corn starch/any starch for 10-15 mins and rinse off- it take away the stank/unseen particles.) marinated if you want and steamed to cook. For the curry- just ask the “spice-shop” for their version of masala for seafood/fish curry. Know to fry the mixed spice to release the fragrance of the spices, add little water n cook fish head n coconut milk to simmer n add vegetables to cook, add salt to taste. Know there there r versions of sweet or salt curry. Curry for meat differs from seafood differs from vegetables.
@@angxiang3186 we Indians love Chinese cuisine so much that we have our own version of Chinese cuisine too 😂😂,thanks to the Chinese immigrants.
@@thisnthat7760
We Chinese also love some Indian dishes- biryani chicken, chapati, naan, tosai.
中國人什麼都吃？的確，在中國窮的時候，朝不保夕的時候，在戰爭的時候，就連樹皮也吃了，只要能活命，什麼都能吃。但現在的中國已經不是當年的中國，中國人從苦難中活過來，會珍惜過去，改善未來。
I love this video so much 😍
Once you know about fish you definitely accept fish head for soup.
Eat the fish eyes is good for the brain.
@@huitonghwang6594 also good for eyesight
剁椒鱼头也不错😂
鲤鱼头鲜的一批
Very interesting, good to see micro level of what's life like there. Good job!👍
chicken breast is actually the least favorite part for chinese taste, first of all, it does not have an interesting texture, the consistency is kinda like softer version of cement, you will fall asleep when chewing them. Secondly, it is the least flavorful part of the entire chicken and it is just a big chunk of flavorless meat
In your opinion 😆 breast and leg are my favourite parts
I’ll pay to see you fall sleep on that piece of Brest ... 😂 but I get your point.
的確很多人不喜歡吃雞胸肉😄😄有些人只是為健康，才強迫自己吃。
减肥的人会吃鸡胸肉，我买来都是喂猫的😂
Oli, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has a list of edible animals to narrow down what animals could be farm-raised and legally sold.
Does it? Game meat is allowed as well, and you can kill cook and eat whatever you want in your own home, as long as animal welfare (how the animal is slaughtered) and conservation (no badgers) laws are adhered to. Gypsies used to eat hedgehogs, for example.
These 2 kids were raised in prosperity. They have never known real hunger. They had never been in a situation where they do not know where their next meal would come from. A dog, a cat, a rat would be food then. No different from your chicken or lamb or cow.
@Paul Mitchell In China, many wild animals are protected. If they are slaughtered privately, you will be invited to the police station for tea.
@@PaulMitchell-uj1uu you can kill cook. 🤣
更正一下，厦门只是通商口岸，有一块英租界，法理上依然是清朝，不同于以前香港本岛的殖民地性质，慎用“殖民地”这一定义明确的词语
Great contents as usual! Keep it up mate
i love xiamen..my hometown only 30mins speed
Highway to xiamen~gulangyu~
I love every bit of Xiamen. Went back there in 2015 with my parents to visit my ancestral homes just outside of the city where the tea plantation is. Really feel at home as we also speak a local dialect. Thank you for showing this beautiful city to me again.
It is true, many Americans here think China is very poor and underdeveloped. I myself have spent a lot of time in China so I do try to educate people about China. Anyway great video keep them coming. 😀🇨🇳
yeah I lived in Zhuhai and Shenzhen for over four years and people didn't believe me about China until i showed them photos(I am Australian).
擁有五千年文化傳統歷史食物 中華民族 為何要去在意 歪果仁 眼光 狗肉 記沒錯是食物來源之一雞羊牛馬魚 不也是食物 ?
Nah ... I'll take a Firebolt over a Nimbus 2000 any day.
By the way, it wasn't very long ago that the English ate almost everything a cow or swine can offer. You've have to be insane to waste any edible parts in those days, unless you were part of the gentry or aristocrats.
