Kiwi fruit is actually a Chinese native fruit but popularised and marketed successfully by New Zealand. It used to be called Chinese Gooseberries. In China, it is now also known as Kiwi fruits besides their native name.
That is very correct, the only proviso being the varieties sold as Kiwi fruit (the name given for marketing and export purposes) are cultivars that were developed in NZ by market gardeners from the original Chinese plants that bore much smaller fruit. These days the NZ cultivars/varieties are being used by commercial market growers around the world including China.
Actually, WalMart has been in China for almost 30 years, The first WalMart opened in China was in Shenzhen in 1996, Now it has a total of 433 stores in Mainland China.
There is a supermarket brand in China called Fat Donglai, which is called the supermarket ceiling. There are many videos of them online. I was shocked when I went there for the first time.
The biggest difference between Walmarts in China and America is the one's in America always have people running out without paying. Theft is rare in China. Walmart is no longer that popular in China. Costco is the newest craze
It’s not the store but the people. Too many people living in poverty here in the US for different reasons but there’s not much the government is doing to help change that. Conservatives believe in small government and liberals come up with ridiculous solutions, and the political gridlock makes sure nothing gets really done.
This is a system problem not your government’s problem. China is a socialist country which pursues fairness more than profit in some regards. Elon musk recently can get 60 billion paycheck while he had cut 10% workforce two months earlier. Totally different mindset man. Your system is inferior to the Chinese system.
In fact, some commodities are not poorly translated, but there are almost no such products outside China. For example, the drink you take is not a mixed drink of pears and honey, but a "thorn pear", that is, "a kind of fruit with thorns". The Chinese pronunciation of "Ci Li" ，actually has nothing to do with pears. This fruit is the king of vitamin C, which contains a huge amount of vitamin C and is also a specialty of Guizhou. It is sour and sweet with a little astringency. Similar to the feeling of "tannin" in wine,You can try it.Very delicious
Actually, at least half of Chinese people shopping online. They can buy everything including fresh product from 拼多多（original Chinese Temu), or Taobao(you may heard of Alibaba), or a lot of different phone apps, which is much cheaper than off-line supermarkets.
Nowdays it is not very often to go grocery at supermarket in China, especially for young people in big cities. They do online shopping almost for everything.
@@hughesyoung1883 That's sad, nowadays people love to go online shopping, and those huge shopping malls and big supermarkets become very very quiet, I hope the govt can do something about that like putting a much higher tax on those online companies.
Man... Walmart, Sams, Costco, Medro, Aldi, Tesco, Carrefour, Auchan, you name it... We have had all of those western supermarket chain in China for decades. And even some of them have already gone over their lifecycle and is beated by Chinese local supermarket chain so they are closing their stores. Shopping in a Walmart was only something trendy back to 10 or 15 years ago in China and now shopping in a supermarket like Walmart is an out-dated activity to many younger Chinese generations.
@@12567NoYouCannotSam’s China even offer free delivery in less than 1 hour. Western brands are more common in bigger cities while local brands run the market in smaller cities and towns.
@@12567NoYouCannot Sam, Costco, and Aldi are doing well and expanding in China. It's not so that American (or European) super markets are falling behind, but simply that the warehouse model are replacing traditional supermarkets, which is also happening in here in the US. And this transition is happening faster in China, thanks to the abundance of small neighborhood groceries and grocery deliveries, so people would only go to supermarkets for bulk shopping
The Chinese government launched a "vegetables basket project"20 years ago, to ensure the supply of fruits, vegetables, fishes and meats in China. At the same time, it increased trade with other countries, imported a lot of agricultural products, and lowered people's living costs. In addition, agricultural productsare exempt from taxes in China, which further reduces the burden of farmers and people's living costs.
FYI, China produces now 60% of the world's total vegetables, although China's population takes up only 17% of the world population. That is to say, the Chinese are the greatest vegetable eaters in the world. China is also the biggest fruit producer worldwide.
36:04 Not a worm or animal. These are pickled *crosnes* (also known as Chinese artichoke, Japanese artichoke, artichoke betony.) This is a tuber (a type of root), like tumeric or ginger or oca. Enjoyed as an appetizer in China and Japan. Scientific Name (universal around the world for identification of plants and animals) = _Stachys sieboldii_. It would be crunchy like cauliflour.
I was living in Shenzhen 10 years ago and there was a Carrefour just across the street of my residence, after 9pm everyday, the cooked food section (like roasted chicken, duck, beef and many other cooked ready-to-eat food ) and the bakery section (bread and tarts and fluffy cakes) offered tremendous discounts, they bindled two or three packs together to sell at the price of 1 pack, I often went there at 9:00pm to get all the advantages, lol. There was also a Walmart, but like 1km away, I sometimes went there and found they offered a lot of discounts for cooked food and bakery after 8-9pm everyday as well (but the discounts were not as huge as Carrefour's), they had the near-expiry-food shelf near the checkouts which had all the food and snacks near the expiry dates but not expired yet and the discounts were extreme, almost free giveaways (Carrefour didn't have these).
29:14 Rock sugars are preferred in China as a legacy tradition of ensuring you are buying pure sugar, not granular sugar that may contain fillers. They're less sweet than white refined sugar. Use them to cook with.
I really like you couple, there is a number of vloggers post travelling China and I like them, but like you both the most. You are so nice, optimistic and passionate. You can experience Yunnan, Guangxi provinces for best landscapes. Expect your more videoes soon.
28:21 She said "preserved eggs" which would be century eggs (duck), commonly warned with congee to eat for breakfast or topped with soy sauce and scallions as a side dish. People who are allergic to chicken eggs CAN eat duck eggs.
