China Street Food is Not What I Expected - Ultimate Beijing Food Tour 🇨🇳
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Welcome to our China series! In this video, we take a Chinese street food tour on the streets of Beijing. Join us on an authentic culinary adventure through the bustling streets of china’s capital as we explore traditional Chinese snacks! From the crispy and savory Chinese duck crepe (煎饼) to the juicy pork bao buns (肉包子), and many many more!
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From the US. Glad ya'll are enjoy yourselves in the REAL China, not what the US/Western media is reporting... I've watched all your China videos so far!!! Keep it up thanks!
Your currency is big better go there n experient the real China ❤️
Yes we are! Thank you so much we really appreciate you ❤️
Honestly, this video looks like a couple who are using wemedia to save their family from bankruptcy.
You can go to other cities in China, and you will get a better experience, Chongqing or Guilin.
@@OTWD_yt然后你们可以使用外卖软件，，美团外卖，可以用支付宝付款
I remember your first video in China,you both look so nervous,now you both look so relaxed and happy!😂😂
First video, still in horror that ccp
would arrest them without any reason, with the impression western media tell them
Thanks! 😃 yes lot more comfortable now ❤️
They should be more prepared when they go to China with a language barrier. Im surprised that people still dont know what ChatGPT 4.0 is.
Look very good 👍 thank you your video from China 🇨🇳 I am in American 🇺🇸
Thank you too! 🇨🇳❤️🇺🇸❤️
Always so impressed by how travellers in China eat and look so healthy. And you guys too. Happy for you.
We walk a lot as you probably see in previous videos 😂
Street snack food in China are much healthier than any snacks in a bag, percentage of real food are much higher than processed food.
The more I watch your videos the more I like you two. My first impression wasn't so nice tbh, from that ridiculous walk in the night for hours and many other bad decisions/signs of some prejudice in the first few videos, but now you two are one of my favourite TH-camrs travelling in China! You two are just a very real cute couple who gradually learn as things go, say straightforwardly what you think, down-to-earth and completely honest, and we love you for that.
I said to you at the time you will fall in love with us eventually. We are very stupid sometimes but we are just being ourselves. We appreciate you a lot ❤️❤️
@@OTWD_yt Wow thank you for the reply! Hahaha you are very right, I am indeed in love. Enjoy your time in China and maybe sit down in a proper restaurant and have some proper dinner sometime in the future! Like half of the restaurants in China have basically the same price as the street food you have been having (sometimes even cheaper), and the other half are more expensive (like how it is in the UK).
2:10 The first food is called hand cake（手抓饼） in Chinese.
11:41 Stinky tofu (Chinese: 臭豆腐;) is a Chinese form of fermented tofu that has a strong odor.
17:02 Jianbing guozi (Chinese: 煎饼馃子) or "deep-fried dough sticks rolled in a thin pancake" is a popular Chinese street food.
20:47 冰糖葫芦 is a traditional Chinese snack consisting of several rock sugar-coated fruits of Chinese hawthorn on a bamboo skewer. It is named for its calabash-like shape.
Thank you 😊
First one is 鸡蛋灌饼，which is made from pancake( or flatbread, “Bing饼”)infused by egg
7:30 I think donkey filling for buns is super rare even in china. But I had tried dumplings with that. Supppperb. Must try if you see that.
Now you've really tickled my fancy to go visit China and try out their street foods.
You won’t regret it 💯
@@OTWD_yt I'm sure I won't regret it. London food is just garden variety and very dear. I used to eat out frequently before covid, but then covid struck, everything has become so expensive.
Yes I know. Since co vid U.K. has gone through the roof. That’s what we travel and do this it cheaper and a better life + we get to see the world too
@@OTWD_yt I live in London, work in the square mile, even I feel the pinch. The cost of living has gone thru' the roof in the UK. I hope with the incoming Labour government that they will tame down the inflation, though having said that I don't have much expectation in our politicians in general. Your videos are very very good and I do enjoy them, especially you show us how the other side of the world lives and what makes them tick. The food in China is dirt cheap and there're so much to choose from and that's what fascinates me to go there. Destination China is definitely in my bucket list.
