Why Do Chinese People Seem to Eat 'Everything'? - Why Chinese (E1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Chinese eating habits have come under a microscope after initial cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus were linked to a wet market in Wuhan, China. Lately, we've been getting this question a lot: "Why do Chinese people eat everything?" But is it true? Where did this stereotype come from, and how do people in China feel about it?
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If Adam and Eve were Chinese they would have eaten the snake. And we would still be in paradise.
And sold the fruit! 🤣
Ha ha ha
they would had eat the Apple then the snake and anything that move
No u did not 😂 😂
Christian mythology
They forgot to mention the mass starvation during the People's Revolution in the Mao Communist Era. People had no choice but to eat insects and rats to survive.
My grandparents even eat "Dirt" to survive.
When you criticize the CCP on TH-cam, you get demonetized, flagged, etc.
They were eating weird shit since long before communism was even a thing.
That makes perfect sense, thank you
They don't have to continue that practice now, as they have options now.
1:19: "to try some common Chinese dishes". Then the video shows snake soup. I am Chinese and grew up in China. I don't and won't eat snake soup. If I ask other Chinese people around me, I can guarantee you that people who are interested in or like eating snake soup won't be higher than 1%.
It’s actually a very popular and common dish in Hong Kong, which is part of China. I’m pretty sure many Chinese haven’t tried unique dishes from other provinces so 🤷♀️
@@allxtae9366 It could be actually good for people's body and delicious. But I just doubt that it is common generally, so the vid is kinda misleading.
I tried grilled snake once cause my dad lied about it being chicken but it taste like chicken but it’s tougher me, my mom, and my sister doesn’t like the thinking of eating snakes BUT we do have a tradition here where we drink snake venom and their heart. No it’s not poisonous because we drink it unless yo injected it in your blood flow than it’s poisonous
@@allxtae9366 and Hong Kong has less than 1% the population of China, so you are both right :)
I would say 0.01%. Because none of the people I know would try any exotic animal including me.
Alien life: exists
China: If something's back is facing the sky, it's for people to eat.
Aliens don’t come to Earth because the Chinese would eat them.
@@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 If Alien was a Chinese movie, the last scene will have the alien getting cooked in a rotiserrie over a fire before being eaten, and the cast drinking shots of baijiu celebrating a job well done! 🤣
I wish China doesn't exist
Good ending
bot？
" I'm eating a murdered turtle right now " bruh ... Almost everything non veg you eat is murdered.
Vegetables are living organisms too
And mushrooms
And fungi
@@monicahedstrom8854 Both animals and plants were evolved from a common eukaryotic ancestor. A human and a carrot share the same gene to encode cytochrome C oxidase, for example. The death of one eukaryotic living organism is not too different from another simply because one (such as plants) is autotroph and other other (such as animals and fungi) is heterotroph.
@@monicahedstrom8854 You are right. Not all animals have nerves and even for those that have, not all developed a centralized neural system. And among those that did develop a CNS, only mammals have a true cortex for pain sensing. I am not saying that fishes or insects cannot sense pain, but certainly not in the same way as we do.
Some people here seem to skip every "most of Chinese people eat pork, beef and chicken like americans" part for some reasons.
Yeah because this isn’t about the normal stuff that Chinese people eat most of the time. This video is about the weird shit that started coronavirus.
@@PatheticTV Yeah it's not like there are more contagious strains Covid-19 coming from the UK since September creating worse spikes in cases in deaths. Let's only focus on exotic Chinese food...
@@LeeannHuang yeah it’s not like the British variant is a mutation of the one that came from China in 2019. Let’s only focus on the UK...
@@dariav.9275 Sorry but SARS and it's many forms have been found across the world from MERS etc. The WHO is still investigating the source of COVID-19 and it is only presumably Wuhan. The response to purely blaming the Chinese and exotic foods is inherently racist. If you compare the response to Chinese people vs that of the Italian or UK outbreaks(whose government btw withheld from telling the world about its contagious mutation until it was 3 months too late and now is prolonging lockdowns here).
@@dariav.9275 The UK contagion has spread and killed way more people than the original outbreak in China, its frustrating how little people acknowledge it. Mutations are occurring in the countries that have ALLOWED the spread this past year. Everyone in East Asia and Australia are somehow fine because of good pandemic response. The spikes alone now compared to early 2020 are insane since UK variant was discovered in September. Before it was 300 cases a day here in March, not its 37,000 average. It really doesn't even matter where it came from (which btw is still undetermined), it's the people who still are spreading it. But yeah, let's just blame the Chinese. People love to do that these days, no racism at all right?
I sometimes think it was due a famine that caused people to do the extreme into eating other animals for survival. Then they found out it is good so they made it into a delicacy.
