I was in Ban Na with my mom and dad during the winter of 2020, as she completed her surgery and two chemotherapy sessions. This was the last trip I took with her, and I still miss her today.
I don't know what is happening recently, but both my girlfriend's mother and my cousin's wife's mother got cancer, both chinese women in their early 60s...I have lost count on how many people around my family and their relatives and friends who got cancer just last year...so painful to go through with this.
How interesting…. This is like a mini Thailand in China! The crackling pork, chilli dip in metal pot, sticky rice on banana leaves and night market simply remind me of Chiang Mai
You certainly show in this video just how big China really is. From the cold northeast of last few weeks videos to today’s video all the to the tropic south. I mean i always know China is big and diverse but only now i realize just how big it truly is. Thank you, Amy.
OMG welcome to my hometown! I have been watching your videos for years, and I always hope to see if one day you could visit here. YOU NOW MADE IT! I hope the next step if with your parents hahaha, I cant wait to see how your dad reacts to the 'bug' buffet.
Oh my, China is really a treasure trove for many wonderful food and cultural experiences. The food you had in this video was mind-blowing. Amy, I wish you a pleasant stay and hope for more content from this beautiful region, please...
Xishuangbanna is my hometown. It has been over 7 years since last time I went home. I spent my whole childhood there. I can’t wait to go home this year since the COVID restriction has been lifted. I miss the food, the scenery and my family terribly. Thank you for making this video. I find out that most of introduction of my hometown is in Mandarin. Now I can finally show my husband this video. BTW if you don’t have this planned, you might want to try some local desert / drink store, like 冰冰凉，缅丽, they have many interesting desert there like 睡印椰。And there are a few very famous bbq shop in 勐海，which is very different bbq style than 景洪
Amy's videography and editing is so well done ! China offers such diversity of cultures, geography, and architectures - mind blown for taking us to Xishuangbanna !
Fact that the city is so close to Thailand, I can see a lot of Thai style things in your video. The food won't look out of place in a Thai restaurant neither. Tourism has truly picked up its pace in China during the CNY.
Dai is a transliteration of Thai, so the Dai of China are related to Thai people of Thailand. What a fun place to visit, definitely on my list. Waiting for tourist visas to China to open again...
Ordering what the waitress recommends is a great service. Not just mind-blowing, but also appetizing from the barbecue platter, I think I am going to enjoy this.
When the China-Laos railway direct-through passenger services begin, I think Amy should drop a visit to both Yunnan and Laos, that must be very interesting.
That's really cool. Reminds me a lot of Thailand, though that's not surprising since Dai and Thai are, I've been told, basically the same ethnic group.
Yes, but actually the culture of xishuangbanna’ dai ethnic group is more similar to Myanmar’s, even the taste of food and the language is also quite similar, just different tones😂
i love xishuangbanna when i visited years ago. I remember the BBQ being so good that i kept going back to the vendor to buy more. super jealous of your huge platter of food. Can't wait to see your next episode.
I love love sticky rice with mok het, kao karb, and keb moo. I grew up eating this in my Lao culture. This looks amazing and I need to go visit this place.
Oh my goodness, I should never watch your videos when I'm hungry 😭 On another note, I'd love to see what the other less touristy areas of the region are like, it must be super interesting!
If you don't already.....subscribe to Dianxi Xiaoge, rural, non-touristy. Her family name is Ah, she is Ah PenJie. This is the part of Yunnan province that I love. By the way, everybody talks about Xishuangbanna's elephants, but the rain forest is also home to several rare species of almost magical wild cats!
Very southeast asian vibes, maybe Dai people have same ancestral roots with SEA people. Even the fried cow skin , in Indonesia, its a famous and loveable snack called rambak, 100% same. Some area like Kudus region in Java even have specialized "rambak" made from water buffalo skin. Also, you can put rambak in gulai/curry (became a dish called krecek) or boil them with clear soup, let them for some time and it will blow your mind because it will have similiar texture and flavour of fish maw (yi phiaw), maybe because of the rich collagenous tissue inside.
I married at Tai Lue Sipsongpanna woman in 1996. Loved your video, thought you nailed it by saying that the food was a mixture of herbaly, peppery/spicy, and sour. My brother-in-law and his wife are really good cooks. Lived in N. Thailand 19 years, in the north so more sour food than sweet trending Bangkok fare.