3:17 Hawthorn fruit is a common fruit in China. Ripe and dried hawthorn fruit are tart, tangy, and slightly sweet in flavor. is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae. They are commonly covered in hard sugar on skewers in street food (red and round). They are delicious because they are not just sweet, they actually have flavor. Scientific name: _Crataegus monogyna_ (this name is consistent around the world). Common names include: guickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower or hawberry. Hawthorn is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae.
closest thing non-Chinese can relate to a hawthorn berry (or haw berry) are crabapples. although typically crabapples are more tart, and haw are a bit sweeter(but also more bland flavoured until you condense it to make haw cakes or haw flakes).
Lotus seeds are deep fried or baked in Vietnam as snack. In Chinese cuisines, lotus seeds are cooked as desert, lotus paste used in buns etc. In some instances, lotus seed is used medicinally with other herbs as a cooling drink!
14:29: If you like sour gummies, try hawthorn fruit candies, you'll enjoy them and they're less likely to be synthetic. Hawthorn fruit is naturally acidic/tart/sour. If you like hibiscus aka jamica in Mexico you'll like hawthorn.
This is not true. While there are other supermarkets with higher prices like Ole, there are also lower priced ones like Yonghui Superstores and a few other smaller chains..
@@raycomeau6866 I was living in Shenzhen 10 years ago and there was a Carrefour just across the street of my residence, after 9pm everyday, the cooked food section (like roasted chicken, duck, beef and many other cooked ready-to-eat food ) and the bakery section (bread and tarts and fluffy cakes) offered tremendous discounts, they bindled two or three packs together to sell at the price of 1 pack, I often went there at 9:00pm to get all the advantages, lol. There was also a Walmart, but like 1km away, I sometimes went there and found they offered a lot of discounts after 8-9pm everyday as well (but the discounts were not as huge as Carrefour) and they had the near-expiry-food shelf near the checkouts which had the food near the expiry dates but not expired yet and the discounts were extreme, almost free giveaways (Carrefour didn't have these).
32:26 The pink and white wafers are known as "shrimp chips" the need to be deep fried and they will instantly puff up into a crispy snack beloved by most Chinese as children grow up with them. Fun. Delicious. Extremely common. See if you can find some to eat at a restaurant as a snack.
some 60-70 years ago this "prawn crackers" were the rage in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore. These were sun dried for an hour then dropped into hot oil. It will puffed up about 10 times and was savoury snack for all.
I'm in Shenzhen, actually there are lots of Warlmart or Carrefour stores shutdown during the recent 10 years. Most of people use APPs or platform(e.g., JD or Taobao) to order everything online. only the parents want to go to the store or market
Unlike fresh fruits, Chinese people generally believe that industrialized snacks are unhealthy foods and can only be eaten in small amounts. This is why Chinese snacks are packaged in small portions.
Yes, Chinese people attach great importance to the distinction between a 正餐(formal meal) and snacks. They don't take snacks like potato chips, dried fruits, dried meat, and popcorn as formal meal, because the nutrition is not enough.
2:20 you guys really should try 话梅 (salty plum or dried plum or plum jerky thing) and there are tons of different flavours or types. Basically, they are pickled plums or dried plums, with a very unique taste, a mixture of flavors. Imagine the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Plums are a mixture of two or more of these flavors. And the softness and hardness of the taste vary depending on the variety of plums.
26:40 are lotus seeds. They are a superfood that can be used in desserts or added to broth as an aromatic. They can also be used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Dried lotus seeds can be used for making desserts like pastry fillings (eg for moon cakes) or sweet congee, or in savoury dishes such as chicken or pork rib soup.
Few people in China go shopping in supermarkets anymore. They use various apps to order meals and supermarket shopping software, including buying fresh seafood, and so on. Any vegetables, fruits, and snacks available in supermarkets and markets will appear on the online shopping platform, and there is no need for express delivery fees. The delivery time is basically within 30 minutes. Even if you only spend 0.1 US dollars on a green onion or a green vegetable in online shopping, it will be delivered to your home for free within 30 minutes. This is the most surprising. Including purchasing household appliances, such as the JD app in China. If you purchase a TV, washing machine, refrigerator, air conditioner, and other household appliances before 9am, they will be delivered to your home for installation in the afternoon or evening of the same day. Efficiency with comparable speed
The lotus seeds can be used in soups, especially Chinese herbal soups. The seeds can also be candied. They're also made into a paste that can be used in pastries like in mooncakes.
Thanks for sharing! I think many of the small single snack packets sell for 10 or 20 for 19.50 Yuan. And the bigger packets sometime 2 or 3 for the stated price. I notice the lemon Oreo price 11.8 Yuan is for 2 packets. The preserved eggs could be salted eggs.
2:08 Yes, that's why Chinese people are thin, because we want to eat potato chips, but we can't eat too much because it's not healthy, so sometimes when we want to eat potato chips, we buy a small package to cheat my Taste buds😂
It’s not potato chips that make you fat. It’s because you eat everything together. Starch, sugar plus meat will make you fat. You have to eat ether vegetarian or keto but you can’t mix two together.
I hignly recommend you have a visit of the Global Centre of Chengdu. It really shocked me that is considered covered the most floor area in the region. Its located just by the subway
Pangdong provides employees with unhappy leave, and if employees are unhappy with their work, they can use unhappy leave. Many of their items will have their purchase prices marked on price tags. Pangdonglai also warmly welcomes customers to come into the store to take photos, and welcomes any dissatisfied feedback
the eggs in walmart have a little expensive,becuase generally there are neighbour residents would shopping in walmart; and you can find easily 15 yuan for 30 eggs(fresh and even more low price) in farmer market or wholesale market
What’s so impressive about this Walmart trip is that it shows China has such abundance and diversity of food supply and at such affordable prices. This is why the living standards in China are incredible. You just don’t have the means to eat this well in the supposedly rich west, both on the supply and demand sides.