@Shreyas P i believed most of chinese dont eat dog. And never heard about people eating bats before COVID...and eating wild animal is illegal in China.(but ya some people did the illegal thing and affect everyone now)
@Shreyas P bro, they can eat anything even your poop. Thinking how far human race has fallen 😔😢
@Butt Head Well its a part of their culture we also eat cow sheep and goats but we arent called cruel for eating them (Im not chinese)
Edit:i dont want to argue with you So we are gonna end it here
@Butt Head
Lol you know who also kills things to extinction, Americans. We almost killed all wolves in Montana and killed the ecosystem not even to eat them, because wolves were BIG SCARY OH NO. Now they are still endangered, stop shitting on a whole race of people
@@cragonoskritirea2982 yeah
Most of us eat wild animals. In Sweden we eat moose, reindeer (wild-reared though owned and tended by the Sami), different kinds of deer, birds, all kinds of aquatic creatures from fish to molluscs. Lobster is a delicacy around the world. The fact that China has a diverse fauna and has gone through long stretches of famine only means that they have has a chance to try and learn to appreciate/tolerate a more diverse diet.
Exactly. Geography and biodiversity play a massive role in what people consume.
Do you also buy your wild animals raw in farms and eat them raw and alive? I don't think you know enough on this topic and from what I see COVID-19 hasn't put sense into people.
@@thunderbrand Never heard of anyone eats wild animals raw and alive in my real life. Ridiculous that you actually believe it
@@linmaslaw well you'd be surprised how half the population lives in Asia and what they all do. They have squid porn wtf
@@practicalapplications Half the population? How lame you are? How many Asian countries have you visited? You do understand that India falls in Asia too right and there are 400 million vegetarians there (just one aspect to the issue in conversation here).
I’m Chinese and I’m a Northerner! We don’t eat those weird things at all! Also my mom is from western minority region so she eats mostly lamb and beef instead of pork. China is a really big and diverse region so please don’t generalize us.🙏🙏🙏
My dad died from corona 😔 and his last meal for me is burger king
@@ayomoments4451 I'm really sorry to hear that.
That's the point of the video, to show that it's due to the very wide diversity of China/Chinese poeple.
why chinese show their belly on the street?
@@domodazzi1982 f**k I dont know but it is true. specially in the summer time. Maybe it is hot😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You are missing a huge factor in Geography, it's the limitation of protein sources in China. Chinese has less arable land than European/American per capita, unlike vast plains in Europe, only about 1/3 of Chinese lands are plains. This means very few lands can be allocated for animal product industry, the rest are all used to grow foods people eat. Therefore it's natural to find alternative protein sources we view as "exotic" today. It's a similar story all across the world, you can find snail in French cuisine, camel in Dubai, alpaca meat in southern America, etc.
Also, almost 1/3 of humans are ethnically Chinese, so they eat pretty much everything humans eat.
Still wrong
Do you think that it has anything to do with overpopulation? famines seem to be frequent throughout China's history.
@@hanoimuathu123 that is also a very valid factor
@@thaish5246 then you guys can blame Chinese for eating too much meat to ruin the rainforest. Hahaha. You already did. It is all poor people' s fault to do not enough money to eat " proper " meat?
China is huge, and the culture, diverse. China is more like a civilization rather than a modern nation state. Languages vary from region to region, so do food and customs. In this vast land mass, everything is possible. I am Chinese but Russian ethnicity, one of the 55 minorities.
@Mohsen Alihosseini hibdus bath in their urine and shit or diarea in so called holly river ganghes
when you have 5000 years of unbroken civilization, you're bound to try everything at least once.
Their culture they broke. Nothing they carry from past.
@@sanjeevansingh2123 shut up racist. still more than any Muslim or western country that abandoned the old ways for capitalistic companies
India is billion year old civilization but we are still veg
@@sumitChand.offcial need to change to yolo mindset to trigger evolution
@@Gigakiller1 it's not racist lol. It's his opinion. Funny how a Chinese person is calling out for bring racist, you guys cant even keep to your own land (I am talling about China invading Indian land, not immigration)
Australians eat kangaroo, Peruvian eat guinea pigs, Floridians eat alligator, French eat snails, Thai eat ants. Culture is crazy.
Filipinos have eat balut! 😁
Kenyans eat flies😂
While chinese literally everything that noves 🙄
Japan and Korea eat just as much weird and exotic food, and Southeast Asia too (Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia)
But they dont get the world sick🤷🏽♂️
@@a.garcia3605 It's not from food, virus doesn't survive high temperature.
Philippines too, especially in rural areas!
That Chinese saying is a Guangdong saying. I lived there for 8 years.
"Chinese people don't eat dog" isn't true.