Yes if you are going to kill a farm animal then every part of the meat is used and the offal bones etc used for fertiliser,not like cutting the fin of the shark and not eating the rest of the body
@@joe2395 I agree that shark fin is a rather vulgar one that ought to be banned - in all honesty younger Chinese these days don't fancy that 'delicacy'. Social awareness and public attitude can shift rapidly in China too - it would've been, for example, almost unthinkable to completely ban fishing in the Yangtze for 10 years if you were to ask people in the mid 2000s; now, it's almost common sense to support it for the sake of biodiversity restoration.
@@edukid1984 yes exactly,our oceans have to be looked after like everything else,like these factory fishing methods where the ocean floors are destroyed by the drag nets ,waters must be monitored and if the numbers of fish has declined then fishing is banned till they recover 👍
It was within my life time, & tastes delicious when cooked well, but can't get most of it even from a butcher now.
curry fish head actually taste pretty amazing in Malaysia hahah
Video of you eating fish head next I reckon! The cheek is tasty not gonna lie
I'll give it a try... Some time
As far as I know, Xiamen was never "controlled" by British empire like Hong Kong in any given time. I think you meant "GulangYu International Settalment", an area that was given to British Empire as a concession to allow de jure controll by the British, but not the whole city.
Watching From Shanghai 🇨🇳🇵🇰
Great work Barrett
I would love to visit China after seeing all your videos...... Its just so far away from the states here. Almost unimaginable. We view China here as an adversary by the media news outlets for so many years its hard to deprogram and think any different. Yeah, that hesitation to visit will be hard to overcome.
It is really just a rival who has a different political system rather than an enemy.
Awesome… Great video 👍 showing what is real china like … Xiamen is great city, one of my favorite sea shore city same like Dalian, Qingdao, Yantai, Zhuhai … all great places …
中国大妈经验最丰富,她们了解附近菜市场的进货时间,在第一时间就去排队买,哈哈哈
对😂
我家干这事儿的是我爸哈哈哈哈
In the west they eat "recovered meat" which is made from the slurry (called white slime) blasted from the bones left over after the good bits have been taken off and then forced through a sieve to remove the bones. The psste is then mixed with some chemicals and flavouring and reformed into "chicken slices" or "ham" or used in sausages, etc. While you might imagine you are buying an actual boned leg of a pig, often they are really made from cuts from several different animals that are stuck together in a factory. Next time you buy a packet of chicken slices, check how much chicken is on it. Probably less than 90%. Chinese scorn such abominations, but is staple for many westerners. Disgusting!
来中国这么久了 应该提升一下厨艺 厨艺上去了 你就会发现鸡胸肉几乎是鸡身上最难吃的部位了
哈哈哈！
我年轻时很喜欢鸡胸肉, 现在吃它感觉味如嚼蜡..
不过说回来，这应该是口味的问题，和厨艺无关。说不定他们西洋人的烹饪最擅长煮鸡胸肉呢？
@@simonking3949 几乎不可能 如果鸡胸肉做的好 那别的部位能做的更好 鸡胸肉太柴了 除了省事没有啥优势了
@@qw2180
西方人喜欢鸡胸肉主要是和他们的习惯有很大关系, 感觉上他们对仪式感的要求多过味道, 加上他们用刀叉，而且他们不会吃有骨头的部位, 吃鸡胸肉比较适合, 这也是为什么他们吃鱼只会吃fillet。
Fish head is also very expensive In Malaysia too, i once had one for RM450(around USD 110), it was a catfish fish head.
在中国，我们是不吃鲶鱼头的
Love it! Please keep bringing us along. Cheers from Canada😃
Across the bay to Haicang there are a couple older wet markets and even older and more traditional ones in Jeomie on the way to Zhangzhou. Here you can find anything ! Terribly miss it.
Actually china has so many population in a large area so people from different regions actually have very different local cultures. For the snake eating culture, you can find them in Canton province while xiamen was localed in Fujian province. I am living in hongkong and the wet markets here have plenty frogs and snakes~ instead of call the people barbarian, i think it reflected the poverty and starvation happened several times in China's history. When people are hungry and dying, they will try anything that look eatable....