Good cheap food and reasonable housing prices outside the big cities.. And you can go everywhere by train or planes and even autoonmous taxi in some cities nowadays. Never thought I would say it but it would be hard to move away once you have lived in China.
I saw Xishuangbannan and I thought, well you better get yourself some Pu'er Amy! And so happy you did :) . I am hoping to go visit some day, so many nice Pu'er mountains in Xishuangbannan like Pasha, Yiwu, Jingmai and Bulang.
I had my worst food poison with Dai barbecue when I was a kid about 15 years ago😂 But the restaurant you are visiting seems nice. Hope you enjoy your trip🎉
Bangkok is linguistically and culturally very different from Xishuangbanna. A better comparison would be Chiang Mai/Chiang Rai, Jinghong is even called Chiang Rung in Thai.
Amy, the Dai foods seem similar as Thai foods, even there is a Tae tea (Thai tea) coffee shop. Great video! Always healthy, happy and success! GBU 🙏🏻👍🏻😍
Just found your YT channel. And I am thoroughly impressed with your Chinese and your openness to trying to foods and culture. Keep on truckin'! (or youtubing!)
if you're looking for the nanmi dip/sauce, search for 'nanpie' instead. took a while to figure that one out. also, it's a pretty broad term, it's basically a catch-all for all sauces within the dai flavor profile of sour, sweet, acidic, herbaceous and pungent. if you make something in a mortar and pestle and it ticks those boxes, you can call it nanpie.
Hey Amy, Yunnan also produces coffee beans now! Thanks to the adequate sunshine in that region, the coffee beans have great quality. I highly recommend you to try it!
wow.... the food really like indonesian food, the cow skin you can get it from padangese, the baoshao is like pepes in indonesian, the cake fried sticky rice? we have it as well, we call it rengginang !!!!
Must have missed this episode ! First time hearing about this part of China, and it's Definitaly a 'crossover' cuisine! Heavily influenced by the neigboring countries 😉 Also nice 2 C U eating the whole prawns, i like them best that way too..
Beef skin, interesting. How are those not packaged in potato chip bags and sold in snack aisles? I mean, we already have pork rinds, but not really any other meat alternatives in terms of crispy pantry snacks.
So exciting you be there good view and nice food .I just want tell you if you back Australia you can get the same food in Adelaide .same taste and very yum traditional Yunnan cuisine 😊😊😊😊
I miss when Amy used to due content other than food. Because every time I watch your new videos it's always so late at night here and I just get so hungry!
Looks very different, I wounder how hard or not is the region to get to and where from? Yum Yum and thanks for your unending positive orientation to all things China. Whatever can be done to lessen political tensions should be, because it is the ordinary people who always suffer most.
Yes, the Ethnic "Dai" in China actually share the same ancestor with "Thai" in Thailand. They are same Ethnic group. Similar, the Ethnic group "Ke Er Ke Zi 柯尔克孜族" actually is the same Ethnic group with "Kyrgyz " in Kyrgyzstan. The Ethnic "Sa La 撒拉族" is the same Ethnic group with "Turkmen" in Turkmenistan etc. etc. There are many other examples as well.
I was in Ban Na with my mom and dad during the winter of 2020, as she completed her surgery and two chemotherapy sessions. This was the last trip I took with her, and I still miss her today.
I don't know what is happening recently, but both my girlfriend's mother and my cousin's wife's mother got cancer, both chinese women in their early 60s...I have lost count on how many people around my family and their relatives and friends who got cancer just last year...so painful to go through with this.
China is truly amazing. It is both an influencer and the influenced.
This food looks amazingly good.
How interesting…. This is like a mini Thailand in China! The crackling pork, chilli dip in metal pot, sticky rice on banana leaves and night market simply remind me of Chiang Mai
This is a mini Thailand without the sea
“Tai peoples migrated from southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia from the 11th century.” from wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand
他们在这里的时间，比泰国都早。可不是近代历史形成的。可以看成古老的民族，比泰国人，还传统。
The food looks so good 👌 That's one of the many reasons I'm in China ❤️
You certainly show in this video just how big China really is. From the cold northeast of last few weeks videos to today’s video all the to the tropic south. I mean i always know China is big and diverse but only now i realize just how big it truly is. Thank you, Amy.
OMG welcome to my hometown! I have been watching your videos for years, and I always hope to see if one day you could visit here. YOU NOW MADE IT! I hope the next step if with your parents hahaha, I cant wait to see how your dad reacts to the 'bug' buffet.