Saying that SOME Chinese people eat dog, that's accurate.
Exactly. Heaps of dog meat available in China, especially Guangdong. Go for a 10 minute walk and you'll pass a dog meat reasetrant or a stall selling dog meat no problem.
@Matt Vinci I have been to Vietnam and the Philippines
@Matt Vinci I think you are misunderstanding my comment. I am not saying that all Chinese people eat dogs.... I am saying that some do as I lived there for 8 years. Settle down, we are not talking about a whole country, we are talking about some.
@@Djtrackula Yeah, true. It's just like saying Italians eat maggots. Some Italian people.
I’m Chinese and yes SOME of us does eat wild dogs and yes I get a lot of hate bc I’m Chinese :c
What a lame excuse to justify their nasty habits
It’s not an excuse and it’s not nasty it’s just not normal where u live it’s a double standard people think it’s barbaric for Chinese people to eat unusual foods while it’s completely normal to eat rabbit and squirrels tell me why that is?
As someone from Asia I am particularly interested in a periodic history of diseases with ties to consumption of wild or non domesticated species
Exactly!
Like you think dogs and cats are lowly, dirty animals.
Which is partially true.
Then why EAT SOMETHING that eats anything, including feces?
The same thing can be said about those that eat chicken and pig.
If you want to be ACTUALLY HEALTHY you would consume grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, mushrooms.
And for me, it's because of the famine they experienced, they learned to eat everything they can find.
@@jimj6444 who eats human embryo soup
@@jimj6444🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
India also suffered famine but still 40% people are vegetarians forget about eating such wierd things like Chinese people do
I won't argue but Chinese did have the capability to cook everything tasting good.
How ironic when people talking about freedom of speech cant really understand cultural difference
Not just Chinese, Indonesian also eat weird food and Japanese can eat anything that is moving in the ocean.
Not to mention, bat, dog, cat, turtle, etc also as delicacies in Indonesia.
And the Philippines too!
Every country have a taste for weird things. If your starving, you’ll forage for anything that walk, crawl, fly, burrow...
Why is it only now that this is news? People who live and eat these things are immune to their environment. Why now? What changed?
THANK YOU 👏 These markets and way of living have been existing for generations and nothing happened. Why now?
Thats why you dont eat something weird.... you dont know what will happened.
There's plenty of meat and veg products from farm that far more safe to eat than random things you got on the field or jungle.
This is not stone age anymore brah.
lil D i can agree with you on that, however everyone can not afford what you eat on a daily basis. Stone Age or not.
What changed? We started wearing clothes, building houses, and cooking meat.
Because their immune system got fed up that's why now that was a joke we know our environment is subject for changing you eat something wild you don't know what occurred to that animals genes or that animal's surrounding
I think another reason that there are many kinds of food that Chinese people eat is that the population pressure in China has always been relatively large, and ancient times has always been a farming society. Therefore, we need to find more sources of food, grow many edible plants, and also we are very good at cooking. Another point is that this year China has issued a new policy to change dogs from domestic animals to pets (i.e. forbidden to eat). This is also to respect the values of other countries in the world. Do hope we can understand and respect each other more.
So use condoms and start doing abortions.....
It should be mentioned that some food habits might be result of the last decades of poverty in China. My parents tell me that before they immigrated, their lifestyle back then wasn't nice at all. The access to the common meats that we know now was hard, so mostly of the families ate what they could get in the wild (farm rats, snake, pangolins, etc.) and some were self raised animals that they even get to consider as PET.
The traditional medicines teaching was also a primary reason to eat this meat because back then (30-40 years ago) the access to modern medicines was also difficult, so it was easier for most family to try traditional ways which was a more available method to treat their health matters.
Nowadays the traditional medicines methods is still very ingrained in chinese traditions so some people still consume these meats. And also, after they have tried other ingredients that have resulted to be a delicacy, it is not strange that nowadays there are still some foreigners considered strange meats eating habits in Chinese culture.
If it's because of poverty and famine, then India also have similar population and was extremely poor , India had worse famines than china but still almost half of India's population is vegatarian.
@@kauliksingha4098 Please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that because of their religion ?
If poverty is your answer then what happened to India and Africa ?
@@ahmedzakikhan7639More arable land in India
@RandomVidsforthought No bro. The real answer is Religion.
Indians are more religious and spiritual. Even if you give free beef or pork to Indians they won't eat, but Chinese will. That's the answer.
I remember trying gator tail in Arkansas, moose in Alaska and my grandfather liking rattlesnake. I think people eat interesting stuff all over the place (and that’s not necessarily a problem imo,) China just happens to be the scapegoat due to COVID, historical and current racism. I was so ready to be upset with this video, but found myself pleasantly surprised at how informative it was.
