The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World ⎜THE WHY Documentary
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- The 5000-seater West Lake Restaurant, in the city of Changsha in China, is the
biggest Chinese restaurant in the world. It has a staff of 1000 and serves no fewer than 150 ducks per day and 200 snakes per week.
Old traditions and new money come together in a vibrant and colorful exploration of modern China. Between mouth-watering and ‘exotic’ Chinese food and the motivational mottos
chanted by the staff, the series examines how China has been transformed over
the last few decades. It also poses the question: In this new affluent and
ambitious China, who is thriving and who is left behind?
Directed by Lawrence Elman & Weijun Chen
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The West Lake is absolutely momumental. Just imagine a football stadium of a restaurant... I also love how they touch on the personal lives of the workers outside the job. Truly humbling.
really appreciate the video segment on worker Peng's home life, financial and family budget situation ~
Ms. Peng is so attractive (no make up) certainly some lucky guy will find her for a great future ~
Lincoln Fong gyul. It filthy mmmm
It made me think of Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki.
She is ENTJ, she loves power, money, intelligence, big picture oriented, sees the future, rational and visionary, commanding, leadership.
MBTI is superstition
While I'm a carnivore, I hate it when animal has to suffer unnecessarily for the pleasure of human eating them. That live fish being fried without killing it quickly first is a total cruelty.
But it's tasty because when it's still alive you can feel taste of its blood still fresh.
@@chinchomeka6946 Freak.
It’s traditional cooking methods, and damn tasty too
I was the cooperate chef of the biggest restaurant in China until 12 years ago. We did approx 8000 guesses a day lunch and dinner. I have 350 cooks on the flag ship store. It is 250000 sq. Ft.
What was the craziest thing that ever happened in the kitchen while you worked there?
@@Damidas
Sometimes my crews asked me what to do when we were hit, I answered “ shoot anything that move”.
this video must be very old. the female owner said her net worth is only 2 million pound. given the current real estate price in china, her restaurant worths at least 20 million pound. that piece of land is huge.
taiwan tungus nahh.. the owner just hiding her fortune, must be stingy as hell also.
Estimate the age of the video (2007 to 2008) using the Audi Q7.
Maybe she is lying because communism is very scary! You don''t want to advertise your wealth!
Nobody give the real figure, in restaurant industry.
Great documentary
She has worked very hard to build up her business to what it is today. She is also a very devout Buddhist and has been blessed! She deserves all the good blessings she has.
No she doesn't you dumb fuck. She wasn't "blessed" she just took advantage of poor people.
She is a buddhist by name only. Not a genuine follower. If she practice truth Buddhist, she would arrange cold storage meat in her restaurant not force her chef to slaugther animals directly, cook for customers to eat in the nsme of fresh meat.
Buddhism are not allowed to eat meat. @@wendyshoo3476
I think everyone should learn about how they manage this restaurant. It is amazing!
team work its everthing awesome
How she become a owner of that restaurant still not revealed🙄.
A three-storey Chinese restaurant?
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*That's Wong on so many levels.*
A Touching story.
I feel so sorry for the lady working to send her lil sister to school, when she can not
Older sister actually
I wonder if things got better for them, since poverty in China has significantly reduced for the past few years. I've heard many poor families have a decent living right now.
How can we help the girl who can't afford to study and has to work? ¥18000 is not much money to many of us but it's saddening that she had to give up everything to work at 15...
mingzybaby contact the producer maybe, but this documentary filmed in 2008, so...
It's very common in early china to nurture and support at least one in the family to with talent to succeed.
This is something else, then usual, some stories and life experiences touch straight to the heart ❤️
Well done, producers and everybody. I am an impatient person. Most movies or videos I watch a little and get bored. This one I watched from beginning to end.
Well done.
Looks like fun!
This gives the audience a great insight into the life and culture of the Chinese people. These people work hard and honest in their living. It is not exactly the same as the West therefore we should understand and respect it.
As an Asian myself, this looks like off to me. Besides, it is more of how socialism works in modern China and less of Chinese philosophy.
@@TNLable cuz chinese philosophy are outdated socialism is far more important in the modern world
It seems most Chinese people work hard. It also seems many Chinese people are very honest. However there are also Chinese people who are not honest and will do bad immoral things to make money either out of desperation and/or greed, even when that screws over other people in China and/or abroad.
Like for example there is SO much counterfeit stuff made inside of China, everything from fake dinosaur fossils to literal fake eggs to entire fake copycat companies.
Making cheaper knockoffs of something more people can afford is usually logically and morally understandable but making dangerous or shoddy knock offs and/or lying to the customers that a knock off is the real thing is wrong.
Another example is all the "tofu dregs construction". There is pretty much no moral excuse for any contractor or construction wormer engaging in that sort of behaviour whatsoever.
Also rich people who cut corners regarding public safety. Like I remember there was one greedy CEO of a milk company in China who watered down the milk he sold in a way that caused some milk to be dangerous to drink and resulted in a young girl's death, so he was (deservedly in my opinion) sentenced and put to death by the law courts in China.