@@ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid 欢迎来玩
the skewer dessert is called Tang Hu Lu.
Thank you 😊
Candied hawthorne
Street foods are the most interesting and important and unique to each place
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1:33 Those are "鸡蛋灌饼" (egg-filled pancakes), a traditional breakfast item from Henan (pronounced "her-nan") Province in East-Central China. The egg is in the middle, but it's not sandwiched between two pastries. Instead, a wheat flour dough is cooked on the griddle until it puffs up, and then whisked eggs are injected into it. It can then be used to wrap all sorts of fillings, such as the shredded potato, lettuce and sausage you saw in the shop.
5:29 Although the menu was only partly visible in the video, the first two rows Ben pointed at were both pork buns. Also, the eggs at 5:39 are not ordinary boiled eggs, but "tea eggs". They are first half boiled in water, cracked and then further simmered in a sauce of tea, soy sauce and spices. Each cooked tea egg has its unique exquisite marble-like pattern on the light brown white, and a savoury and aromatic flavour. It's one of the most popular snacks across China, particularly among people who don't like plain boiled eggs.
10:41 You just bumped into one of the most famous stinky tofu chains called "黑色经典" ("Black Classic") from Changsha, a South-Central Chinese city renowned for stinky tofu. The black colour and the distinctive smell are from fermented soybeans, shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots used to brine the tofu during fermentation. The black stinky tofu is then fried and served with pickled daikon (an Asian radish) as seen at 11:28.
13:45 Did you notice the first ingredient she added? It's wheat gluten, porous and good for soaking up all the flavours. And Beijingnese loves a generous spoonful of sesame sauce (13:58) in many dishes.
15:09 Unfortunately, as much as Reanne wished, the meat she pointed at wasn't duck, but beef...😂 Also, did you realise that the pink colour in the dough was from dragon fruit? 17:33, this is "煎饼果子" ("crepe with crisp fritter"). Note that "果子" normally means fruits, but here it means the crisp fritter, which may confuse some point-and-translate apps. It's a traditional breakfast item from Tianjin, a central municipality to the southeast of Beijing. The wrap is made of wheat and green bean flour, hence the stretchy texture you described.
21:12 Reanne might be right this time - it's probably pureed dates, a commonly used ingredient in Chinese desserts.
22:12 The tart Reanne bites into says "豆乳蛋挞" ("soya milk egg tart") on the label, and the one Ben is enjoying at 23:06 is "海盐芝士" ("seasalt and cheese") flavour.
Whew~ I'm impressed by how much street food you guys munched on in this episode, but it's SO satisfying!🤩 I'm mouth-watering now...🥰
Thank you 😊
Better than any Subway and or poxxie Tescos sandwich!!! the hell do English people have for lunch in the UK, is a boring dry chicken salad sandwich for about £3.50!!! and a packet of half walkers and a drink thats like a £5!! EVERYDAY!!!
so much variety and choice and value in chinese food and its so affordable and healthy!!!! No E numbers or preservatives and its ALL fresh fruit vegetables, even the sugars and syrups are naturally made sweeteners and honey etc
Yes 💯
这是政府的“菜篮子”计划，目的让每个家庭都可以吃到新鲜蔬菜。
When I heard that the jianbing you bought was 34 yuan, I knew you added too many dishes😂
Haha guilty 😂❤️
Your channel on your travels in China is impressive. I love how much you enjoy yourself
Thanks John. We just try and be ourselves. People seem to like it.