6:56 *Taro with Sea Salt and Black Pepper* Lays Potato Chips. It would be extremely helpful if you can show the packages to the camera head on and clearly long enough for viewers to get a screen shot for identification.
Regarding Lotus seeds, they use the seeds both cooked, in desserts, and raw or roasted. To celebrate the New Year, a box of sweets, symbols of good omen, including candied lotus seeds, is traditionally offered.
Both oishi and Meiji are Japanese words. I don't know what country they are from. But a lot of stuff sold in Walmart stores in the USA are actually made in China. I recall there was an Auchan in Shanghai. Also IKEA.
The main reason you can see such a wide variety of products in Chinese supermarkets is that China is the manufacturing base for these products. Since each country has different product demands, they only need a few of these products. However, because China is the production base for all product varieties, it explains why you were surprised in the video to see so many product varieties you had never seen before, such as avocado-flavored Lay's.
China is NOT manufacturing foods for the World. Lays potato chips in your country for example, is not made in China. Chinese always celebrated the Variety of foods and taste. Lays simply adopted to Chinese market to stay competitive. As other western brands.
Little discs by the dried shrimps are “虾片”, they need to be fried first, will puff up and expand a couple sizes bigger, texture like potato crisps and tastes like seafood.
lotus seeds in China, in Guangdong, we use it with crystal sugar to make sweet soup what we consider it'll helpful in clear away heat or eliminate dampness. For example, The green bean soup is considered do well in clear away heat, detoxify, and relieve heat and troubles. and the lily lotus seed sweet soup is considered can moisturizing the lungs. There are too many kinds sweet soup in China, so you guys can go some where sells sweet soup to have a try, but as far as I know, there are not many local sweet soups in Sichuan(I'm not from Sichuan and don’t know much about it), there are some similar things called bingfen(ice jelly). oh maybe in Southeast Asia their sweet soup were similar to Guangzhou's. so may be you have tasted them.
The natural scenery in Sichuan is very beautiful, such as Jiuzhaigou, Siguniang Mountain, Huanglong, and so on. Why didn’t you go to any of these places?
The lotus seeds can be used for making Cantonese soup. Cantonese soups tends to focus more on the healthy aspects based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. My mom just throws a hand full of dried lotus seeds in the soup often when she makes it.
love how all the bags of chips are around 7 yuan. which is just over $1USD. here in US those bags are $4-5 each unless you can get a 2 for $6 sale or something... and lays is made in US too. We get ripped off for everything in US
The best supermarket in the world is Pangdonglai in Xuchang, China. It is not an exaggeration. Many people in China visit Pangdonglai supermarket as a tourist attraction. If you take a taxi to Xuchang, every driver will praise Pangdonglai greatly. The whole Xuchang people will take pride in having the best supermarkets in the world. Although I am not from Xuchang, I also envy them for being able to come to Pangdong every day. Compared with Wal Mart, PangDongLai will be at another level.
@@Ultra-Violet For example, if Kanye makes negative comments about Jews, all companies will terminate their cooperation, Trump will be banned on Twitter, Edward Snowden will be politically banned, and Joshua Schulte will be assassinated. In fact, you don't understand anything
35:00 are morel mushrooms, they are a delicacy both in china and the US, they are very difficult to be cultivated, almost all of them are wild, that's why they are so expensive.
I have seen many RUclipsrs saying that Chinese butter is expensive. But how cheap is it abroad? I like baking. The butter I bought in China is usually about 40yuan/ 450g.I also think it's much more expensive than the oil we use for daily cooking.😢
To be honest, as a Chinese person, I don’t know much more about the foods in this video than you do... Maybe it’s a stereotype, but I always feel that these packaged foods are unhealthy, as are processed foods like McDonald's. I prefer to buy fresh vegetables and cook meals myself.
Ingredients are also medicinal herbs. Lotus seeds and Tremella are a couple, use them to make soup. Drink this soup frequently could make women look young.
Meiji is a Japanese brand. There are 6 Walmarts in the City I live in. Problem with the ones I use is that the Vegetables and some fruits are of poor quality. I used to spend over 400 Rmb a visit but now I spend around 120. Prices have really got too high for my liking.
I'd like to recommend you to visit the Pang Donglai (胖东来) Supermarket which is in Xuchang, Henan Province, for a unique shopping experience. It is famous for wide variety of products and a friendly shopping environment in China😊
That pickled white stuff that look like worm is actually a kind of vegetable root. It has a crunchy texture n a little sweet. I tried the fresh ones, stir fried with celery and other vegetables, for the 1st time the last I was there few months back. It is delicious.😊
I traveled to New York years ago, and I noticed there were not many supermarkets there, we went to a small supermarket and it was very crowded , I wondered where do people shop in New York.
How do clerks know the prices of unpackaged bulk foods? Is there some sort of ID code that customers write on bags of such products? If so, I looked for codes around the prices and didn't see them. Are they in Chinese? Or could it be, rather than codes, you just write the prices?
