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  • Опубликовано: 24 фев 2019
  • Bird's nest soup is a delicacy in Asia made from the dissolved nests of swiftlets, a small bird native to Southeast Asia. A bowl of bird's nest soup can cost more than $100 at some restaurants, due to growing demand and a limited number of wild birds. The soup is popular in China, where it's believed to have healing properties. We stopped by the Oriental Garden in NYC's Chinatown to taste it for ourselves.
    Following is a transcript of the video:
    Narrator: Bird nest soup. It's a gelatinous mixture, made from, you guessed it, bird nests. You can find it on the menu at certain Chinese restaurants like at Oriental Garden, here in New York City. But it'll cost you.
    Cici: For one person it costs $32.95, and for four people it costs $128.
    Abby: And that's normal pricing?
    Cici: Yeah, that's totally normal.
    Abby: Wow.
    Narrator: So, what makes it so expensive? People in China have been eating bird nests for more than a thousand years. It's believed to have near magical properties, from curing cancer to helping children grow taller.
    And the main ingredient? The partially dissolved nest of a swiftlet, a small bird native to Southeast Asia. Three times a year, swiftlets build nests out of their sticky saliva on cave walls and cliff sides, where they raise their young. It's the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird's nest soup so expensive.
    Here in New York City's Chinatown, for example, a couple dozen were selling for more than a thousand dollars.
    Until recently, the most common way of getting the nests was by harvesting them from the wild.
    Creighton: There are many dangers involved in harvesting nests from caves. They would climb up without really any safety nets or harnesses, that kind of thing, and just try and extract the nests from the cave wall, and they'd be, in some cases, many stories up.
    Narrator: But for many, the risk was worth the reward.
    Creighton: Harvesters would often try and collect as many nests as they could, regardless of whether they were fully formed, and they would just take them repeatedly.
    Narrator: In some regions, swiftlets couldn't compete with the rate of harvest, and so their populations plummeted. Between 1957 and 1997, the number of swiftlets declined by as much as 88% in parts of Southeast Asia, largely due to over-harvesting. And as a result, the price of bird's nests skyrocketed.
    Creighton: The price for bird nests, I would say, peaked in around the early 1990s.
    Narrator: Around that time, nests were selling for up to $1,000 a pound. Adjusting for inflation, that would be around $2,000 today. Those high prices earned bird nests the title "Caviar of the East."
    And they also fueled a new industry. You could call it hospitality.
    Scores of people across Southeast Asia looking to cash in on the bird nest trade started investing in swiftlet hotels.
    Creighton: People just found that if there was a vacant building or, say, the upper story of a building was uninhabited, then swiftlets would make their way inside, and they would start just using the buildings as their nesting sites. Then these rumors kind of emerged over time about how much money you could make swiftlet farming really overnight.
    Narrator: And they weren't just rumors. In Myanmar, for example, swiftlet hotels can bring in at least $6,000 a year, while the average annual income is just over $1,100. And the more swiftlets you draw in, the more money you make.
    George: According to locals, in order to successfully farm for the bird's nests, there are a few factors involved.
    Factor one: The locals believe that abundance is related to charity. The more charitable and kind they are to the community, the more the birds will come to build nests in their houses.
    Factor two: technology. To attract the swiftlets to build nests, the house keepers have to employ the right technology using speakers to continuously broadcast the correct frequency of the chirping swiftlets at the optimum volume.
    Factor three: they believe in showing care and concern to the swiftlets. They will be careful not to harvest the nests if there are eggs in the nests.
    Narrator: In the last few decades, the swiftlet farming industry has exploded. From 1998 to 2013, the estimated number of swiftlet hotels grew from 900 to 60,000 in Malaysia alone. But while this increased supply, it didn't exactly slash the price. That's because in the last couple of decades or so, demand has also increased.
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  • @wparo
    @wparo 5 лет назад +2204

    Basically the bird is spitting on your food

    • @PsyQoBoy
      @PsyQoBoy 3 года назад +59

      Actually the spit in the food.

    • @Andy_Hendrix_9842
      @Andy_Hendrix_9842 3 года назад +155

      *THE SPIT IS THE FOOD*

    • @jhanardhanan
      @jhanardhanan 3 года назад +17

      This is nothing
      Think if we ate excreta of animals (search for costly coffee)

    • @zoegeng4482
      @zoegeng4482 3 года назад +5

      but its good

    • @thetorocat
      @thetorocat 3 года назад +13

      Spit on me daddy bird hnngghh~

  • @KB-mp1mw
    @KB-mp1mw 5 лет назад +4153

    RUclips: why bird's-nest soup is so expensive
    Me: *why birds nest soup exists*

    • @jeebuscrust6173
      @jeebuscrust6173 4 года назад +146

      *China*

    • @krul2745
      @krul2745 4 года назад +250

      @@joejjj4378 Just because their food is different than yours doesn't make it weird. Don't be so ignorant.

    • @joejjj4378
      @joejjj4378 4 года назад +109

      @@krul2745 through that logic as long as someone out there eats something it can never be weird if a homeless man eats a bag full of heroin with ketchup it will not be weird its just different.
      you sir; are wrong, and are just pandering because you think its racist to say something is weird.

    • @lettuce1305
      @lettuce1305 4 года назад +162

      @@joejjj4378 oh come on all cultures are weird to a certain extent. if you really think about it cheese and caviar are weird too.