Wow China is so diverse in the food or culture even in climate, interesting to see Brandi’s video.
Who's Brandi?
@@ningster Blondie's twin maybe 😂
Right. The South Sea is a part of a China. You are lucky or unlucky we didn't invaded your homeland 500 years ago.
Oh my, China is really a treasure trove for many wonderful food and cultural experiences. The food you had in this video was mind-blowing. Amy, I wish you a pleasant stay and hope for more content from this beautiful region, please...
I met Blondie in XingGuang market of xishuangbanna before CNY. She was looking for video contents there, finally this video comes out. Good job 👍
This video makes me want to visit Xishuangbanna. Thanks Amy for showing us.
Being Australian I'm not surprised you loved the BBQed Prawns ! Xishuangbanna seems like a bustling and interesting place to visit.
Xishuangbanna is my hometown. It has been over 7 years since last time I went home. I spent my whole childhood there. I can’t wait to go home this year since the COVID restriction has been lifted. I miss the food, the scenery and my family terribly. Thank you for making this video. I find out that most of introduction of my hometown is in Mandarin. Now I can finally show my husband this video. BTW if you don’t have this planned, you might want to try some local desert / drink store, like 冰冰凉，缅丽, they have many interesting desert there like 睡印椰。And there are a few very famous bbq shop in 勐海，which is very different bbq style than 景洪
Amy's videography and editing is so well done ! China offers such diversity of cultures, geography, and architectures - mind blown for taking us to Xishuangbanna !
Fact that the city is so close to Thailand, I can see a lot of Thai style things in your video. The food won't look out of place in a Thai restaurant neither. Tourism has truly picked up its pace in China during the CNY.
@Adora Tsang Yes! The border today is really a western concept. Asians don't draw their borders as precise as the westerners do.
The Dai people in China，are acually Thai, they are related.
@@benwang9401 more closer to Lao ppl and Isaan ppl.
Quite similar culture...
Thailand itself was founded by Dai chiefdoms from Yunnan.😂😂😂
@Adora Tsang Thailand itself was founded by Dai chiefdoms from Yunnan. Thailand was formerly part of the Dali Kingdom of China.
so interesting to count Thai/Lao style cuisine as Chinese food as well..... i'm not sure which other country has such diverse styles of foods
泰国，老挝，缅甸都有傣族，云南也有很多傣族。他们有傣族风味的食物，云南也有。
Dai is a transliteration of Thai, so the Dai of China are related to Thai people of Thailand. What a fun place to visit, definitely on my list. Waiting for tourist visas to China to open again...
傣族，你可以看成比泰国人还要传统的族群，不管谁早谁晚。傣族保留着，最传统古老的文化，文字，还有一些仪式。
No, they are different, Thai is exclusively Southwestern Tai, while Dai/Tai is the general term.
Dai are basically northern Thai of Thailand, they speak same dialect as northern Thailand.
Ordering what the waitress recommends is a great service. Not just mind-blowing, but also appetizing from the barbecue platter, I think I am going to enjoy this.
Great vlog once more!
I cannot wait for next vlog with this amazing night market it looked incredible
Take care
Sabrina🇫🇷🇬🇧
When the China-Laos railway direct-through passenger services begin, I think Amy should drop a visit to both Yunnan and Laos, that must be very interesting.
That's really cool. Reminds me a lot of Thailand, though that's not surprising since Dai and Thai are, I've been told, basically the same ethnic group.
Yes, but actually the culture of xishuangbanna’ dai ethnic group is more similar to Myanmar’s, even the taste of food and the language is also quite similar, just different tones😂
@@shanshan8129 *Shan to be exact. The Dai's here are named Lue Shan (လူးရှမ်း) in Burmese.
I had been Banna more than10 years ago, nice place for travelling and relaxing. Got to be there again with my family, hopefully soon.
The food diversity in China is out of this world.
you are literally one of my favorite china vloggers in all of youtube..
China is so gorgeous and cool seriously like the amount of culture is so cool
I love your content about ethnic food niches that we don't normally experience as visitors. More, please!
i love xishuangbanna when i visited years ago. I remember the BBQ being so good that i kept going back to the vendor to buy more. super jealous of your huge platter of food. Can't wait to see your next episode.
I love love sticky rice with mok het, kao karb, and keb moo. I grew up eating this in my Lao culture. This looks amazing and I need to go visit this place.
They even have the popular Indian flat bread called roti prata ( in Singapore) or roti Chennai ( Malaysia) at 10.40.