The thing you had on 5:00 is kind of like a egg burrito. You can actually use uncooked tortillas to replicate, after it's heated, it will puff up, and you use chopsticks to poke a hole and put egg into it. That's how you made it. It's called 鸡蛋灌饼 basically means egg into the dough. It's my favorite food for breakfast. Cheap, and fast. I miss that so much😢
Amazing. Thank you 🙏
那是煎饼果子
You guys don’t look that nervous anymore, happy for you
We are definitely more comfortable ❤️
21:24 The red fruit on the outside is hawthorn, and the inside is sugared osmanthus red bean paste.
Ah ok thank you 😊
12:30 Changsha people here😊 Those black stinky-tofu is from Changsha where known as one of the most famouse origin of stinky-tofu.The flavor of tofu is created using a special brine. The modern Changsha stinky tofu technique ensures that only the brine smells bad, while the tofu itself has a mild or even no odor after frying.
Those egg tarts are an attempt at southern Cantonese style egg tarts. The ones that are flambé on top are known as Portuguese/Macau style egg tarts. The crust of a good egg tart is made with butter as shortening and with at least 18 layers of flake and the egg custard not floury tasting.
Ah yes thank you 😊
and the best egg tarts hide in KFC for real.
@@CriticalEchinozoa true
@@OTWD_yt Chinese word is 'dan tar'
Guys I’m eating a plain tasteless bread while I’m watching this episode, and the bread become so yummy
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Hello everyone, I am from Hangzhou, China. And I have traveled almost the whole China, so I can say that I know a lot about traveling in China. Recently, because of the 144-hour visa-free transit policy, I see that more and more foreigners are very interested in traveling to China. However, many foreigners don't know much about China, including the apps they need to use during their travels, some cultural customs, the choice of travel locations and so on. As a Chinese ，I am very happy to provide convenience for those who want to travel to China, if you have any information you want to know, please feel free to comment or contact me!😊❤
It is so much fun to watch you guys eating the street foods and exploring a new place
We love it 😍
Each province has its own cuisine.Have fun on food adventure.
Yes! Thank you!
you guys are brave to try stinky tofu - most westerners avoid it lol. the pink crepe wrap is jian bing. I tried to get sunkissed to try it out but they still haven't so far 😅. you guys got a totally loaded version - the basic one is just the crepe, crisp cracker, herbs and sauces and normally runs around 10 rmb so it's a great cheap snack. btw you got beef, not duck lol. maybe imitate animals better next time 🤣
Oh 😂 🤦♂️
Kj mm
In China beef is tenderized using baking soda so the meat just falls apart in your mouth.
for night life, street food, changsha is the most popular city to go in China. The night life starts around 11pm, 12am, you will see full of people even at 3am on street eating street food. the black tofu is a famous traditional changsha street food for many years, like couple hundred years. Nowadays, many young Chinese like travel to changsha for the night life, the vibe and eating, it is a less popular destination for foreigner travellers though.
Its definitely on our list of cities to visit in China trust me.
长沙很辣 和四川是另外一种辣。不过长沙东西很好吃！
@@OTWD_yt The food in Changsha is very tasty and popular, but get yourself prepared for different kind of spiciness. In Chongqing or Chengdu, the spiciness is giving you a numbing kinda sensation, but the spiciness in Changsha is more of pure hot.
不是我自夸，我觉得我们中国人通常能把一切好吃的食物再提高一个档次😂以前每次回国都会郁闷为什么我没有10个胃😂
我不知道西方有没有蒸的面食，面包，烙饼都是火烤的，我特别好奇西方有没有包子，蒸饺之类的。
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@@jiegao574东欧和中欧会有
@@jiegao574 以前他们冶金技术不行，没有形成蒸东西的习惯
我觉得中国人对食物很挑剔，所以会想尽办法让它变得好吃😂
Great video！ love that showing the real Chinese culture and life for the worlds. you need to experience it and feel it yourself to find out the truth❤
glad you guys had a good time! food looks good
Thank you 😋
You can go to Dashilan Pedestrian Street. Wu Yutai's jasmine ice cream will definitely not disappoint you
Sounds amazing!