HK wet markets have frogs?? i bet those are green frogs imported from taiwan right?
I dun sure it called frog or toad to be exact... in chinese田雞
@@sephiroth99999 You are funny😁😁
Fish head is very expensive here now. I paid $40 for one in Canada last week, as expensive as a filet mignon.
Fish head is REALLY delicious if it is cook RIGHT.
1) Curry Fish with all the right ingredients
2) Stewed Fish head with all the nice ingredients
and usually a few pieces of fish meats are added
depending on the type of fish head
The best for me will be CURRY FISH HEAD
with all the NICE ingredients added in.
Yummy yummy
ps: fish head MUST be a BIG one, the bigger the better.
The gill must be removed & the EYES & cheek meat are the best
part.
REALLY YUMMY !!!!
Why don't you just buy the whole fish?
@@sct4040 The type of whole fish is h u g e. They sell it by sections. Besides, I like steamed fish head with garlic and sour prune. Lol.
We usually leave fish heads for the crabs to eat.
@@sct4040
Why don't they buy the whole fish?
1. The size, they prefer buy the fresh only for the day. And like to keep it in refrigerator.
2. Market demand.
Some people pick the fish body with cost less.
Other like fish head and pay more.
true, best fish meat is on the face, also eye ball lol
And brain
💖🌷💖🌷👍Love your channel !
I did think that highway was pretty cool
I think much of the fruit in supermarkets in the uk is picked weeks before put on the shelf, they whack it into cold storage until they need to put it on the shelf, the phrase “ready to eat” or “ripens in the bowl” make me laugh as some isn’t ripe or won’t ripen in the bowl 😏
Londons tube prices 😂 single journey is like £2:40 min but will rocket up if you come from further out and head into zone one.
Now you’ve been there for awhile ( time flies right ) how you coping with the heat/humidity, better now ?
Look after yourself and the old man 👊
Not if you go to a farm shop or farm markets
@@joe2395 Yeah very true, shame there isn’t more of them.
Why don't you pick it yourself? We sometimes go to the farm to pick it for the sake of not losing nutrition. You know that some nutrition will be lost a few minutes after picking.
@@风轻云淡-y5x There’s not that much opportunity where I am in London 😕
Hi, Oli, thank you again for this very short and sweet but informative video clip. In Seremban, Malaysia, where I grew up, there is a wet market with a similar set up. Well, it's almost identical because of the Chinese community in this part of Malaysia. I'm really grateful that this clip is again under 15 mins, just right for me to share with my schoolmates of Chinese descent but who do not read or write Chinese and also with my relatives in Guangdong. Love the way you present us, our culture and our homeland to the rest of the world (even though I'm Malaysian.) The parks are awesome, indeed. I love this wholesome video (and handsome host). Thanks again for this truly well done job. Keep up the good work. Regards, Jeremy 趙耀勝 (赵耀胜) p/s Don't forget to speak and sing in Chinese. 🎼🎵🎶🎤😜
It's sad that there are now Malaysian Chinese who see China and not Malaysia as their homeland. But I guess that's a result of the racial polarisation in our country and national policies that disenfranchise ethnic minorities.
@@mnbr6884 Yes, you are right, mnbr. It is heart-breaking for me to be treated as an outsider and second-class citizen, called a "pendatang" and told to go back to China if we don't like it here, by no less than leaders of the country, not some unimportant insignificant member of the public like me. When I was a kid, my parents and teachers taught me to love my neighbour and never to be racist. We were taught to love our country which we all still do and we sang "Negaraku" meaning each word with all of our hearts. However, as we grew up, the leaders of the ruling party showed by example that this country is governed by racism and lawlessness. Please do not reply. This is not the time and place to talk about "bolehland" where anything goes except justice and fairness.
