What's a Chinese wet market like?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- This week I teamed up with my friends from 'Chinese Cooking Demystified' and visited the local chinese market! We gathered lots of fresh, in-season ingredients to make a 3 course cantonese meal, and the results were DROOL WORTHY!!!!
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Umami is a Japanese word, and we called it 鲜(xian) in Chinese。It's a taste from some kinds of amino acid which can be found in vegetables , seafoods, or meat protein. The umami from vegetables is different from the one from seafoods or meat. Chinese usually use the chicken soup to cook. This is the way to add the chicken umami to dishes. Japanese use the seafood soup called だし（dashi). I haven't write something in English for ten years. Wish you can read it.Thank you for the vedio.
Two of my favorite TH-camrs in one video, lucky :)
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Your positivity is infectious, need more genuine people like you as a window to the world for China.
This is awesome! I love Chinese Cooking Demystified! Two great channels that brings China closer to us! Thank you very much! Greetings from Argentina.
Anything but MSG. Too much of anything is bad for us. But believe me, MSG is worse than salt and sugar. I am 62 and have a few friends and relatives are food lovers got a stroke in their 50s and 60s. Because they ate at restaurants way too often. Oily food has something to do with that but MSG is definitely another factor.
@@benthekeeshond545 Everything in their right amount.
@@benthekeeshond545 Restaurant food is tends to be really high in sodium, fat and sugar. MSG contains sodium which eating too much can increase the risk of a stroke, but it contains less sodium than salt. If MSG contributes to the risk of stroke, it is most likely due to the S, sodium, paired together with a diet already high in salt. Even if you don't eat at a many restaurants, tons of processed foods contain MSGs.
@@benthekeeshond545 MSG is naturally present in so many foods and there is no modern science that supports the idea that it is bad for your body. Pseudo-science from the 1960s coupled with xenophobia of chinese immigrants is what made the idea that MSG is bad for you wide spread. Google some recent science articles and you'll realize that MSG isn't any worse than salt. Of course, too much of anything and our bodies can't take it but MSG isn't the devil that many people seem to believe.
@@benthekeeshond545Actually, lots of Chinese restaurants do not allow their chief to use MSG now. Because many Chinese people think if chief MSG add in the food, it will have a weird umami flavor
I didn’t know this crossover existed!!! Chinese cooking demystified is amazing
这特邀嘉宾英语真好，词汇量巨大！！！学习了。
刘硕洋 Chinese food marketing?
词汇量真的没得说，职业英语很多人都会，但这些生活上的词汇，尤其是食物的词汇还真是难倒不少人。尤其是中餐的词汇。。。
确实，感觉英语功力及其深厚。
一边看一边拿小本本记下来这些我背完要你命3000都没学到的词
这嘉宾是美加口音。 可能是留学回去的
I just realized that I‘ve found a great channel for learning English. Clear pronunciation, great content!
UMAMI described in Chinese should be : 鲜 Like Chris said : it's the 5th taste other then sweet , sour , bitter, and spicy! In Chinese cooking five words 酸，甜，苦，辣，鲜 ！In Guangdong 鲜actually become the most important flavor out of the five! And yes, that's what mom said! 😁
Loved the umami animation you added those few times, so cute! As a fellow Cantonese Chinese American I'm so glad you got a taste of Cantonese flavors and enjoyed it!
Alvin Kuang thanks Alvin!!
I am Cantonese from Shenzhen and now I have been living in the US for more than 20 years. I love Cantonese home cooked meals, just like what this girl cooks at home. Steamed fish with ginger and scallions on top, stirred fried fresh leafy greens either with garlic or fomented tofu as seasoning, pork chops with black bean sauce, homemade Cantonese style soup...
Bitter melon soup, stir-fried sweet potato leaves, steamed fish, and black-bean pork ribs: these dishes are literally my day-to-day food in sz! very authentic and Cantonese!!! LOVE how Steph just threw around the "umami" concept here and there LOL and LOVE how you explored its meaning (and msg too!). Hope you're enjoying your trip and can't wait to see some more!!!