    • @jybong2219
      @jybong2219 4 года назад +15

      Because why not? 😉
      Actually yea, that thing is expensive as hell and it's just like jelly. 😐

  • @kairozartstudio
    @kairozartstudio 3 года назад +65

    One study found that bird's nest soup can cause a bend in the space-time continuum and reverse the flow of gravitational momentum.

  • @hanoianboy9562
    @hanoianboy9562 3 года назад +32

    So in Vietnam, we also have bird nest farms in the central coastal area. And the entire thing is made from bird spit, yes, but it doesn't taste disgusting at all. When I was really sick when I was small, she would take 1 nest from a box that somebody had given to us on vacation and boil the thing with crystal sugar, water, jujube and ginger. It is very waring and is supposed to have very amazing health properties. In Vietnam it is usually not that expensive. A box usually has 10 or a dozen of these nets and 30 dollars for that bowl of soup is enough to buy one box. It is not slimy or sticky at all and not similar to gelatin. Instead, it is very silky and soft but still has a bit of crunch. Probably many here hasn't tasted it yet, but it is quite unique. I feel bad for you guys that it is so expensive to eat.

    • @anikagh
      @anikagh 11 месяцев назад

      Nasty.

    • @hanoianboy9562
      @hanoianboy9562 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@anikagh yea ok

    • @anikagh
      @anikagh 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@hanoianboy9562 sure, eat a birds nest and any other endangered animal why don’t you

    • @hanoianboy9562
      @hanoianboy9562 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@anikagh they are FARMED

    • @anikagh
      @anikagh 11 месяцев назад

      @@hanoianboy9562 don’t think sharkfins and pengalins are farmed, silly

  • @MichaelRockfez
    @MichaelRockfez 5 лет назад +3684

    I still don’t get who went through the work of stealing a nest from a cave and turning it into soup.

    • @krystalphan8871
      @krystalphan8871 5 лет назад +201

      idk poverty?

    • @MegaBillX
      @MegaBillX 5 лет назад +17

      @@hp4p110 true man, so true.

    • @inkbold8511
      @inkbold8511 5 лет назад +33

      Who get the freaking idea first !?

    • @zhyllism2583
      @zhyllism2583 5 лет назад +136

      @@hp4p110 ok, its true that Asian people eat disgusting food, but its not ALL Asians eat disgusting foods. So I get it as pretty rude as an Asian myself.

    • @maxchen6525
      @maxchen6525 5 лет назад +15

      U would if you were poor and if it would sell for $100

  • @-1f
    @-1f 5 лет назад +1334

    Imagine a giant bird tearing your house apart then eating it.

    • @zygon2918
      @zygon2918 4 года назад +37

      Not giant or a bird but the chimpmonks in my house have been doing this year round execpt during winter

    • @shariff786rsa
      @shariff786rsa 3 года назад +8

      I love to see that. They eat almost every thing.

    • @tiggerisdumb
      @tiggerisdumb 3 года назад +2

      razack shariff abdul u crazy!

    • @Big_Chico
      @Big_Chico 3 года назад +2

      Lmao I love this comment

    • @brandoni.fernandez6059
      @brandoni.fernandez6059 3 года назад +5

      Well there's woodpeckers

  • @jojomakes
    @jojomakes 3 года назад +15

    0:19 “Long Time Birds Nest Soup Eater” What a description lol

  • @jesmarrex3006
    @jesmarrex3006 3 года назад +73

    I'm not gonna deny, but bird's nest soup is one of the best soups I've had.

    • @bugayden2287
      @bugayden2287 3 года назад +21

      With a price like that, even if it tasted like shit, I bet my mind would force me to perceive it as the peak of luxury.

    • @cottanibuni2753
      @cottanibuni2753 3 года назад +5

      Bugay Den I thought it tasted good as a child without even knowing the price

    • @enzuki
      @enzuki 3 года назад +1

      @@cottanibuni2753 Same, although when I was that young I thought shark fin soup and bird nest soup were the same. I knew nothing about the price or the difference but I knew they tasted good.

    • @drako-ss
      @drako-ss 3 года назад

      We have it in buffet.. the entrance fee is like $10 or so.. pretty tasty

    • @k-potato3593
      @k-potato3593 3 года назад +1

      Taste like nothing though.

  • @nickdimopoulos4052
    @nickdimopoulos4052 5 лет назад +4006

    So you're paying over $30 per bowl for bird saliva?

    • @ulisesr614
      @ulisesr614 5 лет назад +248

      Ikr! When I heard "Bird's nest" I expected the nest with cooked baby birds included. Smh disappointing.

    • @VinhLe-iy8ut
      @VinhLe-iy8ut 5 лет назад +74

      @@ulisesr614 you never tried it if you are saying this

    • @treflips2158
      @treflips2158 5 лет назад +371

      We also pay money for bee spit...

    • @DJ_Tenioso
      @DJ_Tenioso 5 лет назад +207

      @@treflips2158 more like bee vomit...

    • @revolutionalist
      @revolutionalist 5 лет назад +57

      We pay for bees saliva too.

  • @blacknwhitetruthfully5325
    @blacknwhitetruthfully5325 5 лет назад +1315

    I’m selling my vomit
    3k per pound

  • @bruhmoment3358
    @bruhmoment3358 3 года назад +8

    The thumbnail made me laugh so much cause it looks like the bird just saw its own creation get turned to soup

  • @BT_Spanky
    @BT_Spanky 3 года назад +72

    Imagine how hungry you have to have been in order to initially try to eat a bird’s nest.