Oh my goodness, I should never watch your videos when I'm hungry 😭
On another note, I'd love to see what the other less touristy areas of the region are like, it must be super interesting!
That place has a wide range of weather in different regions making it the warehouse of Chinese herbs.
If you don't already.....subscribe to Dianxi Xiaoge, rural, non-touristy. Her family name is Ah, she is Ah PenJie. This is the part of Yunnan province that I love. By the way, everybody talks about Xishuangbanna's elephants, but the rain forest is also home to several rare species of almost magical wild cats!
4:10 This looks similar to how Thai's make somtum. Makes sense since it's pretty close to Laos and Thailand.
That’s a big cup of lemon tea! Yum!
Crazy you can go from the northern heavy spiced hearty food all the way down to zesty light thai stuff in one country.
Amy you are so sweet and fun! it’s always so enjoyable to watch your food adventure!! ❤️
Your uploads are my favorite thing about Mondays 💕
Very southeast asian vibes, maybe Dai people have same ancestral roots with SEA people.
Even the fried cow skin , in Indonesia, its a famous and loveable snack called rambak, 100% same. Some area like Kudus region in Java even have specialized "rambak" made from water buffalo skin.
Also, you can put rambak in gulai/curry (became a dish called krecek) or boil them with clear soup, let them for some time and it will blow your mind because it will have similiar texture and flavour of fish maw (yi phiaw), maybe because of the rich collagenous tissue inside.
Beautiful place and warm weather right now...
Wow, even the architecture resembles that of Thailand/Laos/Myanmar. Quite different from Northern China’s architecture. I’d love to go back one day.
I’ve been binge watching your content since last night, I’ve been looking for ages for a channel just like yours - instantly subscribed,
I married at Tai Lue Sipsongpanna woman in 1996. Loved your video, thought you nailed it by saying that the food was a mixture of herbaly, peppery/spicy, and sour. My brother-in-law and his wife are really good cooks. Lived in N. Thailand 19 years, in the north so more sour food than sweet trending Bangkok fare.
Thanks for blessing my feed with a new video. Much needed after a long day 🎉🎉
Thanks!
As a Thai, how could I never heard of this region in China!
So eye opening. I am sure to visit it at least once in my life.
Good cheap food and reasonable housing prices outside the big cities..
And you can go everywhere by train or planes and even autoonmous taxi in some cities nowadays.
Never thought I would say it but it would be hard to move away once you have lived in China.
That sauce paired with the beef skin looks so good! 🤤🤤🤤🤤
And the bbq platter looks soo yummy!
China is so diverse and fascinating. Chinese are so lucky.
I saw Xishuangbannan and I thought, well you better get yourself some Pu'er Amy! And so happy you did :) . I am hoping to go visit some day, so many nice Pu'er mountains in Xishuangbannan like Pasha, Yiwu, Jingmai and Bulang.
The food looks very delicious and appetizing. I hope to visit Sipsong Panna someday and experience the Tai Lue culture.
I had my worst food poison with Dai barbecue when I was a kid about 15 years ago😂 But the restaurant you are visiting seems nice. Hope you enjoy your trip🎉
It is such a relaxed pleasure watching your video. The Dai food looks fabulous! Thumbs up! 👍👍👍
Everything looks so good, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing. Always looking forward to your videos!!! The food looks delicious!!!!! I miss traveling so much!!!!!
Xishuangbanna is underrated tourist destination. It is like smaller Bangkok but less chaotic.
Bangkok is linguistically and culturally very different from Xishuangbanna. A better comparison would be Chiang Mai/Chiang Rai, Jinghong is even called Chiang Rung in Thai.
Really delicious food to Dai for!😋:D
Wonderful humor!
Travel , Explore , Seeing , Tasting , Interaction , Learning , this is the BEAUTY OF LIFE ❤✨🎇🎆!!! Cheers !!! 🍻
Looks like that place would be a great place to visit. Looking forward to that next video.
It is about your creativity of putting any two things together or everything together.
Hi Amy! We've missed you! Nice to see you again and knowing that you are safe and well!
Amy, the Dai foods seem similar as Thai foods, even there is a Tae tea (Thai tea) coffee shop. Great video! Always healthy, happy and success! GBU 🙏🏻👍🏻😍
Do you also feel that Dai and Thailand have similar pronunciations? Yes, your instinct is correct.
I'm guessing Dai IS Thai.
