This Chinese street food will be extinct in a few years 😢

[stephen]

I respect you for trying foods that you didn't enjoy the first time again.

[elleem]

Good on you for trying fish mint again. I dare not to try it again because the fishiness is so real despite it being a herb 😅

[stephadoodledoo]

i fish mint! sadly, the soil i grow it in at home is too hard for me to dig up without ripping up a lot of the herb bed so i just eat the leaves for herb medley in rice paper rolls but one day I'll dig up a bunch of the roots and have me a more chinese style herb salad, the roots are much sweeter and tastier than the leaf.

[thrandompug]

So long as people like you record these things, they will never be truly lost

[xiaolongbaoenthusiaist]

Wow you’ve tried more Chinese street food than me, someone who grew up there. I admire your spirits so much!

[lovepapa]

It has a lot of fiber and vitamin.😊. Pepper chili is anticancer ingredients.

[AvecBella]

So jealous of the tastes you get to experience there with all the flavors 😋❤

[JuiceMade]

I’m so glad we have videos like these to document what might be lost culture one day

[bettypearson]

Sometimes there is a reason foods become extinct.

I think of it like I think of ketchup. Original it wasn't a tomato product. The first I heard of was mushroom ketchup which one of these days I will try to make it out of curiosity.

As tomatoes became more popular someone decided to make a mushroom free ketchup with tomatoes that apparently was more pleasing to the palette. Now, people are coming up with new flavors to add to ketchup. Who knows, one day our great grandchildren will no longer be able to just buy a bottle of good old plain tomato ketchup.

[FawxTraught]

Lol " the good thing about the fish mint is that it's quickly over so I don't have to taste it anymore"

[healzdimples]

I wish I'd found that when I was there, in the early 90s. I lived in Duyin, a smaller city in Guizhou. We used to visit friends in Guiyang, at Guida

[littlememoriesofglma]

fish mint is one of my favorite herbs!! love it

[tktyga]

Looks a little like a baked/jacket potato made from tofu & with very nice ways to use them. Do you have any ways to get ahold of the fish mint for growing at home?

[raywill]

I have been to most country you have but good on you for tasty all those foods, what a is your favourite one please ? Luv always Ray 😊

[Hana-rwuv]

OMG zheergen 😂 I’m a northern Chinese and I don’t have the courage to try it.

[CarinaCoffee]

It looks so good! It might even be vegan?

[shinnam]

Just found some fish mint growing wild in S. Korea. Going to try to make this dish! 😊

[hghway]

I wouldn’t be able to eat that since fish mint is the only herb I cannot eat. I love pretty much every other type of herb but 🐟 mint is putrid to me but my parents love it.

[aotulapongen]

Zher gen so thats what its called in China !
Its available in NorthEast India too!
It's an acquired taste, the smell of the leaves put people off. We have it in a spicy Naga chutney.

[Nancy-fftr]

Omg zhe'er gen! I remember eating it at my grandma's whenever I visited China as a child. I really really didn't like it but all adults encouraged us kids to eat it so we always did lol but we genuinely didn't believe anyone actually enjoyed it. I wanna try it again to see if it really was that bad hahhaha

I don't remember it being fishy but instead very bitter?