Respect for your open heart and passion for food. I always wish I had additional digestive systems to taste more or nonstop while I was there. Enjoy your time.
We will thank you 😊
我是一个北京人，居然是在你们的视频里发现了想吃的东西，有时间我去试试。😂
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Awesome
hahahahhahah you kept getting all the food wrong, its really fun to watch :)
Haha glad you enjoyed us 😂❤️
Watch all your videos. Welcome to China.
Awesome! Thank you! ❤️
Enjoy watching. Great video!!
Thanks so much ❤️
amazing China❤
So amazing ❤️
Hey!like~this si unreal trip~ have a good one!
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I’m pretty sure that lady said it is beef instead of duck😂😂😂
Really? 😂
yes
@@OTWD_yt yes, she said at least twice, it's beef not duck
Yes, she said beef twice. Also, it only made sense if it was beef. If it was duck meat, a wrap like that would have been around ￥25 -￥30.
According to serpentza, Beijing is an unknown place.
And his girlfriend (LaoWhy86).
why even mention those fools!?
@@antwango to understand how many fools are out there.
I actually don’t know who serpentza is?
@@OTWD_yt Ser...* is an absurd China hater. maybe paid by some age*cy.
She said it's beef😂 18:17
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哇哇哇！这一集明显能看出放松了很多。你们挑选的街头美食也很有代表性。你们后面可以在非高峰期去北京火锅店，通过翻译软件让服务员帮你们选择2人份的正宗火锅，并让服务员帮你们调配火锅调料。
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Chef Bao's egg tarts are delicious and I will buy them every time.
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I want to be there eating. What a great variety 👍
So good ❤️
鹵煮+二鍋頭，絕配！
traditional Chinese dumping，called "Bao Zi".
Thank you 😊
I remember taking those pirata bread before going to work. sometimes taking sliced cheddar with me. and add them after they apply souce but before the lettuce layer. they would normally ask me if it taste good. 🤣
Great Journey😊😊😊😊😊
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it is called salted pancake with egg 😅, you can pick up you favorite vegetables, potato or sources. Usually it is breakfast for Beijingese
stinky tofu is very popular Chinese traditional street food.😊
The black stuff is good 👍
Another fabulous video, I am glad to see your channel growing. You are some of the best (real) travel vloggers out there.
Thank you so much we appreciate you more than you know ❤️
i love your every video in China. Hope you can travel more Chinese cities in future❤ 2:03
We have huge plans coming keep following
That's great, I will keep watching your videos.@@OTWD_yt
every travel youtuber in china will eventually become a food youtuber
Welcome to China 🎉🎉
Thank you 😊
包子很好吃， 有各种馅的包子
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so delicious
Follow foreigners travel Beijing every day.😂. From China
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Great food tour. Visit more cities, you will experience more different style of foods.
Thank you! Will do! ❤️
those stringy veggies in your first burger are pickled kohlrabi.
Thank you 🙏
potato shreds
I like your objective and fair comments. I have watched every video of you, from bilibili.❤
Thank you so much 🙂 try and watch them on here so we get paid 😂 we’re not affiliated to most of the billibilli stuff.
@@OTWD_yt I wish you good health and happiness every day.😬
Have fun
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I love how they just assume White folks can only handle a little chili. 😆
It’s same everywhere. But it’s probably true 😂
but that is true or was true, time changes 😂
I suggest that you have time to visit Luoyang and experience the true history and traditional culture of China
Beijing welcomes you, and we're delighted you've come to experience the culinary delights of Beijing.
1. Firstly, apart from Peking Duck, duck meat is rarely found in Beijing's menu. Moreover, donkey burger is a specialty of Baoding, and dishes made from donkey meat are also relatively rare. So, what you'll mostly consume here would be beef or pork.