@@multiplierfx6429 exactly
@@multiplierfx6429 Thailand itself was founded by Dai chiefdoms from Yunnan. Thailand was formerly part of the Dali Kingdom of China.
@@multiplierfx6429 No, Thai is Southwestern Tai. Dai/Tai is a general term. For people in Jinghong, most will be Tai Lue.
How can you not get fat after eating so much good food episode after episode... Incredible! You are beautiful! Keep up the excellent work. ❤
Girl, you were born to do this ❤
Just found your YT channel. And I am thoroughly impressed with your Chinese and your openness to trying to foods and culture. Keep on truckin'! (or youtubing!)
Explore Kunming ,visit Spring City Golf and Lake Resort in Kunming.
Some interesting foods, and some sunshine in the winter must have been a treat.
if you're looking for the nanmi dip/sauce, search for 'nanpie' instead. took a while to figure that one out. also, it's a pretty broad term, it's basically a catch-all for all sauces within the dai flavor profile of sour, sweet, acidic, herbaceous and pungent. if you make something in a mortar and pestle and it ticks those boxes, you can call it nanpie.
Thank you for showing a part of China that I have never seen before.
Thank you so much. Looking forward to go there in January
That was a nice vid'. I mean; Holy moly!
Hey Amy, Yunnan also produces coffee beans now! Thanks to the adequate sunshine in that region, the coffee beans have great quality. I highly recommend you to try it!
Awesome 🤤 video! Everything looks yummy 🤤
wow. Very good video. Next time I hope you can take us around and see some local cultural features while eating food. Thank you
Love u blondiiieeee!!!!! We watch ever week ~ see you next week😊
Here in Africa starving watching blondie Making me salivate 🤤
You’re finally in Yunnan🎉 I’m from Kunming the capital city of Yunnan. Yunnan has a lot to offer food wise. Hope you enjoy your trip there!
very big northern Thai vibes here!!
China is amazing，there are Thai style，korean style and lots of other ethnic groups
Very nice location and foods. And I saw BBQ prawns/shrimps....
Everything looked so tasty!
The BBQ looks delicious. Can't go wrong with shaokao
Really good video. Another place added to my bucket list
Enjoyed the episode, well done Amy
wow.... the food really like indonesian food, the cow skin you can get it from padangese, the baoshao is like pepes in indonesian, the cake fried
sticky rice? we have it as well, we call it rengginang !!!!
Must have missed this episode ! First time hearing about this part of China, and it's Definitaly a 'crossover' cuisine! Heavily influenced by the neigboring countries 😉 Also nice 2 C U eating the whole prawns, i like them best that way too..
looks so tasty!!! I really want to try the mushroom dish!
Finally, welcome to Yunnan, the best place in China
老外闷逼了，到底有多少个中国最好的地方？😅
哈哈哈哈，各有特色，很难分胜负，哈哈哈哈哈，全是最好。
Thanks for sharing.
Beef skin, interesting. How are those not packaged in potato chip bags and sold in snack aisles? I mean, we already have pork rinds, but not really any other meat alternatives in terms of crispy pantry snacks.
So exciting you be there good view and nice food .I just want tell you if you back Australia you can get the same food in Adelaide .same taste and very yum traditional Yunnan cuisine 😊😊😊😊
Looks so nice and tropical!
This all lookss amazing!
love you video style!!
I cant wait to go back to China!!!!
I’m drooling 🤤
I miss when Amy used to due content other than food. Because every time I watch your new videos it's always so late at night here and I just get so hungry!
Same here.
Didn't she just do a video about cycling? And hiking with her boyfriend? Lol...
keep the great work!
absolutely nice food!like it!
Dirk would've definitely love that BBQ platter
wOw AMAZING China ✌✌✌
视频质量太高了❤
Looks very different, I wounder how hard or not is the region to get to and where from? Yum Yum and thanks for your unending positive orientation to all things China. Whatever can be done to lessen political tensions should be, because it is the ordinary people who always suffer most.
Jinghong has a railway station.
Yes, the Ethnic "Dai" in China actually share the same ancestor with "Thai" in Thailand. They are same Ethnic group.
Similar, the Ethnic group "Ke Er Ke Zi 柯尔克孜族" actually is the same Ethnic group with "Kyrgyz " in Kyrgyzstan.
The Ethnic "Sa La 撒拉族" is the same Ethnic group with "Turkmen" in Turkmenistan etc. etc.
There are many other examples as well.