    • @nivenlimyu
      @nivenlimyu 2 года назад +3

      Or just Chinese and ur parents force u to drink it ahahahsh but tbh I think we got use to it and is a tradition???

    • @anikagh
      @anikagh 11 месяцев назад

      @@nivenlimyu gross and explosive tradition. Tradition doesn’t make it perfect

  • @bim1537
    @bim1537 4 года назад +1942

    Imagine, a bird preparing a nest, “Finally done, now I can prepare to lay my egg babies. Gotta grab some food now.”
    The nest disappears the next day, “wtf?!”

    • @m1a2abrams52
      @m1a2abrams52 3 года назад +6

      Lol

    • @VincentTseng
      @VincentTseng 3 года назад +129

      That’s not what happens, the bird leaves the nest before the nest is taken. The birds migrate from place to place and build new nests every year. 😒

    • @horacthy8577
      @horacthy8577 3 года назад +3

      Nah their brain was too small for that thought hahaha

    • @naturevibe5720
      @naturevibe5720 3 года назад +3

      It's so much sad😭

    • @bamboojayasejahtera5535
      @bamboojayasejahtera5535 3 года назад +63

      I have a bird “hotel” here in indonesia...i must say it’s true (not the “gotta grab some food now” though), when the nest’s consider ready (app. 45days), usually the bird also ready to lay eggs...since the cleanest and the highest price nest is this time, most harvester didn’t wait it lay eggs first and just took it immediately...so the bird which almost due time to lay eggs, has to put its eggs elsewhere...changing its nest with the fake one often helped the bird...but it quite took some times...i often encourage others to NOT harvest before that, i still do now...i think that’s the main reason why the birds population starting to decrease...
      oh, not to mention thief also the main reason the nest harvested before time (sometimes it contain the eggs and infants, so they drop n died/cracked).sometimes the owner have to race against the thief...so yeah
      Hope we could keep raising the population...

  • @Anderson-yn4or
    @Anderson-yn4or 5 лет назад +2536

    I’m chinese but no matter how delicious food can be we need to stop over harvesting food items such as shark fin, birds nest, rhino horn, elephant tusks, cordyceps fungus etc

    • @TwistedAttitudes
      @TwistedAttitudes 5 лет назад +75

      Wait what's wrong with harvesting cordyceps fungis? Didn't know it was a popular food ingredient, but I'd imagine the farming is relatively harmless:
      Breed a bunch of captive bugs (cheap,easy) + expose to mushrooms/spores = boom that's it

    • @inkbold8511
      @inkbold8511 5 лет назад +63

      You need to stop eating cows, pigs and chickens too.

    • @crashpal
      @crashpal 5 лет назад +229

      @@inkbold8511 also stop eating vegetables

    • @aiya2323
      @aiya2323 5 лет назад +49

      Not just chinese, everyone in general should stop eating animals. What makes one species more superior than another? Just because we humans deems so? Its obsolete in the grand scheme of thing.

    • @xinhee2794
      @xinhee2794 5 лет назад +194

      Amber C
      Stop eating animals? We, humans, are omnivores, we EAT meat.

  • @MidoriKokkoro
    @MidoriKokkoro 3 года назад +7

    people : this soup is delicious.
    bird : where is my bed?

  • @narararamammily5386
    @narararamammily5386 3 года назад +101

    In my country, this can also be a drink too. The soup and drink is considered as a remedy for sickness. For those wondering about the taste, it tastes really sweet like melon. It’s not that weird considering that honey is the same. Which are bee vomits.

    • @JimP226
      @JimP226 2 года назад +6

      Good point.

    • @rohinid7354
      @rohinid7354 2 года назад

      But why do u steal their house.....imagine ur self in the place of bird.....

    • @kennisW
      @kennisW 2 года назад +8

      @@rohinid7354 we destroy be houses to get honey

    • @rohinid7354
      @rohinid7354 2 года назад +2

      @@kennisW
      Bees are cultured....and the population of bees are high.....a single queen bee can give birth to 100's of offsprings but i dont thik a bird can rearly give birth to 2-3 offsprings and birds mainly build nest to lay eggs.....

    • @sj-237
      @sj-237 Год назад +1

      @@rohinid7354 bees no longer have a high population

  • @MitchellWiggs
    @MitchellWiggs 5 лет назад +1772

    "A jello texture that doesn't taste like anything" - so you could just use like...gelatin?

    • @MinttMeringue
      @MinttMeringue 5 лет назад +59

      Well gelatin is made from the bones and cartilage of some animals so what's the difference lol?

    • @MitchellWiggs
      @MitchellWiggs 5 лет назад +229

      The difference is that gelatin is readily available and very inexpensive. I’d think that the difference would be obvious.

    • @bepopxxx
      @bepopxxx 5 лет назад +41

      MITCHELL WIGGS health property purposed are different. I ate once it taste nothing. Yea gelatin is better.

    • @indescribable4706
      @indescribable4706 4 года назад +33

      Well i agree that it doesn’t taste like anything but it really good if you know how to make it my mom is a half Chinese and she alway make me the bird nest soup since I was young and I really like it. The soup help with many thing that why I don’t get easily sick

    • @dallymoo7816
      @dallymoo7816 4 года назад +25

      Just use agar.. no animals have to die

  • @TreyNitrotoluene
    @TreyNitrotoluene 5 лет назад +236

    I love how instead of trying to ban the soup people just decided to be nice to the birds and brought them back from extinction.

