This Is What People in China Eat For Breakfast!?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Breakfast in China is slightly different compared to the usual breakfast we are used to back home in Europe and the West. But after trying ALOT of different types of breakfasts here in China, we actually think China has better options for meals to get your day kick started!
So if you are heading to China and wondering what you should be tucking into for your first meal of the day, this video will take you through all the best, most common, and some of our favorite Chinese breakfasts!
I hope your hungry!!
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Remember guys there are just the variety for this city/province. If you travel to anther city, the breakfast selections could be vastly different than anything you see here.
We definitely have noticed the breakfast options change as we move but most of these can be found everywhere... that we've been so far haha
@@EoinandAisling these can be found in most parts of China, but the taste is different...
在几十年前，当有巨大差异的时候，对应的是很多人的营养不良/不足。
视频中的早餐你在中国的任何一个城市都可以找到
@@loongsiu4766 每个城市都有自己独特的风味 唯一相同的是都很好吃
Thanks!
Thank you for all your support, it really means the world and I am so glad you enjoy watching our journey
Glad to see you are guys enjoying travel and local food
Breakfast varies from province to province and even from city to city in China. I live in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and my favorite breakfasts include sweet soybean milk, salty soybean milk, deep-fried doughnuts (which can be dipped in a little bit of soy sauce), xiao long bao (small dumplings), bamboo shoots with shao mai (roasted pork), noodles mixed with peanut sauce, noodles mixed with scallions and oil, skinny pork porridge with egg, millet porridge, pumpkin porridge, and many other types of sweet or salty porridge. The crust on the outside of the JianBing you guys are eating in the video is made of mixed grains and it's my favorite too. There are still some breakfasts in China that I haven't had either, so I look forward to your continued exploration.
The title of 'Food Paradise' is well-deserved. From street snacks to Michelin-starred restaurants, every bite is a decadent treat for the taste buds. Chinese cuisine, I'm completely smitten!
The interpretation of “signature “ to mandarin 招牌 is really on point 🤌🤌🤌
Aw this is great to hear!
In Chinese steamed bun= man-tou which is without fillings and made with different flours. So when you asked “what’s your favorite steamed bun?”, it translated to “what’s your favorite mantou?” The seller then pointed to corn flour mantou, probably over the wheat, buckwheat or whole wheat flour mantou, all steamed buns without fillings.
Steamed bun with filings = Bao-zi. To not be confused with mantou the steamed buns, it’s better to ask for Baozi instead of steamed bun. My favorite Baozi is Cai Baozi (Tsai-green vegetables baozi). The fillings are shiitake mushrooms and green vegetables.
Another favorite is hua-juan which is steamed twisted buns with green onions.
Thanks for your wonderful videos.
What makes foreign friends confused most is the difference between 包子baozi and 馒头 mantou. Because they're the same word bun in English. So it's better to use Pinyin for them on this situation. Basically 皮蛋瘦肉粥 is very popular in Chinese communities overseas. I noticed that there was no pieces of century old eggs in your congee. Bakeries in China only serve western style bread that we don't eat for breakfast. It's an economic option to grab food for breakfast from streetfront eateries and street vendors! Remember the difference between 包子，饺子，馒头，和面包。小笼包其实是包子，但被翻译成Soup dumplings😂. Honestly watching your video makes me feel hungry at the moment! Enjoy your trip in hangzhou!!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I saw many people call 包子 dumpling because it might have similar ingredients and methods to make as 饺子。
Yes, Baozi has filling usually. Mantou refers to plain buns without fillings. Both are leavened using yeast. Jiaozi, Xiaolongbao is just wrappers that are dough made with oil unleavened. However some northern Xiaolongbao variation that you get in Beijing, Xi'an is more like leavened wrapping. Shanghai and southern ones are more unleavened wrapper, small and delicate.
Like you are brave enough to try different things 👏👍 Enjoy the diverse cuisine in 🇨🇳 🥟🍜
Thank you! And we will! We love to try as many new cuisines as possible
Very well presentation for Chinese breakfast.
Thanks so much ☺️
Love the Irish accent! My favourite in the whole world! Much love from Sydney, Australia
I miss Jianbing, I can have it every single day!!!!!!
They are AMAZING!!
Yes，we Chinese also like JianBing煎饼果子.
