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The earliest Chinese to settle in San Francisco were mostly Cantonese and Fujian people since the Gold Rush period. This is why the Chinese call it the Old Golden Mountain. The culture there more related to Caton.
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It's not only that the subject is interesting, but both the voice over and editing is so well made. Must be a lot of hard work going in to making such great videos.
I know, right! I am from China and I majored in English, and I saw the subs where it translated 'a trade-off' to '各有各的好‘, I was laughing out loud. that's some seriously good, funny, and pinpoint translation! and you just get the sense of how good quality these vids are!
As a flight attendant I regularly visit San Francisco and China town is one place I go to almost every time. There is a Chinese cake shop where I can get traditional Chinese cakes and Hong Kong style cakes and they are quite authentic and delicious. The park in the video I’ve been to a few times before and one time was during Chinese New Year. As far as I know Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco is one of the oldest & biggest in the whole of US. Great episode…
The first time I have ever eaten Dimsum breakfast is in San Francisco when I had been studying there. I'm a third generation Myanmar-Chinese and our daily food is Yunnanese style cuisine. Our breakfast is pretty much like Vietnamese style breakfast Pho noodle with a little bit varietion ( for example, no bean sprouts ) Fun facts: Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco Chinatown's the Jackson Street Hospital on November 27, 1940 in the year of Dragon.
@@directxxxx71 I hope you know what it means. That's to me the best and deepest greeting on planet earth. By the way, I don't have a single drop of Myanmar blood in me but I know the country well.
Thank you for the great video of SF Chinatown. I forwarded this video to the owner of the grocery store-like you visited and he was ecstatic. Thank you.
@@hangtuah888 What's meant here is that this bitch, soft as she is in her own country, should unleash that patent "free world" bravado on the Chinese. Unfortunately for her, in reality, we would've thought that there's sum thing won with her attempt at Chinese, otherwise known as chiang chang americant. Yes, you may correct the intentional typo as you recite the above out loud lol
Hi Katherine, I loved your video I'm from Philly but I lived and worked in China with my band many times for many years in 6 different cities. I love China, I sing in Chinese and, love the culture there please continue to make wonderful videos all the best to you God bless. Hope to see you someday around the world I'm in Dubai now but I'll travel later next year.
Thank you for sharing another interesting trip of yours Katherine. Very few people have the spirit and strengths in different aspects as you to have travelled from east to the west in two big countries such as China and the U.S. Besides, as I watched I thought to myself, wait a minute, you are truly one of the so few in this world who is actually capable of teaching so many people, both in China and in the U.S., a lot. Really a lot, not only do you speak, read, and write better, clear, and accurate Chinese and English than many people in those two countries, you have accumulated so much knowledge and experiences than most people in those two countries about their own countries where they are borne and raised too! You can tell what are common or more authentic in those cultures and know much more about many different cultural aspects in those two countries too. You know and genuinely have experienced so much more than most people in those countries. Wonder if anyone recognized you in San Fran Chinatown due to your travelling? Again, thank you. You are a lucky star and people who know you in person are lucky too.
Thanks a bundle for sharing more great content and experiences! And for leaving no Rosetta Stone unturned! Enjoyed the lion dances. They're very unique looking lions aren't they?
it's like pizzas in the US are different than pizzas in Italy. Tacos in the US are also different from tacos in Mexico. And the Vietnamese "pho" soup in the US is also different from the pho in Vietnam. I think this can be said of many immigrant cultures too, the foods and cuisines tend to change as they are migrated away from the origin countries.
I was in Vietnam last month and it was so difficult to find the traditional Banh Mi I was familiar with from the 90s. They all want to add different ingredients now.
Someone once said (which I agree), China towns are like a slice of Chinese history with little change. But the China that it came from has changed very much resulting a strange mismatch.
Not 100% true though, even in the old school Chinatowns like the one in Manhattan there are plenty of modern style businesses like hot pot and bubble tea
发菜（fa4cai4) grows in Qinghai and Inner Mongolia. It sounds like 发财（fa1cai2）in Cantonese, so it is very popular in Guangdong as a fortune gift for the Chinese New Year or opening of new business. However these “vegi-like” fungus is hard to get and harvesting them is extremely environment-damaging.
The harvest and sale of facai have been banned in China since 2000. Rich people with power and connections probably still get it for their private banquets, but you wouldn't see it elsewhere very much at all inside China.
Hi K, great overview of SF. Can you give an quick update of what's going on with your other half in China? We kinda miss his mug. Hopefully, he got his tooth fixed. Lol.
I use to go to SF Chinatown all the time when I was living in the US back in 1989 to 2004. Most of the places you shown are familiar to me and still look the same. Some memory.
If I am not wrong, the early Chinese settlers in San Francisco came predominantly from Guangdong with a large majority from the county of Taishan. The Taishanese dialect is related to the Cantonese dialect and hence, it is not surprising the Chinese cuisine in SF has a Cantonese orientation. The more recent Chinese immigration are from places like Taiwan, Sichuan, etc and they bring other types of Chinese cuisine to the SF bay area. In particular with the influx of Chinese nationals studying in places like Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc, the SF bay area (aka Silicon Valley) is a great place to sample Chinese cuisine from all over China.
I suppose after the British took over Hong Kong, early adventurers from Toishan got there to lead ways from Toishanese to migrate around the world. 50 years ago, when I landed in US from SE Asia, I could use Toishanese in SF, NYC, and other US towns. Likewise, I could get my way around Toronto. On a Google search, I am surprised to learn that there are more Toishanese overseas than in the Toishan county in China.
2012 when 1st time to San Francisco, Oakland, all of them are cantonese and most of them not looks like Chinese. I don’t understand them and they are not happy , everyone has no smiles On the faces. Very different from Chinese in Beijing. Right now more and more Sichuan, northern China food in San Francisco Bay Area . Including hot pot , milk tea , which not existed in 2012
@@weizhang2834 There's boba milk tea next to Cisco in Milpitas at least by 2002. Even my Indian coworker drank it because Indians have the tradition of drinking milk tea (chai). But you may be right in that it's more common today in the bay area.
Thank you for doing such excellent work and promoting better understanding of the Chinese in the U.S. I am surprised that you never came across 髪菜 in China. It's one of many ingredients that go into Bhudda's Feast (羅漢齋). Chinatowns all over U.S. are fading or spreading out as Chinese immigrants' children grow up and move out to the suburbs. There's a Chinatown of sorts across the Bay in Richmond, and one down in San Jose (like Flushing is to Manhattan's Chinatown). Boston's Chinatown is shrinking but Chinese centers are springing up in Quincy (mainly Cantonese) and Lexington or Newton (Taiwanese and Mainlanders). Lion dancing is fading a little too, in quality if not quantity. It had been performed by those who practice martial arts. I did it back when I had a lot more hair on my head (and all of it was black). It's hard to get kids to put in that much work, not to mention enduting the pain. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing your future videos.
There are probably some immitation 髮菜, the real thing is apparently some endangered plant in the deserts of Northwestern China... I personally don't recall eating them in Hong Kong in recent years (I do recall the immitation variety, which tastes slightly different). Much more common when I was younger ~30 years ago.
