I Didn’t Know Food In China Was Like This... 🇨🇳

Our local guide Sue from Lost Plate took us on a Guangzhou Evening Food Tour to sample the most authentic Cantonese food! 🍜

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Meeting Our Guide
0:34 Coconut Herbal Chicken Soup
3:04 Old Guangzhou
4:02 Rice Noodle Rolls
11:35 Roadside Insights
12:22 Cantonese Banquet Restaurant
17:33 Beer Break
18:48 Wonton Noodles
23:36 Local Guangzhou
26:00 Chinese Herbal Tea
30:38 Dessert Time

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[yonight]

The translator you are looking for is very professional and explains in detail. Guangzhou is China's most famous food city with a history of 2, 000 years. It is most famous for its food, not its architecture. So you can stay in Guangzhou for a few more days and try more different foods. Guangzhou food is particularly suitable for foreigners. It is relatively light and delicious. Sichuan food is spicy and many people are not used to it. If you are not used to Chinese food, you can also choose Western food. Guangzhou has 3, 000 cafes, 222 bakeries, and Western restaurants, so there are so many choices.

[horaceleung]

As a Cantonese, I need to explain the herbal tea.
In the Cantonese culture, there is something called "damp heat" in the body. It is something that will accumulate over a long period of time, and once it accumulates to a certain extent, it will cause you to get sick. Therefore, in order to remove the damp heat in the body, you need to drink herbal tea. This herbal tea is called "凉茶" in Cantonese, which is directly translated into English as "cool tea". Therefore, for Cantonese people, this herbal tea is not drunk only when they are sick, but is drunk very often, usually once or twice a week.
Because Cantonese people like to drink soup also, there is such a saying that the water in the body of Cantonese people is half soup and half herbal tea.

In addition, in my opinion, the tour guide missed something very important, that is, Cantonese barbecue and chicken.
Cantonese barbecue includes roast goose, barbecued pork, etc.
And about the chicken, there is a saying in Guangdong: No chicken can leave Guangdong alive. If you don't eat chicken in Guangdong, it will be a very big loss.
I suggest you go to a famous old restaurant in Guangzhou to have a meal, which will give you a deeper understanding of Cantonese cuisine.

[HarveyChenBlog]

The English of this Chinese lady is very impressive!!

[kathsmith]

good you had sue as tour guide she was lovely

[LazyJoe]

You met a very professional guide! So happy for you!

[charlie-letsgo]

Local Cantonese here, and I can attest that this food guide is a professional who knows stuffs well

[ymca]

有一個當地人帶你們去食一定無錯。
椰子烏雞很好味的湯水，亦很有益。
這種腸粉在廣東很多地方都有得食，亦是一種美味的食品。
廣東的雲吞麵也是一種美味食物。

中式甜品亦很多樣選擇。

[chrissun]

Big fan from the down under. I’m planning to visit China again next year, year video made me wanna get my tickets sooner ❤

[kueihsianghoon]

When you arrive in Guangdong, I strongly suggest you try roast goose and barbecued pork. I believe you will like them.

[thekarlinteamrealestatenet]

Hey, love your videos! I'm going to Hong Kong and Guanzhou in a couple of weeks and this has been helpful in our planning.

[frankli]

This tour guide speaks perfect English, which is impressive

[uknivek]

Once again a superb vlog. I've found your China trip a fascinating insight into the country. It definitely is far more advanced using avaliable technology than I was aware of. Thanks again

[bbq]

Cantonese people pay attention to using natural ingredients to balance their physical condition, so every day food and ingredients will have different benefits for the body, soup is a good choice, but it will be selected according to different seasons and different physical conditions, so it is not easy to place an order

[clearheaded]

It actually make sense that when your body trapped a lot of heat, the best way to get it out is by drinking hot water or soup. At the instant it may appear to be nonsensical but soon you sweat the heat is taken out from your body and the draft from outside will cool down your wet sweaty body surface.

[firstlast-ptpp]

@30:39 - ginger is also medicinal - some people prefer ginger over medicine for nuasea because it works better

[nigeltracy]

You’ve found yourselves a very professional and helpful guide. Wonderful!

