Hunan Vendor teaches us Crunchy Rice Sandwich
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2022
- Vendor in Huaihua, Hunan making Guoba (锅巴), a crunchy rice sandwich that's a street food specialty in western Hunan.
Companion video for the full recipe video here: • Crunchy Rice with Spic... 
Хобби
If I had a vendor near where I stayed on vacation this is the kind of thing I can imagine becoming obsessed with and getting every morning
My wife is from Hunan. She made this dish that is very popular in China but well-known other places: ruclips.net/video/HpVFjpwFeag/видео.html
Thank you so much to the vendor uncle, so patient and generous in explaining, and the banter. I wish I can visit your cart one day. Wish you all the best!!
Nnf that nostalgia hit, watching Asian street vendors at their craft. This is content I never realized my soul needed
So many of my favourite food experiences were enjoyed in Hunan! Also, Fenghuang is gorgeous.
There's this one dish I've been dying to know the name of (so I can find a recipe), but every person I asked just named off a couple of the ingredients. I had it in just about every city I visited in Hunan. It was a spicy dish with meat (I believe it was beef), and a boatload of peppers. It wasn't numb-y spicy , but a mild spice somewhere just under a jalapeno. Of all the 10/10 dishes I ate in Hunan that was my absolute favourite and just can't find it here in Ontario, Canada.
Thanks for the videos. You never fail to make me hungry
Was is this dish? ruclips.net/video/C1QLbJnkpo0/видео.html
(this was an early video of ours, excuse the jank)
@@ChineseCookingDemystified My heroes! I think this might be it. I recall there being a lot more peppers than beef but I was also acquainted with baijiu around the same time so my memory may be a bit fuzzy.
Anyway, thank you very much!
@@devostm yep, that's the one :) We were probably *slightly* on the generous side with the beef in that video
same, hunan was the first place i visited in china and i still think about the amazing food and nice people i met there in changsha! 😊one of my friends who was from there, said the people there were more "rough" but had big hearts, I loved it lol! felt similar to where I'm from. it gave me like a 1 week intensive "crash course" on getting tolerated to spicy food lol, but I'm so glad I got through it! as after that, I loved spicy food and was able to eat a lot in hunan without any pain haha (while before, I barely ordered anything above the lowest level of spice at nandos).
Crunchy rice is the best part about making rice in a claypot. It's genius that they made it into a snack.
this bring back memories of my father making burn rice soup it also tasted very but that was a very long time ago. childhood good memory of a good father try his best with very little...
I love this type of content so much, please do this more often
Really cool thanks. Would love to see more videos like this!
Cheers! We've got a few more in the genre :)
Egg wrapped potato ruclips.net/video/WfLo0n3oah8/видео.html
Cantonese black pepper beef ruclips.net/video/4akA83Nd6UE/видео.html
Cantonese fry roast chicken ruclips.net/video/MVHZXEHMwrg/видео.html
We like doing this format whenever we can, but it does require decent street food/open restaurant footage of the process from front to back.
@@ChineseCookingDemystified FYI, for some reason the Cantonese black pepper beef video is unavailable... maybe the link is wrong?
@@kit1351 Thanks for the heads up, I'd just copied the link wrong. Should be working now :)
I read the title as "human vendor", and that made me realise how automated stores are becomming more of a thing here.
Loool I can see how you’d easily make that mistake
Can’t wait to go visit home again! Hopefully I can find it in Changsha too😋🤞🏼 Never saw it before. Thank for the “tip”❤️
This and the companion are great videos. Didn't know this was a thing but OMG I love crispy rice. I'm going to have to try this with a rectangular cast iron cornbread pan
You can use the Japanese omellete pan
Wow, that looks delicious!
that looks so delicious!!
Cheers to you. ..
I wish I had seen this when I lived in Changsha! Looks so good.
Oh, that is super cool!
that is SUPER cool
Ohhhh..... i’m drooling...
as native from Xiangtan this really brings back some memories haha
Hold up, are saying this amazing crunchy rice epicness is also vegan? That is based.