2. Secondly, there are various types of stinky tofu, and the well-known stinky tofu in Beijing is a kind of fermented bean curd in cans. Beijing stinky tofu has an unimaginably strong odor, filling up to 100 square meters around with a fermented stench upon opening the can, making it unsuitable for consumption in public places. The type you'll experience is Changsha stinky tofu, a fermented dried tofu product with only a very mild distinctive odor. After breaking the fried crust, the soft center is added with ingredients like dried radish, chili, sesame, garlic paste, and crushed peanuts. The Changsha region also adds flavorful soup, garnished with coriander and bird's eye chili. A generally unknown eating method among ordinary diners is adding a bit of vinegar, which makes it taste even better.
3. Moreover, local snacks in China originated from people's practice of storing seasonal foods through various methods such as air-drying and fermentation in the absence of ice cellars and refrigerators, forming the distinctive flavors of local ingredients. Additionally, some direct consumption materials that taste bad but are nutritious (e.g., duck meat, hawthorn, various scraps like fish mix, innards, paws, necks, heads) are made into flavors that suit people's tastes, forming the local snacks across China.
4. Therefore, the culinary scene is divided into major cuisines and snacks. The main dishes are those originally delicious and high-quality ingredients processed by chefs into fine dining, which requires visiting well-known restaurants of various cuisines. As for snacks, they are originally less tasty but become popular delicacies after processing, commonly found on streets and various small shops.
5. The place in your video is "Guijie Street," where 80% of the food belongs to snacks. To find Beijing dishes, look for restaurant names that include "xxx zhai, xxx ju, xxxx fanzhuang.” Spicy flavors are mainly found in Sichuan hot pot restaurants, the Xiang and E cuisines have more spicy flavors, Fujian and Guangdong cuisines feature more soups, Yunnan and Guizhou are known for exotic mushrooms, while Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang offer bold meat dishes.
Finally, budget-friendly restaurants can usually be found in the food floors of major shopping malls, and economical restaurants are scattered all over the streets. Only the following areas have relatively pricier restaurants: around the Forbidden City, on Wangfujing Street, in the center of Sanlitun and Shichahai, next to five-star hotels, beside embassies, around the CBD area, and on Financial Street. Other than that, 95% of restaurants are not too expensive unless you accidentally enter a place like "Shunfeng Restaurant." Most beautifully decorated restaurants won't have high costs.
we miss all the food there
What would you suggest?
Nice food.
Thank you 😋
U can try hot pot there.Thats my fav food and I recommend u to try haidilao hot pot (海底捞）.U can even get free nail salon there.❤love your videos ❤
Really?! A free nail salon that’s awesome! Thank you 😊 ❤️
这是一对美食博主😂
That’s us 😂
China❤❤❤
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If your budget and time allow, I truly hope you can explore other cities in China to experience more sights and delicious food.
We definitely will actually planning a big China 2.0 series we are actually on a transit visa this time so we’re abit restricted. But keep following because the new series will be coming very soon
You need to learn some basic chinese like niu roh means beef, chi roh means chicken and chu roh means pork so you know what sort of meat you are getting (I'm not using proper hanyu-pinyin but just winging it).
Yes thank you 🙏 we move around a lot. Some countries we know the language quite well and learnt a lot of the phrases. But this is our first time in China so you gotta give us the benefit of the doubt
@@OTWD_yt Could look at this message next time someone ask you which meat you like. XD
I always enjoy the oops section.😂
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If you like to eat Stinky tofu, welcome to Changsha, a city in southern China, where there are many delicious food. 11:57
Would love to come
嘿嘿嘿嘿，看老外吃臭豆腐永远都很好玩。😂支持下。
Haha we did enjoy it.