Welcome to the beaches of China, as long as you avoid few popular beaches in HaiNan and ShanDong provinces，the beaches along FuJian and GuangXi provinces are absolutely gorgeous and quiet ❤
I sugges you guys go to Yunnan province cause there are various kinds ofungus there，most of them are very very delicious.Yunnan is the Kingdom of Animals and Plants
I still remember that I bought banana-flavored Pocky in Thailand and garlic scallop in Weizhou Island. Visiting the local supermarket was really a new and interesting experience😄😄😄😆😆
People living in China mainland are more familiar with Sam's Club although it's a sub brand of Walmart. So when I found that there is Walmart store in China I was really shocked😂
23:44 Those mangos are WAY better than larger ones. They are one of the best varieties of mangoes to eat because they don't have fiber,/strings the flesh his smooth and the flavor is excellent. Don't judge by size. Common to find in the United States.
At least three people are dead and 10 wounded as a man carrying a gun opened fire at a grocery store in South Arkansas in the US in Jun 22. but nobody talk about these.
No … most of the world doesn’t want to talk about the mass killings in the US because the country has ridiculous gun laws that not enough of the citizens want to change. The emotional investment of hearing of all these deaths when the people of the US don’t want to fix the problem is too much.
As a Chinese, I am really happy and grateful that you can make these videos that record the real situation in China. China is a great country to visit, there are many beautiful scenery, fun things, delicious food. We extend a warm welcome to foreign visitors. I also hope you can have fun in China.❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Almost 200k! Let’s goooo 🎉 you guys truly deserve it❤
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Walmart in US is far much better. You can walk away without paying as long as the value is below USD 950 😂 . You can't do that in Walmart China 😢 .
😂😂😂
所以他们带着计算器去沃尔玛超市购物😂
i love USA ha ha ha
为什么可以不付钱？😮
美国最新的法律低于950美金不用被抓@@王奎-o1k
Kiwi fruit is actually a Chinese native fruit but popularised and marketed successfully by New Zealand. It used to be called Chinese Gooseberries. In China, it is now also known as Kiwi fruits besides their native name.
猕猴桃 is the real Chinese name
That is very correct, the only proviso being the varieties sold as Kiwi fruit (the name given for marketing and export purposes) are cultivars that were developed in NZ by market gardeners from the original Chinese plants that bore much smaller fruit. These days the NZ cultivars/varieties are being used by commercial market growers around the world including China.
@@hrep14Thank you for the knowledge 👍
把中国的东西注册成自己的已经有千几年历史，一切生活用品差不多都是中国人发明，在纽约大都会博物馆中有牙刷🪥，毛巾，碗🥣，．．．．．甚至厕纸等大量生活用具。因为中国是农耕民族，生活固定。
把中国的东西注册成自己的已经有千几年历史，一切生活用品差不多都是中国人发明，在纽约大都会博物馆中有牙刷🪥，毛巾，碗🥣，．．．．．甚至厕纸等大量生活用具。因为中国是农耕民族，生活固定。马可波罗传走了不小，然后欧洲人就過来抢了😂。
Actually, WalMart has been in China for almost 30 years, The first WalMart opened in China was in Shenzhen in 1996, Now it has a total of 433 stores in Mainland China.
Not to mention many other American and European companies in China. Why do the western governments always complain about fair trade?
There is a supermarket brand in China called Fat Donglai, which is called the supermarket ceiling. There are many videos of them online. I was shocked when I went there for the first time.
Yes, I'm surprised that even foreigners know about it. Fat donglai from Xuchang, my hometown in Henan Province. I wish more people knew about it.
433？？thats insanely numerous
incredible for Us Here in the USA, but We are always behind in the NEWS, and trends, here in the USA.
The biggest difference between Walmarts in China and America is the one's in America always have people running out without paying. Theft is rare in China. Walmart is no longer that popular in China. Costco is the newest craze
对，中国的沃尔玛也应该像美国那样免费。不能够地域歧视👿
Yup it seemed empty! Y'all should check out the costco
Costco也没那么香了，很快会迎来一波退卡潮。
我住纽约的广州人，世上任何超市无法与中国广州各种批发巿场抗衡😂
我们这边山姆也很火
Where do you think Walmart in the USA gets most of their stuff from? China!!!
It’s not the store but the people. Too many people living in poverty here in the US for different reasons but there’s not much the government is doing to help change that. Conservatives believe in small government and liberals come up with ridiculous solutions, and the political gridlock makes sure nothing gets really done.
@@低能儿 get a life
This is a system problem not your government’s problem. China is a socialist country which pursues fairness more than profit in some regards. Elon musk recently can get 60 billion paycheck while he had cut 10% workforce two months earlier. Totally different mindset man. Your system is inferior to the Chinese system.
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In fact, some commodities are not poorly translated, but there are almost no such products outside China. For example, the drink you take is not a mixed drink of pears and honey, but a "thorn pear", that is, "a kind of fruit with thorns". The Chinese pronunciation of "Ci Li" ，actually has nothing to do with pears. This fruit is the king of vitamin C, which contains a huge amount of vitamin C and is also a specialty of Guizhou. It is sour and sweet with a little astringency. Similar to the feeling of "tannin" in wine,You can try it.Very delicious
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Actually, at least half of Chinese people shopping online. They can buy everything including fresh product from 拼多多（original Chinese Temu), or Taobao(you may heard of Alibaba), or a lot of different phone apps, which is much cheaper than off-line supermarkets.
Nowdays it is not very often to go grocery at supermarket in China, especially for young people in big cities. They do online shopping almost for everything.
My kids always enjoy carpet-combing the titbit shelves in Walmart when we visit China! ❤
@@hughesyoung1883 That's sad, nowadays people love to go online shopping, and those huge shopping malls and big supermarkets become very very quiet, I hope the govt can do something about that like putting a much higher tax on those online companies.