@Karl Hanks True
Are you back in China or is this footage you had already? Love the channel!
Very cool concept. I'd watch more inspiration videos, but perhaps not one right after the other.
Delish😍😍😍
What kind of pan is this? Do you know what the name is? I'd like to try and find one to buy.
The hot pan casually on the phone 😱
Hello where I can find the machine please
I read the title as " human " vendor and got fairly excited for some inexplicable reason
Where is i can buy this pan?
Where we can buy this pan? Im from the phillipines.
What’s the name of the pan, can it be purchased?
Never seen these kind of things in northern China. Does it taste kinda like scorched rice(Guoba)?
I saw this street food A LOT in tiktok and douyin.
Yeah, now it's starting to get popular a bit more around the country. But the topping varies A LOT. One time I saw someone put an fried egg and steak on, lol.
This looks absolutely nasty delicious, I would eat four and go back for more.
Rating as a drunk food?
Hmm... the only time I've had it drunk was making it myself during testing, actually. Something that I can say is that making the sandwich - even though it's ~25 minutes per serving - is a really relaxing thing to have cooking as you're having a beer
Will there be more videos from Huaihua? 😋
We've got a few Xiangxi dishes on the radar :) This's the only street food dish we've got though
Interesting. I have never seen this. Do much Chinese food to discover, even as a Chinese person.
As an Iranian, this is some next level shxt. I wouldn’t eat all that extra stuff but the potential is great. I wish I could get one of those pans.
tahdig!
Im American but I want those pans so bad😭 I’ve been reading others comment about how the Japanese omelette pan is similar but they don’t have a lid and aren’t as shallow
Oh the toppings! Can someone write more about them?
they have a whole video where they go into detail what the toppings are ruclips.net/video/4CgNIudh_n8/видео.html
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Got concerned when I read "Human Vendor" in the title.
Lived in China for 10 years, never tried it. Hunan street food should be good ;>
i thought it said human and i was like "yeah of course they are human, duh!"
There's a place where I live that sells tacos in rice shells exactly like these, it feels like an abomination.
I tried it last weekend, it was okay.
The rice had a bit of a burnt taste, the teriyaki filling was nice though.
I read Hunan as Human, that was a scare
= D
guys customer service is typical chinese
Does it bother you when you get compared to an American tourist? Like you would be stupid enough to give him a 1$ USD moneys cause you're American.
As you're speaking fluent idk Cantonese?
If I was in Shanghai or something it might bother me a touch, but Huaihua is a city that's kind of out there in the mountains in Hunan. Probably the most foreigners they'd have would be a small scatter of (pre-COVID) tourists that use it as a stopping point to go to Fenghuang.
But... ultimately, if you choose to live abroad, you *are* willingly opting to be a minority in the society you're moving to - and you definitely do get (at least some of) that bullshit that comes with the territory. I've seen a lot of Americans come and go, and the ones that're hyper sensitive to this sort of thing end up being quite unhappy, and don't enjoy their time. It'd definitely be great if the entire world was as woke as urban, educated, America... but it's not. And I try not to let my ideal world get in the way of my enjoyment of the real world.
I'm pretty sure it's not Cantonese they're speaking in the video
Obviously I have no idea how tight your finances are ... but ..."no... we want just one" while you are two and getting a lot of info from this man that allows you to make this video... that's kinda cheap.
Has it occured to you that maybe they could only finish one and didn't want to waste food?
@@bjohn94 That's obviously not the point. They spend the minimum amount possible to make money with the knowledge provided to them. The least they can do is be generous (as in: spending one dollar more). And if that one dollar is an investment in food they "can't finish", they could give that food to a neighbour in need.
The whole idea of patreonage is to donate money out of appreciation. It would only be decent if people making a living with money received as a "thank you" spent (an amount as little as a dollar) as a "thank you" to humble people that share their knowledge wihout being aware that knowledge is money and that their knowledge will be "monetized" on something called RUclips.