我喜欢川菜，水煮肉片，麻婆豆腐，但必须去四川，重庆才正宗
I like dim sum (literally translated as a touch of heart) as breakfast. It is popular in the cities in Guangdong province, including Hong Kong.
Mantou = bun withou filling. Baozhi= bun with filling.
This is essential information we needed!
你买的那家茶叶蛋做的一般， 做的好的茶叶蛋剥壳后可以看到明显的网状黑色纹路，那种才是把味道渗透入蛋白的表现
In most hotels, especially the ones 3 stars above, there is usually breakfast buffet that is HUGE. I stayed at one in Hanghzhou and it took 3 mins to walk the buffet... fresh watermelon juice, a giant honey comb (fresh), every single item you can imaging, it's everything you showed here in one place.
Welcome to Guangzhou, where breakfast has the most variety and the best taste in China.
I’m salivating. Got to have a coffee and donut now!
Your video truly presents the beauty of China. Thank you.
Shaomai 烧麦 is styled in the south with stuffed sticky rice, while in the north they are stuffed with meat and veggies. as a person born in the north but of south origin, i prefer the northern style. wish you both have a nice stay in China.
Oh wow! They both sound very tasty :)
learn your own country's geograpy, 江南地区is centre or east of China
The soutern style 烧卖 （Cantanese style is the representative）is stuffed with meat too, just as similar as the northern one😒🎉
I disagree with you. 我是浙江人，江浙地区烧麦都是肉馅。你是哪里的南方人？不熟悉情况不要乱讲话
@@jameska112 江浙地区烧麦绝大多数都是糯米的，反正我在江浙生活多年没有没买到过肉馅的。
@@Ztoa.W 你生活在江浙哪里？我家是浙江嘉兴，包括上海在内，这一带地区烧麦只有一种，叫做鲜肉烧麦，哪里有糯米的，太胡扯了。从小吃早饭买烧麦吃只有鲜肉烧麦。你明显不是出生在江浙沪的人
good video as always!! next stop you gotta try Hot Dry Noodles (Re Gan Mian, 热干面), signature morning dish from Wuhan, Hubei province.
Thanks for the tips! We will have to look out for it :)
my fav is cantonese breakfast, but you have clear your schedule for the day pretty much
Finally!!
I miss Chinese breakfast so bad. Every different city has its own breakfast specialty.
That’s my favourite part about moving to new cities and areas… THE FOOD!
It's really good. What you have summarized is really the most common part of Chinese people in the morning. There are many more. You can explore slowly. Just one "饼", there are at least hundreds of kinds in China. Chinese food is much more complex than that in the West
Haha..that tea egg looks like a pale shadow of the ones we have here in Malaysia. The tea eggs over here are flavourful and aromatice with herbs.
We thought the same but eoin said it was still tasty
吃好喝好，喝好吃好。😀
Tea eggs are boil in herb soup in 8 hours approximately. The well cooked tea egg give u a fragrance of the herb soup inside. The less cooking time, the less fragrance inside the egg.
Thank you guys for using properly nice title, and not some click bait title
Your particular tea egg didn't not have enough cracks. Otherwise, the egg white would look a lot darker.
we thought it wasnt as dark as we usually see them but didnt know why
@@EoinandAisling浸泡不久 没有完全入味
Enjoy the beauty of experiencing and embracing cultural differences-bless you!
Chinese pizza (jian bing) is my favorite!! I can eat it all day long!! so simple, but so delicious!!
Pork liver congee is my favorite, the Cantonese style ones are amazing, the liver slices are really soft and creamy
Really enjoy your video a lot. So fun 😘
actually the fried dough sticks are supposed to be put in the salty soybean milk but sweet one😂😂 we also put soy sauce in tasteless soybean milk it is also delicious
Beef Rice-noodles from Hunan is my favorite breakfast in China 😊
Ohh that sounds so tasty
@@EoinandAisling They are delicious. And If you travel to Yunnan or Guanxi Provinces, you can try rice noodles there. Their rice noodles are also famous and tasty in China.
In some Chinese places, people also eat sweet porridge, e.g. a famous one: 腊八粥, la ba zhou.
If you ever go to the province of Fujian, one of our most well known breakfast combinations are peanut butter banmian (noodles) eaten with Fujianese wonton soup called Bian Rou. Definitely give it a try some time!
people from some southern places eat rice noodles for breakfast, must try
Very nice video for some basic Chinese breakfasts that foreign visitors can try. For soy milk, it actually has a salty version which is also fantastic. In addition, please note that the soy milk you can find from the street is way much better than you can find in the West in a bottle.