  • @zinzolin14
    @zinzolin14 4 года назад +7

    It's definitely more of a texture food, it's the feeling you get from eating it more than the actual taste.

  • @nanamikentosfavoritebread9170
    @nanamikentosfavoritebread9170 3 года назад +7

    *sticky saliva nest exists*
    Chefs: yeah you got that yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yum

  • @anthonymartinez7614
    @anthonymartinez7614 5 лет назад +923

    Next video: *Why owl pellet salad is so expensive*

    • @oomma5
      @oomma5 5 лет назад +12

      This made me laugh so hard

    • @nebermet
      @nebermet 5 лет назад +3

      Good idea

    • @TheNeXusCore9032
      @TheNeXusCore9032 4 года назад +22

      There are coffee beans extracted from elephant dung which makes for expensive coffee so there's that.

    • @JK-wx5tm
      @JK-wx5tm 4 года назад +16

      @@TheNeXusCore9032 you mean from cats... maybe I'm forgetting something

    • @mr.anti-flashsentryonce-ler
      @mr.anti-flashsentryonce-ler 3 года назад

      Hah good one there 😏

  • @remtromol
    @remtromol 5 лет назад +429

    4:57
    "it tastes like anything"
    "no!"
    * cut *

    • @jensenraylight8011
      @jensenraylight8011 5 лет назад +12

      the host disgrace her entire chinese family

    • @Alice-mr2gf
      @Alice-mr2gf 5 лет назад +4

      Well, it's actually taste better than gelatin

    • @indescribable4706
      @indescribable4706 4 года назад +1

      It taste very good if you know how to make it and if you don’t mix anything it will taste a little like nothing but not as nothing as water

  • @someguy2600
    @someguy2600 3 года назад +10

    I loved this stuff as a kid, brewed as a tong sui (dessert soup, directly translated as "sugar water") with a slight hint of Chinese herbs it's 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @jamesmatthewacutim4936
    @jamesmatthewacutim4936 3 года назад +1

    It's also famous here in Philippines, we call it Nido soup, it can only be found in El Nido, Palawan.

  • @kentangajaib3350
    @kentangajaib3350 4 года назад +267

    "My dad always looking for a scarily old and abandoned building, it's his job"
    "So he was doing paranormal activity?"
    "Nah, he collect bird's spits"

  • @juanchinpanchin
    @juanchinpanchin 4 года назад +536

    Oh ,Someone spat on my soup!
    Sir your entirely soup is spit.

    • @damonliu3870
      @damonliu3870 3 года назад +7

      Gold comment

    • @mr.unknown7138
      @mr.unknown7138 3 года назад +6

      Honey is bee spit/vomit

    • @juanchinpanchin
      @juanchinpanchin 3 года назад +1

      ​@@mr.unknown7138 I guess in inevitable eat spit once in a while, specially if you dont tip on restaurants.

    • @mr.unknown7138
      @mr.unknown7138 3 года назад

      @@juanchinpanchin wut?

  • @m1a2abrams52
    @m1a2abrams52 3 года назад +3

    "Alright class what do you want to be when you grow up"
    "Nest farmer"

  • @frogcracker7476
    @frogcracker7476 3 года назад +1

    I ate this so many times and never knew it was made out of bird nests omg how is it so good

  • @bazookallamaproductions5280
    @bazookallamaproductions5280 4 года назад +690

    NO!!! you can NOT say "one study found" without listing your sources for us to review. dont you dare try to pull that.

    • @fishby8070
      @fishby8070 3 года назад +23

      It's a study published on Hindawi that suggests that the sialic acid in the saliva contains o-antigens that is anti-inflammatory.

    • @starmorpheus
      @starmorpheus 3 года назад +111

      One study showed that citing one source to prove your ideas is irresponsible and stupid.

    • @apaarkhare
      @apaarkhare 3 года назад +14

      @@starmorpheus underrrated comment

    • @bazookallamaproductions5280
      @bazookallamaproductions5280 3 года назад +8

      @@starmorpheus masterpiece of a comment.

    • @MegaCristi99
      @MegaCristi99 3 года назад +2

      @@starmorpheus hUh-

  • @PROnickDUDE
    @PROnickDUDE 5 лет назад +822

    Well, im not paying 30 dollars for a bowl of magical saliva.

    • @tonywang9026
      @tonywang9026 5 лет назад +82

      But you are paying more for eating bee vomits and fish babies.

    • @dadang9812
      @dadang9812 5 лет назад +18

      It’s actually really good. Tastes like fresh seafood & tofu.

    • @hongyi9949
      @hongyi9949 5 лет назад +2

      @@XtianAmante It's actually delicious.Here in Singapore,people buy it once every 1 month

    • @dadang9812
      @dadang9812 5 лет назад

      Thien Trung Huynh i have but what I eat is locally sourced from Palawan. For me it always tasted like seafood.