@@kfc4007 I'm sorry but your comment made me so uncomfortable that I have to get back. If I come across as rude or something, please keep in mind that that's not my intention. To answer your question "why we only bought one", that is, very clearly answered in @user-hx3ls3if5x 's comment, because we don't want to waste food.
The way you view vendors feels so much like an "white savior" angle to me. "Poor man only selling his food on the street for 1 dollar, he must be so poor that any one more dollar he'd love to have." This kind of thinking is so out of context and completely disregards other people's agency. I totally understand your intention of helping others, but in a culture where people think "tipping" is super weird, patronizing, and even an act of looking down on someone, you should just be a good customer and buy what you need. Be nice to the people who are selling it to you, chit chat with them, be friendly and respectful, thank them, and call it a day.
The price of food matches the living cost of the place, you may think 1 dollar is so little and worth nothing, but that's just business as usual and day to day life in a small town in China. The whole mindset or mentality you shown in the comment is an insult to those people, they're just doing business, as usual. They're upright human being on the street doing business that don't need extra "feeling bad for them".
If we're on Chinese internet where viewers can actually go and enjoy his food, we'll for sure put out his name and location and urge everyone to go and try if possible. But unfortunately most of our audience can't go so there's not much else we can do to "share our support".
The comment about "without being aware that knowledge is money" is another example of disregarding other people's agency. How do you know that they don't know? How can you be so sure? Just because they're an old street vendor that sells food for one dollar? Truth is, he knows it, he got his ad on his cart and he knows the power of internet promotion and trying to use the internet to attract business, and asks his patron to share and like on Chinese social media. He's a business man, with his own way of doing business, not someone that lies there desperately waiting for "help".
I'm sorry if this comment makes you feel uncomfortable, but I find this kind of mindset very humiliating to the people that're doing their honest work and living their life. Next time when you see something like this, before jumping into the "OMG we need to help these poor people" mindset, maybe you can put things in context, keep in mind that ways of live are drastically different on elsewhere in the world, and people have their own agency.
-Steph
@@ChineseCookingDemystified Thank you for your extensive reply. This appears to be a culture clash.... we all have a different look on the way this world turns. Your reply reminds me of the encounter I once had in London with a man who had the firm conviction that you should never, ever, give money (pennies, less then the Starbuck coffee he buys every day) to homeless people sitting in the streets of London begging, with the argument "these people pretend to be poor but they all go home at the end of the day in their BMW".
I am very much against the argument that "spending one dollar more than strictly necessary" is patronizing in a negative way.
In the world as I know it, spending that one dollar more is a way of expressing appreciation and gratitude (because the vendor is an organic farmer, or a local bakery/butcher using traditional and not industrial ingredients & methods, because a vendor is sharing knowledge, because the RUclipsr you really like is working hard to create valuable content for their audience, etc. etc.). If expressing gratitude by giving money is patronizing (understood as something negative), Patreon would have no reason to exist.
If expressing gratitude by allowing a RUclipsr to make money, by clicking on "like", by subscribing and engaging in conversation on You Tube, thefore purposefully and intentionally.helping that RUclipsr to make money through RUclips, is patronizing , and you think "patronizing" is something bad, what is the purpose of you being on RUclips and asking people to support you through Patreon?
What, in your opinion, is the difference in spending one dollar more than strictly necessary on a product you buy from a street vendor as a "thank you" and giving money as a "thank you" to creators using Patreon, or allowing RUclips creators to make money by clicking on "like", by subscribing and commenting? Why would paying extra to a street vendor is "patronizing" and helping a RUclipsr to make money is not patronizing?
@kfc4007 Yeah, using homeless on the street to make your point, that's a strong argument, I'll make sure to let the vendors know what you think next time I chat with them. You can write your thesis however long as you want, you can give as many pennies as you want, you can be as judgmental towards me as you want since I got my fair share of maliciousness being a Chinese woman on the English internet anyway. By the end of the day, I hope you do enjoy your "feel-good-ness". But this very mean woman here is not gonna buy some food and then just throw it away later simply to show some so-called "gratitude".