BTW, the fish-murdering scene just crapped me up!!!! LOL
Haha this is so cool, I just found your channel randomly, iv never seen such a cool video about shenzhen, I'm Israelie and I moved to shekou 11 years ago, hope you enjoy the beauty of shenzhen
“凉瓜黄豆汤”、“腐乳炒薯叶”、“清蒸鱼”、“豉汁排骨”。They are all very traditional Cantonese family dishes. I miss them so much. Hard to imagine here in the U.S.
this lady's english is very very good! very like her accent!
Umami is the flavor coming from certain types of amino acid, for simple cooking, you can add MSG or chicken powder to make the food taste "umami".
Those are bitter gourds or karela as they are called in north India/Pakistan. Never had bitter gourd soup, but my mum makes a mean curry with bitter gourd, lamb, golden onions and tomato. The bitterness has to be perfectly balanced with sweetness from onions and tomato tartness. Absolutely divine. Some people also cook it with jaggery or unrefined sugar from sugar cane. Never had that kind.
Your content is so so inspiring for Chinese language learners like me. After watching your previous videos, I've decided to move to Beijing to study in Tsinghua Uni next month. Thanks!! I hope I can meet you in person :)
We are happy to help as well. If you want to get a head start and get some 1-1 instruction I can give you a free online trial class.
Yummy, I can smell the delicious dishes😁... if you get the chance, you need to try stir fried bitter gourd with egg, black bean and chopped ginger, is delish! Can't wait to see your next video! 😀🇨🇦
Steamed fish and steamed ribs are my favorite Cantonese food besides dim sum.
Takes me right back to the markets in Tuen Mun in New Territories. So shocked to see fish that had been cut in half down the spine and to prove it's still fresh you can see the heart ❤ still beating. So long ago and yet I still remember that vividly. Another fun foodie vid, great collab. Yeah I like Chinese food, it's simple and uncomplicated but tasty. Thanks Aimz! See ya next vid! 😃
support you ! Love your vlogs about China. We love China.
There used to be a weekend market across from my place in Lanxi as a kid - there was always a guy that would sit in one of the alleys of the market near the entrance, so I'd always have to walk by him, with two crates both with live frogs. He would pick up a frog, skin it with a knife, and throw it into the bucket with the other skinned ones, and they would just writhe and squirm all over each other in one big bloody pulsing mass of flesh. If you wanted some he would pick a few out and throw em in a bag for you. It always curbed my appetite a little, having to walk by him to get to the other vendors.
Oh I just LOVE Chinese supermarkets! There is always something new to discover. A couple of years ago I've been checking out one of the boggest supermarkets I've ever seen in China. The 欧亚卖场！
Changchun
欧亚卖场 is in 长春
Love your channel! Its so inspiring to see you speak chinese and exploring China!
They usually don't put monosodium glutamate in their cooking. Only those with insufficient level can use monosodium glutamate for rescue
Omfg I love you soooo much more now. Chinese cooking Demystified is what got me so interested in China in the first place! They’re the reason I bought my first carbon steel wok.
I remember when I got back from China I went in to a little shop that run by a Korean and bought some preserved tofu. The look on the girl cashier was priceless - you do know what that is was her question.
Wow, her cooking skill is amazing. 😱 I can even smell it across my screen.
Since I accidentally watch AMY's video, I have kept watching in a row of 4 days !!!!!!!!!! Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing video, like it very much. Good to let the world knows our wonderful Chinese food.
Umami is from a Japanese word ‘旨み’ which means “鲜味” in Chinese.
awesome video. As a Chinese American living in Asia past decade, real Chinese food is amazing!
8:15 "I love cat butt" x)
The Chinese language actually long has had the word「鮮」as the equivalent to “umami”. Steph should know.
It is the flavor of the protein (actually, the amino acids). Humans typically can sense the taste of two amino acids: aspartate and glutamate. MSG is basically sodium glutamate.
Damian Rhea It can mean the Umami flavour and it also can just mean fresh.
I’m not sure but I think Chinese had this word and concept first. Just like whole lots of other things lol.
Yep~ that's the point! I also can't get it when people are using non-Chinese words for a Chinese originated concept.