Oh really? The backlash against China is due only because of racism? Its cant be because of Chinas abysmal animal rights record where cities all over northern China torture and eat dogs, or how about the fact that the last 5 pandemics have come out of China, the wet markets being at fault again. Or the fact that China purposely withheld early information on the virus so that they can get ahead I'm the market before shit started to collapsing. Nope, racism is the real health hazard! What an asshole.
@@frosty_friends1807 Sigh, you really gonna hold a small minority against a grand majority? What the fuck do I, as a Chinese American, have to do with the people in the mainland? You’re right, China does do bad things, but if you use that to spread hatred into other people and attack us physically over it, you are just as bad. Do you get upset over Western nations being just as bad? I think you’re the asshole in this situation, friend, taking out your anger on me for absolutely no reason.
@@frosty_friends1807 lets be real, the racism was always here even before the CCP came into power. Now ya'll think you have a good excuse to be racist.
china is a scapegoat in global biosecurity discourse thats true, but they also covered up the emergence of SARS and did not improve their practices despite constant warning about farming practices in south china being the perfect conditions for more flu like pandemics. the lack of regulated agriculture is actually to blame as is wild eating, so they are at fault for failing to take precautions
@@Elsisalittleconcerned when people talk about china being at fault they're talking about the administrative government being at fault, mostly. you ask what could you do? well, the best thing is to listen to critiques of the CCP and not take it personally. take all the injustice youre feeling and lay it at the feet of the CCP
I can't continue read the comments 😤😤
So racist...I don't have more words
Shut up chinese
I know people are literally blaming us for stuff that has nothing to do with us
少数人吃这些东西，大多数人都不吃的，我看见蛇会害怕😨
哈哈，其他的我从来不吃，但是油炸大王蛇是挺不错的。（滑稽）
1:04
"If something's back face the sky. It is for people to eat"
Me ( Who Sleeps lying on his stomach) to chinese girls : You know what~ I am pretty hot.
Do you want that diced or sliced then deep fried in battered? Thats definitely hot.. Sizzling in fact.
Would you like to be a meat bun filling?
is this one of those cannibal fantasies?
@@orangerightgold7512 once there is a true story about human meat bun... in hongkong.... cinema...
starring anthony wong
Its almost as if culture shock exists...
Cherokee people, we do too...but we don't have a high population.
They eat anything and everything alive
I ate some cool stuff in China, the Chinese guy I was with said, "Chinese don't eat that, it just for tourists" when I ate a rat. It wasn't as good as the tarantula.
he spilled the truth. i feel sorry for you if you ate that thing
Snake and gator is delicacy in Florida , go to Indonesia they eat bats too
Some Filipinos eat bats too!
Here are three exceptions in which in any culture or people that should be universally applied when it comes to eating:
1.) Boiling/Cooking animals alive, regardless of place or region is pretty unethical if you ask me. At least have the decency to kill the animal first before eating it.
2.) Endangered animals should NEVER be eaten especially if you are trying conserve wildlife.
3.) Sanitation
So for them (Chinese) basically if it cast a shadow it's good to eat.
I mean like they were starving to the point of almost dying back then so they have no choice other than eating rats and bugs but these days in China eating exptic animals is almost like how Americans buy those crunchy crickets/spider/scorpions. So what i’m trying to say is that they really really only have a small amount of people eating those meats
If it doesn't cast a shadow, then it would be impossible to catch, no?
Jellyfish casts little shadow but is edible...
It's totally ok to eat anything in my opinion as long as its not any kind of endangered species. Better to eat hunted deer than pre-packaged pork chops from your supermarket, filled with antibiotics and cruel farming conditions. The only thing we have to make sure that markets are kept clean and enough hygiene is in place. I heard a virologist talk about how keeping specific kinds of animal species near to each (that would for example not live in the same habitat) other can spread viruses between them.
Lol they catch many endangered animals to made into the so called traditional medicines...
@@cecepahmadnasori8083 but it’s illegal , it’s not legalized.
You can't eat anything. You can't eat snakes for example. They are cool.
Yeah why is everyone targeting the chinese when other countries like korea and japan does the same
@@erikalenoeye8925 it's probably because Chinese eats "anything" more than Korean and Japanese (For example Japanese eats fish more than any type of meat)
It is awful to think why we still try control people's minds and bodies according to imperialistic point of views.
People in China eat a varied diet because throughout history in many moments due to poverty and food scarcity wild foods were the ones available. Because of that they learned to prepared these foods and regularly consume it.
It's funny that many people are quick to point the health risks of game meat while ignoring the proved risks of high-processed foods, of pesticides or industrial foods that can also be contaminated and cause deaths.
