Hi, Ihave been watching your videos for awhile now, love them. Spending $30 usd for that amount of food a day is insanely cheap when you consider what a big mac meal cost in the u.s. The food looked incrediable keep on enjoying.
When selecting bitter melon, pick the ones with surface bumps that are plump, lighter color. Don't pick any that looks skinny and the bumps look small, compact and tight, as if not enough water in the melon, those will be more bitter. Cut vertically in two halves and scrape out the seeds and the white material completely. Slice the bitter melon, rub salt and let it sit for 30 minutes. Wash the salt away and squeeze the excess water off melon slices. Then stir fry. The bitterness will be mild and you may grown to like it. It is a cooling food that can help expel summer heat and reduce inflammation. This works on picking large bitter melons, not sure about the small Indian bitter melons.
If you find bitter melon a little bitter, it means that you are still very young. In China, we have another name for bitter melon: elderly melon or gentleman melon. We adult like bitter melon very much and find it very special and refresing. Only when you are mature enough, then you can appreciate the taste of it. It is known as gentleman melon because, even when it is bitter in taste, when it was cooked with other ingredients, e.g. beef, its bitterness will never affect the flavor of other ingredients. No mixing of tastes and each ingredient can preserve its own identity.
Hi Alex, I’m coming to China in March to visit Yunnan, Sichuan region and Chongching. I want to be able to enjoy Chinese food so I’m trying to learn Mandarin. Do you have any resources or tips? I’m a very experienced language learner so hoping to be able to learn enough to make sure I don’t accidentally eat meat. Would love to see a video from you with useful Chinese expressions for a vegan in China! For now I’m going through your videos and making notes!
Hi Sophie! I have some free language cards that could be helpful to you in my buy me a coffee link if you check my channel bio! I also include a lot of language help in my instagram posts. Have fun in China ❤
Many foods either make it into recipes because they are tasty or because the Chinese feel that eating this is good for your health, such as bitter melon.There are also some vegetables that were given to animals in earlier years, and these were either eaten because they needed to be cooked with more fats and seasonings to make them tasty.Over the years they have only gradually become popular on the dinner table because people's standard of living has risen and they are tired of the grease of meat.
百变人, bitter melon is a good vegetable, you know? When bitter melon is fully ripe, it turns yellow and is sweet. If you like to cook your own vegetables at home, add sugar when cooking bitter melon. Eat it a few times and you'll love it.😊
I highly recommend coconut milk with coffee, any other milk will delete the benefits of drinking coffee. Drinking coffee immediately upon waking is generally not recommended because it can interfere with your body's natural cortisol production, potentially leading to increased anxiety, disrupted sleep patterns, and a heightened sensitivity to caffeine by disrupting your body's natural wake-up cycle; it's best to wait at least 30-60 minutes after waking up to allow your cortisol levels to naturally decline before consuming caffeine.
Thanks for the tips! I think it took 30 minutes after I left the hotel to even find someplace open 🤣 Usually I drink my coffee black, but coconut milk is a no-go because in China most contain casein, a milk protein 😭
What do we think about this style of travel vlog? Would appreciate your feedback!
Love your style so much
Me too@@positivemindsets2225
Well if you're vegan then Dali is the place to be. The variety of vegetables and mushrooms is mind-blowing there
💯! Yunnan cuisine in general is very plant-forward!
@@veganinchina lol Yunnan shrooms culture go crazy
非常非常喜欢你的风格💗每集的内容都非常有趣💯
谢谢！看你的评论，我就很感动了！🥰
Nice video , I recommended ur channel to my Indian friend who’s planning for a trip to China and she’s also a vegan❤
Thank you! Hope she has a wonderful time !
8:56 wow! The wall painting is so beautiful! ❤
The street art was incredible. Dali Old Town is such a vibe!
Dali is beeeeeautiful!
Agreed!
The vegetables’re just beautiful and delicious!
They are!
Hi, Ihave been watching your videos for awhile now, love them. Spending $30 usd for that amount of food a day is insanely cheap when you consider what a big mac meal cost in the u.s. The food looked incrediable keep on enjoying.
Yes, it's not bad by US standards!
LOVE these videos ! Your a Breath of Fresh Air Alex! Bringing together 2 things I Love - Veganism, and Chinese culture! 🙏💚🌌
Aw, thanks Timothy! Thanks for watching 💚
Thankfully my favorite Luckin coffee shops open early when located outside malls.
It's a "fortunately-unfortunately" kind of situation for me haha. I'm not a huge luckin fan, but it's good to have an option for sure!
Coffee looks amazing! Wow!
It was almost too pretty to drink!
Cool content, thanks for taking us along!
Thanks for watching!
We always watch your videos at breakfast and are always impressed. Thank you so much for that! The cost for one day sounds really low. 😊
@@DarkXanh thank you, so happy to know you enjoy my videos 😄
Wow that is so affordable - in the UK you'd probably pay 10x that 😭
and plenty more alternatives. In the UK it's mainly Quorn which I don't like.
why so expensive in UK ?
Te vi en el video de coolvision de pekin. Ya tienes un seguidor más. Saludos desde Cali Colombia.
Muchas gracias y bienvenido! Siempre he querido visitar Colombia!
@veganinchina sería genial, por acá siempre a la orden!
blondie in china just got married! but her biggest secret: mush hotpot!!!