Jason lu Like 围棋 Wei Qi vs. Go. xD
As a Cantonese, I would say the three dishes are so common and typical dishes in Cantonese daily life.
I shouldn't have watch this episode in midnight, I am feeling so hungury right now.
Best way i always described Umami is basically something that is "juicy" but in a savory way
I just found your channel and I absolutely loving the contents, thank you for the good work
Amy! I've been in your channel since you only had like 5000 subs!! It's really nice to see you grow until 64,000+ subs :)
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WTF HE JUST SLAMMED THAT FISH
LOL ... thats how they kill the fish for you , im dead...
"I've avoided those century eggs for years." Apparently not long enough. Also umami is 鲜. The left part is 鱼 which means fish and the right part is 羊 which means lamb (or goat).
Xiao Zhang thanks for the info! Still have so much to learn about Chinese food and cooking!
@@BlondieinChinabesides the basic taste, there are a lot of other flavours, like 麻，香，鲜
@@yuanshuodu748 香 pertains to "smell", but 麻 is indeed a "taste" sensation.
Oh yeah the lights at the meat places are to keep bugs out. They are selling outdoors after all!
That is what I miss about Chinese markets. You can smell everything you might purchase. Markets in the US and other countries have everything wrapped in plastic so there are no smells at all. We go to a local Chinese market and even there, most items have no smell, altho smells from the fish dept would definitely raise warning flags for me. Keep up the great videos, Amy.
I equate umami as meaty taste. For instance, if you cook a pot of vegetable soup and season it with only salt, it still tastes blend. If you put in a tiny amount of msg, it instantly tastes better.
Bitter gourd / melon aren't really that bitter, maybe similar to a garden grown green pepper.
They are available at some supermarkets here in the States and is good for balancing blood sugar levels naturally
No. They're definitely bitter.
They contain plant insulin therefore the blood glucose levels drop.
Hahah “Sweet potato leaves don’t taste like sweet potato” You are sooo cute! Sweet potato leaves is one of my favourite vegetables (especially my grandma cooked)😆
This Chinese girl has MASSIVE vocab, and SUPER fluent!
I’m from Thailand and thais here we called century eggs like ‘ไข่เยี่ยวม้า’ actually it means the horse’s urine but we don’t put the egg in the urine by the way haha
WoW Meilin wholesale market which next to my home! So long time didn't back to Shenzhen due to the epidemic, good to see the neighborhood on TH-cam 👍🏻
Hey blondie, here is another ancient concept of “Umani”
The concept for that 5th taste is from my understanding and belief Chinese ancient culture toward food. In Chinese character the 5th taste is described as “鲜” . Just as any other language， this word contains 2 individual components to combine to become a new vocabulary which are 鱼 and 羊, fish and lamb. Here you go, the whole point for the special taste came from the flavor of combination of fish and lamb.
So, if you really want to understand the concept and the actual flavor you will need to dig out what the ancient people believed because they created it. As a result I suggest you to put a piece of fish and a piece of lamb (better with bones) into a cooker to boil them, then taste it. It’s better than what the MSG can give you. Ta
james Xing thank you so much for sharing!!
@@BlondieinChina Scientists has found the fifth receptor for the umami flavor in human taste buds. Confirming this is the fifth flavor as sweetness, sour, bitterness, and saltiness. It's indeed hard to describe as but basically is what you get from proteins. Common sources of umami flavor include animal proteins, seaweed, tomatoes, soybeans, and so many more. Also for the info spiciness is not a flavor, it's actually a form of pain.
Amy, you couldn't even put a link to the Chinese Cooking Demystified channel or webpage in the description box? What kind of collaboration and friendship is this?
Yeah now that you mentioned it, my mom used a lot of dried shrimp in her cooking, I guess Cantonese and regions nearby really did use a lot of dried seafood
i have been into these similar but small markets and some things are difficult to define and understand. This is really informative lol. I noticed that Chinese still use salted method of preserving food a lot.
I think the "fish maw" was perhaps jellyfish? I've heard they do eat jellyfish in Guangdong, and she said that it was gelatinous, and the "flotation device" of the fish.