Boris Johnson,yours policy can't make Britain Great again, Barrets video can make Britain Great again. Oli Barret great video,加油加油再加油！
Good to show the facts. But don’t even think of convince those who ask those questions. Ninety percent of the occasions, they know what they are talking about and they know the answer, they just pretend they don’t. By the way, Europeans eat all sorts of shit and I have tried many weird traditional things… Not a fan of exotic stuff that’s gonna end in my stomach but it’s a good way to communicate extensively. People all over the world eat all sorts of things, some even locally exotic things, as opposed to “imported”. Only losers enjoy stereotyping others with very rarely happening things.
It's fresh, green and delicious.
Not like that
Amazing place...Xiamen ! Beautiful video there Oli 😊 yah , d place is so peaceful. Abt d fish cheek n even d pig's cheek , they're d most tender part of d whole thing n not fat at all. If u're served w/ fish head dat is an honor in our culture coz normally it is served to d most elder in d family like d father. Oh u shld try d FISH LIP SOUP😃😃, Bird's Nest soup 😃😃. Every culture has it's own food specialty n it's not something to be "weird" of unless u are very very closed-minded n ignorant to d max(because of brainwashing n not travelling to many diff places in d world)! Appreciate very much ur effort son , in bringing different people together n just enjoy our uniqueness which makes life exciting 😃🙄😉
Nice - just one comment. I'm not sure why people get so hung up & judgmental on different places having what might be deemed as exotic in their own countries. People eat horses, rabbits, snails, &c + various wildlife (game) & I'm not so sure why it is then not OK to eat snakes or dogs [excepting vegetarians & vegans]. I believe the latter are certain breeds reared specifically for the (dining) table.
We also need to make allowances when food resources are limited down to subsistence levels - of course it's understandable that people will find creative ways to consume as much of the animal as possible - isn't this also to respect the animal that has had to be killed to provide nutrition? Even extending to using inedible parts for other uses like furs, tendons (for gut type string] & so on.
Because those judgemental people are mostly uncivilized... Meaning,they aren't exposed to the outside world and the farthest they ventured outside is till their own farthest yard.
那就是双重标准
Main stream food vs. exotic. You do have a point. In U.S. mainstream is actually very limited, extremely limited. But we do have West Virginia Wildlife Cookoff and musk rats, iguanas...rattle snake round ups, rocky mountain oysters. Last year Black Bear was a hit at West Virginia but it was hunted not killed by a truck.
It is OK for westerners to judge Chinese people that eat dogs because we think dogs are our companions as they are. Can these so very righteous people not think that some other cultures have a different customs and it is OK to eat Dog meat or scorpions. I find this whole thing of judging Chinese people for what they eat completely bigoted, prejudiced and to some-point xenophobic. I have eaten dog and scorpions whats seems to be the problem so does that mean I am uncivilized and I should also be vilified?
吃蛇也没问题，广东还有蛇餐馆，我姐就吃过一次。吃鱼翅汤也不少，吃狗的人也还是有的，只是固定的几个地方，不是多数人，不是普遍现象，但还是有的。我们不用完全否认，好像是什么见不得的错误一样。我觉得英国男生说的很好，其实也就是不同的认知而已。日本人还吃鲸鱼呢。
There is nothing wrong with eating snakes. But for that lady to say she has never seen a snake for sale in the market makes me wonder where she’s been. Snakes are quite common in Chinese wet markets. So she either rarely goes to any wet markets or maybe she only shops at high end Supermarkets. These kinds of RUclips channels are meant for people to have better understanding of China. Saying things like we never see snakes at wet market lowers your credibility.
5 chicken breast for 20 rmb whereas in a shanghai convience store or supermarket, a mars bar costs 20 rmb or a small haagen dazs icecream cup costs 40 rmb
I do like walking around the streets market!😄
I prefer chicken wings and thighs a lot more than chicken breast! Breast tastes too dry for me...