@@sydneyfong A couple of decades ago, I was told that its was a moss that held desert sands together like plant roots conserve soil. Then people dug them up enmasse contributing to dust storms in northern China not to mention endangering the species. Like I said, I've been able to buy them in small quantities in recent years. I'll examine it and see if it's "imitation."
The hair vegetable (Fa Cai) is very popular in southern China. I guess not so much in the north. Fa Cai has a similar pronunciation to 发财, which means making a fortune. Fa Cai is used in a dish 蚝豉发菜 (dried oyster with hair vegetable), which sounds like 好事发财 (good fortune). So, this dish is popular among southern Chinese families during Chinese New Year.
Surprisingly, though mostly enjoyed in South China, this vegetable (Nostoc flagelliforme) is a type of cyanobacteria growing in the Gobi Desert to the very far north. Problem is, this species can't be farmed efficiently, and its wild habitat is threatened (itself likely being the only vegetation of the habitats and if harvested, the whole place would become a desolate desert), so national laws now (since 2000) forbid harvesting of Nostoc flagelliforme from the North, and that's why it is now rarely seen in markets within China. Katherine could ask the shop owners in San Francisco about the source of their Nostoc flagelliforme to investigate, for the sake of our earth.
I'm a foreigner who's been living in China for six years (in the northeast and Beijing). I'd never heard of or seen this vegetable until now. lol I also learned recently that 年糕 is called that because it's eaten at Chinese New Year, but again, never saw it at New Year up here. haha China's such a hugely diverse place. I learn things every day.
Such a great channel. I love Chinese and Asian grocery stores. They have so many delicious ingredients and the prices are really amazingly cheap. Dried mushrooms? Yes, please!
Thank you for having this in-depth comparison, especially the "real" Chinese food with what we call them Chinese food everyday in Chinatown. Still catching up your previous videos, they are very enjoyable. 👍
When my Chinese colleagues went to SF Chinatown they thought it was only focused on the 'Old' China, and not modern China. Love all your travel videos in China, btw!!
Actually the vast majority of persons living IN the San Francisco Chinatown as well as those residing throughout San Francisco are overwhelmingly from the Sze Yap/Siyi region of Taishan AND ESPECIALLY are of overwhelmingly of rural descent of the Sze Yap/Siyi regions and are thus not from urban areas and only became "urbanized" upon their arrival to the United States BUT they kept their "rural culture" and ."rural characteristics". Also very importantly, the vast majority of the Sze Yap/Siyi Chinese migrated to the United States during the 1970s and 1980s *well before the "modernization", and especially, the mass urbanization in China commenced in China.* It's for the above reasons that the Chinese in the "chinatowns" in San Francisco and New York City and Toronto and Vancouver tend to be "old school" Chinese. On the opposite side, the "suburban Chinese commercial districts" in the towns of the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley and the San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles and the suburban Chinese residents that those districts cater to are persons from initially Taiwan and HongKong and then persons from China who arrived in North America as students and highly educated urbanized Chinese who migrated to North America AFTER China's "economic take off and urbanization". It's in those "suburban Chinatowns" that you find the more "modern" "chinatowns".
From what is shown in this video, you are actually right and Katherine is actually wrong. You can't blame her thought as she has no experience with real Chinese culture, all she experienced is the pseudo Chinese culture she experienced in Communist China. Just saying this as a Singaporean Chinese who has visited Taiwanese cities and villages back in the 90s in close proximity to Taiwanese disguised as Taiwanese troops on our military exercise unsuccessfully due to Malays and Indians in our midst. You want real Chinese culture... come to Singapore or Taiwan... What you get in the PRC is soviet culture.
@@mikethm1974 Sounds like some Japanese opinions that mainland China had lost 'real Chinese culture' since Yuan Dynasty but Japan has kept it. Please keep being proud of your 'real' Chinese culture.🤣
The fa cai is actually cooked with vegies for chinese new year. I think it is said to signify prosperity or something. After cooked it is something like strips of rice noodles but black. I think it is more of a hong kong thing.
I grew up in a Cantonese family in Shanghai. I recalled every Chinese New Year, the “hair” vegetable was a must have component in a new year dinner dish because the sound “pha” is similar to the Chinese character 發 which means prosperity. I think this it’s a Southerners’ thing in China.😊
This was my thinking. Although this vlogger has lived in 4 cities in China, she maybe does not have so much experience with Hong Kong Cantonese tradition, which is very different than Mandarin culture. This is why it is important for Hong Kong to maintain its cultural identity and not become just an island with more mainland culture.
@@gregalee hey this vegetable isn’t just for Hong Kong, it’s for the entire Guangdong or Canton province, however it’s called in English. My grandparents were from Zhongshan中山，not Hong Kong; therefore it isn’t just your culture; it’s my cultural heritage too, the cultural heritage of the entire Cantonese province.
@@rhena229 That's fair! And to be perfectly honest, I'm a Scotts-Irish-English-Austrian from Detroit! My last name is the English 'Lee'! I was just making a guess based on San Francisco's Chinatown having a very large Cantonese, especially Hong Kong influence. Thank you for increasing my knowledge today.
I have lived in both Nanjing and Shanghai, and I have never heard of Fa cai. When I went to Yinchuan, Ningxia for business, I bought it in a local store. It is a local vegetable.
Excellent work, Katherine! That's what I expect to watch. I am looking forwards to more CA videos. Are you going to explore LA, silicon valley or those reputable universities?
Katherine is 99.9 correct. She's honest. Great channel. Great content. Great host. So professional and factual!!! Thank you Katherine and family! Love you!
Interesting! Pretty much the same here (Manchester, UK), mostly South East Chinese influence and culture too, except it's much smaller. And we don't have a large Chinese population either. Have fun!
This is the video I was really hoping you would make. Comparing China food with American "Chinese" food. Btw, really love those scenes of SF Chinatown. I've been to different parts of China and as you mentioned, the cuisine is so diverse. Still can't decide if I like the various types of dumplings in Xi-an or the hot pot soups up north in Harbin better. There were dishes I enjoyed in all the parts of China I've visited. Despite my love for the many types of food in China... I still have a guilty pleasure for American "Chinese" food. May not be fully authentic and (as you said) replicates only one region style of cooking in China. Yet, the dishes can still taste great if you pick the right restaurant. And I can never get tired of good old "orange chicken" and "chow fun noodles" with a fun "fortune cookie" every now and then. 😊
Interesting comparison - and crazy prices for food there! The Chinese food in Sydney's Chinatown is a bit closer to the real thing, possibly because there are huge numbers of Chinese students here and recent migrants who expect the same as in China.
Is my understanding of the lingua franca deteriorating? How come so many people are eating fake Chinese food? Is fake Chinese food like the virus, very infectious? Maybe one should use a mask when eating it.