The way these people treat animals is truly disgusting. Shame on them.
the chicken screamed out "help!" at 3:21
Tom Ly ..Lol
This BBC documentary is very old, about 15-20 years old. China looks very different today. It changes so fast that you can't recognize many places after only a few year. Many years ago, when I visited China, I stayed in Changsha (Hunan) for a few weeks. I mistakenly thought BBC was famous and I asked many local Changsha residents about the world's largest restaurant in their city named "West Lake restaurant" although I didn't know its Chinese name . Nobody in the city seemed to know what it was or its location. I looked all over Changsha's map and went around the city, but I couldn't find it.
I was living in China a short time, only 7 month. For me it was a great time, only they did not know history from there own country. That for me was strange, you cant talk about politics and if they agree with it. That is meaning they get wrong information, also at at school.
So you know Chinese history? Maybe you got the wrong information...
What the hell..... The food is still moving while served.....
Well that it's freshness.
Yet I feel sad. For the waitress and waiters, bus boys and dish washers who cleans things up when the merry making is done.
The staff didn't look very happy did they
if the restaurant is in China, wouldn't it just be a restaurant, not a Chinese restaurant?
What time was this made?
she inspired me and thanks that you are earning money and helping people to use your money and this is supper.......i can't forget your face...........
The father of the owner is truly an abusive father!
I know, what a horrible father, he made her the way she is today. Either way it has it pros.
there is a West Lake Chinese restaurant in New Jersey. Is it the same group?
Yes.
She is an amazing woman.
This video has more than 15 years history....
Wow! Isn't it on a scale I read only only on wuxia/ xianxia novels?!
I believe that the Chinese culture is very refined... I praise its latitude.
Those fish released back looked dead to me and the snakes they eating still alive 😱
Very nice video !!! We viewers understand well because they have subtitle even they are chinese they can speak in English and translate their language in English? I wonder why other asean countries who own channel post their videos in their own language they are only the one who understand each other while interviewing and talking
a good thıng but not all people have the tıme nor the knowledge to translate so why not we learn other languages ....as a tunısıan am lucky that my country educatıon ıs quadrolangual....arabıc and french ın prımary school than englısh ın med school than a fourth optıonal language ın the 4 years of hıgh school german spans ıtalıan turkısh chıneese russıan we choose me ı took german ..........ı learned turkısh ın turkey and some portuguese ın portugal so do not feel am foreıgner anywhere ın the medıtaranean sea......ı master 4 languages arabıc englısh french turkısh and ı can maage myself ın german spanısh ıralıan portuguese
Peng yanhang & chow Yunfat🥳
Damn @ 9:53 the cut snake meat on the plate is still moving ...
I like how the bride admits to being a gold digger! Honesty !
Who is thriving, and who is left behind?
Thanks for filming and uploading!
We are socialism country wih China characteristic, so now CCP is mitigating poverty after some takes the lead to get rich!
A lot of works need to be done to improve grassroots life quality and basic rights!
PS: 饮食文化在中国很注重，很盛行（自我感觉），现在还停留在后温饱时代。希望以后我们也想其他发达国家一样，更加注重其他方面（读者脑补）。
This is huge ! But it doesn't seems to fit quite well with my Chinese father business philosophy of 'small id beautiful'.
This must be at least 20 years old. Almost is a history. Wonder what are they up to nowadays.
So much animal abuse in that restaurant. It's despicable.
Oh my, does America has this?
People don’t know what hard work is complaining they don’t have the latest phone etc
poor people: work hard to get money,
government: print money to get easy money and let the poor people to even work harder hard is not enough these days!!!!
Please stop animal abuse and cruelty, my heart weeps when i see abuse or cruelty to any animal
Who run the world - girls! 💖
I hope American fast food workers was paying attention to the opening...... . Sheesh
The casual brutality towards animals is disturbing
油屋 汤婆婆 哈哈
Peking Dog anyone?
As a Chinese, I have to say our food is going with philosophy from ancient time till now. Traditional Chinese medicine believe the food and the medicine are homologous. That is, different thing has its own specific function. That's why you can find many things even some poison from the doctor's prescription. But it has been existing for thousands years, I also believe it is useful.
By the way, this video must be old. You can not find an employee with only pay RMB1000 per month. My hometown locates in countryside also, and the villagers can get RMB 4000 one month if they work in the town for the same jobs.
Anyway, hope you can visit our country by yourself. You can have your own idea then instead of heard from others .
作为一个中国人，我觉得中国人什么都吃是有原因的，其中一个就是中医讲究药食同源。也就是说每个东西都会有它特别的作用。这也是你能在中医开的药方里发现不同药材的原因，有的甚至是有毒的。但是它已经存在了几千年，我也相信它是对的。
另外，我觉得这个视频是很久以前的了。一个员工说她每个月能拿一千块的工资，这在现在是不可能雇的到人的。我老家也在农村，要是村里的人去附近的县城打工，同样的工作，他们怎么着也能拿4、5千块钱。
总之，希望大家自己去中国看一下，你就会有你自己的观点。欢迎你到中国来！
Welcome to China！
I'd love too, politicians have ruined that now though.