Horse meat is still eaten in Europe. Snake is eaten everywhere. Possum and raccoon are eaten here in America along with muskrat. And snails can be found in many pricy restaurants here in the States. America has no shame when it comes to propaganda.
吃鯊魚：有的、中國沿海地區與台灣閩南菜裡的鯊魚煙就做的不錯、比北歐的醃漬格陵蘭鯊好吃太多了。
吃蛇：有的、但亞洲吃蛇肉稀奇嗎？ 東南亞各國還可互相交流一下烹飪手法。
吃王八：有的、養殖的中華黿營養價值很高。
吃狗：有的、也請瑞士把祖傳狗肉菜單拿出來比比看誰比較會搞？
吃……XXX動物…有的、但、那又如何？ 至少我們從頭吃到尾絕對不浪費！ 可不像歐美國家那樣只挑大面積部位的肉吃、切下來的全扔掉、特別是海鮮類的、且中國已成功實現海產品消耗數量上、養殖超越捕撈數量的轉變、現那個太平洋最大島與還在過著靠海吃海的日子。
不吃什麼就代表你文明先進了？ 中國人的“吃”礙到誰了？ 不過就是反華宣傳下的負面刻板印象罷了，中國不需要像誰解釋這一些！
附帶一提：吃屎、這個在日本真的有！ 而中國沒有，怎麼沒見歐美出來嘲諷一下？ 難道他們心有疑惑、也想試試！
the west people tend to njoy horses flesh, camels, ETC...
The fish head is the best part of the entire fish. Snapper fish, 笋壳鱼, Mahseer ( Jurong ). Yummy!!!!
Fried mahseer head yummy 😂😂❤️ from an Indian.
For your information, in DC metro, US area, the price of best part of chicken wing is around US$6.99/lbs. Fed's Powell keeps telling people that the inflation is just transitory. I'm not sure if he is serious or just kidding.
Toooooooo expensive😱
Actually not China but all the wet markets in whole Asia are almost like this :)) so as long as you get used to Asia culture you will accept that 👍
Thanks Oli.
I can tell your Chinese language has improved and your video presentation has a uniquely your touch in it.
Xiamen is beautiful place to be. 👍
夏門離金門近有空金門走走
建议你做一个在中国的行程表，很多人对中国的大小没有概念，你标注一下距离，和你的行程，这二年你去的地方很多了，如果不了解的外国人，以为你在中国某个地方转来转去。
廈門是我見過最宜居的城市。
我同意你的说法。
我去过不少中国的城市, 厦门是唯一一个令我有想移民中国的念头~
有工作机会的话真想长住在厦门
有山有海，公园又多绿化又好，真的很不错。
@@simonking3949 厦门竞争没那么大适合养老
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的確, 夏门有一种比较悠闲的感觉。
Brilliant video and what an awesome city! I was born n raised in chengdu and then been living in New Zealand for the last 20 years. I agree with what Ollie said the food choice has changed a lot through generations. Back in 80s, I tasted a piece of snake without knowing first from my neighbours. But even back then, snake is not something you see commonly at wet market. I remember those giant frogs 牛蛙 also were for sale every now and then. Keep it up with great videos Ollie and thank you for showing us Xia men.
Barrett, no masks? I wish America can be like that.
Many places are like that in America
I was in Xiamen (and Gulangyu) in 2010. Huge difference compared to condition now. No metro back then. Much better city now!
I was in Xiamen & Gulangyu in the year 2000
on the way to visit my ancestor home
which is about an hour drive from Xiamen.
the market is a great place for me to try to speak chinese
0:02 CNY158 per catty (1.1 pound) of Dungeness crab in a Tier 3 city like Xiamen. This price is double of what it cost in Los Angeles. I am shocked also.
One needs to be an expert to challenge fish heads.
Chinese culture is very different than the west, especially in foods.