This is a war on culture identity and not food safe issue. Other populations in Africa and South America also ate wild animals and they are also mocked, accused and offended for doing it.
Southeast Asians also eat all sorts of things! 🤣
The thing is that bats are notorious disease carriers. That's why people don't eat them.
It's popular in many south east Asian though 😂
They eat everything literally and some of you justify with "Oh certain people here eat this then certain people there eat that". Open your goddamn eye. Those Chinese are literally devouring everything that's breathing
Let's hope they tone it down a bit after the bat incident
yes, the government has already banned all wild animals from eating.
You do know that that video was filmed outside of China in 2016 right?
They’ll never learn
@@HikerChick2
Yep they started it again.
I thought it was from a lab, not from an infected bat. There tons of bats that are not infected and are still eaten.
Very very very rare of us eat bats. Lots of us eat snakes. Some of us eat dogs. Bad tradition and meaningless to eat some many kinds of different wild animals. I am now living in NZ, people also eat wild deer and boar(caught by themselves). The main problem is not eat them but selling them in the market. It is not legal in China but lack of supervision.
how you liking it here in NZ?
@@deathbyseatoast8854 People are much kinder here than in China and the natrual is well protected. Food material are much less(no I didn't mean wild animals😄) and shopping malls are booooring. Higher cost higher salary, affordable house price and rates. And clean toilet everywhere、enough facility for disable people、freedom including the access to youtube（twitter is terrible）.
I feel more than happy to live here, but I think the amount of job and bussiness opportunities is not attractive.
This video is so education...
i hope racist , verbal abuse and killing case will reduce
Everyone talking about why Chinese people eat everything, but I'm more interested in the ASMR keyboard clacking sounds, damn those switches sound good.
Not all chinese people are from mainland,what about chinese people in south east asia?
Barbaric? Excuse moi? When Chinese using fork and knifes and the west were still use their hands... when Chinese using chopsticks and the west started to use fork and knifes... Chinese people switched for chopsticks because they think using knifes at dinning table is not polite and considered as barbaric.
他們吃狗肉！這是真的！我是一個中國人！ 🤦🏻♂️
A chinese man heard the story of Noah's ark and thought a new buffet had opened up
America Only eats Burgers.... as long as we don't see what the burger is made of right?? OR know for that fact. LOL
Amercans has no culture all come with immigrants food and all !
But Americans dont get the rest of their neighbors sick from eating those burgers🤷🏽♂️
So basically, Chinese people have more in common with cockroaches than other races/cultures, in that, cockroaches are omnivores and don't discriminate on the foods consume. And so do Chinese people. Not a "racist comment", just an observation.
i always find it baffling when people yell at random asian people who dont eat any "exotic" meats yet in different parts of america they eat possum, snake, alligator, horse etc.
People don't yell at random asian people.
Have you seen asians? they eat animals ALIVE
Americans eat human too, theyre acting innocent all of a sudden. theyre acting like Jeffrey Dahmer dont exists
@@kungfublob5951 yea and do u know how many asians eat animals ALIVE??? like 0.0001% lol
@@roberthardy5171 i and many of my friends and family have been told to stop eating bats plenty of times since the pandemic started
My wife who is Chinese said that Chinese will eat anything with legs...... except for a table..Peace and JaYoe
I grew up in China, but all the foods such as snake or turtle, I don't know where to get them, never saw in my life. My hometown is in Northwest.
Not a lot of water northwest, so no snakes and turtles. Snakes are more southern or south east.
Emm we never eat snake soup.....
As a Chinese, I would like to say there might be a small portion of people feeling curious about trying something like snakes, bats, insects, etc., but the food are absolutely strange for most people. People around me never eat those.
We are not wild men :(
And people be stereotyping us not just Chinese but the whole Asia
If my poop can move, whole chinese will hunt it badly
@@antheax9448 lol Some people yes.
well you look on Facebook , TH-cam, and see Asians eating live bugs and weird food still alive. not even cooked just eating straight scorpions alive. they go out of there way to shock other people on purpose.
when you put this question as your video title, i can totally understand it's full of bias for chinese people, my chinese friend don't eat cat, dog and snake, on the contrary my friend who is from vietnam eats cat, same , Chinese can't understand why European like blue cheese,
Really strange..vast geography means eating anything..if somebody from desert says this..I can agree..also medicine can also be made from a vast variety of plants..and nobody is killed..we call it ayurveda :)
Pallavi Bahuguna em... What big animals can you find in real desert ? Camels! Yeah,people in there would ate camels instead of beef or lambs. Cuz there aren’t those... So cattle in China are rare before industrialization.most time they’re tools. So you only to eat everything you can find for protein. That’s the reason why.