One of the quotes supposedly spoken by Mark Twain but it is not, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." In the summer, it can get pretty cold. I missed SFO and reminisced that I ate a whole large bowl of "rice soup" (porridge) at a Teochew Restaurant in Chinatown whilst my 2 colleagues could not finish one bowl. In the end, I also cleaned their bowl. SFO Chinatown like all Chinatown in the US has a sad history to its existence. It is more like a ghetto for the early Chinese immigrants.
It ws attacked during the period leading up to the introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882. Many Chinese were killed. To many outsiders and the westerners, it might be a ghetto but in reality it was a place of safe haven where strength is derived from being together and unity as well as numbers provided the needed protection from being abused and picked on.
Interesting that he was specific about the restaurant (Teochew) . An "Ang Mo" speaking the Teochew dialect ( 8 tones - likely the oldest and hardest to learn)... ruclips.net/video/5o0-g0ZCr9g/видео.html
@@LLL-hh5el Who cares what the others think as it was the first attack on the Chinese prior to the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882. So sad as some lost their lives defending their rights.
When I first time visited NYC Chinatown in early 90s, I thought people there stayed in "民国" (40-50s) time. A few years later I realized that my brain about China stayed in the late 80s. Thanks to the internet as well as the people like you and your reports, now we know the China and the world well.
Hi Katherine, I admire you! - It's unbelievable that you have the courage to live in different regions of the world and are open to try foreign things, things that may be odd to Americans. You probably been to more places in China than a lot of Chinese. Keep it up!!
Thanks for introducing your cousin Eliza. She is so gorgeous looking. Please feature more of her in your videos which will attract more subscribers to your channel
The fat choy (lit hair vegetable) isn't a vegetable as such, but a kind of bacteria! Although it comes from the north Qinghai/Gobi desert it is more common in southern Chinese vegetarian cuisine!
the thing about China is that it is just changing so fast. SF Chinatown is a mixture of modern China and 1990 HK and that's why it feels like a five footed elephant.
I go to China all the time, and luve in SF... no our China town or any Chinatown around the world feels like China. It feels like the back streets of Hong Kong.
Many San Francisco Chinatown residents are the proud carriers of the values, wisdom, tradition and way of life from South China. They are also proud Americans.
Having been to SF over the decades. CT in SF is unique. It's like going back 100 years to China, food wise. The food hadn't evolved whereas the whole Chinese community in the world, has. I even heard that there are old Chinese there who hadn't learnt English. Talk about living in the past. I have been to many cities in China too and live in HK.
Ouch! $42 for basically appetizers and soup! If you order main dishes (usually run $18 to over $20 now), it would cost close to $100 for two (not including tips).
I am really glad to watch your videos which are really fantastic and also these ones from the Usa are truly nice. Thank you very much for sharing this Chinese atmosphere from a Western country.
@@matthewn9417 Actually the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 had not been rescinded but passed into defunct by the passing of the Civil Rights Act 1964. I was astonished to learn of it. Must watch documentary by PBS American Experience, "The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882." It is so sad and insightful to think a group of human beings can exact such treatment on another. It was at the same time of the emancipation of the slaves from Africa as the Civil War was fought circa 1862.
@@matthewn9417 Actually the slaughter of the Chinese in San Francisco Chinatown marked the beginning of the pogrom to introduce the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882.
Flushing has always been Cantonese to me, but it's been a while, and from what I've heard, there's a been a large wave of Taiwanese migration there, so I guess you'd hear more Mandarin. Of course there's also a ton of Korean there too.
Welcome to NorCal!! Hope you guys have a enjoyable time here! I have lived across the Bay from SF for so long but hardly have a chance to visit Chinatown as often as I liked.
Petting session is specific to that team of lion dance in SF Chinatown targeted towards tourists. Real lion dance performances do not have petting session whatsoever. Lion dance is associated to martial arts and acrobatic prowess, and there is an annual competition where teams all over the world compete. The best teams usually comes from Malaysia and Singapore. Regular performances are held mostly during Chinese New Year and at certain type of funerals (e. g. a VIP who died from natural cause). Customs vary.
There was a petting session at the one I saw in Guangdong too , and some people were feeding the lions red envelopes. I guess there are different types of these dances
Fat Choy was pretty popular before especially for new year and vegetarian cuisine. I read china banned it in the market because harvesting them is very damaging to the environment. Personally I don’t think the food is that tasty in SF Chinatown in general but it depends on the restaurant. Unfortunately Chinatown was not created to spread culture. The Chinatowns we know today are really the consequence of the Chinese exclusion laws which created the conditions, between racism and the law itself, for segregated, isolated Chinatowns. Chinese were forced to stay inside these areas. It eventually becomes a safe haven to provide support for new immigrants after US lifted the exclusion act in 1965.
Are you willing to give up your life in America and go back to China? you are not willing! When the motherland is in trouble, your ancestors fled directly. You don’t know that the Chinese government has a special regulation for overseas Chinese from all countries in the world, and you can go through the naturalization procedures very simply, but you don’t know that
@@江润儿 I was not born in China. I don't even speak Chinese well. But Zhuhai would be a possibility if I want to retire in China. This is something to look into after the covid pandemic is over. Right now it is just not the best time to travel with all the virus and geopolitics. There are no free lunches in the US and there are a lot discrimination and bias here. I know many people still think the moon is bigger in the west. But it is not. My situation is different than most people. I can actually live either side without any issue except my health coverage is in the US.
Surprised you haven't seen hair fungi before which is eaten in new year due to its name sounding like making fortune/money. It usually goes with dry oyster in oyster sauce gravy. As for the spring onion pancake, think there is a small oily crispy version that is a bit like that but not with a sauce nor as big as that though. As for lion dance, think the story was that some Persian trying to explain to the emperor what a lion looked like and came up with the lion costume.
@@haoyue2935 So that's why she hasn't seen it in China! Over harvesting resulted in desertification in Mongolian steppes lol! I hope someone smart & able to grow it in farms etc
I agreed with you about the food thing. If you go to bangkok, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore you can order same name of dish but you will get different taste and style. Food fusions.
Hi.. You may not have seen some of that stuff in China cause I believe you haven't really lived in the south? Many of those items (like the black hair thing) are common.
Every Chinetown have is unique feature. Flushing is more modern, it is previously Korean town but tookover by Chinese after 911. The NYC Chinatown is less like a Chinatown, but still have some unique like the LuckStar bus from NYC to Boston. Boston Chinatown also have some funny story. It used to be mainly Taiwanness, but since the "invasion" of ppl from Mainland, it is now mainly ppl from South China, and one of the famous resturant is outside of Chinatown. But the Taiwan flag is still there.
Please not so loud as it is bad enough the Disunited States is talking about the invasion of Taiwan 🇹🇼 by the PRC. You now talk about mainlanders invading the suburb of the Disunited States 😂😂😂😂
Manhattan Chinatown is definitely a Chinatown, it's just that Noveau Riche mainland Chinese often look down on it since it doesn't look like the newer cities in inner China
I grew up in a poor family in Los Angeles and Chinese food saved us. For just a few dollars, we could get a huge plate of delicious and nutritious food. And it had vegetables! Which American fast food didn't. Also, a fun phenomenon happening now in San Francisco and the rest of Silicon Valley is the influx of Chinese grandparents who moved to care for their grandchildren while their children work for big tech companies. Every morning in Mountain View, you will see Chinese grandparents at the park pushing their grandchildren in strollers.