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Isn't this a BBC documentary?
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why they don't buy a dishwasher?
I guess because they'd have to buy like several hundred dishwashers.
Also because using several hundred dishwashers hundreds if not thousands of times a month would probably cost them like thosuanda of renminbi (chinese dollars) a month extra in operating costs.
Also because washing stuff by hand is probably fastet then using most dishwashers.
Also with dishwashers you still usually need to rinse off the
dishes beforehand and wipe them off afterwards.
Order frosen chicken so your restaurant don't have to kill animals directly
no humanity, I wish all were vegeterian
Doesn't seem like they take care of their employees. Low wages poor food quality.
Hi all coparation CEO should learn a lesson from her she is good hearted person all best and good luck
Fried raw fish from the biggest chinese restaurant
Impressive how she built this restaurant and the quite liberal way she presents herself. Kissing her husband in public is for Chinese social norms exceptional.
She runs this restaurant like a cult leader
chına busıness model buıld on confıchıous prıncıples....me ı can not work ın suc condıtıon but ı respect theır culture ...a dıfferent way of managınıg ....the world ıs bıg w e learn and take wha suıts us
the chefs contest was awful! what they did to the animals was cruel and unnecessary.... they couldn't find any better type of contest to do to show off their skills... it's so funny to see how over-the-top they are for weddings and this restaurant.. and admitting to being materialistic .... people all over the country including China seem to think that the USA is the only country who is motivated by money and materials.. what a joke
Lawrance Teo never asked them to change
Chrissy Jensen are you vegan? you know the meat and dairy industry in the U.S. is just as cruel....
Foundation no I'm not...didn't think it was necessary to be cruel to them let alone make a game out of it
Peach yes I know
Dint eat then.hahaha.
See a huge building with not many cars in the parking lots. Most patrons ride bicycles there? Would like to see all the guests' bicycles. Just wondering and it sounds funny, but that's can be very truth in socialism.
Ask many Bernie supporters, they are all willing to give all their motor vehicles up as uncle Bernie will allow them to get in line to purchase a bicycle.
DeDarin Tran you liberal jack ass they can't afford cars or gas and have limited access to both and live in close quarters, they didn't give up cars they never had any. China is also the most polluted place on the planet cut the crap.
Kelly Mcculloch
Calling me a liberal jackass while not noticing my sarcasm toward Bernie's supporters and socialism?
Cute!!!
Why would a documentary waste time just showing the parking lot of a restaurant? Everyone has seen large parking lots before, they're not special.
Wow... so you chop up a never ending amount of animals for profit but you throw a handful back in the river to 'feel better about yourself'.... ridiculous.
Threw dead fish in the river
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But doing good deeds realised all these fishes n tortoises, end up being caught n eaten back by human
..why not realised them In the ocean..or make donations to the orphanage or build A school or set Up Bursary for low income families..
做那麼殘忍都菜，放幾多生都無用啦。自欺欺人
Don't ever think nonsense. No woman things here. Only work. So unprofessional. Never had women colleagues before? Lame
good money come from good services. good services come from good employer. good employer come from good salary.
expect they were froced not haveing other choices
rekson Masadi the owner like other chinese business owner must be stingy as hell.
mostly.. yeah.. no wonder
ok tell me how you can feed 1.5 bıllıon people ...ımagıne chına goverment wıhout such a system how they can manage to feed such amout of people....the cıneese are clever to apply such a busıness model thats based on lyalıty and dıscıplıne otherwıse you can not manage to feed 1.5 bıllıon person ...be logıcal ...do not compare natıons and countrıs everybody has hıs own cırcumnctances .....ıf chına were 400 mıllıon they wold be all rıch ...so do not compare just learn learn
MADE IN CHINA VISION 2025
The Chief cooking competition was very very disturbing! Very little consideration for environment and animals! I personally can't give my THUMBS UP for this kind of behavior and endorsement of this establishment. It only so sad!!!!
I bet you dont eat meat, dont drive any fossil-fueled vehicle, dont own any high branded clothing...since you're being such tight ass about environmental problem and animal rights.
Edyta Delfel , yep, although the way they are cooking is way better than how you cook your daily junk food.
Do you think the millions of chickens living in inhumane conditions and the slaughterhouses in America are any better?
The truth of the matter is people have been doing this for years in China.Growing up in China in the old old days before coming to America in the 1950's we got used to it.
The truth of the matter is animals are slaughtered in some form or other before reaching for human consumption.The only difference in the 'civilized' world is that people are doing it behind close door.
Macdonald minced the entire dead cow including all the internal organs before coming out as 'delicious' piece of burger meat.Is this also cruelty to animal ?
So evil, i never seen any thing like that. It is beyond cruelty.
This is because you are living in North Korea.
Lar M Wrong Wrong i am living in a country where there is no animal cruelty
Frog in the well.
Go to slaughter houses in the USA and you'll see true cruelty and vomit to death! The USA is fucking worst! They even try to mutate chicken with TWO anuses to produce more eggs!
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