Hope xiamen and fujian as a whole improves even more in the future where it can be on the same level as guandong/greater bay area or shianghai, it will only probably happen after taiwan-mainland reunification, my grandpa and all my other ancestors came from xiamen and the surrounding towns and I hope to go visit the place again.
Hope u can make it when COVID 19 less serious! I was burned in Hong Kong and visited Xiamen few years ago found very good memory , want to visit it again if don’t need to be quarantined.
Actually ,This place Oli showed is an only old market in Xiamen with a history of over 100years. Most of markets in Xiamen have been turned to be supermarkets just like Western city. This scene you may see in old street as well but rarely see now.
希望台湾人民早日认清现实，不要再被政府洗脑，早日回归，一起建设祖国，一起繁荣昌盛。
One day I'll visit all those beautiful cities too.
those wet markets look like a little bit of heaven,, all that fresh food,, i have a hard time beliveing that the fisher men sell the fish heads as thats the most usefull part of the fish! i would love to go over there and live, it looks so clean and safe unlike here in the u.s.,, praying for your dad your videos are great !!
I think Asians in general Love the fish heads. As an indian i love the fish heads... In india in my particular culture (we Indians have like hundreds of different cultures each speaking different languages) there's a seperate recipe to cook a fish head, and come lunch or dinner time,every family will fight over the fish head 😂😂
有机会来中国尝一下 剁椒鱼头
You can even see the pollution haze over the city. Nice.
holy shit , So familiar,haha , I often doing running in this park near my home, Oli you just came to my the community , it was near the crystal Lake county 水晶湖郡 where my home is! that is predestined relationship!
Wow, glad to have come there then!
Thanks for a video into a corner of the real China. There are a lot of fun things around the wet markets but to be honest I do hope the hygiene condition can be improved.
你有鼻敏感??
Xiamen is a beautiful port city!! you should have eaten some seafood!
Did my Quarantine there, and we got seafood for our meals😉
Great video on clearing up all the misconceptions about China! Keep it up!
I heard Xiamen University is very beautiful. Cannot wait to see it.
Shameless plug but Walk East have a vid on that.
your old man may remember Ken Hom Chinese Cookery on BBC years ago 😂
居然跟我在一个城市。。
expert cook can make fish head extremely delicious. But basically that's a kind of fish whose head is really big (almost 2/5 of their body).
Oli, you were also at a wet market last time, and you said in front of the (卤菜) owner of a stall: "You smell so bad here!", they will at least give you a "白眼" if you are not a foreigner. You enjoy the enthusiasm of the Chinese, but you are always like a "gentleman", afraid of staining your shoes, which is not good
这。。我遇见老外腋臭也会皱着眉头跟同伴说受不了，我高中时回家一定会穿过一个桥洞里面是菜市场我也总会小心跑鞋不被弄脏。这有问题吗？一定要老外追在屁股后面说好 真的弄成chinese propaganda么？
@@nzmrp5293 至少不能当面说，还用别人能听懂的语言，这是教养问题。“害怕弄脏鞋子”在这里是指入乡随俗，与当地文化习惯保持一致，不要认为原来的生活方式多么高级，从而对现在看到的进行批判
Thanks for this video. Wanted to know more about Xiamen and had watched other videos. Yours is a nice addition. Good to see that your Chinese language has improved greatly. Hope your dad is doing well. Looking forward to an update on him.
I saw a “secretive” cooked dog under a tarp in the car park of Walmart in Dafen, Shenzhen.
Many snakes are for sale to eat around Shenzhen. I was sat near a box of live snakes in a Hunan restaurant in Futian Shenzhen. Also saw them in a wet market, along with frogs in The city.
Many of the kids in my school tell me they have eaten snake and it tastes good. I just tell them “I’ll try a leg.” Some of them get the joke. 😀
It must have been ten or twenty years ago. Nowadays, dog meat is almost banned anywhere in China. Eating snakes is rare as well.