Oversea Chinese experience this "Time Capsule" effect. There used to be "Fa Choi" in a lot of Hong Kong dishes when I was a kid but I have never had it since I repatriated 10 years ago. Restaurants in Hong Kong used to have sculptures of dragon and phoenix but they got rid of them and modernised with LCD screens but some Chinese restaurants in US and UK still have them. It's like some Chinese migrated 20 years ago, brought what's popular at the time with them while people in China have moved on. My parents sounds weird sometimes because they use words from the 70s that no one in Hong Kong use anymore.
I think the Chinatown in San Francisco does feel like China, you and Eliza are willing to explore there, amiss Katherine. Is it where 2017 version of Ghostbusters took place?
Aunty, I am glad that you enjoyed your visit. San Francisco Chinatown is a unique and distinct subculture. With roots in The Barbary Coast during The Gold Rush Era. We've been her for close to 200 years. Some of us, are the spawn and seed of those early immigrants. Our history is detailed at The Chinese Cemetery, where the dates on the headstones tell our tale. The restaurants where the locals eat, which tourists don't wander into, serve pork chops and spaghetti, alongside the potstickers, and no fortune cookie.
I read that USA didn't have the capability to build a new bridge for San Francisco, so they hire the Chinese to build it 😂😂😂 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂 Good luck with Build Back Better
Very well done, great content and editing. Grew up near visiting Sf Chinatown many times a year you captured much of the hidden culture and unique cuisine there. Shout out to Sifu Patrick and John now overseeing the famous Cathay House in Chinatown, great venue to visit or rent for events.
刚查了一下，舞狮的“狮”并非真的是狮子，因为东亚地区并不是狮子的栖息地。这里的“狮”，是貔貅，一种瑞兽，类似于龙、凤、麒麟之类表达驱邪、祥瑞之意。 Just checked online, the Lion Dance's Lion isn't literal "Lion", because East Asia isn't the habitat of lions. The "Lion" here mainly refers to "Pi2 Xiu1", which is a "Creature of Luck" in Chinese culture, similar to the Chinese Dragon, Chinese Phoenix or Kirin.
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The earliest Chinese to settle in San Francisco were mostly Cantonese and Fujian people since the Gold Rush period. This is why the Chinese call it the Old Golden Mountain. The culture there more related to Caton.
发菜采摘会影响土地环境，现在中国国内已经禁止采摘和买卖了。
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🇺🇸 wei..... do you even remember him? Has he moved on ? Did you bike to SF from east coast?
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It's not only that the subject is interesting, but both the voice over and editing is so well made. Must be a lot of hard work going in to making such great videos.
I know, right! I am from China and I majored in English, and I saw the subs where it translated 'a trade-off' to '各有各的好‘, I was laughing out loud. that's some seriously good, funny, and pinpoint translation! and you just get the sense of how good quality these vids are!
As a flight attendant I regularly visit San Francisco and China town is one place I go to almost every time. There is a Chinese cake shop where I can get traditional Chinese cakes and Hong Kong style cakes and they are quite authentic and delicious. The park in the video I’ve been to a few times before and one time was during Chinese New Year. As far as I know Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco is one of the oldest & biggest in the whole of US. Great episode…
The first time I have ever eaten Dimsum breakfast is in San Francisco when I had been studying there. I'm a third generation Myanmar-Chinese and our daily food is Yunnanese style cuisine. Our breakfast is pretty much like Vietnamese style breakfast Pho noodle with a little bit varietion ( for example, no bean sprouts )
Fun facts: Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco Chinatown's the Jackson Street Hospital on November 27, 1940 in the year of Dragon.
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@@directxxxx71 I hope you know what it means. That's to me the best and deepest greeting on planet earth. By the way, I don't have a single drop of Myanmar blood in me but I know the country well.
Bruce Lee was born in Seattle not San Francisco
@@sallyho146 Chinese Hospital will disagree with you.
Thank you for the great video of SF Chinatown. I forwarded this video to the owner of the grocery store-like you visited and he was ecstatic. Thank you.
Bless you for sneaking in a lovely China-related video while in the US. A slight pity you couldn’t unleash your mastery of Chinese on the locals! :D
Cantonese land in most of China towns from San Diego to Vancouver.
Unleash her Mandarin? Is Mandarin a weapon of mass communication or destruction? Pray tell.
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@@hangtuah888 What's meant here is that this bitch, soft as she is in her own country, should unleash that patent "free world" bravado on the Chinese. Unfortunately for her, in reality, we would've thought that there's sum thing won with her attempt at Chinese, otherwise known as chiang chang americant. Yes, you may correct the intentional typo as you recite the above out loud lol
Hi Katherine, I loved your video I'm from Philly but I lived and worked in China with my band many times for many years in 6 different cities. I love China, I sing in Chinese and, love the culture there please continue to make wonderful videos all the best to you God bless. Hope to see you someday around the world I'm in Dubai now but I'll travel later next year.
there is a Chinatown in Philly, Race Street and surrounding areas. i had a summer and part-time job there when i was in school long ago.
@@willengel2458 Yes there is one there but not so big and very different . Did you enjoy your time working there?
@@remixnation6272 i got the job through a friend i met in the Bahamas. Bahamas was my third home. of course, i enjoyed my time in Philly. 😁😁
@@willengel2458 Sounds great!! all the best to you take care thanks for your message.
Hope your audience understood your singing, mine cleared off. Since then I am hired by entities who want any crowded places cleared.
Super interesting to see how you found the sounds and activities of the people in the parks to be most similar to China! Keeping the culture alive
Thank you for sharing another interesting trip of yours Katherine. Very few people have the spirit and strengths in different aspects as you to have travelled from east to the west in two big countries such as China and the U.S. Besides, as I watched I thought to myself, wait a minute, you are truly one of the so few in this world who is actually capable of teaching so many people, both in China and in the U.S., a lot. Really a lot, not only do you speak, read, and write better, clear, and accurate Chinese and English than many people in those two countries, you have accumulated so much knowledge and experiences than most people in those two countries about their own countries where they are borne and raised too! You can tell what are common or more authentic in those cultures and know much more about many different cultural aspects in those two countries too. You know and genuinely have experienced so much more than most people in those countries. Wonder if anyone recognized you in San Fran Chinatown due to your travelling?
Again, thank you. You are a lucky star and people who know you in person are lucky too.
Best Wishes from Queensland Katherine. Love your vids-Go safe.
很客观公正的介绍，喜欢这样的有内涵的介绍
Thanks a bundle for sharing more great content and experiences! And for leaving no Rosetta Stone unturned!
Enjoyed the lion dances. They're very unique looking lions aren't they?
It could be worse, Sydney had 5 lions escaped from the zoo, and they could have ended up in the San Francisco Chinatown.
@@hangtuah888, the High Five have already booked their flights.
