As someone who grew up in Wuxi, i'd like to say thank you Amy for visiting my city and introducing it to your audience. One thing I'd like to clarify is that, while we have many sweet meat dishes, the amount you ate today was way above an average person's daily intake. Many of the dishes are meant to be shared and also paired with rice and lots of vegetables. There are also many Wuxi dishes that are not sweet at all. Also It's good that you skipped the crispy eel dish... its sweetness is on another level and even many locals can't handle it :)
@@tianchudang6242 Nobody can eat rice with shit. Be nice, be respectful. This is people's daily food. Plus, nobody eats "meet". If you want to pose as "cool speaking English", distinguish "meet" and "meat", or people think "your" American or something.
if you ever wondered why hot tea is popular in china, it's to balance out extreme flavors whether it be spicy, salty, oily, or in this case sweet lol ;)
Lol, no. Hot tea has been popular in china for literally thousands of years. Long before there was overly spicy and sweet foods. Some of the tea trees are older then the actual first importation of chillis into china. Tea is deeply embedded into chinas culture for waaaaaaaaaaay longer.
Lots of high-tech company owners are trying to make the true meatless meat, yet it still tastes like cardboard. Chinese has a long history of Buddhist culture. For thousands of years, Chinese have been making super tasty meatless meats with only gluten, tofu, mushrooms and spices. They taste so real, you won't believe you're eating vegetarian meat.
I have to say the meatless substitute I’ve liked the most from the big companies is the ground beef. Other than that, not a fan. I am yet to try seitan or anything of the like, but anything with mushrooms I’m down for 🤤
I was in Tokyo at a vegetarian restaurant…I think everything was made from tofu. Somehow they simulated chicken and beef and other meats…. I could not get over it, still can’t. Have no idea what the restaurant name was.
Wow! The city Wuxi is really beautiful! I want to explore more of China besides my mom's village now. Thank you Amy for these lovely videos and everything too! I am learning so much!!
Lots of beautiful cities in China are those small towns and villages. If you are a little fed up with big cities vibe like me, these places are very enjoyable. Just be careful with food, do review research, just in case.
The spicy sour soup you ate at the first 酸辣汤 is very popular in the US at Chinese American restaurants. It is, of course, served in slightly westernized for local tastes. It's known here as hot and sour soup in the restaurants.
Ooh Wuxi looks gorgeous! I love the reaction from the taxi driver 😂 for some reason this is the first long format video I’ve watched from you! I love your presentation style and how you edit and film! I’m hooked! Catch me commenting on earlier videos while I watch! 😂😂
LOL, i am from wuxi and currently studying in Canada, i miss all the sweetness back home. The yu lan bing is my favourite food! i could eat 8 of them for breakfast and the xiao long bao miss it so much. i also find the ribs in restaurant is way sweetier than home cook style. You should stayed longer and visit the Lakes! hopo u had fun!
Wuxi ribs is a very intense dish and meant to be eaten with rice and other light vegetables. It's not meant to be eaten on its own otherwise you will find it to be too intense.
and the sweetest people. 🤣 i maybe biased, my mom's from Wuxi. Did you happen to check out the big Buddhist scenic area at Lingshan? It's a pretty cool fairly new (a little over a decade old) congregation of many different sects of Buddhism and a massive prayer and conference hall for monks. There's a few stupas, a mini Potala Palace, a giant bronze Buddha statue, a nine-dragon fountain, a lot of lotus motifs everywhere, ... i want to go back with my new camera again just to take photos. oh, and i hope you got to try Taihu Sanbai (太湖三白 3 white foods of Lake Tai. White fish, Silver fish, and White shrimp) on a floating restaurant along the lake. It's typically not prepared in a sweet way(some are actually quite salty) so it would've helped you balance out from all the sweet foods you had. oh yea, speaking of gluten, people who don't believe there's variety in Chinese vegetarian food really needs to visit this region between Nanjing and Shanghai. we have literally hundreds of dishes created by and for our Buddhist monks and nuns, as well as imitation meat dishes for non-vegetarian pilgrims/visitors for many centuries before Impossible Meat or Beyond Meat. btw, that "green bamboo shoot" is not bamboo at all. it's called celtuce or stem lettuce, and it's just cut up stalks without the skin or leaves. i love it. it's really refreshing.
Amy is the best Aussie RU-vidr in China...there is another American female RU-vidr (Katherine's Journey to the East) who travels around China on bike and she made a video when she rode bike in a rural town in Xinjiang near the border chatting with local Uyghur elderly who criticized Biden's China policies. There was another wellknown Canadian RU-vidr the Food Ranger who had been to a lot of places in China trying all kinds of local foods.