中国大部分人是不能接受蛇肉的，只有特定地区和少数人有这样的饮食习惯
Having only been in China 6 years, it is not ten or twenty years ago. Some people still have a taste for snake. As for the dog - I guess the older lady that was selling it, was selling to her generation. She probably just showed me for a bit of curiosity. It wasn’t advertised or anything, so she was probably supplying a select few. It was undercover in the back of her blue trike.
Also, I teach primary students who are not even twelve, so when they say they have eaten snake - it is not ten or twelve years ago. The Hunan restaurant in Futian was around 2019 - when I was sat near the crate of snakes. I have no judgement on the food whatsoever- I am just saying what I have seen.
@@andrewflashchannelgibbs5384 I trust you were saying the truth. But this kind of unusual things are certainly very rare and not widespread.
Not surprised at all that the older generations still yearn for snakes and such. They used to have snake cause in those days that's the only meat.
Back here in borneo where I live, snakes, dogs, bats, and just about anything they can catch is a special meal for most locals. Today though the young generation cannot fathom eating any of these. I still remember that I was once offered dog meat at a home of an east timorist who moved here for work some 10 years ago. I basically denied it.
Yes there are many asians in and around asia proper who were poor and they do eat anything for survival then.
When in Thailand I did see dog meat and cat meat offered in streets and alleyways. They eat them. But that was also more than 10 years ago.
So I guess basically in the old days most of asia eats dogs, snakes, bats, cats, anteaters, monkeys & monkey brain ( this was in Thailand), but today it's a dying food source, for the better too.
As we the populations in this world are moving forward to the future this habit will be only in the history books, and for good I hope.
When I was a kid, we were lucky to get a choice of food. The variety was probably rabbit or chicken, or lamb chops, vegetables from our own garden, and if we travelled to the coast or the city, having fresh fish was a treat, once a year on holidays. Now I love to get the chance to go to open markets. The scenery heading to the island is beautiful. I love the parks. Thank you for sharing.
had been Xiamen 18 Years ago, very beautiful city , thanks, Barrett , hope your Dad is well
Very nice park built over water. Thanks for sharing
Really fanscinating. Thanks for your video!
One of the reasons modern butchers use the methods they use is for quality. When an animal is stressed it operates in its fight or flight instinct mode, which or were healthy tissue is second to the immediate need to survive. The result is meat lasts longer because modern methods do not give the animal a clue its about to die. While the stressed animals meat will rot sooner and faster as the biological defense against rotting has been used up and not replaced. This is not the case with Chickens most of the time as they are not concerned when they see their neighbor die that they might be next ... their not the smartest of animals and cannibalism is not beneath them. But, if they are caged near animals who would eat them, they will spoil much faster.
Modern practice for cattle is to design the stall where they are to be butchered to look exactly like the stall that they are fed in. The cattle walk in expecting food ... killed instantaneously before and without the knowledge that they are going to die. There is a big difference between beef that is 24 or even 12 hours old between the methods, and if the meat is going to be marinated to improve the flavor a noticeable difference in quality.
I'm not the slightest phased by the several Chinese wet markets I've seen on video. I have never seen a single fly & wonder how they do it! I'd buy because fresh food is much more nutritious.
I once lived in an area where I could get fresh fish off the boat. I can't stand fish from the fishmonger now - it has an "ammonia taste".
However I was very angry to see footage by the anti China brigade, showing filthy conditions BUT there was a single written sign and the script was definitely NOT Chinese - possibly Vietnamese or Thai.
Re. older generations eating "strange things". I wonder how much was because of the paucity of food. I bear in mind that after the fall of oppressive imperialism, there was civil war, then Japanese occupation brief return to civil war, & initial failure to update agricultural methods to support urbanization.
BTW wishing your Dad all the best. I miss him but his health & recovery are far more important than educating & entertaining me.
There is a video on RUclips showing a wet market in Indonesia selling bats etc and the title is ‘Wuhan Wet Market’ it has a couple million views I think. Such a totally misleading title and RUclips did nothing about it. I had laid complaints to RUclips anyway.