I agree with You and India.Ayurveda and eating habits.The only fields Where India Can Beat China hands down.From an admirer of modern China,I must admit It,grudgingly.An African.
simple fact....there are remote places in china until nowadays without road connection....the only thing they can get is by hunting......
this occurred especially in the south west part of china where full of mountain badland
yinky 其实各地菜谱还是挺丰富的，只是现在灾害少了，大家不乱吃了，偶尔尝尝鲜。 北方还是有吃榆树叶，金龟子，蚂蚱，知了猴，白土的。 我住某二线城市，这里70年代还有吃胎衣饺子的呢。 南方食谱就更丰富了，毕竟生物资源在那了，闹饥荒时不就是有啥吃啥，现在日子好了偶尔还总想尝尝鲜...
Thank you for sharing the Chinese perspective on so many sensitive topics. I do not necessarily agree with everything but I do value learning about Chinese culture and opinions!
Yes! And he approached the topic in a neutral and respectable way! The belief that wild animals are more nutritious and have special medical benefits needs to be stopped! But I’m saddened by how racist and judgmental people can be in the comments without understanding the whole picture.
@@布小丁-g5l these myths came from social medias.
@@布小丁-g5l Even if the government was to blanket ban it all, it will take generations to fully stamp it out! Plus, there are many people out there who just want to rebel for the sake of rebelling and will be drawn to these things for that very reason alone!
People should be judgmental when endangered species are being decimated for 'cultural' reasons. And there is nothing inherently 'racist' about it.
This video was very informative especially the medicinal and religious element that are not widely understood in westernised countries because we have lost those values from colonisation. People here at home in New Zealand can be very ignorant about other people's culture and food. I follow many popular Chinese food vloggers and you can see that food is a 'treasure' from the land or water to the plate. Yes there are strange things in the wet market that I haven't seen the vloggers I follow cooking, now maybe I can understand they might be for medicine or a regional delicacy, I know food is very different region to region. The main thing I get from this is don't be a racist 'betch' about it, which I wasn't to begin with.
I don't think you have to be racist to criticise the eating of some of these foods. Bear bile for example is absolutely cruelty to bears. Dogs are killed alive because they believe if there is adrenaline in the blood when it dies they taste better. Sorry but some things are just wrong, and saying its ok because "traditional medicine" says that eating a tiger's penis will help with impotence issues it just not ok.
@@roberthardy5171 That and driving animals to near extinction because of unscientific bs just so your willy gets hard, or trying "natural cures" for cancer and the like do nothing good save for the snake oil salesmen lining their pockets.
I remember I head to learn about western cuisine fast so I would have a defense when the kids made fun of my lunches. I would ask them what bolonga and hotdogs were made of, or that blood pudding, bread pudding, haggis exited and sauerkraut was just "spoiled" cabbage. I'd ask them why would they eat raw eggs, or vegetables that were not cooked, or slurp oysters, pickled eggs or ask them if they've ever seen the type of fish their fish sticks came from or what part of the chicken was a chicken nugget, but by far if they said eating an animal for all its parts was disgusting and i was hurting an animal, I'd ask them why Americans would throw and waste all these parts of the animal and only eat the meat part.
Needless to say I would get in trouble for defending my culture and "mad mouthing" theirs, and they never got into trouble, even when one threw my lunch into the garbage three days in a row. Grade school was a riot back in the 90s.
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bologna and hot dogs are just beef and pork a lot better than Chinese chicken testicles or sheep penis or tuna fish eyeballs!!! idk what blood pudding is but bread budding is literally just bread and sugar. sauerkraut is not just spoiled cabbage big difference and nothing compared to Chinese stinky tofu Normal Americans don't eats raw eggs we eat scrambled,overeasy or sunny side up or boiled. talking about eggs Chinese eat balut 14 day old hatchling eggs that is more gross than anything and everything you listed that Americans eat or century eggs that are months old and black. live octopus, Drunken Shrimp live shrimp in alcohol. what is with Asians eating living things?veggies uncooked lol seriously you are comparing that to eating living bugs like centipedes and scorpions.cooked or living insects all kinds. silk worms,. best yet is bat soup made by throwing a whole bat into boiling chicken broth lol.
@@flex8707 actually Chinese don’t eat bats, well not a lot of them anyways. That batsoup video was filmed in Indonesia around 2016, and used as propaganda to concentrate hate on the Chinese population.
@@flex8707 🤦🏾♂️☠️
Just because of their culture or whatever we are suffering from covid, I lost my relatives and I was also suffering from this disease and still I feel weakness.
@Watcher what
I’m Chinese, and we don’t eat everything. I would never touch snakes, fish, rats, etc
fish ? Lol why ? Everyone eats fish
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"
#vegetarianism
Oh but they taste so good!!
exactly like you writing this useless comment.