    • @hazardous458
      @hazardous458 5 лет назад +1

      It’s bland af, my family (Vietnamese) uses it as kinda like a desert, sugar and this stuff and it’s delicious. My grandpa has like 3 big bags of these and he sent us one (I live in Canada now)

  • @qariswilson7093
    @qariswilson7093 3 года назад +5

    Imagine going to the store and coming back and your entire house is gone

  • @tramilami9891
    @tramilami9891 3 года назад +2

    RUclips: Bird nest soup is very expensive!
    Me and my family: We get it *free*

  • @drteddy2609
    @drteddy2609 4 года назад +170

    The theme of ALL of these videos, "they are expensive because of over harvesting"

  • @cik_lin_7
    @cik_lin_7 5 лет назад +416

    At least you don't have to kill the bird to get the nest unlike the shark fin soup.

    • @chaessera
      @chaessera 4 года назад +86

      You are killing the bird if you keep harvesting their homes

    • @jerichodelacruzsoriano7611
      @jerichodelacruzsoriano7611 4 года назад +52

      But you’re destroying their home thus killing them.

    • @HaruHikaHaruHika
      @HaruHikaHaruHika 4 года назад +19

      1:51 ??

    • @JosephTemplar
      @JosephTemplar 4 года назад +23

      Because they did not respect mother nature. Money is the only one that they see.
      We harvest them seasonal. Which means when they made a nest and had family, we wait them to move out. About two or three months then we harvest it.

    • @justins21482
      @justins21482 4 года назад +61

      @@chaessera birds leave abandoned nests all the time. They breed, give birth and those birds fly off and the nest is left vacant and viola, bird nest soup. it can be done without harming any animals. I have a birds nest in my garage thats unused if you would like it but I believe its made from bits of straw and paper so may not be as nutritious as you would like....

  • @Jaelin_Showers
    @Jaelin_Showers 5 месяцев назад

    Well said I love it when he said it’s the high cost that makes it expensive

  • @DDRWakaLaka
    @DDRWakaLaka 3 года назад +7

    4:28 "OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS A BOWL" and then proceeds to show the price for 4 bowls

  • @mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140
    @mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140 5 лет назад +648

    I don’t know fam but that looks kinda nasty

    • @QuackZack
      @QuackZack 5 лет назад +46

      Yum, congealed bird spit.
      Side note: Yeah, honey is bee spit, but it's mostly sugar and it's from an insect, not an animal.

    • @jayduby5330
      @jayduby5330 5 лет назад +25

      @@QuackZack As if that's any better. We consume chicken period on a daily but nobody bats an eye.

    • @jayduby5330
      @jayduby5330 5 лет назад +8

      @Balkanse Cookenburg Eggs are essentially chicken period, stay woke my friend.

    • @Shlorper254
      @Shlorper254 5 лет назад +43

      @@jayduby5330 eggs are not menstruation lol

    • @jayduby5330
      @jayduby5330 5 лет назад +7

      @@Shlorper254 Keep telling yourself that.

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher 5 лет назад +422

    Because it is made of the souls of little baby birds

  • @sparksplug1061
    @sparksplug1061 2 года назад +2

    Huh, never knew. My family has been eating this for the past few years now. Never knew they're worth that much. My perspective of the delicacy has been changed now.

  • @jonalabor8460
    @jonalabor8460 3 года назад +7

    Honestly, this soup is so good. Its jelly yet there is crunch. It goes well on soup. It's so light you will ask for more. I like it spicy, in my country it's not that expensive. More or less $3 ala carte. Those birds also flies freely in the metro. Ya you heard it right.. in the metro..as in they fly though chain of malls..then they go back to the abandon building owned privately.

  • @steak5599
    @steak5599 4 года назад +35

    A mother Swiftlet flew off to look for food and come back wondering "What kind of animal stole my nest but left my eggs alone?

  • @daraodonovan9413
    @daraodonovan9413 5 лет назад +92

    "its the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird nest soup so expensive" someone give this man a doctorate

  • @zyaravie911
    @zyaravie911 2 года назад +1

    One of my favourite soups as half Chinese, I grew up eating this

  • @feliciaboston6365
    @feliciaboston6365 2 года назад +2

    Looks delicious I would love to make it for myself

  • @RayMak
    @RayMak 5 лет назад +149

    It's collagen

    • @m1a2abrams52
      @m1a2abrams52 3 года назад +3

      Collagen tastes good in soup I guess

    • @sean1319
      @sean1319 3 года назад +16

      Are u even a real person

    • @dragosd8992
      @dragosd8992 3 года назад +3

      @@m1a2abrams52 it does but getting it out of pork bones is no different

    • @kittyk.klandasions7008
      @kittyk.klandasions7008 3 года назад +1

      @Velstadt Hekkleson your what's wrong with the World

    • @polarspirit
      @polarspirit 3 года назад

      @@kittyk.klandasions7008 dog soup tastes good too

  • @BallerDan53
    @BallerDan53 5 лет назад +695

    If bird nest soup is supposed to make Asians taller, it hasn't worked for them.

    • @stanhyoyeon6637
      @stanhyoyeon6637 5 лет назад +96

      As an Asian, I couldn't agree more. 😂

    • @Emi-gb3nz
      @Emi-gb3nz 5 лет назад +56

      I’m Asian and I’ve never had the soup before, but I’m taller than 90% of the people in my grade o.o

    • @MrWizardjr9
      @MrWizardjr9 5 лет назад +46

      have you seen yao ming

    • @mignonne4756
      @mignonne4756 5 лет назад +4

      @@Emi-gb3nz same

    • @user-oz9sh4ry2g
      @user-oz9sh4ry2g 5 лет назад +1

      XD

  • @InangMukbang
    @InangMukbang Год назад

    expensive but very natural thank u for sharing

  • @rakbukurigen8338
    @rakbukurigen8338 4 года назад

    Here in Tarakan city, Indonesia, people export those bird nest.
    There are lots of building as the fake caves for the bird so they can make nest in the building.