Love me some mushrooms! (and maybe a hint for an upcoming video 😉)
When selecting bitter melon, pick the ones with surface bumps that are plump, lighter color. Don't pick any that looks skinny and the bumps look small, compact and tight, as if not enough water in the melon, those will be more bitter. Cut vertically in two halves and scrape out the seeds and the white material completely. Slice the bitter melon, rub salt and let it sit for 30 minutes. Wash the salt away and squeeze the excess water off melon slices. Then stir fry. The bitterness will be mild and you may grown to like it. It is a cooling food that can help expel summer heat and reduce inflammation. This works on picking large bitter melons, not sure about the small Indian bitter melons.
@@tonyc5384 thanks for the tips!
6:39 糯米 is Nuo4 Mi3 , not ru2 mi3
But anyway , ur mandarin sounds very authentic tho😁
Good catch! When I was watching back and editing, I was very confused as to why I said rumi 🤣🤣
If you find bitter melon a little bitter, it means that you are still very young. In China, we have another name for bitter melon: elderly melon or gentleman melon. We adult like bitter melon very much and find it very special and refresing. Only when you are mature enough, then you can appreciate the taste of it. It is known as gentleman melon because, even when it is bitter in taste, when it was cooked with other ingredients, e.g. beef, its bitterness will never affect the flavor of other ingredients. No mixing of tastes and each ingredient can preserve its own identity.
Haha, I like that explanation! Thanks!
Hi Alex, I’m coming to China in March to visit Yunnan, Sichuan region and Chongching. I want to be able to enjoy Chinese food so I’m trying to learn Mandarin. Do you have any resources or tips? I’m a very experienced language learner so hoping to be able to learn enough to make sure I don’t accidentally eat meat. Would love to see a video from you with useful Chinese expressions for a vegan in China! For now I’m going through your videos and making notes!
Hi Sophie! I have some free language cards that could be helpful to you in my buy me a coffee link if you check my channel bio! I also include a lot of language help in my instagram posts. Have fun in China ❤
hello, i am in Xian and i am vegetarian. love to watch your videos
Thank you! I love Xi'an!
Many foods either make it into recipes because they are tasty or because the Chinese feel that eating this is good for your health, such as bitter melon.There are also some vegetables that were given to animals in earlier years, and these were either eaten because they needed to be cooked with more fats and seasonings to make them tasty.Over the years they have only gradually become popular on the dinner table because people's standard of living has risen and they are tired of the grease of meat.
百变人, bitter melon is a good vegetable, you know? When bitter melon is fully ripe, it turns yellow and is sweet. If you like to cook your own vegetables at home, add sugar when cooking bitter melon. Eat it a few times and you'll love it.😊
I think I could get used to it! First time is just a bit surprising 😂
@@veganinchina It's in fact fruit (have seed), like cucumber/tomato/avocado
Fun fact indeed! As long as they don't put it in my fruit salad (which is common with tomatoes here), bitter melon can be what it wants to be 😂
Wonder how they keep the flaxseed latte from cong🤔
Yeah bitter melon is an acquired taste! There’s health nuts who drink bitter melon juice too。苦瓜汁 is known to lower blood sugar.
Geez, that amount of food you bought in a day would be three days worth if food for me 😂
😂😂😂 I do have quite an appetite... but it also was for two people!
你的英文很流利，繼續努力！
咖啡超級貴..........無言
云南大理、丽江这些文青圣地，都是些宰客的地方，北京任何一个咖啡馆的都要比这些小城便宜！更可笑的是，云南本身都还是盛产咖啡豆的地方。而且这些店主大多是文青来创业的。文青宰起客来一点都不手软，看看那些所谓文创产品就知道。这些文青满嘴的诗与远方，实际上贪婪刻薄😅
第二天找到了7块钱的咖啡！
Who is this beauty? She is beautiful and speaks well.
11:37 that's banana leaf!
Thank you!
Really standard Mandarin!
yum 🥗
去广州，性价比更好。吃在广州
去广州必须吃啥？😋
羡慕你，你去过的中国地方比很多中国人都多，你也品尝过很多中国人没品尝过的中国美食
大理是艳遇之都，你在这里一定会有发生什么吧😂😂😂
兩杯咖啡賣73元? 咁貴? 不如去搶算了。這麼坑人。
I won't buy such an expensive coffee ( two for 73 yuen). I think you are being cheated.
我同意，太贵了！
it is just 1hour or 2hours of wage in the US or EU 😅,so cheap,isnt it? but it has been expensive for many chinese working class.
I think it depends. On Chinese social media I was surprised that many thought it was pretty reasonable for Dali.
I highly recommend coconut milk with coffee, any other milk will delete the benefits of drinking coffee. Drinking coffee immediately upon waking is generally not recommended because it can interfere with your body's natural cortisol production, potentially leading to increased anxiety, disrupted sleep patterns, and a heightened sensitivity to caffeine by disrupting your body's natural wake-up cycle; it's best to wait at least 30-60 minutes after waking up to allow your cortisol levels to naturally decline before consuming caffeine.
Thanks for the tips! I think it took 30 minutes after I left the hotel to even find someplace open 🤣 Usually I drink my coffee black, but coconut milk is a no-go because in China most contain casein, a milk protein 😭
Vegan friendly in China
Too many options
💯