Humanity's history is basically one long manifestation of doing things just because they can! 🤣
@@catsballs9657 you must hate exotic animals.
We should not discriminate. People started eat everything partly due to poverty. Then it evolved to culture. Later it became commercialisation. The question I would asked is not why it started, but rather the demands for their long existence. If we dropped the demands collectively, I reckon the supply will ceased eventually. If you don’t buy, there won’t be supply.
I eaten most of these just growing up here in the midwest of America. Food is food and when your hungry you eat anything. Great subject hard for most to get there head around sumthings.
Do you also eat them raw while they're still alive?
Bro you tell the truth! Never cry for the birds when you frying chicken. When you starved to die ,they are prey... Don’t pretend to be kind.
thunderbrand u mean the octopus in Japan? Lmao go do some research
I always wonder why some Americans eat wild boar, squirrel, turkey, and bison. It’s just difference in culture and history,
Well they can cross out bat meat being good for asthma now...
Why? It’s because they’ve experienced thousands of years of conflicts and famine and starvation. So they’ve had thousands of years to develop ways to survive. They’ll survive way longer than closed minded westerners who will die if any significant catastrophe comes to earth.
@anonymous 67 don’t be a moron. Not all Chinese people eat shark soup. Just like not all Americans are Appalachians who eat road kills.
@anonymous 67 I’m not for eating sharks and whales. But many other cultures eat sharks and whales to survive. Eskimos are an example. And if you want to talk about disease, pigs carry some nasty worms. But you eat it. It’s all about the way you think.
“A new disgusting animal exists”
China: time for dinner
no need to be disrespectful
Infires MAN I am just saying that to people that eat weird things but I a have respect for Chinese people sorry if you got offended
@@infiresman5876 realtalk men
don't hate me just block First of all, COVID-19 wasn’t confirmed to be from eating a bat. Second of all, many countries eat exotic things so that wouldn’t help with anything. Stop trying to sound all smart when you don’t even know things for sure
@don't hate me just block you can't even use the word "extinct" correctly, I doubt you know ANYTHING about China
No matter how much you “explain” it’s still weird as f***
Imagine someone eating a bear
bear meat and game hunting is a thing in the US you know. . .
@Sophia Grullon Grizzly bear seasons open in the spring or autumn depending on local regulations and jurisdictions. In most of the lower 48 states, grizzlies are considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Grizzly bears are legally hunted in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska.
@Sophia Grullon Oh sorry, apparently Alaska is not America.
@Sophia Grullon Is Bear Hunting Legal in the US? Yes, bear hunting is legal. However, there are restrictions put into place by each state which limits what type of bears you can hunt and also how many bears can be hunted each year. Its not just Alaska, do your research.
@Sophia Grullon are you about to say "You don't live in the US, you don't have any rights to talk about our bear hunting laws" or do you not see the irony of you commenting about China's meat industry while also not living in China?
As long as you are breeding certain things you consume, there's far less risk involved with consumption of a given species. The issue then stems from the diseases that have been breeding in a given kind of creature up until it is domesticated. For that reason, a bit of research can make many animals safe to eat by eliminating the diseases they have, and might spread into the human population. But whether or not you are alright with eating animals, or would just prefer they live free, wild lives, that pool of disease is still there, still unexplored, and canceled out (like we've nearly canceled out polio), and so, whether you domesticate them, or not, the risks will remain until studied and removed.
My question for you guys is what are your thoughts on stories involving people in the mountains eating wolf berries and living to ridiculously old ages? Do you know how that kind of thing might work?
Nowadays, Guilingao has no more turtle or even animal content. It's only herbs.
It still does, but not the "gold coin" turtle that's endangered, just some farmed turtle. To be honest it is really the selenium that has medicinal purposes and you can get it elsewhere (but not the farmed turtle jelly).
@@maggiejetson7904 As far as I know. A lot of guilinggao maker or outlet like 恭和堂 Gonghetang They don't use turtle or tortoise anymore. They have other herbal substitutes.
@@jeffreysetapak That's not guilinggao but fulinggao.
@@maggiejetson7904 茯苓糕?? I don't think so. Because of Covid 19, Beijing banned the use of tortoise and any wildlife in Guilimggao. Either you innovate or else no need to sell it.
@@maggiejetson7904 Most major varieties you find at supermarkets no longer contain turtle. Still labelled guilingao. Even in Taiwan. Name is just symbolic nowadays
Century egg is ok
Century egg is made of duck eggs and covered with mud and other more
This channel is so underrated it deserves more attention.
Girl, it's not your job to educate ignorant people, it's theirs!
Which I understand that depends on which part of China and depending that region of food source. People gotta survive right? So what you have than what you eat!