  • @ADCArtAttack
    @ADCArtAttack 4 года назад +413

    *Sigh
    "It's really good!"
    - Doesn't Taste like anything...…
    "No"
    Sums up all this freaky stuff

    • @Alias_Anybody
      @Alias_Anybody 3 года назад +27

      It's basically like gelatin. Same bullsh*t as the special properties of Rhino horn, if you made my nail clippings into fine powder you'd basically have the same effect.

    • @hunnypuffs
      @hunnypuffs 3 года назад +6

      And honey is pretty much bee vomit; what might seem freaky to one is likely a lack of cultural exposure

    • @pornstarlivesmatter3319
      @pornstarlivesmatter3319 3 года назад

      @@hunnypuffs I RESPECT THE BEE'S HOWEVER CHEMICAL RUN OFF DOES NOT. CHEMICALS AND 5G ARE KILLING OUR HONEY BEE'S

    • @JohnDoe-vw4zf
      @JohnDoe-vw4zf 3 года назад +2

      @@pornstarlivesmatter3319 wow 5g is killing the bees? oh no

  • @kevintrinh16
    @kevintrinh16 4 года назад +72

    The amount of red vinegar she put in there literally destroyed all the flavor lol

    • @farhantaufik5969
      @farhantaufik5969 4 года назад +7

      kevin Trinh i think its hot oil. And asian do tend to put a lot of them, when i asked them that, they said its make it more tasty, and the taste doesn’t change that much

    • @enzuki
      @enzuki 3 года назад +10

      @@farhantaufik5969 No, it's actually vinegar. And adding it just makes it the flavour deeper and more sour, although some people like the sour

    • @user-cz8tz4qz8n
      @user-cz8tz4qz8n 3 года назад +1

      @@farhantaufik5969 it’s vinegar

  • @touchm3
    @touchm3 3 года назад +30

    I had authentic birds nest soup when i was a child about almost 20 years ago, and i still remember how good it tasted.

    • @misspotatopants
      @misspotatopants 2 года назад

      Same, not twenty years ago but I had it as a child once (I don't think I had it more than that) and wanted more.
      Note: I don't remember the exact taste. But the one I had was refrigerated and was sweet.

  • @iranoceda8145
    @iranoceda8145 2 года назад +1

    i eat this with my family in the weekends its my fave dish :))

  • @cinnamoncrunch2633
    @cinnamoncrunch2633 5 лет назад +49

    Mabye i should start collecting my parrots droll and sell it..😕😕

  • @warrior3527
    @warrior3527 5 лет назад +330

    Seems like the Chinese will eat just about anything

    • @protectionorelsebigopsie5364
      @protectionorelsebigopsie5364 5 лет назад +18

      Warrior35 you know that’s true Chinese people eat everything and think it’s good for them

    • @nandinhocunha440
      @nandinhocunha440 5 лет назад +30

      Im just surprise they arent eating humans

    • @johnpetun1180
      @johnpetun1180 5 лет назад +8

      It taste good

    • @kevinsathapornchaisit5816
      @kevinsathapornchaisit5816 5 лет назад +142

      Americans eat equally as strange things: Fish eggs, over saturized duck livers, deep fried everything, etc. Try to have more of an open mind rather than condemning an entire country. It's just a matter of cultural differences.

    • @crashpal
      @crashpal 5 лет назад +18

      @@kevinsathapornchaisit5816 true like pork with tapeworms

  • @attoboi9763
    @attoboi9763 2 года назад +2

    asia and overharvesting, name a more iconic duo

  • @BrendanTheTraveller
    @BrendanTheTraveller 4 года назад +1

    I've tried Bird's nest in Singapore. It's looks like jelly but its surprisingly good but its very expensive.

  • @insentinal3211
    @insentinal3211 4 года назад +52

    Coronavirus has entered the chat.

    • @davidsamuel6018
      @davidsamuel6018 4 года назад +4

      Guess Bat Soup was a food recipe gone wrong.

    • @maowy
      @maowy 4 года назад +8

      Racism has entered the chat.

    • @biscuit4812
      @biscuit4812 4 года назад

      I was looking for this comment.

    • @Chill227
      @Chill227 4 года назад +5

      @@maowy Its not racist. The illness came from Wuhan, everyone knows that.

    • @penknifez6724
      @penknifez6724 4 года назад

      @@Chill227 yes but we don't actually know the exact reason the outbreak happened, it was more of a estimate that bats might be the cause

  • @gilmendoza8092
    @gilmendoza8092 5 лет назад +37

    Who thinks of this.. someone just looks up and thinks "I'ma make a soup out of that bird's house"

  • @lifeisnotokiedokie7243
    @lifeisnotokiedokie7243 3 года назад

    Ohhhh that's the soup. I always thought it was shark fin soup and people kept telling me it was. It was so delicious

  • @steampoweredmaniac5359
    @steampoweredmaniac5359 3 года назад +3

    All you had to say was China, and I knew the answer was “Magic”.

  • @audreyy3057
    @audreyy3057 5 лет назад +15

    I've had it multiple times in Indonesia (cold version). It actually tastes really good, especially when longan is added. The cold version reminds me of an ice dessert with jelly.