@@yinhoukhor7109 I hope they have the green code to enter San Francisco Chinatown.😂😂😂
it's like pizzas in the US are different than pizzas in Italy. Tacos in the US are also different from tacos in Mexico. And the Vietnamese "pho" soup in the US is also different from the pho in Vietnam. I think this can be said of many immigrant cultures too, the foods and cuisines tend to change as they are migrated away from the origin countries.
I was in Vietnam last month and it was so difficult to find the traditional Banh Mi I was familiar with from the 90s. They all want to add different ingredients now.
Someone once said (which I agree), China towns are like a slice of Chinese history with little change. But the China that it came from has changed very much resulting a strange mismatch.
Looks like style of china deep south. Quite different to mainstream of China culture.
Not 100% true though, even in the old school Chinatowns like the one in Manhattan there are plenty of modern style businesses like hot pot and bubble tea
发菜（fa4cai4) grows in Qinghai and Inner Mongolia. It sounds like 发财（fa1cai2）in Cantonese, so it is very popular in Guangdong as a fortune gift for the Chinese New Year or opening of new business. However these “vegi-like” fungus is hard to get and harvesting them is extremely environment-damaging.
The harvest and sale of facai have been banned in China since 2000. Rich people with power and connections probably still get it for their private banquets, but you wouldn't see it elsewhere very much at all inside China.
对对对，反正广东人都知道发菜
@@merdufer banned, huh, makes sense I guess. for the environment.
@@merdufer Thanks for the info. So how do the merchants here get their supplies. Are they imitations or contraband?
I'm in the US and I can find it at my local asian supermarkets. had no idea it was that hard to get
Nice to see you again sis, God bless your journey.
Highly refreshing that the Cantonese gent @ 9:25 asked Katherine where she hails from; usually it is the inverse.
Always interesting to see someone check out how "authentic" those towns are.
Hi K, great overview of SF. Can you give an quick update of what's going on with your other half in China? We kinda miss his mug. Hopefully, he got his tooth fixed. Lol.
I use to go to SF Chinatown all the time when I was living in the US back in 1989 to 2004. Most of the places you shown are familiar to me and still look the same. Some memory.
Also, you would have to pay 15% additional service charge/tip for eating at restaurant at US.
If I am not wrong, the early Chinese settlers in San Francisco came predominantly from Guangdong with a large majority from the county of Taishan. The Taishanese dialect is related to the Cantonese dialect and hence, it is not surprising the Chinese cuisine in SF has a Cantonese orientation. The more recent Chinese immigration are from places like Taiwan, Sichuan, etc and they bring other types of Chinese cuisine to the SF bay area. In particular with the influx of Chinese nationals studying in places like Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc, the SF bay area (aka Silicon Valley) is a great place to sample Chinese cuisine from all over China.
I suppose after the British took over Hong Kong, early adventurers from Toishan got there to lead ways from Toishanese to migrate around the world. 50 years ago, when I landed in US from SE Asia, I could use Toishanese in SF, NYC, and other US towns. Likewise, I could get my way around Toronto. On a Google search, I am surprised to learn that there are more Toishanese overseas than in the Toishan county in China.
2012 when 1st time to San Francisco, Oakland, all of them are cantonese and most of them not looks like Chinese. I don’t understand them and they are not happy , everyone has no smiles On the faces. Very different from Chinese in Beijing. Right now more and more Sichuan, northern China food in San Francisco Bay Area . Including hot pot , milk tea , which not existed in 2012
You are correct.
@@weizhang2834 There's boba milk tea next to Cisco in Milpitas at least by 2002. Even my Indian coworker drank it because Indians have the tradition of drinking milk tea (chai). But you may be right in that it's more common today in the bay area.
Taishanese here 😊
Thank you for doing such excellent work and promoting better understanding of the Chinese in the U.S. I am surprised that you never came across 髪菜 in China. It's one of many ingredients that go into Bhudda's Feast (羅漢齋). Chinatowns all over U.S. are fading or spreading out as Chinese immigrants' children grow up and move out to the suburbs. There's a Chinatown of sorts across the Bay in Richmond, and one down in San Jose (like Flushing is to Manhattan's Chinatown). Boston's Chinatown is shrinking but Chinese centers are springing up in Quincy (mainly Cantonese) and Lexington or Newton (Taiwanese and Mainlanders). Lion dancing is fading a little too, in quality if not quantity. It had been performed by those who practice martial arts. I did it back when I had a lot more hair on my head (and all of it was black). It's hard to get kids to put in that much work, not to mention enduting the pain. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing your future videos.
发菜以前小时候在广东一般过年过节才做，在广东以外的省份我甚至也没有见过。最近十几年年因为环境保护的关系已经把发菜列入一级保护植物。
@@achiwong4020 I heard about the protected status but I've been able to buy them in recent years.
There are probably some immitation 髮菜, the real thing is apparently some endangered plant in the deserts of Northwestern China...
I personally don't recall eating them in Hong Kong in recent years (I do recall the immitation variety, which tastes slightly different). Much more common when I was younger ~30 years ago.
@@sydneyfong A couple of decades ago, I was told that its was a moss that held desert sands together like plant roots conserve soil. Then people dug them up enmasse contributing to dust storms in northern China not to mention endangering the species. Like I said, I've been able to buy them in small quantities in recent years. I'll examine it and see if it's "imitation."
@@ernestwoo8243 现在市面上能见到都是人工在海里养殖的海发菜。以前看到那些都是沙漠里采摘的。
The hair vegetable (Fa Cai) is very popular in southern China. I guess not so much in the north. Fa Cai has a similar pronunciation to 发财, which means making a fortune. Fa Cai is used in a dish 蚝豉发菜 (dried oyster with hair vegetable), which sounds like 好事发财 (good fortune). So, this dish is popular among southern Chinese families during Chinese New Year.
Surprisingly, though mostly enjoyed in South China, this vegetable (Nostoc flagelliforme) is a type of cyanobacteria growing in the Gobi Desert to the very far north. Problem is, this species can't be farmed efficiently, and its wild habitat is threatened (itself likely being the only vegetation of the habitats and if harvested, the whole place would become a desolate desert), so national laws now (since 2000) forbid harvesting of Nostoc flagelliforme from the North, and that's why it is now rarely seen in markets within China. Katherine could ask the shop owners in San Francisco about the source of their Nostoc flagelliforme to investigate, for the sake of our earth.
I'm a foreigner who's been living in China for six years (in the northeast and Beijing). I'd never heard of or seen this vegetable until now. lol I also learned recently that 年糕 is called that because it's eaten at Chinese New Year, but again, never saw it at New Year up here. haha China's such a hugely diverse place. I learn things every day.
It's illegal to eat in China already. It used to be one of my favor dish when I was a kid.
Not that popular anymore as it was forbidden and illegal to eat.
Such a great channel. I love Chinese and Asian grocery stores. They have so many delicious ingredients and the prices are really amazingly cheap. Dried mushrooms? Yes, please!