Jim Zorn no, it is a dried fish maw or swim bladder so called
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_bladder
Excellent video! Loved the explanations of all the ingredients.
Brian Petersen thanks Brian!!! Glad you liked it!!
Umami is “鲜”！
lunlunqq cool!!! Thanks!
鲜=鱼+羊。
Umami = fish + sheep
Isnt it xian, fresh?
D D fresh is 新鲜
fresh food usually get more umami, but umami isnt same as fresh,it is a kind of flavor
Lol I love the edits, especially the umami part lol, had me dying
Taylor Swift hahahahaha yay! Thank you!!
Century eggs, if done well, is very delicious.
never warmed to them myself. I didn't hate them but preferred to avoid them.
Haha, new thing, now we know westerners like it. I thought century egg is like a disgusting food and sticky to you ☺️
The word "UMAMI" is come from Japanese,in china we have one word to description called "鲜”
Sensational the supermarket. And the food afterwards = lovely. In this video you have set a new record. Never heard so much "oh, oh, oh, oh ..." from you🤣.
I love your videos. Greetings Alex🙋🏻♂️
In September 2019 I will be in China and will upload more videos on my channel. My 1st video will start from Kunming.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
So close to everyday life. Love this video.
Great video, love food markets! 😁
You can soak the bitter gourd in hot water and squeeze it out to reduce the bitterness.
Excellent episode!
Umami is a word from Japanese, I guess. But Chinese has the character "鲜” for this. It is said to be mainly from a certain kind of amino acid.
Umami=（~~）Miso ，in japanese 味噌、味素，chinese 味精、味素
The market looks pretty clean. Btw, I'm a Chinese & I nvr knew that century egg is preserved with alkaline - I really thought that it's preserved with horse urine. Thank you Amy for another informative, fun & interesting vid! Looking forward to another new one ;-)
Edamame I’m so glad to hear it wasn’t just me that believed the horse urine urban legend!!! You made me feel better! Haha
i love the Chinese markets! Cant wait to get back to stock up with good fresh stuff for the yacht! Maybe I should invite you two to come do a cooking show on the yacht while we cruise the islands!??
I used to work in a Chinese takeout and when they cooked for each other, they would stuffed the bitter melon with ground pork and steamed them. Another dish that I recall was steamed scrambled eggs with lobster roe. Of course these dishes were only for the cooks. They didn't think it would appeal to Western or the American taste.
Calvin Wongn eggs and fish roe !? That's are hella yummy
I remember going to market with my parents as a kid and the seller would help you kill and prepare a live chicken that you chose in front of your face. That was definitely bloody and kinda cruel for a kid to watch. But later I would be enjoying the dish on dinner table. So yah that’s how unique Chinese market is, especially for those who only get to shop from grocery stores. You can’t bargain at grocery stores or ask the seller to give you an onion for free.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Yeah it was definitely super confronting seeing the fish killed in front of me, but that’s just the reality of things!!
In the egg buying part u are like a baby girl first going to the outside world and keeping asking her mother everything she saw😂😄😄 Love your vedios❤
Tiger road literally exactly what I was like!!! I probably said ‘what’s that’ like 50 times to Steph!!
Pi Dan the century egg has nothing to do with urine. It's commonly consumed in the form of Pi Dan lean pork porridge.
But actually there is special kind of egg soaked with virgin boy's urine which is mystifyingly considered to be a kind of medicine back in the old days which is rarely seen nowadays.
Nothing beats home cooking 🥘 🍳 . Yum yum 😋
Flying Banana the smells that came out of that kitchen were INCREDIBLE!!
Very nice. I'm a Singaporean and my dad is Cantonese, and so I can relate to the video. :)
This Chinese gal's English is just amazing! Damn she knows quite a lot high-level words....It seems she used to stay in an English-speaking country for quite some time.
Simon Yue Do you live in Boston? Are you my friend??
Umami is the noun version of that word. Adj. should be umai(woo-ma-ee). The word per se is from Japanese and it actually means tasty, but since it came to the west it describes the taste of mostly seafood, and specifically kelp. MSG is a Japanese invention just to save people’s effort from extracting the flavour from kelp soup. In terms of safety, I believe you can trust Japanese products as much as how those Japanese people trust german technology.
