British High Tea meets tropical China?? This is DADDY TEA!

Today I'm checking out the capital of Hainan province, Haikou! And WOW I WILL BE BACK! The food was absolutely amazing, including tropical style dim sum AND the original Hainan Chicken Rice!

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[Johnwalkstheworld]

Your old daddy wants to try the old daddy food place too! Looks like a bit of everything. Yum!

[shaniadirstein]

Thank you for highlighting food adventures in China.... I visited for 3 weeks from Canada and most people in my life questioned why I would visit China at all....China definitely has a bad reputation, but it is mainly based on western propoganda. Everyone was so kind to me, and I felt very safe as a solo female. I had the best 3 weeks travelling there, and the food was amazing! Wish more people would give China a chance!

[vsailorsv]

Aw the shop owner that let you sit there was so nice. His face watching you eat he was genuinely interested in your reaction.

I’m noticing more and more that the people of china seem so hospitable and excited to show off their food and culture ❤

[kakacicimakutuyoung]

Blondie in China is the top notch food vlog of all, I wish Amy will write a book based on her experiences of the food adventures 👍👍👍

[miomio]

After binging your videos I can saftely say that you're one of the only food vloggers that's ever given me the "anthony bourdains, parts unknown" feeling when watching. I love the way you make your videos, and I always look forward to more.

[taotao]

Actually 斑斕 is not multicolor. It's Pandan. Pandan is a tropical plant that grows abundantly in Southeast Asia. The cultivated plant, which is similar to the palm, features upright bright green leaves that are long, slender, and spiky. The leaves are used for their flavor in many Thai and Southeast-Asian dishes. Pandan is also sold as a paste, extract, and powder, which are used to flavor desserts.

[josechong]

I was told that free range roaming chicken tends to have tougher meat and it has real chicken taste, whereas the other variety of chicken, not the free-range roaming kind, is soft and it doesn't taste like what real chicken should taste.

[gaea]

I love this channel so much. You convey the excitement and wonder of interacting with a rich foreign culture so well with so much respect and happiness. You don't fake your reactions and just are so all around sweet, cute, and refreshing to watch <3333

[ASpec]

Hainan chicken “the goat of all chicken dishes”. I thoroughly agree. This is one of my goto rice plates in the states. I know different adaptations use different sauces but the ginger sauce is the star here. Yumm

[uniotter]

As soon as you held up that fruit, I said, "That's a guava." And we drink cold guava juice here in Hawaii (as well as lots of guava flavored things), and it's never salty. It's quite refreshing when sweet. 😊

[nix-berj]

Amy you should totally do an episode in Malaysia or Singapore on how the Hainanese/Cantonese/Hokkien cuisines brought there had evolved

[yiye_Grace]

I really appreciate the Hainan Chicken Rice! With its outstandingly tender texture and such a fresh flavor, Hainan Chicken Rice almost became my obligatory dish every day in Hainan last year. I shall never forget the flavor of this dish, and now I'm trying to replicate it at home😋

[miraaims]

20:40 looks like it's CENDOL, which is pandan flavored rice flour jelly, very popular in Indonesia and a lot of other Southeast Asian countries.

The earliest record of Cendol (also known as Dawet) was an early 19th century manuscript in Central Java, Indonesia, but some sources also mentioned it as early as 12th century in Kediri Kingdom in East Java, Indonesia.

[ensonchen]

I really wanna give a shoutout to the translation/subtitle because I was today years old when I saw "lots of sugar = 逝量的糖". 这个中文翻译太形象具体太有画面感了！

[taotao]

Huajiao is actually fish maw which is believed to be good for the skin in China because it contains high levels of collagen.

[JaniceWithTheTarlovCyst]

Oh Amy, you keep giving me more reasons to travel to China 🥹🫶🏼

[minihuge]

Amy looks very pretty in your outfit today🎉

[rickmarr]

Looks like Hainan is a place I want to go. The Hainan Chicken rice is my mom's favorite but for years she thinks it's a Vietnamese dish and kept sending me to Vietnamese restaurants to buy it for her. I would always get weird looks from the the owners. I would then find out 2 years ago the Hainan is part of China and it's a Chinese dish. 🤦‍♂🤦🤦‍♀ Sadly my mom would never know, she past away from COVID back in 2020.

[switch]

Always so fun watching you enjoying foods in China.

[steveliu]

The building architecture resembles/similar to some of colonial structure in Singapore/Malaysia as well.
I think the first place is relatively more like a "food court", which is why most locals would prefer, rather than the Hong Kong vibe of a "yum cha" restaurant. The "green/yellow/brown" drink are rice flour jelly, that is also in one of the south east asia dessert called "cendol". You can google and see the similarities. Singapore/Malaysia holds similar outlook of this, but the variant in Thailand/Indonesia might be different. A dessert where you need to mixed everything up, and enjoy them with shaving ice during a hot day.

Brown sugar?..but if Hainan is a "coconut" city, it would most probably be the coconut sugar.... :)