The potato is that wrap is usually stir fried first like a proper dish then used as filling
I feel like I want to try cooking it that way myself now haha
The way you tear the "you tiao" to put into the soya milk bowl is almost similar to the way I do it too , here in Singapore . However, such shops are rare today as they are specialties of the Taiwanese who are not expanding in recent years
quite informative! Thank you!
Eoin, the Tea Egg which you ate at 15:28 minutes has not been sufficiently marinated yet... Therefore that egg which you ate tastes very similar to normal hard boiled egg...If it has been sufficiently marinated, when you peel off the egg shell, the egg white section alone will be Dark Brown in colour.
Baked Char Sui Bao (BBQ Pork Bun) is my favorite hard to find.
New technology very helpful for people love to travel around the world 😊
I think the potato is crunchy not because it's not cooked all the way through, it's just rinsed with water to get the excess starch out, that's what chinese do when we want crunchy 土豆丝
Exactly!
It's also done with a different kind of potato, a much less starchy and much more crunchy (and watery) kind
Soaking potatoes in water is to remove excess starch, and the real reason for the crispiness of potato shreds is the addition of vinegar. When vinegar is added to the pot during the cooking process, the potatoes will become crisp.
Wuhan is definitely the city of breakfasts in China.
It's China's Breakfast Capital for sure
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Tianjin is. You can have different choices everyday for a whole year.
那么广东算什么(๑•̌.•̑๑)ˀ̣ˀ̣
网上都说淄博烧烤，有没有人知道岳阳烧烤也不差，来尝尝
The tea egg you eat is not pickled well, so the taste is very light, and the surface of the perfectly pickled tea egg will have the color of tea, and even the texture of marble (cracks in the eggshell), and the taste will be very good
Definitely should try bean curd. I like the salty one very much.
The Bon should be translated as “bao zi “ it has stuffing inside, while mantou means the steam bread .
hv a good time in China
I LOVE ALL THE FOODS YOU HAVE EATEN AND TASTED MANY THOUGH NOT ALL OF THEM AND THEY ARE ALL YUMMY!
So so good!!! I just want to eat them all over again haha this video made me very hungry when we were making it 😂
The way Aisling take the fried dough stick is the best ! A slight dip and down the hatch!
I like the dough sticks when they are still crispy
Very good to share！！！🎉🎉🎉
I feel starving when I watching this at midnight as a Chinese. I miss Chinese food sooo much.
Don’t watch at midnight!!! Haha should have warned at the beginning 🤤
I love soybean milk and deep frid dough best for breakfast😊 豆浆油条
2:36 if it's your staple diet then say it correctly..... Jen Bin (jian bing)
11:00 for the beef congee, you can also dip the youtiao into it as well... also add a bit of white pepper (if they have it) to enhance the taste...
you'll need to try the spring onion pancakes..... wrap it with a stick of youtiao.... heaven
Oh wow that sounds delicious! and as for the jianbing, we have researched and looked up how to say it so many times and often get a different answer. So this was our best attempt but we did try!
I don't know if this video is still in Hangzhou. The Zhiwei Guan（知味观） in the video on the first day of Hangzhou is very famous. I often have breakfast there when I travel to Hangzhou
My dude..... "Man tou" and "bao zi" are both buns but you'll get very different things when you order. "Man tou" are ALWAYS steamed buns that have no fillings. "Man tou" is one of the main carbs the Chinese have in their diet. It's either rice, noodles, flat bread (bing) or "man tou" as a main. A more gritty version of a "man tou" is a "wo wo tou" but that is a whole different story for another day.
"Bao zi" literally translates as "little wraps" - "bao" here meaning wrapped. "Zi" is added to signify it being small, little, petit, etc. "Bao zi" always comes with filling. It's a "man tou" with little bits of goodies wrapped inside it. Every Chinese family will have their own take on the fillings inside the "bao zi" making them unique and worth the experience.
Enjoy your time in China.
This has been a very fun and educational comment haha feel like we need to sit down and learn about all the breads and the meanings, they are honestly incredible
@@EoinandAisling In Chinese steamed bun= man-tou which is without fillings and made with different flours. So when you asked “what’s your favorite steamed bun?”, it translated to “what’s your favorite mantou?” The seller then pointed to corn flour mantou, probably over the wheat, buckwheat or whole wheat flour mantou, all steamed buns without fillings.