我记得你们说咖啡很难找到，Walmart肯定有了，恭喜🎉
Man... Walmart, Sams, Costco, Medro, Aldi, Tesco, Carrefour, Auchan, you name it... We have had all of those western supermarket chain in China for decades. And even some of them have already gone over their lifecycle and is beated by Chinese local supermarket chain so they are closing their stores. Shopping in a Walmart was only something trendy back to 10 or 15 years ago in China and now shopping in a supermarket like Walmart is an out-dated activity to many younger Chinese generations.
We Are So behind in the News here in the USA.
@@12567NoYouCannotSam’s China even offer free delivery in less than 1 hour. Western brands are more common in bigger cities while local brands run the market in smaller cities and towns.
@@12567NoYouCannot it seems like the western news are trying to hide these facts on purpose for years
@@12567NoYouCannot Sam, Costco, and Aldi are doing well and expanding in China. It's not so that American (or European) super markets are falling behind, but simply that the warehouse model are replacing traditional supermarkets, which is also happening in here in the US.
And this transition is happening faster in China, thanks to the abundance of small neighborhood groceries and grocery deliveries, so people would only go to supermarkets for bulk shopping
@@FlorianLuo That is Awesome! The delivery, I mean. Also, would've never thought in a million Years they had Sam's Club in CHINA!!!
The Chinese government launched a "vegetables basket project"20 years ago, to ensure the supply of fruits, vegetables, fishes and meats in China. At the same time, it increased trade with other countries, imported a lot of agricultural products, and lowered people's living costs. In addition, agricultural productsare exempt from taxes in China, which further reduces the burden of farmers and people's living costs.
FYI, China produces now 60% of the world's total vegetables, although China's population takes up only 17% of the world population. That is to say, the Chinese are the greatest vegetable eaters in the world. China is also the biggest fruit producer worldwide.
Thanks for sharing this information which we don’t know about it in Hong Kong .👍
This is the largest government project in human history aimed at getting people to eat cheap vegetables.@@ggin4832
@@ggin4832 其实目前中国大陆供应的蔬菜瓜果确实太多太多了，去超市很多叫不出名字的小众蔬菜和水果，价格不会太高。很建议香港同胞来大陆玩呢~
And the biggest contamination of food products which are openly sold 🤷🏻♀️
Your reserved habit of carrying your bag in the front looks funny under the background of China since there's no pocket picker. 😂😂😂
36:04 Not a worm or animal. These are pickled *crosnes* (also known as Chinese artichoke, Japanese artichoke, artichoke betony.) This is a tuber (a type of root), like tumeric or ginger or oca. Enjoyed as an appetizer in China and Japan. Scientific Name (universal around the world for identification of plants and animals) = _Stachys sieboldii_. It would be crunchy like cauliflour.
I was living in Shenzhen 10 years ago and there was a Carrefour just across the street of my residence, after 9pm everyday, the cooked food section (like roasted chicken, duck, beef and many other cooked ready-to-eat food ) and the bakery section (bread and tarts and fluffy cakes) offered tremendous discounts, they bindled two or three packs together to sell at the price of 1 pack, I often went there at 9:00pm to get all the advantages, lol.
There was also a Walmart, but like 1km away, I sometimes went there and found they offered a lot of discounts for cooked food and bakery after 8-9pm everyday as well (but the discounts were not as huge as Carrefour's), they had the near-expiry-food shelf near the checkouts which had all the food and snacks near the expiry dates but not expired yet and the discounts were extreme, almost free giveaways (Carrefour didn't have these).
23:15 Kiwifruit is native to central and eastern China, and it was started to commercial plantings in New Zealand in early 20th century.
29:14 Rock sugars are preferred in China as a legacy tradition of ensuring you are buying pure sugar, not granular sugar that may contain fillers. They're less sweet than white refined sugar. Use them to cook with.
I really like you couple, there is a number of vloggers post travelling China and I like them, but like you both the most. You are so nice, optimistic and passionate. You can experience Yunnan, Guangxi provinces for best landscapes. Expect your more videoes soon.
28:21 She said "preserved eggs" which would be century eggs (duck), commonly warned with congee to eat for breakfast or topped with soy sauce and scallions as a side dish. People who are allergic to chicken eggs CAN eat duck eggs.
Luke in charge of looking out， Naomi in charge of making decisions，nice team work，hahahah🎉
3:17 Hawthorn fruit is a common fruit in China. Ripe and dried hawthorn fruit are tart, tangy, and slightly sweet in flavor. is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae. They are commonly covered in hard sugar on skewers in street food (red and round). They are delicious because they are not just sweet, they actually have flavor. Scientific name: _Crataegus monogyna_ (this name is consistent around the world). Common names include: guickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower or hawberry. Hawthorn is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae.
They should like it because they like sour hawthorn, which is a very tasty sour fruit.
closest thing non-Chinese can relate to a hawthorn berry (or haw berry) are crabapples. although typically crabapples are more tart, and haw are a bit sweeter(but also more bland flavoured until you condense it to make haw cakes or haw flakes).
Haw flakes are my childhood candy. It's sweetened hawthorn fruit dried into round discs. Delicious.
Lotus seeds are deep fried or baked in Vietnam as snack. In Chinese cuisines, lotus seeds are cooked as desert, lotus paste used in buns etc. In some instances, lotus seed is used medicinally with other herbs as a cooling drink!
In China they're usually boiled together with pork belly/Chicken and dates, for example, as herbal soups.
One of my personal favorite.
14:29: If you like sour gummies, try hawthorn fruit candies, you'll enjoy them and they're less likely to be synthetic. Hawthorn fruit is naturally acidic/tart/sour. If you like hibiscus aka jamica in Mexico you'll like hawthorn.
