Sichuan Food Crawl: The Best Mapo Tofu, Chili Wontons, and Noodles
In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, hole-in-the-wall eateries are called fly restaurants because they have customers coming back like, well, flies. They’re often hidden and have questionable hygiene, but they offer some of the best home-cooked street food.
Writer and chef Jenny Gao takes us on a food crawl of Chengdu to show us the city’s best fly restaurants.
0:00 Welcome to Chengdu
0:49 Meet Jenny Gao
1:00 What is a fly restaurant?
2:38 Sweet water noodles
3:43 Chilli wontons
4:43 The birthplace of mapo tofu
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Script: Tiffany Ip
Narration: Hanley Chu
Editor: Nicholas Ko
Mastering: Joel Roche
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Music: Audio Network
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ma po dao fu is everything to me <3 this made me tear up.
Thank you Jenny!
The Ma Po Tofu on rice looks salivatingly good!
The narrator has the Valorant voice
Whos watching these at 3 am ? 😆🤤
Damn they got a budget voice-over
When I think of China, I think about corruption, fake products, no standards and genocide on Uyghurs.
say "seeee tswan" one more time, i dare you, i double dare you!😡
Wow food ranger has been through all of these restaurants. Bring back memories of his old videos!
i thought Kung Pao Chicken was the most Sichuan dish in the West.
Where is a great place to eat it in HK?
This channel suck to watch when one is dying or craving of something savory and delicious
dope video…. but I can't get over how the narrator keeps saying "See-chuan" lol
great episode !
Hmm……….questionable hygiene 😁
Wow…..the narrator's english skills had blown me away. As always great fan of cultures and food.
It’s interesting cause some of the foods she introduced is similar to certain Tibetan Korean and Vietnamese dishes
What the hell is with his pronunciation of "Sichuan"?
Not condescending, even it sounds like it: The creator of Goldthread, born in US sounds way more Chinese than Jenny Gao who was born in Chengdu. I think she's been in US for quite awhile, and she's a writer after all.
Why does this guy sound like " Burger King Foot Lettuce "
I was in Shenzhen once with family, and I saw someone preparing food, sweat was dripping in to the food and someone said "It just makes the food more salty"
I really like all the seasons and I learn a lot. I want to see more of vegetarian/vegan China cousins.
i need to go there!
I fell asleep and this is what I ended at
how sad she shouldnt admit that she has been living in American
she just said, moving about
Man those places are the real holes in the wall, they must be authentic and good.
Can someone tell me what animal that is at 0:04?
Yo what’s her @
Why this sounds like Angbata's voice
The woman is fat
Incorrect! Fish Fragrant dishes aka 鱼香 are not meant to imitate the flavor of fish! The name is 鱼香 or fish fragrant because that flavor profile (consisting of garlic, pickled chilies, soy sauce, black vinegar, and sugar) was originally used to cook fish dishes with. However, one day someone decided to use that sauce to cook a meat dish, and it ended being called 鱼香肉细 (fish fragrant meat strips), and eventually lead to 鱼香茄子 (fish fragrant eggplant). Please fact check before you make these misleading statements!
it maybe called chili chaoshou instead of wonton .