Thank you for having this in-depth comparison, especially the "real" Chinese food with what we call them Chinese food everyday in Chinatown. Still catching up your previous videos, they are very enjoyable. 👍
Have you been eating fake Chinese food?😂😂😂
@@hangtuah888 Most Chinese food in the US is Chinese-American food. So I wouldn’t call it “fake” entirely.
When my Chinese colleagues went to SF Chinatown they thought it was only focused on the 'Old' China, and not modern China. Love all your travel videos in China, btw!!
Actually the vast majority of persons living IN the San Francisco Chinatown as well as those residing throughout San Francisco are overwhelmingly from the Sze Yap/Siyi region of Taishan AND ESPECIALLY are of overwhelmingly of rural descent of the Sze Yap/Siyi regions and are thus not from urban areas and only became "urbanized" upon their arrival to the United States BUT they kept their "rural culture" and ."rural characteristics".
Also very importantly, the vast majority of the Sze Yap/Siyi Chinese migrated to the United States during the 1970s and 1980s *well before the "modernization", and especially, the mass urbanization in China commenced in China.*
It's for the above reasons that the Chinese in the "chinatowns" in San Francisco and New York City and Toronto and Vancouver tend to be "old school" Chinese.
On the opposite side, the "suburban Chinese commercial districts" in the towns of the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley and the San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles and the suburban Chinese residents that those districts cater to are persons from initially Taiwan and HongKong and then persons from China who arrived in North America as students and highly educated urbanized Chinese who migrated to North America AFTER China's "economic take off and urbanization".
It's in those "suburban Chinatowns" that you find the more "modern" "chinatowns".
From what is shown in this video, you are actually right and Katherine is actually wrong. You can't blame her thought as she has no experience with real Chinese culture, all she experienced is the pseudo Chinese culture she experienced in Communist China. Just saying this as a Singaporean Chinese who has visited Taiwanese cities and villages back in the 90s in close proximity to Taiwanese disguised as Taiwanese troops on our military exercise unsuccessfully due to Malays and Indians in our midst. You want real Chinese culture... come to Singapore or Taiwan... What you get in the PRC is soviet culture.
@@mikethm1974 Sounds like some Japanese opinions that mainland China had lost 'real Chinese culture' since Yuan Dynasty but Japan has kept it. Please keep being proud of your 'real' Chinese culture.🤣
Noveau Riche mainland Chinese say this but apparently SF Chinatown and Manhattan Chinatown are kind of like Hong Kong and Guangdong
@@mikethm1974 sb
Love your channel. Great content. Keep up the good work. Thank you!
The fa cai is actually cooked with vegies for chinese new year. I think it is said to signify prosperity or something.
After cooked it is something like strips of rice noodles but black.
I think it is more of a hong kong thing.
I grew up in a Cantonese family in Shanghai. I recalled every Chinese New Year, the “hair” vegetable was a must have component in a new year dinner dish because the sound “pha” is similar to the Chinese character 發 which means prosperity. I think this it’s a Southerners’ thing in China.😊
This was my thinking. Although this vlogger has lived in 4 cities in China, she maybe does not have so much experience with Hong Kong Cantonese tradition, which is very different than Mandarin culture. This is why it is important for Hong Kong to maintain its cultural identity and not become just an island with more mainland culture.
@@gregalee hey this vegetable isn’t just for Hong Kong, it’s for the entire Guangdong or Canton province, however it’s called in English. My grandparents were from Zhongshan中山，not Hong Kong; therefore it isn’t just your culture; it’s my cultural heritage too, the cultural heritage of the entire Cantonese province.
@@rhena229 That's fair! And to be perfectly honest, I'm a Scotts-Irish-English-Austrian from Detroit! My last name is the English 'Lee'! I was just making a guess based on San Francisco's Chinatown having a very large Cantonese, especially Hong Kong influence. Thank you for increasing my knowledge today.
@@gregalee Prejudice, prejudice and prejudice
I have lived in both Nanjing and Shanghai, and I have never heard of Fa cai. When I went to Yinchuan, Ningxia for business, I bought it in a local store. It is a local vegetable.
What a wealth of real information you provide about places. Also a wealth of info in the comments from your fans. Well done.
Excellent work, Katherine! That's what I expect to watch. I am looking forwards to more CA videos. Are you going to explore LA, silicon valley or those reputable universities?
In Guangzhou whenever a shop is opened there is a lion dance. Or you can go to Foshan and near the IP man area they have very impressive daily shows
Katherine is 99.9 correct. She's honest. Great channel. Great content. Great host. So professional and factual!!! Thank you Katherine and family! Love you!
Interesting! Pretty much the same here (Manchester, UK), mostly South East Chinese influence and culture too, except it's much smaller. And we don't have a large Chinese population either. Have fun!
The most accurate and knowledgeable introduction of China town in US I had seen. Excellent content.
This is the video I was really hoping you would make. Comparing China food with American "Chinese" food. Btw, really love those scenes of SF Chinatown. I've been to different parts of China and as you mentioned, the cuisine is so diverse. Still can't decide if I like the various types of dumplings in Xi-an or the hot pot soups up north in Harbin better. There were dishes I enjoyed in all the parts of China I've visited.
Despite my love for the many types of food in China... I still have a guilty pleasure for American "Chinese" food. May not be fully authentic and (as you said) replicates only one region style of cooking in China. Yet, the dishes can still taste great if you pick the right restaurant. And I can never get tired of good old "orange chicken" and "chow fun noodles" with a fun "fortune cookie" every now and then. 😊
What about orange duck aka the Donald? He still thinks he won the election.😂😂😂
@@hangtuah888 Took me a little while to catch your meaning... but yeah kind of funny! 😄
Thanks for sharing. Lovely video.
Interesting comparison - and crazy prices for food there! The Chinese food in Sydney's Chinatown is a bit closer to the real thing, possibly because there are huge numbers of Chinese students here and recent migrants who expect the same as in China.
Is my understanding of the lingua franca deteriorating? How come so many people are eating fake Chinese food? Is fake Chinese food like the virus, very infectious? Maybe one should use a mask when eating it.
非常喜欢阳离子！希望美国和中国增进交流，相互了解，共同得益于彼此的发展。
One of the quotes supposedly spoken by Mark Twain but it is not, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." In the summer, it can get pretty cold. I missed SFO and reminisced that I ate a whole large bowl of "rice soup" (porridge) at a Teochew Restaurant in Chinatown whilst my 2 colleagues could not finish one bowl. In the end, I also cleaned their bowl. SFO Chinatown like all Chinatown in the US has a sad history to its existence. It is more like a ghetto for the early Chinese immigrants.
It ws attacked during the period leading up to the introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882. Many Chinese were killed. To many outsiders and the westerners, it might be a ghetto but in reality it was a place of safe haven where strength is derived from being together and unity as well as numbers provided the needed protection from being abused and picked on.
Interesting that he was specific about the restaurant (Teochew) . An "Ang Mo" speaking the Teochew dialect ( 8 tones - likely the oldest and hardest to learn)... ruclips.net/video/5o0-g0ZCr9g/видео.html
@@LLL-hh5el Who cares what the others think as it was the first attack on the Chinese prior to the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882. So sad as some lost their lives defending their rights.