Hope you guys enjoy the trip in China. The section where you found the lotus seeds and stuffs are ingredients for boiling Chinese soup.
The price in Walmart is much cheaper than other supermarket in China， especially in big city, a lot of discounts after 8pm
This is not true. While there are other supermarkets with higher prices like Ole, there are also lower priced ones like Yonghui Superstores and a few other smaller chains..
@@raycomeau6866 I was living in Shenzhen 10 years ago and there was a Carrefour just across the street of my residence, after 9pm everyday, the cooked food section (like roasted chicken, duck, beef and many other cooked ready-to-eat food ) and the bakery section (bread and tarts and fluffy cakes) offered tremendous discounts, they bindled two or three packs together to sell at the price of 1 pack, I often went there at 9:00pm to get all the advantages, lol.
There was also a Walmart, but like 1km away, I sometimes went there and found they offered a lot of discounts after 8-9pm everyday as well (but the discounts were not as huge as Carrefour) and they had the near-expiry-food shelf near the checkouts which had the food near the expiry dates but not expired yet and the discounts were extreme, almost free giveaways (Carrefour didn't have these).
Hello from Australia! 🇦🇺 Loved the interesting supermarket insight. Well done & keep up the good work 👍🏼 Take care!
32:26 The pink and white wafers are known as "shrimp chips" the need to be deep fried and they will instantly puff up into a crispy snack beloved by most Chinese as children grow up with them. Fun. Delicious. Extremely common. See if you can find some to eat at a restaurant as a snack.
some 60-70 years ago this "prawn crackers" were the rage in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore. These were sun dried for an hour then dropped into hot oil. It will puffed up about 10 times and was savoury snack for all.
Remember more than 1.4 billion people are living in Chins. The government did a great job to provide affordable food to them.
Brav Chins!
I'm in Shenzhen, actually there are lots of Warlmart or Carrefour stores shutdown during the recent 10 years. Most of people use APPs or platform(e.g., JD or Taobao) to order everything online. only the parents want to go to the store or market
Thank you for sharing the truth about China to the world ❤
The truth haha cmon we are not so naive
@@Ultra-Violet native？no！Actlurely you arn‘t！we watched there is something wrong with your brain.
It's great you are showing this side of travel - i also like to visit supermarkets in other countries.
Unlike fresh fruits, Chinese people generally believe that industrialized snacks are unhealthy foods and can only be eaten in small amounts. This is why Chinese snacks are packaged in small portions.
That's true
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大包装一次根本吃不完，造成浪费
对的，零食一般偶尔吃一点就够了，不能当作一顿饭吃。主要大多零食只有碳水和重盐糖，没有膳食纤维和维他命成分
Yes, Chinese people attach great importance to the distinction between a 正餐(formal meal) and snacks. They don't take snacks like potato chips, dried fruits, dried meat, and popcorn as formal meal, because the nutrition is not enough.
2:20 you guys really should try 话梅 (salty plum or dried plum or plum jerky thing) and there are tons of different flavours or types. Basically, they are pickled plums or dried plums, with a very unique taste, a mixture of flavors. Imagine the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Plums are a mixture of two or more of these flavors. And the softness and hardness of the taste vary depending on the variety of plums.
26:40 are lotus seeds. They are a superfood that can be used in desserts or added to broth as an aromatic. They can also be used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Dried lotus seeds can be used for making desserts like pastry fillings (eg for moon cakes) or sweet congee, or in savoury dishes such as chicken or pork rib soup.
Few people in China go shopping in supermarkets anymore. They use various apps to order meals and supermarket shopping software, including buying fresh seafood, and so on. Any vegetables, fruits, and snacks available in supermarkets and markets will appear on the online shopping platform, and there is no need for express delivery fees. The delivery time is basically within 30 minutes. Even if you only spend 0.1 US dollars on a green onion or a green vegetable in online shopping, it will be delivered to your home for free within 30 minutes. This is the most surprising. Including purchasing household appliances, such as the JD app in China. If you purchase a TV, washing machine, refrigerator, air conditioner, and other household appliances before 9am, they will be delivered to your home for installation in the afternoon or evening of the same day. Efficiency with comparable speed
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you are true.
你麻痹0.1美元 30分钟送到家？ 至少30起送
@@huiyu5518那是你家远，我家附近超市便利店15元起送，还免配送费，如果你出配送费，确实买0.1都能送。
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The lotus seeds can be used in soups, especially Chinese herbal soups. The seeds can also be candied. They're also made into a paste that can be used in pastries like in mooncakes.
Thanks for sharing! I think many of the small single snack packets sell for 10 or 20 for 19.50 Yuan. And the bigger packets sometime 2 or 3 for the stated price. I notice the lemon Oreo price 11.8 Yuan is for 2 packets. The preserved eggs could be salted eggs.
The fungus you've never seen before are called morels. They grow wild in the US, I've recently started seeing them in stores in the last few years.
2:08 Yes, that's why Chinese people are thin, because we want to eat potato chips, but we can't eat too much because it's not healthy, so sometimes when we want to eat potato chips, we buy a small package to cheat my Taste buds😂
It’s not potato chips that make you fat. It’s because you eat everything together. Starch, sugar plus meat will make you fat. You have to eat ether vegetarian or keto but you can’t mix two together.
@@mariajones8304 Yes yes, potatoes are starchy, but if you also eat other fats, they add up to make you fat
28:22 These are preserved salty duck eggs that typically go with congee in China and parts of SE Asia.