Actually 青笋qingsun is not bamboo shoot but Celtuce or “stem lettuce,” “asparagus lettuce“ I have to say having eaten some sweet dishes, especially the Japanese diet, can be unbearably sweet at times. But the ribs Amy ate today still look pretty shocking, the brain naturally resists consuming a diet with so much sugar hahaha
@@lohfookiong9984 Not very good for your liver and your blood, though. If you brain tells you it's too sweet, it's because it becomes bad for your health. However if the rice fills you enough that you limit your meat intake greatly, then I kind of agree with you. But I'd rather have the choice of the degree of sweetness like you can sometimes choose how hot or how well done meat is cooked. It would be much better.
I live in Changzhou which is a short 10 minute train ride from Wuxi. I was just there 2 weeks ago...now I must go back and try some of these dishes. Thanks for sharing!!
"Sweet view for a sweet meal" well said! Definitely not as sweet, but those Wuxi ribs you had are similar the Guava-glazed baby back ribs that I make! The guava ribs are the result of a Chinese-Cuban fusion! Chinese laborers came to Cuba to work on the sugarcane fields in the late 1850s, and as a result, their cooking combined with what they had available in Cuba! The Chinese were unfortunately treated harshly in Cuba, so severe that the imperial Chinese government even sent investigators in 1873 to look into what was happening. After Chinese labor trade was prohibited, the last ship carrying Chinese laborers arrived in 1874. They intermarried with the Cubans, and Havana once had the largest Chinatown in Latin America! I know you're of course Australian, but with how you said it's like drinking maple syrup...are you sure you're not Canadian? 😂Fun fact: Canada actually has a strategic maple syrup reserve! This is a collective effort by Québec maple producers as an ambitious and effective way to manage their markets. The facility is operated by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers which represents 77 percent of the global maple syrup supply. The reserve is made up of three warehouses. With a combined capacity of 133 million pounds (216,000 barrels), the three warehouses can hold the equivalent of 53 Olympic-sized swimming pools of maple syrup.
Me being a Wuxi born Sydney sider watching Sydney born Amy eating in my hometown Wuxi😂 To me, nothing beats Wuxi style Xiao Long Bao in terms of food, not even wagyu and lobster😊
I think you're supposed to eat those meat with rice Amy... here in Indonesia we also have a region that specialized in making sweet food. We eat them with load of rice and many non-sweet side dish to balance the flavor 😅
Happy to see you visit wuxi, really brings back a lot of nostalgic feeling as i was there many times during my work trip, definitely nice streets to have a walk, food was great and the people was very nice, remember that i had a great time visiting the 3 kingdom city
Wuxi is my hometown and it rocks! Glad you visited there. As far as I know, every Wuxier loves and is proud of their food. Funny thing is, while Amy is saying Wuxi food is too sweet, our desserts are much less sweet than Australian desserts.
Quite opposite to your experience, Amy, as someone who grew up in Fuzhou, another place where the local cuisines are sweet, I felt like I was in heaven when I visited Wuxi on a university holiday. My uni is in Nanjing, where the cuisines are influenced by Anhui, i.e., more on the salty side. A friend from Xiamen and I bought several boxes of the braised pork ribs for our dormmates, but we ended up eating 2 on our train back...🤣Yum!!!
Wuxi is among the richest cities in China, I have Chinese friends here that tell me that American food was easier to adapto than food from the Yangtze delta.
Hi Blondie, Thank u for showing so many food culture in China. Your bubbliness of your personality makes it so enjoyable to watch. Love your general chit chat with the Didi driver so funny. Your presentation is good with english and subtitles. Could u with more communication in mandarin with the locals. Help me to learn and listen the mandarin language .
wow Blondie!! so fun to visit yet another unique city, thanks for taking us along on another culinary extreme!!...and taking (a sweet) one for the team yikes!!
Wuxi; how interesting because my friend who in 1980 offered me a job in Hong Kong working for her family (I believe) came from Wuxi. She rarely told anyone where she was from (idk why, this was before home computers and Google 😂) and I had always envisioned it spelt Wooshee. She was the first person to introduce me to rock sugar and when I would host our dinner-of-the-month (always at my place as I was the only one single) she would make me add rock sugar to my homemade spicy chicken wing sauce. Huh, I wish I could find her, I've been searching for her and for her children on social media for ages now. Amy, I like the occasional sweet but I'd be physically ill if I ate so much sweet food. I bet if the sweetness was dialed back, you'd have taken one for the team 😂 I honestly would love to try the Wuxi cuisine; I need to get this intense desire to visit China turned into a reality. However my hurdle is money; my Son promised to take me to Japan and though I really want to go, China has always been my #1 destination to visit. After my Father came back from business in rural China in the 70's (lots of destinations, all hydroelectric related) he just said to me "go, you won't regret it." And now I'll stop yakking. I do tend to go on and on. Another banger, Amy. The walking streets were postcard perfect. 🥹
This video definitely convinced me to plan a travel to Wuxi. I love sweet food, and my 15 years living in the US have pushed my sweetness tolerance up to a new level. Now, even the Oreo in China tastes bitter in my mouth. (Yes, they reduced the sugar level outside the US.) Wuxi, try me with all your sweetest dishes.😎
Amy is a true gastronome (美食家). You get the trick really quick. In Wuxi, people always order some red/dark and some white. Wuxi food follows a simple rule: all red dishes are sweet and all white dishes are umami.