  • @FviarFlukx
    @FviarFlukx 5 лет назад +4

    I've tried this several times back when these things is still fairly cheap because people in my hometown were still oblivious, and they are really good, but not good enough to justify nowadays price.

  • @Altreux
    @Altreux 4 месяца назад

    Thats explains why my parents told us not to bother the swiftlets and help them aswell. They wanted the nest

  • @googleidxjisnseknds5855
    @googleidxjisnseknds5855 2 года назад

    my gran used to make bird nest soup, its not rlly bird nest but the chicken+egg makes it looks like a nest xD

  • @jillw8840
    @jillw8840 4 года назад +39

    For everyone saying that it's harmful to the swiftlet's survival, i can say confidently that most farmers and businesses are starting to turn to more ethical and sustainable ways of harvesting bird's nest. My uncle has a bird nest business in a forest and cave, and he says that they always wait for the baby birds to grow and move out before harvesting the nests. And actually, birds nest is quite nutritious. I don't like other chinese foods like shark fin, pangolins and other weird ass food that has no health benefits whatsoever, and i protest against people eating it like my grandparents and certain distant relatives, but i can make an exception of bird's nest as long as its sustainably sourced and i know where it's coming from. And to all the people who haven't tried it and saying it would probably taste weird, i like the sweetened bird's nest more. It has a stringy, grass jelly texture and the soup itself is rlly good. I think it's worth the $ cause you cant rlly find the same taste anywhere else. You should try it but don't get the sketchy ones where you dont know if theyre sourced from a good place or not.

  • @Unweyrandom-bk4kq
    @Unweyrandom-bk4kq 5 лет назад +94

    *PETA wants to know their location*

  • @jitensinghhaobam
    @jitensinghhaobam 3 года назад +2

    In our believe too, if a swiflet builds its nest to your house,the house would become rich.

  • @youtubehasa50lettercap
    @youtubehasa50lettercap 3 года назад +12

    If you said “it tastes like nothing” clearly you got scammed. I’ve had it before and it’s really sweet. I love it.

    • @cipreste
      @cipreste 3 года назад +1

      that sweetness clearly doesn't come from the nest

  • @seannotconnery8191
    @seannotconnery8191 5 лет назад +29

    imagine coming back from work and finding your house has been torn from the concrete foundation and placed into a soup. That’s pretty much what this is.

  • @EvermoreisTimeless
    @EvermoreisTimeless 4 года назад +16

    When I was a kid I thought they were noodles but when I was told it was bird snot and spit I stopped eating it

    • @xcept1281
      @xcept1281 3 года назад

      Lmao XD

    • @xcept1281
      @xcept1281 3 года назад +4

      Wait what about Honey? What was your reaction?

    • @xcept1281
      @xcept1281 3 года назад

      @A I've never even eaten Bird's nest soup 🙄

    • @sathisharajah
      @sathisharajah 3 года назад +1

      You can't compare a freaking bee's spit to a bird's spit. I mean do bees eat freaking WORMS OR MAGGOTS?

    • @bonazza4476
      @bonazza4476 3 года назад

      @@sathisharajah fr

  • @bartholomewtran5870
    @bartholomewtran5870 3 года назад +3

    Really good food. We would gift it to others (especially the elderly) on New Years

  • @haidielmazelan4531
    @haidielmazelan4531 3 года назад

    One of my friend, his parent used to eat this since her Mom was pregnant to him, my friend's skin is so fair and lovely...

  • @aok305
    @aok305 4 года назад +12

    The world: look at how pretty this world it
    People: LETS DESTROY IT 😈

  • @lynbabysusu
    @lynbabysusu 4 года назад +9

    For bird’s nest, most of it are actually farmed, and the nutritional values are the same. And it does have a very distinct eggy taste, we usually make them into sweet dessert soup and not savoury like in the video. I was skeptical but my mum’s hands were so much moisturised and smoother when cleaning the raw nests. Apparently my dad’s chronic cough got better too.

  • @yenchat
    @yenchat Год назад

    Thank you so much. Verry nice.

  • @JimP226
    @JimP226 2 года назад +1

    I saw these "hotels" all over rural Thailand often built several stories on-top of the owners home. Basically a license to print money. Apparently the birds nest once they come back again and again.
    Sounds weird, but no different than honey.

  • @zachariahrinehart732
    @zachariahrinehart732 5 лет назад +112

    So who was fired for the first upload of this video that was an absolute garbage fire of editing lmao

    • @Danlikescheesteaks
      @Danlikescheesteaks 5 лет назад +9

      What was wrong with it? I didn't get to watch it before it was made private

    • @kevinvu5092
      @kevinvu5092 5 лет назад +18

      @@Danlikescheesteaks the audio randomly cut and jumped in volume and almost all of the voiceover clips with interviewees were missing lol

    • @MauriiBoii
      @MauriiBoii 5 лет назад

      Haha I saw it.. the editing was ridiculous, half of the audio was missing and sounds pop... Lol

  • @ianlawrence860
    @ianlawrence860 4 года назад +4

    1:01 "its the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird's nest soup so expensive..."
    Mhmm, gotcha

  • @medardbitangimana4580
    @medardbitangimana4580 2 года назад

    Hospitality industry for birds. Hahaha

  • @MrShagy23
    @MrShagy23 3 года назад

    Nick swardson really thought we wouldn't notice it was him voicing for this video

  • @FRIEDFISHPLZ
    @FRIEDFISHPLZ 4 года назад +4

    All this time I’ve eaten this soup... I thought it was just egg boiled in water b/c honestly you can do that. Crack open an egg with or without the yolk and stir it up, pour into the soup while stirring and I tell you it looks the same... viscosity wise maybe that would be different

  • @Ricky-cn2io
    @Ricky-cn2io 4 года назад +6

    Birds: Makes house out of sticks with spit
    Humans: Lets eat it

  • @araiso8672
    @araiso8672 3 года назад +5

    i would like to know what was the first person to eat bird nest thinking of at that time. if he is hungry at the time, he should go for the birds not their nest.