I hignly recommend you have a visit of the Global Centre of Chengdu. It really shocked me that is considered covered the most floor area in the region. Its located just by the subway
It’s so fun to have everything new translated. Good for you. 😊👍
Pangdong provides employees with unhappy leave, and if employees are unhappy with their work, they can use unhappy leave. Many of their items will have their purchase prices marked on price tags. Pangdonglai also warmly welcomes customers to come into the store to take photos, and welcomes any dissatisfied feedback
FYI, Meiji is a Japanese brand, not Filipino or Korean brand. I really like their melty kiss chocolate.
love your videos!!!♥
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the eggs in walmart have a little expensive,becuase generally there are neighbour residents would shopping in walmart; and you can find easily 15 yuan for 30 eggs(fresh and even more low price) in farmer market or wholesale market
What’s so impressive about this Walmart trip is that it shows China has such abundance and diversity of food supply and at such affordable prices. This is why the living standards in China are incredible. You just don’t have the means to eat this well in the supposedly rich west, both on the supply and demand sides.
6:56 *Taro with Sea Salt and Black Pepper* Lays Potato Chips. It would be extremely helpful if you can show the packages to the camera head on and clearly long enough for viewers to get a screen shot for identification.
Yes the camera was all over the place in this video..felt somewhar dizzy at times..they are too excited i think
Excellent video loved the supermarket next time please show more of the meat and fish section especially the pricing, thanks 😊🇦🇺🇺🇦
Haha, I could recognize this Walmart from the dumpling restaurant at the main entrance! We went there once last summer.
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Regarding Lotus seeds, they use the seeds both cooked, in desserts, and raw or roasted. To celebrate the New Year, a box of sweets, symbols of good omen, including candied lotus seeds, is traditionally offered.
The black egg packet at 28:22 is a whole salted (preserved) duck egg wrapped in salted charcoal clay to preserve it.
在上海已经像沃尔玛，家乐福这些大型超市已经很少了，上一次去逛都是好几年前了😅
26:35 is Tremella fuciformis， Commonly used to make desserts in Asia。36:11 is Stachys affinis，an aquatic plant。enjoy in China
Oh those teas look so nice, making me want to go out and buy some nice tea ❤
Both oishi and Meiji are Japanese words. I don't know what country they are from. But a lot of stuff sold in Walmart stores in the USA are actually made in China. I recall there was an Auchan in Shanghai. Also IKEA.
OISHI from Philippines, Meiji is a Japanese brand. Although they are foreign brands, But they also has local factories in China.
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Everything for us,wish you have a wonderful travel ❤
Hello, see you again. I pass by here every day on my way to and from get off work.
36:07 are pickled veggies, they are usually spicy and tart, some are a tad sweet.
The main reason you can see such a wide variety of products in Chinese supermarkets is that China is the manufacturing base for these products. Since each country has different product demands, they only need a few of these products. However, because China is the production base for all product varieties, it explains why you were surprised in the video to see so many product varieties you had never seen before, such as avocado-flavored Lay's.
还有一个重要的因素 中国人是世界上最会吃的民族，如果你不经常研发新的口味来满足，他们的商品根本没人买
China is NOT manufacturing foods for the World. Lays potato chips in your country for example, is not made in China. Chinese always celebrated the Variety of foods and taste. Lays simply adopted to Chinese market to stay competitive. As other western brands.
Little discs by the dried shrimps are “虾片”, they need to be fried first, will puff up and expand a couple sizes bigger, texture like potato crisps and tastes like seafood.
lotus seeds in China, in Guangdong, we use it with crystal sugar to make sweet soup what we consider it'll helpful in clear away heat or eliminate dampness. For example, The green bean soup is considered do well in clear away heat, detoxify, and relieve heat and troubles. and the lily lotus seed sweet soup is considered can moisturizing the lungs. There are too many kinds sweet soup in China, so you guys can go some where sells sweet soup to have a try, but as far as I know, there are not many local sweet soups in Sichuan(I'm not from Sichuan and don’t know much about it), there are some similar things called bingfen(ice jelly). oh maybe in Southeast Asia their sweet soup were similar to Guangzhou's. so may be you have tasted them.
四川不是有冰粉嘛。
The natural scenery in Sichuan is very beautiful, such as Jiuzhaigou, Siguniang Mountain, Huanglong, and so on. Why didn’t you go to any of these places?
I love eating Walkers crisps when I was writing my assignment. The vinegar flavour of Walkers crisps was impressive.
The lotus seeds can be used for making Cantonese soup. Cantonese soups tends to focus more on the healthy aspects based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. My mom just throws a hand full of dried lotus seeds in the soup often when she makes it.
Mushrooms are fungus by definition. The noise could come from a packaging machine or a conveyor since home delivery is also a part of their business.
Many young people like me in big cities in China seldom go to the supermarkets. We usually shop online or go to the convenience stores like 7-11.
love how all the bags of chips are around 7 yuan. which is just over $1USD. here in US those bags are $4-5 each unless you can get a 2 for $6 sale or something... and lays is made in US too. We get ripped off for everything in US
Normally I don't shop at Walmart but I think I would give the Chinese version a try. Like the snack selection. Would like to see the ingredients list.
The best supermarket in the world is Pangdonglai in Xuchang, China. It is not an exaggeration. Many people in China visit Pangdonglai supermarket as a tourist attraction. If you take a taxi to Xuchang, every driver will praise Pangdonglai greatly. The whole Xuchang people will take pride in having the best supermarkets in the world. Although I am not from Xuchang, I also envy them for being able to come to Pangdong every day. Compared with Wal Mart, PangDongLai will be at another level.