I like this style of editing - like how at 2:18 “Let’s go in for a bite” whilst she’s going in for the bite, as opposed to showing her saying the words on camera. It’s clean.
I spent a total of 10 weeks (spread out over 3 different trips) in Suzhou between 2006 and 2010 and really quite enjoyed the local flavor profile of the cuisine in the Shanghai and Suzhou area. I visited Wuxi as well a few times during my trips (if this is Wuxi close to Suzhou that is) and remember quite liking the foods I had there. Not sure if I had super local dishes though or if I just didn't mind the sweetness. I was never in the city center however, I was in some restaurants in some large parks. I especially remember a place out by a lake, very pretty view there with a mountain in the background. Never really found Wuxi as cozy as Suzhou though
Haha without watching the video I knew Amy was going to Wuxi. I lived in Shanghai before and we eat pretty sweet, but Wuxi's sweetness is another level
My mom adds a sweet touch to her Qingsun as well. I believe the owner reduced the sugar in that dish just for you. I've followed Blondie since the start of the pandemic, and now you are finally getting to visit my hometown. Yeah..
I have a sweet tooth so i actually loved all the food i ate in Wuxi! Their sweet and sour vegetarian bamboo soup noodles were sooooo good i still think about it sometimes LOL
Those hot soup dumplings are always blue crab or dungeoness in America which are so much better as they are caught all year round while hairy crab just isn’t on our radar. We get stone crab too. Most Chinese here don’t really care for hairy crab because it’s just too small and not fatty enough. Plus the fact they can’t be here helps.
After eating lots of spicy cuisines, having the sweetest cuisines in Wuxi can balance your taste buds, Miss Amy. Besides deers that I have seen them in Nara, Japan, the Wuxi ribs looks familiar with the ones (sweet and sour ribs) in Hong Kong, my family and I like it.
my grandparents are from wuxi but they moved to shanghai and ningbo so thats where i grew up. Went to wuxi once and had the 红烧肉 or 东坡肉 spat it out and nearly threw up it was like candy fatty pork 🤢
Yeah Jasmine is BACK!!! On another note, you did very well with the sweet foods. If it was up to me I can't even take more than 1 bite to give up. I just cannot take sweet for a meal unless it's cake or tidbits. Guess I'm no good at meals that are sweet. Makes me wanna puke after the first bite.
A HUGE Fan of yours from NYC Manhattan!! I LOVE LOVE your Videos!! Could you tell US why you chosen Asian Foods and not Australia foods?? Thanhs Be Well❤️💋
I'm surprised you never heard of Hot and Sour soup before. Suan La Tang is the best ! This one might be peculiar, but to me, this is the best soup ever.
Glad to see you visited my hometown. Some Wuxi dishes are too sweet even for locals😅. But Wuxi does offer many savory and delicious food doesn’t have sugar in it.
As someone whose family is from Wuxi and have visited extensively I would say funny enough I don't think we ever eat much sweet stuff as you did. Wuxi has a reputation for having sweet dishes, but funny enough my memories of my most favorite dishes there are the savory soups, seafood, and hotpot. My family owned a few restaurants in Wuxi, and I was lucky enough to be able to experience the local cuisine during our family dinners at our restaurant for many years until it shut down. I would have happily invited you to try!
I've just come back from a couple of days in Wuxi, having never heard of it 2 weeks prior. You're correct, even the xiaoling bao are sweet though not super sweet. I could see you how you overload on the sweetness if you went for the 'wrong' dishes.
I remember first hearing of Wuxi from her video in Australia on the restaurant, Nanjing Dumpling, whose manager stated that such city was the origin place of the soup dumpling! So cool that she's there!
Wuxi and Jiangsu cuisine in general is on the sweet side (in the sugary/syrupy sense). I visited a bunch of cities in that province 2-3 years ago and concluded that it's too sweet for me!
Just realized that your narratives and reviews of all kinds of food are spontaneous and not prepared. What a talent! Blonde you have a truly amazing tongue 😛 for both the food and story telling. ❤