    • @free-rangehomestead8248
      @free-rangehomestead8248 2 года назад

      He ate the bird and it's eggs, then thought the nest didn't look too bad at all. Yum

  • @Boyso5407
    @Boyso5407 Год назад +1

    I just want to know who was the first person that looked at the birds nest and said to themselves “I think that would taste great”.

  • @MrJhuang999
    @MrJhuang999 5 лет назад +5

    Just had a bowl this morning. Don’t usually have it but Gf gave me a bowl. It was surprisingly refreshing served with a touch of honey.

  • @love3kl1
    @love3kl1 4 года назад +8

    Bru imagine being so rich back in the day, that you'd believe bird spit is "magical"

  • @GhonimTv
    @GhonimTv 3 года назад

    Videos are very interesting and inspirational success, always greetings from Indonesia Suport

  • @sheila4035
    @sheila4035 3 года назад

    This was mention on Jeopardy today about being an expensive soup. Since bird's nest was unfimilar to me, I wanted to find out about it.

  • @makmaknamoc5289
    @makmaknamoc5289 5 лет назад +10

    You can get that soup for only $3 in the philippines.

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 4 года назад +1

      And it's prolly fake...

    • @charleschoo9398
      @charleschoo9398 4 года назад +1

      Yup, fake one

    • @seaveybesson8136
      @seaveybesson8136 4 года назад

      swiftlets here dont live on caves, instead they live on houses

    • @cuphead8159
      @cuphead8159 4 года назад

      The power of mass production

    • @XxxXxx-yh5gz
      @XxxXxx-yh5gz 4 года назад

      Snow mushroom has similar texture, it had been used to produce cheap nest bird canned beverages but the nutritions value is no where to compare

  • @dankism9305
    @dankism9305 5 лет назад +4

    Me: I wouldn't eat bird saliva
    Also me: Eats deep fried anything.

  • @user-nf2qt7os5t
    @user-nf2qt7os5t 4 года назад +17

    Title should be: THE MOST EXPENSIVE SALIVA ON EARTH

    • @tom-ke7lb
      @tom-ke7lb 2 года назад +1

      SALIVA +SHIT+VOMIT. VIRUSES GALORE.

    • @96Champ994
      @96Champ994 2 года назад

      i wish my spit was worth that much

  • @janfkarel92
    @janfkarel92 2 года назад +1

    “Its really good”
    “It doesn’t taste like anything”

  • @Mariamakeup101
    @Mariamakeup101 4 года назад +22

    There’s so much healthy food in the world but to steal the home of birds is just cruel

    • @egontiedeman761
      @egontiedeman761 4 года назад +1

      No its not

    • @Cj-tg3ms
      @Cj-tg3ms 3 года назад +5

      Then don’t eat eggs (chicken period), meat, honey (bee vomit)

    • @protocnic3772
      @protocnic3772 3 года назад +1

      They didn't steal it, they wait for the birds to move their nest.

    • @anameig9332
      @anameig9332 3 года назад +6

      You probably did not watch the whole video lmao they wait until the birds move to another place and only they will harvest it

  • @MrNoobProductions
    @MrNoobProductions 5 лет назад +4

    Literally everything gets more expensive because of over-harvesting

  • @hiimryan2388
    @hiimryan2388 3 года назад +5

    Everyone is talking crap about this meanwhile everyone is like "eh" to people harvesting bird nests that the birds cant rebuild

  • @somerandomguy3129
    @somerandomguy3129 2 года назад +1

    Strange, the bird nest soup I bought in my local mall sells cheap.
    Tho then again it's in the Philippines

  • @F0X0M0W
    @F0X0M0W 5 лет назад +5

    actually during the flu bird outbreak, the market price of this thing drop a lot...

  • @drexelada6767
    @drexelada6767 5 лет назад +6

    Who thought of this in the first place? Like you just looked at a birds’ nest and thought it was a delicious meal to eat??

    • @graceliu8839
      @graceliu8839 5 лет назад +5

      Drexel Ada What about what the hell were you Europeans thinking when you all decided to eat bacteria infested solidified milk?! What made you decide that’s a delicious meal to eat?

    • @drexelada6767
      @drexelada6767 5 лет назад

      Grace Liu You’re comparing yogurt to birds nest?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 And did you just assumed I’m European #triggered

    • @drexelada6767
      @drexelada6767 5 лет назад

      *assume

  • @sacredgamer2001
    @sacredgamer2001 Месяц назад

    been wanting to try this for a while now 🤤

  • @rameshram6444
    @rameshram6444 4 года назад +1

    You videos are so nice and all they work you do but the sound quality is very low I wish you take care of that