[Hoo]

Eight Major Chinese Regional Culinary Styles (八 ba (eight) 大 da (big) 菜 cai (dishes) 系 xi (series)): Yue (Cantonese) from Guangdong province (Guangzhou is the capital city), Chuan (from Sichuan province), Zhe (Zhejiang province), Jiang (Jiangsu province), Lu (Shandong province), Xiang (Hunan province), Min (Fujian province), and Hui (Anhui province). Cantonese cuisine is the most well known both domestically and abroad because Guangzhou was the sole port city the world during the Qing Dynasty. Cantonese cuisine emphasized on original flavors, freshness and mildness, letting ingredients flavors express themselves without much use of condiments. Chuan (Sichuan) cuisine is characterized with mala, ma 麻 （numbness) and la 辣 (spicy) or numb and spicy flavors with heavy use of peppercorns. Xiang (Hunan) cuisine is characterized by spiciness. Zhejiang and Jiangsu provincial cuisines are characterized by tinge of sweetness. Signature Cantonese dishes include our familiar ones oversea such as claypot rice, cheung fun (Chang fen in Mandarin) (cheung/chang 腸 = intestine; fun/fen where you get the Sino-Vietnamese word pho 粉 = rice noodles), dim sum, wonton noodle soup where the noodles are called zhu 竹 (bamboo) sheng 升 （rise) mian 面 （noodles) or bamboo pressed noodles bound firmly together with duck eggs to give it its extreme firmness and bounciness, roasted duck/geese, char siu 叉燒 （chashu in Sino-Japanese and xa xiu in Sino-Vietnamese) which literally means “fork (cha) grilled (siu)” because barbecue used to involved forks grilling over a fire, roasted suckling pigs, stewed cow offals with white carrots/turnips, etc. Guangzhou is in the subtropical area facing the ocean so it’s very hot and humid year round due to heat evaporating the ocean water turning it into humidity. Thus, Cantonese love to drink their herbal tea (liang 涼 （leung in Cantonese) (cool) cha 茶 （tsa in Cantonese) tea) and slow cooked soups filled with herbs and a variety of vegetables to release the heat trapped inside the body due to high humidity in the air not allowing us to sweat. This tourist guide basically brings you to all taste many signature dishes of Cantonese cuisine which also spread to Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Sinospheric cultures like Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

I am glad you are enjoying your time in China and learning the profound 5000 years of ancient civilization and tasting all the signature dishes along with learning their history. Guangzhou also has two of the world’s oldest mosques, Xianxian Mosque and Huaisheng Mosque built right after the founding of Islam in 620AD. Guangzhou was called Panyu. During the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC), General Zhao Tuo (Trieu Da in Vietnamese) 趙佗 was commissioned by Qin Shihuang to do the Baiyue Conquest in the south (Bach Viet in Vietnamese) (Bai 百 = hundred; Yue 越 = regions south of the Yangtze River). He founded the Nan Yue (Nam Viet in Vietnamese) Kingdom, which also started the 1000 year rule over Vietnam with the founding of the Vietnamese Zhao Dynasty 趙朝 （Trieu Dynasty in Vietnamese). Rice noodles fen 粉 (fun in Cantonese and pho in Sino-Vietnamese) was invented at that time, when his soldiers missed the noodles in the north, so they used rice plentiful in the wet south to create rice noodles. The name “Viet Nam” itself comes from reversing the two characters for the Nam Viet Kingdom (Nan Yue Kingdom in Mandarin) founded by General Zhao Tuo. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces of China used to be called Wu Yue 吳越。Fujian province used to be called Min Yue 閩越。Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Vietnam used to be called Nan Yue 南越 （Nan/Nam 南 = south). Yunnan province used to be called Dian Yue 滇越。 Guizhou province used to be called Ye Lang 夜郎。Vietnam has the Lac Viet and Ao Viet people. All of them are considered the Bai Yue (Hundred Yue) people of southern China. There is an archaeological museum called Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue Kingdom right in Guangzhou, built by the successor and grandson of General Zhao Tuo, whose name was Zhao Mo. For more details, google search for “Nan Yue Kingdom” “Baiyue Conquest”, “General Zhao Tuo”, “invention of rice noodles”, etc.

Guangzhou has several nicknames: Hua 花 (Flower) Cheng 城 (City); Wu 五 (Five) Yang 羊 （Goats) Cheng 城 （City; Sui 穗 (rice) Cheng 城 （city)….. Yue Xiu Park (Yue 越 = southern region of Yangtze River) Xiu 秀 = beautiful) has the Five Goats Statue where one of the goats has a tassle of rice in its mouth. The mother river of Guangzhou is Zhu 珠 (Pearl) Jiang 江 （River). There are night river cruises as you have already seen. You should check out some of these archaeological sites in Guangzhou in addition to their amazing cuisine.

Greetings from Los Angeles from a Guangzhou born Chinese American. Enjoy and welcome to my birth city. ❤❤❤

[oscarwhk]

Black chicken has less body oil, so it is good for souping.

[ryanevariste]

what a nice experience is it !!🎉，honestly i am a college student study in Guangzhou, thanks for your series viedos and good local guide which is make me know about some special restaurants hiding in downtown, so i can't wait to explor its .Btw i planing to have a trip in korea, your koera travel videos published in the past can give me so reference!!🤩

[umbertoconte]

Hi Jay congratulations on the video you made 😄
Hi Karolina as always you are very good at explaining things 😘