@@joannezhou5354 Thank you so much for your reply in support. I think it was the same video that I saw, but there were several videos of the same ilk, which I could not debunk so easily to those who believed them. They have caused so much, totally unfounded antipathy in England towards the Chinese people, & country.
I am concerned because these false beliefs tend to be unamenable to rational discussions, much like the propaganda before we invaded Afghanistan & Iraq on false pretexts. I recently found that "Fermube" shares my concerns.
In fact the Chinese "wet markets" aren't much different to the English market stalls which sell fresh food. We just don't sell live sea food from tanks, & there are only a couple of stalls per market, these days.
@人杈 I'm sorry I can neither speak nor read your language, so I can't understand your comment. Because of knowledge of infectious disease control I know that no other country in the world has approached China in your excellence to identify a new virus, share information with scientists globally, control it, & eradicate it from your country. This was an amazing feat, which needed appropriate rapid reaction by central government, & a people who were prepared to make many personal sacrifices for the good of everyone else, including the rest of the world because by eradicating it so, it could not mutate in your country. You have a wise government & well educated people. It is highly commendable to consider the effect of one's actions on others. You have benefited & shall continue to do so. You won't have the large numbers of people with "long Covid" that we have. My personal opinion is that Covid did not start in China - there are too many facts which do not fit this hypothesis. I wouldn't like to say where it originated. To me, what matters is how we deal with it. Western governments have been woefully lacking but can not improve while they spend their energy blaming others for their own short comings..
I am personally grateful to the English speaking people of Wuhan, who in the midst of their own suffering, posted videos on here to warn us that it was serious, when our governments told us it was "just a bad 'flue". They showed me how to protect myself. They saved my life.
As for my other concerns, I think I have learned enough about China to be confident that China has no intentions whatsoever to be aggressive. It is the West which is being dangerously provocative at times. I strongly believe that China will only be defensive, & then when all else has failed.
I don't think that China is some sort of Utopia. You have your own problems & frustrations as we have ours. I DO think that we could learn a lot from the things you do well, so we could improve our own nations within our different systems. I strongly believe that whatever the nationality, we share a common humanity, which should always be respected. From this respect, I come to a Chinese perspective of non interference in the internal affairs of other nations.
@@judithafholland Thank you very much Ruth. Your support is so important to us in the fight against this mass anti China propaganda. On RUclips it gets to a point that anyone speaks truth about China or promote Chinese culture will be attacked or labelled cop bots but I always believe there are people in the west that will see through the lies as Seeking truth is human nature and it is our duty. Same as you I also appreciate people speaking English posting and sharing stories about real China. I do hope more of my fellow Chinese learn and command English and tell our side of the stories as western media is dominant in English and not many people can read Chinese. There’s a saying “Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” The situation is similar as many people in the west are blinded by the media.
Xiamen is one of the most beautiful seashore cities in China.
So is Sanya, unfortunately, Sanya has become too commercialized.
@@simonking3949 Sorry Sanya is not culturally sophisticated yet. It is just rush-built with money and there is very little attractions formulated by time and by locals.
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My views is based on what i can see on the "surface". After all, there is no way one can see the "soul" of any given city by just visiting the place for a couple of days.
I like your living style, traveling everywhere
耶，我就厦门人。很开心你来这里玩并喜欢这里。
Nice video, and great to see Abby there too.
Xia Men is a very beautiful city! Thank you Barrett!
OMG you invaded Taiwan’s ADIZ!! They will send fighter jets to ask you to leave! LoL
snake soup is very very delicious,when i was a child i tried,and now i miss it a lot
The longer I watch this channel, the more I feel that you are really a biological father and son, able to see your father's feelings from you, without using subjective bias to see other cultures.I think as a father is a successful place to be able to pass on their good qualities, while some fathers will only let the bad side pass on,No offense, but I envy your father and son
我是福建三明的有机会去那里拍一下