Hello, Katherine! a new subscriber here, & getting hooked watching all your amazing videos you've got here. AWESOME!
When I first time visited NYC Chinatown in early 90s, I thought people there stayed in "民国" (40-50s) time. A few years later I realized that my brain about China stayed in the late 80s. Thanks to the internet as well as the people like you and your reports, now we know the China and the world well.
Hi Katherine, I admire you! - It's unbelievable that you have the courage to live in different regions of the world and are open to try foreign things, things that may be odd to Americans. You probably been to more places in China than a lot of Chinese. Keep it up!!
If you believe China is a peaceful and progressive country, raise your hand 🙋🏻♂️✋👍
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You are simply awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for introducing your cousin Eliza. She is so gorgeous looking. Please feature more of her in your videos which will attract more subscribers to your channel
Her face reminds me of Zoe, the foreign tour guide in DPRK (north Korea). I thought it's her at a first glance😅
Are you trying to turn this channel into a Tinder like application? Application fee do apply.
@@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435 Zoey is still showing tourists at the demilitarised zone at Panmujon when I last saw her.
wow, nobody mentioned the last minute of the video! Your cousin is awesome.
The fat choy (lit hair vegetable) isn't a vegetable as such, but a kind of bacteria! Although it comes from the north Qinghai/Gobi desert it is more common in southern Chinese vegetarian cuisine!
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the thing about China is that it is just changing so fast. SF Chinatown is a mixture of modern China and 1990 HK and that's why it feels like a five footed elephant.
I go to China all the time, and luve in SF... no our China town or any Chinatown around the world feels like China. It feels like the back streets of Hong Kong.
Many San Francisco Chinatown residents are the proud carriers of the values, wisdom, tradition and way of life from South China. They are also proud Americans.
Having been to SF over the decades. CT in SF is unique. It's like going back 100 years to China, food wise. The food hadn't evolved whereas the whole Chinese community in the world, has. I even heard that there are old Chinese there who hadn't learnt English. Talk about living in the past. I have been to many cities in China too and live in HK.
谁说的几十年中国食物没变？河北的安徽板面，新疆的大盘鸡。东北麻辣烫！改革开放几十年人口流动其实各地菜系发生很大变化了！当然汉堡和披萨在西方国家通用的快餐在中国还是小吃！🤔
上面的comment, 就是說中國國內的食物都有改變，反而在美國唐人街的食物，一路都沒有甚麼改變。
@@freefree1219 国内最流行的还是川湘菜！都打到粤菜和苏菜老家了！把本地口味都改变了！北方情况稍微好点！在国外粤菜能流行，在国内就是不行。自己不行还不改变，天天吐槽川菜不健康，但是自己吃的比谁都得劲！无语！我是北方人！那么多年从没见过一个粤菜馆。广东人迷的自信真他妈受不了！快手抖音粤菜吹很多，但是平常就看不到粤菜！
Ouch! $42 for basically appetizers and soup! If you order main dishes (usually run $18 to over $20 now), it would cost close to $100 for two (not including tips).
I am really glad to watch your videos which are really fantastic and also these ones from the Usa are truly nice. Thank you very much for sharing this Chinese atmosphere from a Western country.
Wow! Kat, a very interesting and refreshing video. It's a wonderful world when lives and cultures can be imported and established on a foreign land.
Just don't mention the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, 👌👌👌?
@@hangtuah888 Haha, point taken. Do they still put up those signages in parks that say "Dogs and Chinese not allowed" ?!
@@matthewn9417 Actually the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 had not been rescinded but passed into defunct by the passing of the Civil Rights Act 1964. I was astonished to learn of it. Must watch documentary by PBS American Experience, "The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882." It is so sad and insightful to think a group of human beings can exact such treatment on another. It was at the same time of the emancipation of the slaves from Africa as the Civil War was fought circa 1862.
@@matthewn9417 Actually the slaughter of the Chinese in San Francisco Chinatown marked the beginning of the pogrom to introduce the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882.
@@hangtuah888 your last post was censored by YT but noted: “slaughter in S.F.C.town marked beginning of pogrom to introduce C.E.A.1882”.
Flushing has always been Cantonese to me, but it's been a while, and from what I've heard, there's a been a large wave of Taiwanese migration there, so I guess you'd hear more Mandarin. Of course there's also a ton of Korean there too.
Did not know Koreans are sold in ton? What about Japanese, can you buy them in kilograms?🤣🤣🤣
@@hangtuah888 It's a very common saying for "a lot"
Welcome to NorCal!! Hope you guys have a enjoyable time here! I have lived across the Bay from SF for so long but hardly have a chance to visit Chinatown as often as I liked.
Petting session is specific to that team of lion dance in SF Chinatown targeted towards tourists. Real lion dance performances do not have petting session whatsoever. Lion dance is associated to martial arts and acrobatic prowess, and there is an annual competition where teams all over the world compete. The best teams usually comes from Malaysia and Singapore. Regular performances are held mostly during Chinese New Year and at certain type of funerals (e. g. a VIP who died from natural cause). Customs vary.
There was a petting session at the one I saw in Guangdong too , and some people were feeding the lions red envelopes. I guess there are different types of these dances
My friend tried the petting at the local zoo with the lions. Needless to say he is minus his hand 🖐. Now you tell us.
That little purple lion is adorable. They actually remind me more of my Shih Tzus then actual lions 😜
Fat Choy was pretty popular before especially for new year and vegetarian cuisine. I read china banned it in the market because harvesting them is very damaging to the environment. Personally I don’t think the food is that tasty in SF Chinatown in general but it depends on the restaurant. Unfortunately Chinatown was not created to spread culture.
The Chinatowns we know today are really the consequence of the Chinese exclusion laws which created the conditions, between racism and the law itself, for segregated, isolated Chinatowns. Chinese were forced to stay inside these areas. It eventually becomes a safe haven to provide support for new immigrants after US lifted the exclusion act in 1965.
Are you willing to give up your life in America and go back to China? you are not willing! When the motherland is in trouble, your ancestors fled directly. You don’t know that the Chinese government has a special regulation for overseas Chinese from all countries in the world, and you can go through the naturalization procedures very simply, but you don’t know that
@@江润儿 I was not born in China. I don't even speak Chinese well. But Zhuhai would be a possibility if I want to retire in China. This is something to look into after the covid pandemic is over. Right now it is just not the best time to travel with all the virus and geopolitics.
There are no free lunches in the US and there are a lot discrimination and bias here. I know many people still think the moon is bigger in the west. But it is not. My situation is different than most people. I can actually live either side without any issue except my health coverage is in the US.
Awesome video! Didn't know you loved in Chengdu which is my hometown. Now living in New Zealand.
Surprised you haven't seen hair fungi before which is eaten in new year due to its name sounding like making fortune/money. It usually goes with dry oyster in oyster sauce gravy.
As for the spring onion pancake, think there is a small oily crispy version that is a bit like that but not with a sauce nor as big as that though.