Century eggs are one of my favourite on occasion things to eat, you should give it a try! (With congee)😂
Juliet Colletta or with tofu
with tofu and green onions 😀
Bitter melon chicken soup is the best combo
Know exactly how every dish tastes/smells like, I am homesick watching this video...
Happy New Year. You are a very lucky lady.
Sweet potato leave is very good for health!
My parents' home cooking share so much DNA with those delicious dishes...I guess we're Cantonese then!
Steph: ''If someone gave me one Yuan every time Amy asked a question, I can probably shut my TH-cam account and retire to a Sanya beach resort!''...haha :D
AHHHH COLAB OF THE CENTURY THIS IS ICONIC
Leila Baniassad YAAAAYYYYY!!!!
福田农贸市场，以前住在旁边小区的时候天天来这买东西，超方便
No one is mentioning the sign in the back that says "I love cat butt" lmfao
MSG is the typical example of how umami tastes like. MSG is infact a natural substance existing in many food , like meat fish tomato , especially seafood
OMG！That’s the market right beside my community!
When will the video host go to live in Hainan? I heard the coconut rice and seafood over there are delicious.
Sue speaks English so well!"Umami" learned!lol
Blondie, I wish i am in China, otherwise I would invite you for my home town dishes. And my home town is in Da Peng which you already visited. We mainly have seafood and local veggies. Your friends are really nice!
you can not taste the msg to get umami taste . umami is the taste that enhance the original flavor. example if you add tomato to chicken soup , chicken soup become more tasty . a lot of taste enhancer that we used in kitchen has natural MSG or imami taste. tomato, anchovies , dried sea weeds, dried mushroom etc
Hello Amy! Very much like your video! Just a recommendation, I just came back from a very beautiful place called Cao Yuan Tian Lu (草原天路), It's about four hours drive from Beijing. Definitely would be crazy to see you in that place! (It's better to drive there)
This is going to sound REALLY weird but I was surprised at how Chris looks!! I’ve been watching Chinese cooking demystified and for some reason from his voice I thought he would be bald. Hahahahahahah
Love both of you guys!!
I know this market, I often went there when I was young. Wasn't it Meilin Farm Market（梅林农批市场）? I actually miss it so much.
必须是伟大的福田农批啊
@@xiaolilaoye 可以可以，物美价廉，品种繁多。好想喝夏天的现开椰子汁
Wow my 2 favorite channel. The things they sell in the market are so similar with a vietnamese one with sweet potato leaves, bitter gourd or dried shrimp!!!
Vietnamese cooking learn a lot from Chinese foods specially from Cantonese foods.
Soo great to hear I made your top 2 favourite channels!!!! Made me so happy!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Did you see the legendary balcony?
Love your energy
umami (うまみ), the noun of umai (美味い）in Japanese language, which means "delicious" or "skillful, good at doing something". You can generally think of it as deliciousness, loosely. But they (more westerners than Asians) extended the meaning of it to something that's referred to in your video, a taste in Asian cuisine especially Chinese, a taste beyond sweet, savoury, bitter, sour, and spicy (5 tastes, 五味). In Chinese language there's that one word for it, 鲜, which is loosely translated as "freshness" but doesn't really mean it. The taste of it doesn't just come from fresh ingredients. Tender sprouts of some green vegetables can be 鲜，well-cooked bone broth or meat broth can be it too. Fermented meat or fish, great ham, pickled vegetables, fresh fish or meat, spicy stir-fries, all can be it. The character in Chinese is fish on the left, and lamb on the right. Think about it this way: what's the same between the taste of a fine-cooked fish and fine-cooked lamb? The good taste lingering in your mouth with tanginess and taste that can't be summarized by the 5 tastes. That's what they were going for. So you can hear it in daily life in China, "This soup is 鲜", "Early spring leek is really 鲜", "so 鲜 that my teeth/eyebrows are falling off“.
I love your videos and I'm hoping to visit China one day but I'm a vegetarian and it seems really difficult to get anything to eat there.