It's not the best in the world 😅
@@Ultra-Violet Only when you have truly been to Pangdong can you be qualified to speak
@@samvon5474 I'm qualified to speak as I know chinese human rights.
@@Ultra-Violet人权包括哪些？
@@Ultra-Violet For example, if Kanye makes negative comments about Jews, all companies will terminate their cooperation, Trump will be banned on Twitter, Edward Snowden will be politically banned, and Joshua Schulte will be assassinated. In fact, you don't understand anything
35:00 are morel mushrooms, they are a delicacy both in china and the US, they are very difficult to be cultivated, almost all of them are wild, that's why they are so expensive.
I have seen many RUclipsrs saying that Chinese butter is expensive. But how cheap is it abroad? I like baking. The butter I bought in China is usually about 40yuan/ 450g.I also think it's much more expensive than the oil we use for daily cooking.😢
To be honest, as a Chinese person, I don’t know much more about the foods in this video than you do... Maybe it’s a stereotype, but I always feel that these packaged foods are unhealthy, as are processed foods like McDonald's. I prefer to buy fresh vegetables and cook meals myself.
完全正确
but in EU there are also lots of fresh fruits and vegetables being packaged in the supermarket
你可以不吃，没有人在意你的感受，如果不健康可以投诉超市。
@@WangJinru但是品质实在是太少了
@@cong4085 他只是讲述个人看法和习惯，你可以不看，没有人在意你的感受，如果违反平台规则你可以举报。
The Wal -Mart in Shenzhen can place an order online and then send it to the house. The point is that they do not charge the delivery fee
Ingredients are also medicinal herbs. Lotus seeds and Tremella are a couple, use them to make soup. Drink this soup frequently could make women look young.
Snickers is Pretty POPULAR Here in the USA, I didn't even know it was popular in Europe!!! I thought Snickers was an American thing!
Meiji is a Japanese brand.
There are 6 Walmarts in the City I live in.
Problem with the ones I use is that the Vegetables and some fruits are of poor quality.
I used to spend over 400 Rmb a visit but now I spend around 120. Prices have really got too high for my liking.
We not only have Walmart, we got SAM, Costco, IKEA, German supermarket METRO and so on.
I'd like to recommend you to visit the Pang Donglai (胖东来) Supermarket which is in Xuchang, Henan Province, for a unique shopping experience. It is famous for wide variety of products and a friendly shopping environment in China😊
Very good. Experience the life of local people and understand local prices. This is the meaning of travel.
I have to come to watch your videos every time I eat.🤣
That pickled white stuff that look like worm is actually a kind of vegetable root. It has a crunchy texture n a little sweet. I tried the fresh ones, stir fried with celery and other vegetables, for the 1st time the last I was there few months back. It is delicious.😊
5:40 are fava beans, which is a very popular snack in china. i highly recommend them.
I traveled to New York years ago, and I noticed there were not many supermarkets there, we went to a small supermarket and it was very crowded , I wondered where do people shop in New York.
How do clerks know the prices of unpackaged bulk foods? Is there some sort of ID code that customers write on bags of such products? If so, I looked for codes around the prices and didn't see them. Are they in Chinese? Or could it be, rather than codes, you just write the prices?
The yogurts were behind the milk. You just missed it 😂 We love yogurt
Welcome to the beaches of China, as long as you avoid few popular beaches in HaiNan and ShanDong provinces，the beaches along FuJian and GuangXi provinces are absolutely gorgeous and quiet ❤
hope you get more subscribers !
Keep up the good video.
Most important is enjoy the visit in China.
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35:23 it is Cordyceps Flower（虫草花 60￥/kg ） not Cordyceps sinensis（冬虫夏草 115￥/g）
I sugges you guys go to Yunnan province cause there are various kinds ofungus there，most of them are very very delicious.Yunnan is the Kingdom of Animals and Plants
I still remember that I bought banana-flavored Pocky in Thailand and garlic scallop in Weizhou Island. Visiting the local supermarket was really a new and interesting experience😄😄😄😆😆
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People living in China mainland are more familiar with Sam's Club although it's a sub brand of Walmart. So when I found that there is Walmart store in China I was really shocked😂
至少在我生活的城市，这里只有山姆挂牌经营
Wow, your Chinese has improved so much. . . very good!
Those are shrimp/prawn cracker chips before they are deep fried for freshness. You can buy bags of them already processed at 7-11 in China !
23:44 Those mangos are WAY better than larger ones. They are one of the best varieties of mangoes to eat because they don't have fiber,/strings the flesh his smooth and the flavor is excellent. Don't judge by size. Common to find in the United States.
They are call kidney mangoes. It’s very sweet.
If you can take a look at the DL Supermarket in Xinxiang, you will see the ceiling of Chinese supermarkets. How he beat Walmart and Carrefour.
At least three people are dead and 10 wounded as a man carrying a gun opened fire at a grocery store in South Arkansas in the US in Jun 22. but nobody talk about these.
No … most of the world doesn’t want to talk about the mass killings in the US because the country has ridiculous gun laws that not enough of the citizens want to change. The emotional investment of hearing of all these deaths when the people of the US don’t want to fix the problem is too much.
I recommend you to try local flavor chips, and local snacks.
As a Chinese, I am really happy and grateful that you can make these videos that record the real situation in China. China is a great country to visit, there are many beautiful scenery, fun things, delicious food. We extend a warm welcome to foreign visitors. I also hope you can have fun in China.❤❤🎉🎉🎉
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Organic seaweed with eggs.. could be made into a yummy .. healthy soup..add some black pepper powder to it..... yummy ❤😊