Steamed bun with filings = Bao-zi. To not be confused with mantou the steamed buns, it’s better to ask for Baozi instead of steamed bun. My favorite Baozi is Cai Baozi (Tsai-green vegetables baozi). The fillings are shiitake mushrooms and green vegetables.
Another favorite is hua-juan which is steamed twisted buns with green onions.
Thanks for your wonderful videos.
There are tens of thousands of breakfasts in China.😊
The variety is insane
It is an accurate calculation, not exaggeration,😀
@wangjutao I well believe it 😅
Def got try 豆腐脑 got both sweet and savory flavors and very hard to find it In The west.
6:25: yea that translator is quite a bit off. You asked about stem buns, but when it translated it as Mantou (Steamed bread roll) instead of Bao. That's why the guy was confused when you asked what's inside the Mantou, nothing. Baos are the ones that has stuffings
Good to know that but the main thing is that we can commute a lot better because without the translator we wouldn’t be able to ask those kinda questions
温州糯米饭，广州的早茶 肠粉 梅菜干肉饼 八宝粥 瘦肉丸 馄饨 胡辣汤 羊肉泡馍 刀削面 蔬菜包子 驴肉火烧 红枣味的牛奶 豆腐脑 豆浆是有分甜咸的，你也可以喝原味。❤
I like your video
Thank you!
I saw your video, seems you are in Shenzhen which is my home city. maybe you can try the local breakfast Dim Sum, like your video and hope you enjoy your trip.
有馅的是包子，没馅的是馒头：）
Thank you!
Amazing episode👍
Thanks so much!!
The downside is it sucks when you are not a morning person XD By the time I wake up most of those shops are already closed lol
我也想吃😋
Breakfast is different in every place in China. Even if it is the same type, the taste is different in every place.
现在是早上4:55,我得点个外卖来吃，看饿了
饮食文化的交流，太棒了
So much freedom and joy in China.
我觉得你们的视频从拍摄到编辑都很专业，像电视旅游节目。
Aw thank you so much! This is such a huge compliment
You will have the delicious and various choices for breakfast in China, that is absolutely amazing!
So good! Everyday we are so excited to get out and see what we find
My favorite breakfast is cantonese dim sum. Have you been to Shenzhen yet?
This just where to where? There's still a lot to dig.
Your translation device is just like google translate. When you ask the vendor which is his favorite, it asks which steam bread/bun w/ no filling (mantou). I think you meant to ask which baozi or stuffed steam buns.
It seems the translator is quite accurate, not bad.
ru jia mo is the best
我還沒吃過這種燒賣?😮😮麵包裹米飯,都是澱粉
最喜歡是廣東點心😂😂
Oh yes! So so tasty 🤤
Noodles, China is noodles heaven without fail...
Lots of yummy carbs😅😅
So many!
Shao Mai is traditional Chinese dimsum, unfortunately, in America they either couldn't or make in very bad quality, of course, the price is so much more expensive as well
I grew up on jian bing, but I've never seen it made like that. This must be due to recent modernization ... maybe?
DELICIOUS 👍👍👍
It really was
早上我最喜欢吃广东肠粉
什么时候去云南
🎉🎉🎉
T1 mini messed up the translation for numerical counters. The "2" is counting 2 and not ordering 2 it should be "liang ge" instead of "er ge"
Zongzi， the must-eat delicacy during the dragon boat festival
🎉🎉❤❤
kfc breakfast haha
There are so many provinces in China, diffierent provinces with different specialties, totally different. As a cantonese, I think the cantonese food is the best.
作为一名天津人我也觉得中国菜中粤菜应该是最好吃的，并且是最高级的
most of the breakfast showing the this video is from north China, actualy there is more more more kind of breakfast。😁
馒头和包子是两种品类，包子都是里面有馅料的，馒头一般都没有
看得我好馋啊😂
hangzhou, beijing (shenzhen also)are known for lacking of good food 😂
这就有些扯了。
这只是相对而言，每个地方都有自己特色的美食。
我就住在荒漠里
西湖醋鱼，豆汁儿申请出战😂😂
@@winfredluo6001 浙菜是中国八大菜系之一啊。
there ought be a law banning food posts like this! because my next trip to shanghai is six months away.😆
milk？？？不是酒酿吗？
I didn’t think it was wine!