These series title seems a bit confusing, shouldn't it be something like "why ignorant and over generalization westerners think Chinese people ______"? If i saw some stuff on national discovery and made a program going on about how western people seem to bla bla bla, that would just make me look stupid.
Be vegetarian if possible
@J S why not? I mean they'll have no need to eat meat. Do you mean not everyone's gonna be vegetarian?
China: I eat everything
Everycountry: Yeah i bet you also eat stuff like Iron or Wooden 😂
Sees animal
World :- how cute
China :- yumm
I think Chinese tradition tells to eat animals for health (meat)
And Indian tradition tells to eat what the animal eats for good health (herbs)
Although I agree that Chinese also eat vegan for good health sometimes...
Basically it depends on person to person...
Occam's Razor:
Poverty = less accessibility to meats like pork, beef, chicken, ducks. Hunger drives people to eat things they would normally not prefer to.
That's how people get used to eating bugs and stuff over time. The food may look intimidating, HOWEVER, the Chinese are creative in the culinary arts and make almost anything palatable or even the best thing you've tasted in your life.
Anyways u chinese are responsible for putting the whole world in the current situation and still want to defend urself ? Huh
No we are not do some research this rhetoric is what gets us murdered
that ROC flag in vid!!
I think seaweed is also commonly eaten by Japanese and Koreans as well as the Chinese.
Taiwan #1!
@@maggiejetson7904 Republic of China #1! 🇹🇼
I LOVE dried seaweed! 😁
what people are failing to understand is the real reason why Chinese people eat anything is because of survival. During the Mao regime when communist China closed its doors to the world, many people have died due to starvation and diseases. People have to survive by eating anything that moves and grow, we are not talking about 1 year or 2. Since 1955 till 80s.
Eating stuff like that is really nasty
a reason is also bcos it is influence by China 5000 years history. Due to constant war it is normal to see starvation and cannibalism. There is a lot of stories how the parents need to sell off their children and even eat their death. That is why when chinese meet they will ask had you had your dinner, lunch etc.... Is not how do you do.
nice...a simple video can bring out so many racists from the west.
Ikr
I mean, 'primitive' hunter gatherers ate whatever they could find, so that's arguably the natural state. Also China isn't that unique in the world for eating 'strange' things or animals.
So do they eat dog or no because I seen footage of dogs being skin and boiled alive so ...?
Yes, they eat dog. Along with everything else that moves and breathes.
@@HikerChick2 why do you GENERALIZE people??? Only some eat dogs..
Not every Chinese eat dogs..few chinese people eat dog meat (they are in minority)
China is not the only country where people eat dogs...south korea, Vietnam and i think assam also.
Dog meat was popular in Nagaland also but in July the govt banned the dog meat.
A much more important question would have been why do Americans seem only to eat a dramatically smaller percentage of food resources in what is actually available. I’m not praising the excessive nature of what China is doing. However, as a cook who studied some measure of nutrition. It has been noted repeatedly that Americans are by far the most picky of eaters. I leave you the reader to decide for yourself whether or not that is healthy.
Umm Chinese people eat dog. Thats not a lie or a false stereotype. And not just in rural areas but in the big cities too. Seriously, sorry if some American born Chinese doesn't know this but do your research if you're going to make a video about this. Go to google maps, go to any province in China, and search 狗肉店 (dog meat shop) and you will find many restaurants specialising in dog meat. Its not even a secret.
The most adventurous food I had was a salad made of flowers.
Then you need to try more stuff man! 🤣
I once heard a saying that goes : "in China, we eat anything that has legs, except chairs & tables... and anything with wings, except aeroplanes" LOL
lmao🤣🤣
That's contonese people ,North chinese dont eat weird food
@@tingmangrand7023 Really?
I get cultures n that but some of the animals they eating is disgusting and that’s someone who loves sea food. I get not everyone in China doesn’t eat cat dog etc but the fact there’s still 0.1% who do is kinda fucked
Now this really made me realised how chinese I am
You’d eat what’s in your pfp right?
@@-TheLegendHimself- I’ve never tried dogs, cats and bats therefore I don’t even know you can eat bats until the pandemic starts. Not all Chinese (or any Asians) eats cats, dogs, bats and more. Thus I’ve only tried the medication
There is no dietary restrictions in Christianity. We are no longer under the Old Testament law. Its funny that the chinese narrator thought this to be so. My father's family and mother's family survived wars and would just basically say chinese people eat everything because of hunger. When you are hungry, you will eat anything.
its plague time bois
Because there are 1.4 billion people in China. If you add whatever 1.4 billion people (about 4 times the total US population) eat, that’s pretty much everything.
Idc they eat people