As for lion dance, think the story was that some Persian trying to explain to the emperor what a lion looked like and came up with the lion costume.
采摘发菜会破坏土地环境（水土流失，沙化），所以中国禁止采摘和买卖了。
@@haoyue2935 So that's why she hasn't seen it in China! Over harvesting resulted in desertification in Mongolian steppes lol! I hope someone smart & able to grow it in farms etc
I agreed with you about the food thing. If you go to bangkok, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore you can order same name of dish but you will get different taste and style. Food fusions.
表姐人不错 多多邀请表姐参与😃
表妹看到你留言會大哭.人家明明一臉稚氣.視頻開頭也說了是表妹.....
@@風林火山-l7k 😂不好意思 看错了，哈哈哈 表妹 表妹~
阳离子 这期不错，不过 舞狮 分为 北狮 和 南狮，并不是 只有广东有，过年，重大节日，或者 店铺开业，结婚等大事件也会舞狮。
Hi.. You may not have seen some of that stuff in China cause I believe you haven't really lived in the south? Many of those items (like the black hair thing) are common.
First time here. That Black Hair is used in Chinese New Year dishes as well as in vegetarian Lo Han Chai.
Great program. but If you have not lived in China's countryside (rural area) for some years, you cannot say you know China.
中国是个多元的国家，光靠农村也并不能真正了解中国，还是要多走多看，然后再选择一个地方长期呆着才行.虽然农村的确占了中国文化的绝大部分.
Your channel is the only information I trust implicitly for news of the world my wood cabin
Every Chinetown have is unique feature.
Flushing is more modern, it is previously Korean town but tookover by Chinese after 911. The NYC Chinatown is less like a Chinatown, but still have some unique like the LuckStar bus from NYC to Boston.
Boston Chinatown also have some funny story. It used to be mainly Taiwanness, but since the "invasion" of ppl from Mainland, it is now mainly ppl from South China, and one of the famous resturant is outside of Chinatown. But the Taiwan flag is still there.
It’s the flag republic of China before 1949. No Taiwan flag !
Please not so loud as it is bad enough the Disunited States is talking about the invasion of Taiwan 🇹🇼 by the PRC. You now talk about mainlanders invading the suburb of the Disunited States 😂😂😂😂
sorce：trust me！
Manhattan Chinatown is definitely a Chinatown, it's just that Noveau Riche mainland Chinese often look down on it since it doesn't look like the newer cities in inner China
Welcome back, 凯瑟琳小姐！
I grew up in a poor family in Los Angeles and Chinese food saved us. For just a few dollars, we could get a huge plate of delicious and nutritious food. And it had vegetables! Which American fast food didn't.
Also, a fun phenomenon happening now in San Francisco and the rest of Silicon Valley is the influx of Chinese grandparents who moved to care for their grandchildren while their children work for big tech companies. Every morning in Mountain View, you will see Chinese grandparents at the park pushing their grandchildren in strollers.
yes,Chinese always live together,not like western people😂
Thank you for sharing this information
12:47 Eliza来南京的话鸭子管够😊
Oversea Chinese experience this "Time Capsule" effect.
There used to be "Fa Choi" in a lot of Hong Kong dishes when I was a kid but I have never had it since I repatriated 10 years ago.
Restaurants in Hong Kong used to have sculptures of dragon and phoenix but they got rid of them and modernised with LCD screens but some Chinese restaurants in US and UK still have them.
It's like some Chinese migrated 20 years ago, brought what's popular at the time with them while people in China have moved on.
My parents sounds weird sometimes because they use words from the 70s that no one in Hong Kong use anymore.
I think the Chinatown in San Francisco does feel like China, you and Eliza are willing to explore there, amiss Katherine.
Is it where 2017 version of Ghostbusters took place?
Did they cleared out the ghosts? Wouldn't want to run into ghosts when I visit next.
Thank you that was very nice. I hope you enjoyed your stay in San Francisco. Best to you Dave from Sebastopol just up the street.
When are you planning to return to China?
I just got back to china, but I am verrrry behind on editing so probably no china videos coming until December 🤣
Glad to hear your back Kat! How was the quarantine?
It was alright , but the food situation was annoying Lol
@@kats_journey_east looking forward to your video in Dec
Aunty, I am glad that you enjoyed your visit. San Francisco Chinatown is a unique and distinct subculture. With roots in The Barbary Coast during The Gold Rush Era. We've been her for close to 200 years. Some of us, are the spawn and seed of those early immigrants. Our history is detailed at The Chinese Cemetery, where the dates on the headstones tell our tale. The restaurants where the locals eat, which tourists don't wander into, serve pork chops and spaghetti, alongside the potstickers, and no fortune cookie.
I need to say--- Eliza is also very beautiful．．．
As a resident of SF from 2020-2022 (left three months ago), I found this video fascinating!
Where's the husband?
As a Chinese, watching your video still arouse my complex emotion towards our culture. Thank you 阳离子
I read that USA didn't have the capability to build a new bridge for San Francisco, so they hire the Chinese to build it 😂😂😂
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂
Good luck with Build Back Better
Yay, we are happy to see you got some travel in around the USA, and to California no less. We are looking forward to more California videos. Enjoy.
Sorry to disappoint but this is the only one 🤣🤣 I did lots of exploring with my cousin there but not much vlogging hahaha
@@kats_journey_east Even better. Too busy having fun for vlogging.
Fa Cai is a type of ediable moss and its usually used to cook with vegetables and eaten during CNY because it sounds like Fa Cai (make a fortune)
Facai is a must-have dish for the Cantonese New Year. Generally boiled with pig feet, meaning "get rich on hand(发财就手)".
Anticipating the mystery third country visit vlog just like Graham Greene novel, Katherine. Hoping soon!
Discovered your channel from Blondie's video!
Thank you for your wonderful video!
Now I know where to get good dim sum, yum yum.
Hope u will make more videos about restaurants.
Take care
Very unique and interesting perception. Very good video editing, as always
Wow You lived in so many places overseas 🍄🛳✈🛶🚂🦙🥳Yeah!
Very well done, great content and editing. Grew up near visiting Sf Chinatown many times a year you captured much of the hidden culture and unique cuisine there. Shout out to Sifu Patrick and John now overseeing the famous Cathay House in Chinatown, great venue to visit or rent for events.
Welcome to San Francisco. I am in the city and happened to follow your channel for a few months now.
Hi Kat I am Chinese and my wife look just like you and she also speaks perfect manderine.
There are also groups of old folks doing tai chi in Golden Gate Park.
刚查了一下，舞狮的“狮”并非真的是狮子，因为东亚地区并不是狮子的栖息地。这里的“狮”，是貔貅，一种瑞兽，类似于龙、凤、麒麟之类表达驱邪、祥瑞之意。
Just checked online, the Lion Dance's Lion isn't literal "Lion", because East Asia isn't the habitat of lions. The "Lion" here mainly refers to "Pi2 Xiu1", which is a "Creature of Luck" in Chinese culture, similar to the Chinese Dragon, Chinese Phoenix or Kirin.