Like to see this movies Pls keep on updating
There is more coming ❤️
6:32 It is called baozi and is one of the most common breakfasts eaten by the Chinese people
Thank you 😊
the dessert you got at the end of the video is the Portugese pastel de nata
Ah ok 👍
特别喜欢你们的街头吃播，看起来太有食欲啦💗
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good job
Thank you! Cheers! ❤️
推荐你们尝试一下冒菜，尤其是冒脑花，虽然不是北京菜，但在北京也能找到，以前我从不吃脑花类的东西，感觉那东西挺恐怖的，一次亲戚聚会在北京一家叫付小姐在成都的店，吃了一份冒脑花之后，每次吃成都菜，我都必点冒脑花，真的太好吃了
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been following your china adventures and really enjoyed your videos. Just for your reference though the currency is not pronounced 'yarn' but rather "'you-anne'
Ah ok thanks ☺️
支持你🎉🎉🎉
Thank you 😊
Good❤
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Thought there might be curfew in Beijing… apparently it is not what I thought about China ❤❤
Haha no nothing like what you think
good video！！！welcome to China again！！！
Yes! Thank you! ❤️🇨🇳
女主播吃美食都吃上火了哈哈，哈哈
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OMG, im hungry now
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多吃点好吃的，下次去中国的小城市看看，也许有更多有意思的东西
Any suggestions?
There are huge regional differences in China, with completely different living habits and diets in different regions. Next time, you can come to my city, Suzhou, which is only a 20-minute high-speed rail ride from Shanghai. It has the characteristics of classical China, a city that is both ancient and modern. I can take you out to play, and I can speak a little English, haha😁😉
Half way through the China series, I just hope you can figure out how to take subway with Alipay before you go. It's killing me seeing you having such hard time getting subway access every single time.
推荐一下我最喜欢吃的臭豆腐🎉🎉🎉🎉
喜欢它😊
In China, many people think Beijing is a Food Desert😂，if u want to eat the most delicious food, Isuggest you go to Guangdong Province ，Sichuan Province ，Guangzhou，Chengdu，Chongqing,Hong Kong😊
We will visit all of them and we have already been to Hong Kong you can check out the video on our channel!
@@OTWD_yt 😉Have a nice trip!
我给你们推荐几个我喜欢的小吃，哈尔滨蒸饺，煎饺，重庆豌杂面，安徽板面，陕西肉夹馍，陕西红油面皮，米皮，贵州安龙裹卷粉，辣脆洋芋片，油炸糍粑，江西炒粉，瓦罐汤………
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i‘m come form beijing，Thank you for visiting my country. Many people think that China is closed off. But we are very friendly and kind.by the way，All you've had is snacks. You haven't had real Chinese food yet 。😂😂😂
Although our government is not very democratic, the advantage of China is security and reliability,by the way，The name of the ice cream is mixue, which means the city is full of sugar like snow。
LOL pretty sure you havent had duck, she was saying BEEF XD,
ok simple Chinese time.....
Ji / Jeee / Geee = Chicken
Niu Rou / Nu Row / Nu = Beef
Yang Rou / Yang Row / Yang = Lamb
Yaaa Rou / Yaaa Row / Yaa = Duck
Juu Rou / Juu Row / Juu = Pork
Really?
Congratulations on finally eating Liangpi.
liang pi is cool rice noodle.you know, the stretchy ones you guys eat.I really recommend the mutton hot pot. this is really a must-eat in Beijing.😊
Thank you 😊
來北京應該吃一次烤鴨，滷煮，炒肝，炸醬麵，豆汁，門釘肉餅，爆肚。
估计他们的胃受不了 😀
我们想尝试一切😂
千万别吃，除了烤鸭和炸酱面，其他很难吃，江苏人@@OTWD_yt
oh,im hungery
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some food streets are open at night as night markets
Ah ok 👍
Are you guys budget travellers? If not, I highly recommend you guys try Beijing duck and Beijing style hot pot in a proper restaurant, since they are the two most iconic dish in Beijing!
We are budget travellers it’s allowed us to do this for 3 years
This is making me hungry before gym
We’re gonna have to get to the gym after this 😂🐷
@@OTWD_yt haha make sure you make a video of Chinese gyms
Too much energy intake, i am jealous
Very! ❤️
作为一个中国人，很佩服你的胃💪
😂 thank you 😊